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3 days ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
The Italian city of Taranto hosts World Triathlon Para Series racing for the first time this weekend, marking the third stop on the 2025 Series following on from season-opener WTPS Devonport and last month's WTPS Yokohama. The 750m swim in the Mare Piccolo transitions to a fast, 5-lap 21km bike and from there it's just 2 laps and 5km remaining to the tape.
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1 week ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
It has been many years in the making, but on Saturday afternoon in the heat of Alghero Miguel Hidalgo delivered Brazil's first ever World Triathlon Championship Series gold medal with an outstanding run to the title. After bronze in Yokohama, the 25-year-old looked in determined mood to go even better as he lined up next to number one Matt Hauser on the Sardinian sands.
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1 week ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
Two weeks after a crash that took her out of WTCS Yokohama, Olympic and World Champion Cassandre Beaugrand was once again showing the world her mettle, the French star producing another golden win at the first ever WTCS Alghero on Saturday.
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1 week ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
Just two races in and the women’s 2025 World Triathlon Championship Series is already running hotter than the Sardinian sunshine as the athletes prepare for race number three: Saturday’s WTCS Alghero. With no Cassandre Beaugrand or Beth Potter in the Abu Dhabi opener, Lisa Tertsch led a German podium sweep in the season opener.
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1 week ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
It was a consummate mid-May display at WTCS Yokohama that took Matt Hauser to the top of the Series rankings after two events just a fortnight ago. Now, Australia's numero uno heads to a new Olympic-distance challenge in the shape of WTCS Alghero on Saturday, eyes firmly on another 1,000 points that would cement his position at the top of the rankings.
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2 weeks ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
After a huge 2024 qualifying ten athletes for the Paris Olympic Games, Team World Triathlon brings six athletes to its first stop of the 2025 season this weekend, as well as a familiar face to the backroom staff. Joining the squad for the World Triathlon Cup Samarkand and kicking off the new cycle towards LA 2028 will be: Alina Khakimova (UZB), Tjasa Vrtacic (SLO), Bridget Theunissen (RSA), Shanae Williams (RSA), Tzu I Pan (TPE), Rashif AmilaYaqin (INA).
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3 weeks ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
It was another WTCS Yokohama for the ages on Saturday morning, a race where the weather played its part, the athletes had to dig in, and Luxembourg’s Jeanne Lehair found the run form she has threatened to deliver for so long, pulling clear out of T2 to run 10km solo to the tape.
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3 weeks ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
After silver here 12 months ago and again in the 2025 season opener in Abu Dhabi, Australia's Matt Hauser was back on top of a Series podium in grand style on Saturday, holding off Portugal's Vasco Vilaça and Miguel Hidalgo of Brazil in a storming finish to a captivating race. The trio had managed to shell their biggest rivals over a gruelling final 10km through high winds and sideways rain, boiling the field down to three by the start of the final lap.
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3 weeks ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
The second stop of the World Triathlon Para Series brings the athletes to Yokohama on 17 May, ready for another hit out across the longstanding 750m swim, 20km bike and 5km run course. This year marks the 13th edition of Para racing in the city, and as the La 2028 cycle cranks into gear, there will plenty of ambition forming on the famous Yokohama streets on Saturday morning.
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1 month ago | 
triathlon.org | Doug Gray
'I feel like trying to beat people has a means to an end. But if you're working on yourself and what you can do, that's a kind of limitless outlook.'On 27 April, Olympic and World Champion Alex Yee hit his first ever marathon start line. It was a bid to test how far he could push himself, discover what new learnings he might be able to bring to his LA2028 Olympic bid and, ultimately, fulfil a childhood ambition.