Category: WTCS

Who Won the Most Medals in the 2022 WTCS Season?

Benjamin Eastman

The 2022 season saw a number of great performances however one thing that stood out was the range and diversity of the medallists. 13 different women and 16 men won at least one medal, representing one of the deepest seasons on record. On some level, this is indicative of the growth of the sport as it matures. The Women Georgia Taylor-Brown led the way in the women’s WTCS with 6 medals from 6 starts. Taylor-Brown had a frankly astonishing season with a worst result of 2nd place and was the…

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How Important Were the 2021 Races in the 2022 WTCS?

Benjamin Eastman

The 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series was unique insofar that for the first time ever the Series took place over two years rather than one. Following the uncertainty and postponements amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2021, the planned races in Hamburg and Abu Dhabi were rescheduled for September and November, after the Final in Edmonton and the conclusion of the 2021 season. Such scheduling left the races in a strange place. They could not count for 2021 if the Final had already passed and to not assign them to…

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Where Did the Best Triathletes of 2022 Score Their Points?

Benjamin Eastman

As we wrote earlier today, in the 2022 WTCS only half of the races in the regular season counted towards athletes’ total scores. Of the eight races in the Series, an athlete only had to score at four of them ahead of the Final in Abu Dhabi. With that in mind, at which races did the top-15 athletes in the WTCS standings score their points? We did not include the Abu Dhabi Final in this analysis. As the Series Final, the reason for attendance is in the name and athletes…

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Half of the WTCS Counted Towards the World Title

Benjamin Eastman

As the dust settles on the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series, it is worth reflecting on how the season has unfolded and brought us the current standings. This season delivered some great racing and fans were in the fortunate position that in both the men’s and women’s rankings the world title would be decided at the Final itself. The 2022 season, though, has had one problem that has dogged it throughout. Only 50% of the races counted towards the final Series standings. As a result, from the perspective of the…

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The Big Risers in the Final WTCS Standings

Benjamin Eastman

Before Abu Dhabi, we wrote an article that suggested some of the athletes that could rise up the standings in the World Triathlon Championship Series with a big result in Abu Dhabi. Some of those suggestions were accurate, some were not and there were some athletes that caught us completely by surprise. The Men Morgan Pearson was the biggest riser in the men’s field as he jumped 81 places to take 33rd in the Series. His silver medal in Abu Dhabi was a remarkable comeback after a difficult year of…

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The Off-Season Challenge Presented by the Abu Dhabi Final

Benjamin Eastman

By taking place at the end of November, the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series Final in Abu Dhabi was one of the latest elite triathlons that have ever been held in the year. In 2021 the WTCS Final was held in late August in Edmonton, while in 2020 the only WTCS race of the pandemic-hit season was in Hamburg in early September. The 2019 Final was Lausanne in late August and both the 2017 and 2018 Finals in Rotterdam and Gold Coast, respectively, took place in September. Looking ahead to…

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5 Stories You Might Have Missed at WTCS Abu Dhabi

Benjamin Eastman

The Return of Henri Schoeman After a challenging twelve months, including a nasty elbow injury, Schoeman made his first WTCS start since Yokohama in May 2021. Indeed, Schoeman had not started individually since the Tokyo Olympics where he unfortunately did not finish. His one race start in that period came as part of the mixed team relay for South Africa at the Commonwealth Games in July. On his day, Schoeman is one of the best athletes in the field. The 2018 Commonwealth Games champion has WTCS wins in Abu Dhabi…

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WTCS Abu Dhabi 2022: The Statistical Breakdown

Benjamin Eastman

WTCS Abu Dhabi may have turned out to to be the best racing of the season, with breakaways, incredible comebacks and world championships that went down to the wire. As seen in the splits in the men’s and women’s races, there is a lot to unpack in how the races unfolded. The Swim The biggest concentration of athletes emerged around 40 seconds behind the swim leader, Mark Devay of Hungary. What is interesting is that after 15 seconds, the density of athletes did not drop below 0.010 until almost a…

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Splits Breakdown at World Triathlon Championships Final 2022

Benjamin Eastman

The WTCS Final in Abu Dhabi saw a number of incredible performances. Here, we dive into the fastest splits of the men’s and women’s races. Fastest Swims Men As has become a trend in 2022, Mark Dévay crushed the swim. The pace in the water was high as each athlete came out of the water one second after another and one at a time. Of the contenders for the world title, Bergere was 17 seconds down on the lead, Wilde was 23 seconds down and Yee was 41 seconds back.…

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Léo Bergere is the 2022 World Champion

Benjamin Eastman

After the drama of the women’s race at WTCS Abu Dhabi yesterday, there was an element of doubt as to whether the men’s race would match it. Strap yourself in. The men gave us what might have been the best finale in WTCS history. From the start, all eyes were on Hayden Wilde and Alex Yee, first and second in the Series respectively. Yee trailed Wilde by 118 points and had to finish at least one place ahead of his rival from New Zealand to take the title. Neither of…

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Duffy Claims Fourth World Title After Titanic Battle

Benjamin Eastman

The stage had been set and the athletes brought the music. After a season in which Flora Duffy and Georgia Taylor-Brown have scaled fantastic heights, the WTCS Final arrived in Abu Dhabi. Both women arrived with three WTCS wins to their name in the 2022 season. Both arrived knowing that only by beating the other could they hope to take the world title. As expected in the course preview, the top-10 women took up the right hand side of the pontoon at the start of the race and it was…

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