Category: WTCS

Yesterday we unveiled the simulator for the women’s 2023 WTCS Final. Today, it is the turn of the men. Using the below tool, you can model every possible configuration for how the current top-10 of the WTCS can change in the last round of the Series. Once you select the finishing positions of the top-10 ranked athletes, the code below will then automatically update and show what the top-10 overall would look like based on the choices you make. As with the women, results will only be shown for athletes…

Heading into the WTCS Final in Pontevedra, the women’s Series can unfold in a number of ways. One of Cassandre Beaugrand or Beth Potter seems likeliest to take the title, but it is not impossible for someone else to win. Using the below tool, you can simulate what could happen based on the finishing positions of the current WTCS top-10. You can choose where you think each athlete will finish and then the code will then automatically update and show what the top-10 in the Series will look like based…

There is only one race to go in the World Triathlon Championship Series and the leadership of both the men’s and women’s rankings has changed. The Paris Olympic Test Event was the last race to count in the regular season before the Final in Pontevedra. After claiming a dominant win, Alex Yee has reaped the Series lead. The Brit now sits on 3499 points (rounded) and has moved up 4 places in the standings. Prior to Paris, he only had three WTCS results to his name in 2023. The Test…

Is age just a number? Last month, Pierre Le Corre earned his first ever WTCS gold medal with a brilliant performance in Sunderland at the age of 33. His achievement raises a question. How old have the oldest first-time winners in the WTCS been? To go with that, how young have the youngest first-time winners been? In this article, then, we dive into the oldest and youngest first-time winners throughout the history of the WTCS. The Oldest As it turns out, Le Corre is in fact the oldest man to…

Over the Sprint distance, there is only so much time for the race to unfold. Being around an hour long, it finds itself in a curious space of sharing traits with the Super Sprint and Olympic distances without quite fully resembling either. At the shorter, sharper affair of WTCS Hamburg, decisive moments tended to happen at once rather than over the course of sustained periods of pressure as often seen with the Olympic distance. WTCS Sunderland was somewhere in the middle of the two types. Swim The men’s swim time…

Swim Chase McQueen and Diego Moya were the top performers in the sea at WTCS Sunderland, logging times of 8:48 and 8:49, respectively. Picking up where he left of at WTCS Hamburg, Brock Hoel was also among the fastest swimmers in Sunderland as he hit a time of 8:52. Jonas Schomburg and Márk Dévay matched Hoel and had a good swims. Although, for the second straight event, Dévay was not the first man out of the water which was a slight surprise given his form over the past two years.…

After winning the bronze medal at WTCS Sunderland, Hayden Wilde has assumed the leadership of the men’s World Triathlon Championships Series. Sunderland was the penultimate race (and last WTCS event) of the Series before the Final in Pontevedra in September. Next up will be the Paris Olympic Test Event in August, a race that will be worth up to 1000 points. Pontevedra, meanwhile, will offer 1250 points to the winner. With both Paris and Pontevedra forming large parts of the Olympic selection criteria for multiple countries, the races will likely…

The Debuts Two months after officially changing his sporting nationality to British, Max Stapley made his WTCS debut. He therefore had the opportunity to make his first start at a home event and make the most of the domestic support. Stapley swam well and managed to make it into the breakaway on the bike. From there, he pulled several turns and was regularly towards the front of the pack. His efforts on the bike told a little as he drifted to 31st over the course of the run. Nevertheless, he…

Notwithstanding that the Paris Olympic Test Event can count towards an athlete’s WTCS score, Sunderland will be the final race of the regular season in the Series. It will therefore represent the last Sprint event at the WTCS level in 2023. In the cheat sheets below, we have pulled together the data for the athletes starting at Sprint WTCS races in 2022 and 2023. For every athlete, you will find their average position out of the water as well as their average time behind the leader in the swim. The same…

Sunderland will make its bow in the WTCS this weekend. With a new location comes a new course. The Sprint distance event will involve a sea swim of 750m followed by a slightly longer than normal 21.3km on the bike. A 5km run consisting of two laps will then wrap up the race. You can view the map of the course below. The first thing to note about the swim is that it is almost guaranteed to involve the wetsuits given that the local sea temperature usually peaks between 14…