How To Make Following Triathlon Less Trying?

22 Jul How To Make Following Triathlon Less Trying?

Can’t make sense of the plethora of triathlon formats and championships? You are not alone! Read on to catch up on what you may have missed and what to look out for. 

• Championship Series Overview
• Championship Series Explained
• Championship Standings & Athletes to watch
• Upcoming Races & How to watch  

Championship Series

Pick one or follow them all:

How do the series work? 

Ironman Pro Series: 
• Best 5 points scores count towards the final ranking
• Max. 3 points scores can be from an Ironman distance race
• Points are earned based on finish time behind the winner. A point gets deducted from the maximum score for every second deficit. Every second counts!
• Unlike T100 and WTCS, the winner of the Ironman Pro Series does not get a World Champion title. Those are won in single events.
• Series prize purse: $1.7mln, winner gets $200k 

T100 World Triathlon World Tour 
• Best 4 points scores + points scored in the Final count towards the final ranking
• Points are earned based on finish ranking
• The Series winners are crowned “T100 Triathlon World Champion”.
• Series prize purse: $2.9mln, winner gets $200k 

World Triathlon Championship Series 
• Best 3 points scores + points scored in the Final count towards the final ranking
• Points are earned based on finish ranking
• Series prize purse: $600k, winner gets $70k 

Supertri Series 
• All races count towards the final ranking
• Points are earned based on finish ranking
• Additional points can be earned based on separate discipline rankings
• Series prize purse Individual: $400k, winner gets $80k (2024 data)
• Series prize purse Teams: $1mln, winning team gets $375k (2024 data) 

Standings & athletes to watch 

Ironman Pro Series
Current ranking: https://proseries.ironman.com/standings/2025
• 13 of 16 races have been completed
• With few events left, there is little suspense left who will win the Series title …if the current leaders finish their last race(s) with a decent result. The race for the other podium places is still completely open. Fortunately, the remaining races include 2 World Championships races, which are exciting whether there is a Series or not. 

Women in contention
• Kat Matthews (GBR) is well on course to defend her title, but still needs 2 scores.
• Her nearest competitors still with a shot for Series glory are Solveig Lovseth (NOR) and Marta Sanchez (ESP). However, they have very little margin for failure and still need to deliver 2 good races as well.
• Jackie Herring (USA) – the current leader in the standings and last year’s runner up in the Series – must deliver a fine result at the World Champs to hold on to a podium placing. 

Men in contention
• Kristian Blumenfelt (NOR) is the front runner with 3 wins under his belt.
• A smattering of athletes are likely to compete for second. They include Blumenfelts’ countrymen Storness and Iden, fellow Scandinavian Magnus Ditlev and Kristian Hogenhaug and Americans Matthew Marquardt and Rudy van Berg.  

T100 World Tour
Current ranking: https://stats.protriathletes.org/t100/standings/women
• 3 of 9 races have been completed
• With still 6 races on the schedule the title race is still fully open.
• T100 races are much more competitive than its direct competitors (Ironman 70.3 and Challenge middle distance) 

Women front runners
• Julie Derron (SWI), Taylor Knibb (USA) and Kate Waugh (GBR) are on the front foot with each a win in respectively San Francisco, Vancouver and Singapore.
• Brits Lucy Charles-Barclays and Jess Learmonth are closest to making it to the Series podium. 

Men front runners
• Marten van Riel (BEL) is the current leader, but Jelle Geens (BEL) has the better cards for now with a 1st (Vancouver) and 2nd place, and a race less, so far.
• Gemans Rico Bogen (winner in San Fancisco), Mika Noodt and Aussie Kyle Smith are hot on the Belgians’ heels.
• Kiwi Hayden Wilde, who so convincingly won Singapore, is unlikely to make it back from injury on time to play a role in the Series  

World Triathlon Championship Series
Current ranking: https://triathlon.org/world-rankings/world-triathlon-championship-series/men
• 4 of 8 races have been completed
• With still 4 races on the schedule the title race is still fully open. 

Women front runners
• Reigning Olympic Champion, Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA), is not letting up and with a 1st, 2nd (and a crash/DNF) shows that she is the woman to beat.
• Leonie Periault (FRA), Jeanne Lehair (LUX) and Lisa Tertsch (GER) have each won a race as well. However, it is Beth Potter (GBR) who is leading the rankings, having been the most consistent racer so far. 

Men front runners
• Matthew Hauser (AUS) is ruling the roost with two wins and two second places.
• The only two athletes to beat him are Miguel Hidalgo (BRA) and Hayden Wilde (NZL). Hidalgo sits in second, while Wilde’s serious injuries have ruled him out for this Series.
• Vasco Vilaca (POR) and Olympic medalist Leo Bergere (FRA) have good prospects of making it to the Series podium as well. 

Supertri 
• 0 of 4 races have been completed |
• The Series kicks off on 26 July in Toronto. 

Women to watch:
• Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA), Jeanne Lehair (LUX), Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR) 

Men to watch:
• Alex Yee (GBR), Vasco Vilaca (POR), Dorian Coninx (FRA) 

Upcoming races & how to watch