Year: 2023

At the weekend, WTCS athlete Ren Sato took on the CalfMan duathlon in his native Japan. The race consisted of a 5km run, 28.8km bike and another 5km run. Sato pieced together a solid performance to secure the win in relative comfort. Opening his race with a 5km time of 15:52, his subsequent splits were a 43:25 on the bike and then a 16:31 on the second run. On paper, the splits were decent early season showings. Sato is the reigning Asian champion from 2022 and has generally enjoyed slightly…

Jolien Vermeylen was not the only triathlete racing in the pool at the weekend. Lotte Miller of Norway also hopped in to take on some short course racing. Racing at the SSK Open in Stavanger, Norway, Miller took on the 1500m (25m). She put together an 18:18.75, swimming a well-constructed race. At the 400m mark, she hit 4:49.35 and at the 800m her time was 9:43.89. That second 400 was a 4:53.54 and showed Miller’s consistent pacing throughout. Indeed, the only time she swam over 1:13 per 100m pace was…

Last weekend, Hungarian athlete Gergely Kiss ran a new personal best time in the 3000m. Racing indoors in Budapest, Kiss recorded a time of 8:23.85. That knocked over 25 seconds off his previous best time which he set back in 2018. Running in the same field as Kiss was Csongor Lehmann, the 2021 world U23 champion. Lehmann ran a time of 8:23.42 which also represented a personal best. Although, his previous personal best was only half a second slower and was set back in 2020 (also indoors). It appears, then,…

Belgian athlete Jolien Vermeylen yesterday swam a 9:13.88 800m freestyle at the Flemish Swimming Championships in Antwerp. Held over long course (50m), Vermeylen swam an evenly split race, taking out the first half in a 4:34.51 and bringing home the second half in a 4:39.37. Her performance was enough to take the win by over 1.5 seconds. For good measure, she also added a speedy 1:14 breaststroke split in her team’s 4×100 medley relay. It is worth noting that Vermeylen dropped that split about 15 minutes after her 800m. Vermeylen’s…

In 2023, the way in which prize money will be paid out in the World Triathlon Championship Series will change. Moreover, the total amount to be paid to athletes will be rising this year. It was recently announced that World Triathlon’s Board has approved the distribution of prize money for this season. In 2022, WTCS events paid down to the top-20 athletes in the field. Moreover, at the WTCS Final in Abu Dhabi, the top-25 finishers received prize money. Previously, the most extensive source of prize money was the Bonus…

World Triathlon made public a number of changes to the 2023 calendar overnight. They come after the changes made in January that saw the addition of WTCS Cagliari and WTCS Montreal and the removal of the Bergen and Busselton World Cup events. The first change to affect the season is that the Yeongdo World Cup, scheduled for 6/7 May, has been pushed into the second half of the year. At this point, the exact new timing of the Yeongdo World Cup is unknown. It appears that the rationale for the…

A large British contingent from the Loughborough group are currently on a training camp in Gold Coast, Australia. Yesterday evening, WTCS medallist Sophie Coldwell and her compatriot Sophia Green took part in the local Wednesday Worlds Criterium. Organised by the Gold Coast Cycling Club, the racing took place at the Luke Harrop circuit in Nerang. The results are not yet available for Coldwell’s performance. The Brits, however, were not the only triathletes starting. WTCS silver medallist Matthew Hauser finished second in the A category race. Hauser’s race consisted of a…