American Taylor Knibb will go head-to-head with Australia’s Ashleigh Gentle in the climax to the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Tour, as the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon confirmed the women’s line up for the first Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final on 16-17 November.

Three-time T100 winner Knibb is currently top of the T100 series standings with a win or second place in Dubai on Saturday 16 November enough for her to be crowned the first ever T100 Triathlon World Champion.

If two-time T100 winner Gentle were to win and Knibb comes third or worse, the...

This was a tale of two protagonists. David Cantero del Campo (ESP) arrived in Tongyeong having won both the Valencia World Cup and the World U23 Championships, two races in which he definitively confirmed that he was the fastest runner of those heading into today’s Tongyeong World Cup. Meanwhile, Paris Olympian Dylan McCullough (NZL) was the first man on the pontoon after logging a recent best ever WTCS finish of 8th in Weihai. Having tasted defeat to Cantero on the U23 stage, though, a bill was left to be settled.

To enhance the already tantalising match-up, Tongyeong has...

Long before Tongyeong became a home of triathlon, it was a city of poets. Indeed it was in Tongyeong that Kim Chunsu, one of South Korea’s leading 20th century poets, was born. In 1946 he wrote Flower and with it one of the most famous lines in Korean poetry: “Before I called its name, it was nothing but a gesture; When I called it by name, it came to me and became a flower.” Chances are Jolien Vermeylen (BEL) may not have had that line in her head when she stepped onto the starting pontoon at today’s World Cup,...

There will be no respite for many of the world’s best triathletes after the WTCS Finals in Torremolinos as the Tongyeong World Cup comes knocking. The popular South Korean event has attracted a talented field with no fewer than eleven athletes out to impress for the home team. The race will be a standard distance affair consisting of a two-lap 1500m swim, a six-lap 40km bike, and a four-lap 10km run. Tune in on TriathlonLive at 11:00 local time (04:00 CEST) to catch all of the men’s action.

Learning from the past

On the surface, the lesson to be taken from...

A staple of the Asian triathlon scene, the Tongyeong World Cup is back for yet another edition. This year will be the seventeenth time Tongyeong has welcomed athletes to the event and it has drawn a field brimming with potential winners. As was the case in 2022, the race will be contested over the standard distance. Two laps in the sea covering 1500m will start things off. Next up will be a 40km bike course made up of six laps, and with climbs containing 13% and 15% gradients the bike will be a real test of late-season resolve. The race...

World Triathlon is disappointed to learn that Triathlon will not be included in the sport programme for the 2026 Commonwealth Games that will take place in Glasgow. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has communicated to World Triathlon that the decision not to include triathlon in the 2026 sports programme does not impact or set a precedent on the sport’s position in future Games and there will be the opportunity for sports to return for future editions.

According to the CGF, the 2026 concept has been developed on a core offering of 10 sports, and they have been working hard to balance...

On Monday afternoon in Torremolinos, Spain, Antonio Fernandez Arimany was elected by members to become the third President of World Triathlon at the 37th Congress of the sport’s world governing body. Mr Arimany succeeds Marisol Casado, who steps down after 16 years.

Following four days of incredible Championship Finals racing, the Congress saw elections held to the Executive Board and all nine Committees and Commissions and the Tribunal.

Gabriela Gallegos (USA), Shin Otsuka (JPN), Antonio Alvarez (MEX) and Debbie Alexander (RSA) were elected Vice Presidents.

Elected to the remaining four ordinary Board positions were Leslie Buchanan (CAN), Bernard Saint-Jean (FRA), Caterina...