Montreal Will Be The Most Open Men’s WTCS Race Of 2023

Benjamin Eastman

In light of the news that Hayden Wilde and Alex Yee have dropped out of WTCS Montreal, the race is suddenly wide open. With the world champion, Leo Bergere, also absent, there are no returning medallists from the 2022 iteration of the event. The Series leader – and one of the most consistent athletes this season – Dorian Coninx will also be absent. Bergere and Coninx also medalled in Montreal in 2021 (with the latter winning the event) and so would have been among the favourites this time aroud. The…

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Breaking Down Round 2 of the Men’s 2023 French Grand Prix

Benjamin Eastman

Hayden Wilde claimed the win at the second round of the French Grand Prix in Bordeaux, overcoming fatigue and a deep field of contenders. Maxime Hueber Moosbrugger and Leo Bergere also left Bordeaux satisfied after landing on the individual podium. The results, however, had far greater ramifications for the team competition. Bordeaux saw several team rise through the rankings while a couple made dramatic falls. Read on to find out how each team fared at the weekend and how the overall classification looks after two rounds. 1st) Saint-Jean-des-Monts Vendée Triathlon –…

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Female Invites Added to the World Junior Champs Start Lists

Benjamin Eastman

As with the men’s field, the final places for the World Junior Championships in Hamburg have now been assigned. World Triathlon reserved four slots on the start list for invited athletes. However, as a number of countries did not submit their entries either on time or at all, the number of invites was ultimately larger than expected. Heidi Henry has been added to the start list, extending the Canadian team to four women. As seen with some of the men’s teams, while there is a cap of three athletes per…

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Invites Added to the 2023 World Junior Championships

Benjamin Eastman

Seventy men and seventy women will start at the World Junior Championships in Hamburg. To get to that magic number, though, a complicated process had to be followed to assign the right to race. To start with, sixty-five slots for both genders were assigned at pre-determined qualification events. One slot per gender was then reserved for the host country and the last four places were covered by “invites” sent by World Triathlon. You can read more about the process of earning slots here. However, things are not quite as simple…

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Breaking Down the Huatulco World Cup 2023 Splits and Stats

Benjamin Eastman

The Huatulco World Cup came down to the run in both the men’s and women’s races. In the former, David Castro Fajardo won with a late burst that saw him generate a small gap over the silver medallist, Tyler Mislawchuk. Meanwhile, Anahi Alvarez Corral won the women’s race after an outstanding run saw her steamroll the entire field. In the race developments of both events, you can see how the run was the primary source of separation. When considering the women’s graph, two things stand out in particular. The first…

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Norman Beats Steadman at Besancon World Para Cup

Benjamin Eastman

The second World Para Cup of the year took place in Besancon, France, yesterday. After strong showings at the first World Para Cup of the season in Abu Dhabi, several home favourites such as Antoine Besse were looking to impress in front of a home audience. The headline race of the weekend, though, was the match-up between Grace Norman and Laura Steadman in the women’s PTS5 classification. Steadman claimed Paralympic gold in Tokyo while Norman was a Paralympic champion in Rio de Janeiro in the quad prior. With the road…

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Kitzbühel Golds Claimed By Neubert and Angelini

Benjamin Eastman

Kitzbühel is steeped in triathlon history. A regular host of European Championships, including races over the Olympic distance in 2014 and 2017 and the Super Sprint in 2021, it also used to be a frequent stage of the WTCS. Its final appearance in the Series included the iconic race up the mountain in 2013. The innovative mountain climb route was not on the agenda for the athletes taking part in this weekend’s European Cup and at that some will have breathed a sigh of relief. Among those lining up to…

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No Stopping Castro as he Makes it Back-to-Back Wins

Benjamin Eastman

The unstoppable force of the Spanish men’s team met the immovable object of Tyler Mislawchuk’s success in Huatulco. For many athletes, there can often be a case to be made that they have one venue in particular that suits them, for whatever reason. For Mislawchuk, that venue seems to be Huatulco. Wins in 2019 and 2021 preceded a silver medal in 2022. But for Genis Grau’s majestic sprint finish last year, the Canadian would have made it a hat-trick. As he took his place on the beach, Miswlachuk was a…

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Alvarez Lights Up Huatulco World Cup With Blistering Run

Benjamin Eastman

It has been coming. Like a gathering storm on the horizon, it was possible to see Anahi Alvarez Corral approach yet there was precious little anyone could do about it. At this point Alvarez’s ridiculous running speed has been well-established. She was disqualified at the St. Peters Americas Cup but logged the fastest run split of the day by a wide margin. Silver medals followed at the Americas Cups in Punta Cana and Ixtapa; across those races only one woman has actually managed to out-split Alvarez on the run (Domnicky…

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Yee and Wilde Drop Out of WTCS Montreal

Benjamin Eastman

The two race winners in the men’s 2023 WTCS, Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde, have withdrawn from WTCS Montreal. Yee, the winner of WTCS Abu Dhabi and WTCS Cagliari, has opted against making the trip across the Atlantic. Similarly, his British teammate Barclay Izzard has pulled out of the event. Meanwhile, Wilde, the winner of WTCS Yokohama, has been switched out for Dylan McCullough. Wilde is coming off a win at the French Grand Prix in Bordeaux. To then travel and race at WTCS Montreal would have been quite a…

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Who’s Who At The Men’s World Junior Champs 2023 – Part 3

Benjamin Eastman

Last but by no means least, it is time to take a look at who’s who on the men’s World Junior Championships starts lists from Oceania and Asia. To refresh your memories, you can view the European men here and the men from Africa and the Americas here. Any appearance at a World Junior Championships is a landmark moment for an athlete. Each start should therefore be something to celebrate. Whatever happens at the race itself, it is important to take a moment and enjoy making it to such a…

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Seguí and González Earn Double Spanish Wins in Izvorani

Benjamin Eastman

Izvorani, Romania, played host to the first European Junior Cup since the start lists for the World Junior Championships were revealed. Several athletes starting thus used the event as preparation for the big race in Hamburg. Rather than the customary Sprint distance, a Super Sprint race awaited them, offering an ideal chance to hone their speed. The distances to cover were a 400m swim, 11km bike and a 2.5km run. Over such short distances, the medals came down to the finest of margins. Women’s race Lana Gavrilović attacked the swim…

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Lombardi and Wilde Claim Vintage Bordeaux Wins

Benjamin Eastman

The second round of the French Grand Prix took place in Bordeaux this morning. Poissy Triathlon looked to defend their lead in the women’s rankings while Saint-Jean-des-Monts Vendée Triathlon looked to do the same in the men’s competition. With their rivals having added some big names, such as Emma Lombardi and Hayden Wilde, both teams faced stern challenges to hold onto their spots. Women’s race The unstable pontoon made some truly spectacular belly flops at the start of women’s race. As the starter called the women forward, the momentum carried…

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Who’s Who At The Women’s World Junior Champs 2023 – Part 3

Benjamin Eastman

As talented as the women of Europe, Africa and the Americas are, there are a couple of names from Asia and Oceania that have to been mentioned when it comes to discussing potential winners at the World Junior Championships in Hamburg. In this article, we therefore present the final women’s who’s who of the start lists. You can view part 1 for Europe here and part 2 covering the Americas and Africa here. In total, 8 slots were available to federations from Asia while 5 were available to those from…

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Who’s Who At The Women’s World Junior Champs 2023 – Part 2

Benjamin Eastman

The World Junior Championships are a huge opportunity in any young athlete’s career to mark themselves out as one to watch. Success at the world level is usually a good barometer for future potential and one big race could provide lock down and security from a national federation for several years thereafter. In this article, we will be looking at who’s who on the women’s start list from Africa and the Americas. You can view the breakdown of the European women here. You can also check out who will be…

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