Category: WTCS

57% of TriStats Voters Think Taylor-Brown Will Win the World Title

Benjamin Eastman

The results are in. This week we put out two polls to find out our readers’ views on who the 2022 world champions will be. A whopping 57% of voters went for the current Series leader Georgia Taylor-Brown. Taylor-Brown has had a fantastic season in which she has won three WTCS races. Moreover, in the two WTCS races she did not win, she still picked up second place. After such a season, it is easy to see how she has so much support. The TriStats pick for the win, Flora…

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How the WTCS Finals in 2024 and 2025 will be selected

Benjamin Eastman

In the days after the Final of the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series, the locations of the Finals of the 2024 and 2025 seasons should be announced by World Triathlon. For those wondering (or those that have never wondered) how the Finals are chosen, this article will shed some light on the process. World Triathlon produces a bid document for both its WTCS and World Cup races and produces a separate document for the selection of the Finals. In the document, World Triathlon states that: “The World Triathlon Championships Finals…

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What You Need to Know About the Course at WTCS Abu Dhabi

Benjamin Eastman

Swim The swim will consist of two counter-clockwise laps of 750m. As of Tuesday 22nd November, the water temperature was 31 degrees Celsius so wetsuits are not expected to be allowed. The first thing that jumps out from the course layout is the importance of pontoon position. Athletes starting to the right of the pontoon will have a slight advantage over those starting on the left as the right will have a marginally shorter distance to swim to the first buoy (that may just be the first time I have…

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Poll: Who Will Be The Women’s 2022 World Champion?

Benjamin Eastman

For much of this season, it has been too close to call between Flora Duffy and Georgia Taylor-Brown. Only 69 points separate the two heading into Abu Dhabi. You can use our simulator to see how the women’s Series could play out and check out our preview for the race. Have your say below over who you think the women’s world champion will be in 2022. Check out the results on Thursday 24th November! You can view the women’s start lists here.

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Flora Duffy and Georgia Taylor-Brown – Too Good to Lose

Benjamin Eastman

The women’s race at the World Triathlon Championships Series Final in Abu Dhabi is a tantalising match-up. It is not just the fact that the world title is on the line. It is the contrast that Flora Duffy and Georgia Taylor-Brown offer. What is there to say about Flora Duffy? The Olympic champion from Tokyo, Duffy defended her Commonwealth Games title in July, becoming the first triathlete to achieve that feat. She is the defending world champion. She is coming into Abu Dhabi with multiple wins this season. And she…

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Yee to Win Abu Dhabi but Wilde to Win the Series

Benjamin Eastman

This race originally felt a little obvious. We had all the arguments worked out for how the race would unfold but now there is a little bit of doubt. The 2022 WTCS has boiled down to a two-horse race between Olympic silver medallist Alex Yee and Olympic bronze medallist Hayden Wilde. As has been the case more often than not in 2022, it can be expected that Abu Dhabi will result in another closely fought race for the win between the two men. The obvious point that jumped out was…

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Simulate the Outcome of the Men’s WTCS 2022 Here

Benjamin Eastman

As with the women’s top-10 simulator, here you can choose where you think the top ranked men in the 2022 WTCS will finish at WTCS Abu Dhabi. The code below will then automatically update and show what the top-10 in the Series will look like based on the choices you make. Note, if you select athletes to finish in the same position, a small warning will pop up. All you have to do is adjust any athletes that share the same position and then you’re good to go. As with…

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Simulate the Outcome of the Women’s WTCS 2022 Here

Benjamin Eastman

There are a lot of different potential outcomes for the women’s top-10 in the WTCS standings going into the Final. Here, you can simulate the results in Abu Dhabi and see exactly how the Series would play out. Select the finishing race positions of the current top-10 ranked women at WTCS Abu Dhabi below. Once you select the places, you will automatically see the outcome of the Series. Note, results will only be shown for athletes that mathematically cannot be overtaken by anyone outside of the current top-10. 11th place…

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Who Could Race Up the WTCS Rankings in Abu Dhabi?

Benjamin Eastman

With only the Final left in the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series season, attention is turning to where the athletes could finish in the overall Series rankings. The end of season WTCS rankings are perhaps the closest thing the sport comes to having a bona fide indication of who the best athletes truly are. As such, plenty of pride is at stake. The athletes that finish in the top-35 in the Series will also receive additional prize money. As a result, moving up or down the Series rankings could be…

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How Will the Women’s 2022 WTCS Standings Shake Out?

Benjamin Eastman

Unless something shocking happens or terrible luck strikes, the 2022 women’s World Triathlon Championship Series will be won by either Georgia Taylor-Brown or Flora Duffy. Entering Abu Dhabi, the Series is perfectly poised between the pair. Taylor-Brown sits on 3925 points after two wins and two silver medals. Duffy sits on 3856 points, only 69 points behind, after three wins and a bronze medal. Such is the nature of the points system in the Final, whoever finishes first of the two athletes in Abu Dhabi will take the world title.…

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Who Needs What in the Men’s 2022 WTCS Final

Benjamin Eastman

The World Triathlon Championships Final in Abu Dhabi marks the culmination of the 2022 WTCS season and there is plenty still to settle in both the men’s and women’s fields. The men’s field became a two horse race between Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde long ago. After wins at WTCS Leeds and WTCS Hamburg, Wilde currently sits on 3850 points. He did not race at either WTCS Cagliari or WTCS Bermuda and instead has spent the past few weeks with his eyes on the WTCS Final. With a training camp…

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Take a Look Back at all WTCS 2022 medallists

Benjamin Eastman

With the World Triathlon Championship Series Final around the corner, the time has come to take a look back at this season’s medallists. Hamburg 2021 Less than two months after the Tokyo Olympic Games, Hamburg saw a host of new faces start in 2021. Ultimately it was a day for local fans to enjoy as Germany took the win in both the men’s and women’s races through Tim Hellwig and Laura Lindemann. Lindemann was joined on the women’s podium by Nicole Van Der Kaay and Summer Rappaport. Meanwhile, on the…

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Flora Duffy Dominates at WTCS Bermuda 2022

Benjamin Eastman

Homecomings don’t come much sweeter than this. Three years after being forced to miss her home race in Bermuda through injury, Flora Duffy returned to win WTCS Bermuda in emphatic fashion. Coming into the race, the smallest of doubts had begun to form over whether her extraordinary standards were beginning to falter. Wins at the Commonwealth Games and WTCS Hamburg in July were impressive. However, the rest of Duffy’s season year had yet to fully ignite in the way it had in the past. Those concerns were comprehensively put to…

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Vincent Luis Stuns the Field at WTCS Bermuda 2022

Benjamin Eastman

As dawn broke over Bermuda, the narrative was set. Everyone knew what was supposed to happen. Alex Yee had been unbeaten all season and needed one more win to put himself in pole position to take the 2022 world title. After wins at WTCS Yokohama, Montreal and Cagliari, plus the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Yee had asserted himself as possibly the best triathlete in the world. There was one threat to him on the start line. Blummenfelt. Barely a week removed from his win at World 70.3 Championships in St.…

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