Earlier this week, the Olympic qualification window snapped shut and the final slots for the triathlon events at Paris 2024 were allocated. A handful of athletes had already been nominated by their respective national federations in light of their performances during the qualifying window.
One of the most exciting narratives to have unfolded in the 2024 season so far was the hunt for New Flag slots at the Paris Olympic Games. After a seemingly constant back-and-forth between the various competitors, the berths have finally been nailed down.
With the end of the Olympic qualifying window, Team World Triathlon can report the successful qualification of several of its members. Throughout the Team, medals have been won at every international level but, with the Paris Olympic Games now only two months away, the current project is drawing to a close.
World Triathlon is pleased to announce that the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals will be held from October 15-19 in the town of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Life is pretty full-on right now for Emma Meyers (USA). When World Triathlon caught up with the rising American Para-triathlete as part of the Paths to Paris series, she was only days away from the World Para Series race Yokohama as well as being in the thick of her final school exams.
It is over. After two years, twenty-nine World Cups, over a dozen WTCS events and two frankly ridiculous WTCS Finals, the Olympic qualifying window has come to a close.
It was the race that closed the Olympic qualification window but such was the action at WTCS Cagliari it is hard to escape the feeling that the drama has only just begun.
The Men’s race of World Triathlon Championship Series Cagliari looked like a repeat of the 2023 edition. Alex Yee (GBR) and Hayden Wilde (NZL) proved once
Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA) was back to her imperious best on Saturday morning in Sardinia, finding yet another decisive gear down the home straight to see off her last challenger Lisa Tertsch (GER) after a colossal finale to the 10km run.
It is to the idyllic Italian island of Sardinia that the triathlon world’s attentions turn on Saturday morning, where the beautiful setting will be the stage for wildfire racing as the final ranking points for Paris 2024 are awarded and Olympic destinies are written.
Here we are. After two years, dozens of races and no shortage of drama, the last of the Olympic ranking points will be awarded on Saturday at WTCS Cagliari and the Paris 2024 picture will finally begin to clear for many, if not all, of the athletes in Italy.
How do you solve a problem like Britain? There will be voices in almost every country that will claim that they are the envy of the world but when it comes to the British women’s triathlon team, it may be fair to say that it is one of the few cases in which the phrase rings true.
Two weeks after the belated WTCS season opener in Yokohama, the action is moving to Cagliari. Following the addition of Weihai in place of Montreal later in the year, Cagliari will be the second of three standard distance races in the regular season.
Today marks 100 days to go until the triathlon events at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games and the top Para triathletes in the world are entering their final preparatory stages.
In the final week of Olympic qualification, everything is slotting into place. Some athletes have prevailed in their intranational races to Paris, such as Jonas Schomburg holding off Lasse Nygaard Priester to make the German team.
After a Mixed Relay Olympic qualifier and World Cup double-header of a weekend, triathlon fans trying to track the various permutations and vagaries of the Olympic rankings may have risked ending the weekend with an evidence board as cluttered as the best conspiracy theorists.
The day was drawing to a close when Sergio Baxter Cabrera (ESP) sat down earlier this year to talk to World Triathlon. The smile on his face belied the barrage to which he had just subjected himself.
The last time Richard Murray (NED) performed his signature leg kick when taking the tape at a major event was in 2018, in Mooloolaba, but the Men’s race at the World Triathlon Cup Huatulco marked several firsts and one comeback.
She might be coming from a Nordic country, but Alberte Kjær Pedersen (DEN) has proven once and again that she can manage racing under extreme weather circumstances.
The heat was cranking up and his rivals were thinning out over the closing stages of the 10km run to the medals in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Saturday afternoon, as Britain’s Connor Bentley found a pace that was just too hot for his rivals to stay with.
It had been a long road from her breakthrough bronze at the 2022 Championship Finals Abu Dhabi, but Germany’s Lena Meissner proved herself once more on Saturday as she topped a World Cup podium for the first time in the heat of Samarkand.
Team Norway -Vetle Bergsvik Thorn, Lotte Miller,, Casper Stornes and Solveig Løvseth- executed their race plan to perfection to take the tape at the 2024 Huatulco World Triathlon Mixed Relay Olympic Qualifier, securing their team a spot on the Mixed Relay race at the Olympics this summer.
With less than ten days for closing the Olympic qualification period, all eyes are set this weekend on two different spots: Samarkand, in Uzbekistan, and Huatulco, in Mexico.
Sunday morning in Huatulco will be time for redemption for many. For the ones that didn’t have a great day out there during the Mixed Relay Olympic Qualifier Event, the ones that couldn’t finish or event he ones that did not have the chance to race at all.
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