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Who’s racing the T100 Triathlon World Tour this year? 

The contracted athletes and Hot Shots for the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour have been announced. Who's made the start list?

T100 San Fransisco men's finish
Credit: PTO

The T100 is a lucrative series of events contested by the best triathletes in the business, so who’s racing the T100 Triathlon World Tour in 2025?

First up, there are contracted triathletes who must compete in at least five events. Athletes win a contract by finishing in the top ten of the previous year’s rankings or occupying a high place in the PTO World Rankings. 

Next come the ‘Hot Shot’ entries. The T100 organisers award these places to athletes who meet the standard if not the criteria for a contract. They include short-course stars and experienced and successful pros.

Lastly come the wildcards. The organisers of each series race hand out wildcard spots at their discretion. 

Given how much triathletes can earn from the T100 Triathlon World Tour, competition to make the start list is fierce. So who’s racing the T100 Triathlon World Tour?

Contracts

Women

USA's Taylor Knibb wins the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship 2024 on December 14, 2024 in Taupo, New Zealand
Knibb also won the 2024 Ironman 70.3 World Championships (Credit: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images for IRONMAN)

In order of their placings in last year’s series, Taylor Knibb, Ashleigh Gentle, Julie Derron, Flora Duffy, Lucy Byram, India Lee, Imogen Simmonds and Paula Findlay won contracts for 2025. 

Knibb added a third consecutive Ironman 70.3 World Championship title to her T100 win last year, which netted her $300,000 in prize money. Gentle, one of T100’s fastest runners, and Olympic silver medalist Derron rounded out the podium.

Byram, the young Brit, finished fourth at the Lake Las Vegas last year on her way to sixth overall. 

Another eight women have secured contracts for next year. They include Lucy Charles-Barclay, (GBR), Caroline Pohle (GER), Emma Pallant-Browne (GBR), Ellie Salthouse (AUS), Els Visser (NED), Marta Sanchez (ESP),Grace Thek (AUS) and Hannah Berry (NZL).

Charles-Barclay will be hoping for better luck this year. The former Ironman world champion topped the T100 standings until an injury forced her to abandon the London event and end her season. 

Meanwhile Pallant-Browne will be targeting a podium finish at a T100 race this year after recording a fifth place in 2024. 

Men

Kyle Smith runs home in fourth at Dubai T100, to finish second overall in the series
Kyle Smith finished second overall last year after starting as a wildcard. (Credit: T100)

The top eight men in last year’s T100 also get contracts for 2025: Marten Van Riel (BEL), Kyle Smith (NZL), Rico Bogen (GER), Sam Long (USA), Mathis Margirier (FRA), Pieter Heemeryck (BEL), Youri Keulen (NED) and Fred Funk (GER).

Van Riel won a cool $300,000 while coming out on top in 2024 as Smith, as a wildcard, and Bogen completed the podium. 

Keulen shocked Long to become the first wildcard to win a T100 in Singapore last year, earning himself a contract this time out. 

Based on their world rankings, the remaining contracts go to Jelle Geens (BEL), Mika Noodt (GER), Justus Nieschlag (GER), Gregory Barnaby (ITA), Antonio Benito-Lopez (ESP), Nicolas Mann (GER), Menno Koolhaas (NED) and Jason West (USA).

Hot Shots

Women

Kate Waugh competing at her first Olympic Games in Paris 2024
Promising young Brit Waugh gets a Hot Shot entry. (Credit: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

The Hot Shots in the women’s T100 Tour will be Taylor Spivey, Kate Waugh, Jess Learmonth and Laura Madsen. 

Spivey, who won a silver medal in the Paris 2024 mixed relay for the United States, has been a reliable performer in World Triathlon for years. 

Waugh was disappointed with her 15th place at Paris 2024, but became supertri team champion in November. 

Olympic gold medallist Learmonth specialises in the swim and the Leeds athletes became an MBE in 2022. 

Men

Vincent Luis leads the peloton at the final race of the 2024 supertri series in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, his last-ever, pro short-course race
Luis steps up to T100 as a Hot Shot in 2025. (Credit: That Cameranman / SuperTri)

Hayden Wilde (NZL), Léo Bergère (FRA), Vincent Luis (FRA) and Morgan Pearson (USA) earned places as Hot Shots in the men’s series. 

Wilde finished second place to Alex Yee at Paris 2024. As for the French duo, Bergère was the bronze medalist at his home games and Luis is making the switch from short-course triathlon

Pearson was part of the silver-medal winning USA team in the mixed relay in Paris. He won his first 70.3 race in December. 

Wildcards

Alistair is cheered by crowds after his final T100 race
Brownlee has bowed out from professional triathlon. (Credit: Getty Images)

Who’s racing the T100 Tour as a wildcard this year? Well, at the time of writing no races have announced their wildcards for 2025. Expect to see these names revealed closer to the events. The season-opener will be in Singapore in April.

Between 10 and 12 wildcards were allocated per race last year. 

Alistair Brownlee probably won’t be among them since the double Olympic gold medallist announced his retirement last year.

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