The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) has confirmed the first athletes who will be racing on the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour. The list of elite triathletes was drawn from those who automatically qualified by placing in the top 10 positions of this season’s competition.
Both T100 World Champions, American Taylor Knibb and Belgian Marten Van Riel, have put pen to paper to defend their crowns.
Automatic qualifiers who have signed for 2025 on the women’s side are:
Taylor Knibb (USA)
Ashleigh Gentle (AUS)
Julie Derron (SUI)
Flora Duffy (BER)
Lucy Byram (GBR)
India Lee (GBR)
Imogen Simmonds (SUI)
Paula Findlay (CAN)
On the men’s side are:
Marten Van Riel (BEL)
Kyle Smith (NZL)
Rico Bogen (GER)
Sam Long (USA)
Mathis Magirier (FRA)
Pieter Heemeryck (BEL)
Youri Keulen (NED)
Fred Funk (GER)
Note: Alistair Brownlee finished 5th in 2024 but has now retired.
“I’m excited to confirm that I’ll be racing on the T100 Tour next year,” said Taylor Knibb.
“We could be having a very different conversation a year from now. Everyone is improving and will be coming for me. I know that only too well. There are so many women out there at the moment and the standard is improving all the time.
“I just think with the T100 series and what the Professional Triathletes Organisation is doing for the sport at the moment, it is going to take women’s professional triathlon to a new level next year and I’m very grateful to be a part of it.”
Marten Van Riel said “Winning this season’s T100 Triathlon World Tour has been a dream realised for me and once I’ve had some time off, I’ll be working out how to step things up again in 2025.
“I want to race the best athletes on the planet on a regular basis. It’s as simple as that – and when you also factor in the way the PTO is helping to professionalise the sport: with better broadcast for triathlon and sports fans around the world; looking after professional athletes in a way that has never happened before… through having season long contracts; having bike mechanics, access to massage and the professional set up around the races. That really is a massive move forward.
“Add in the unique atmosphere the T100 is creating, with their mix of pro races and amateur events that allow everyone to get involved in our sport, and it’s great to be part of it.”
2024 saw the PTO launch the T100 Triathlon World Tour, which featured the world’s top 20 female and top 20 male triathletes compete head-to-head in a series of locations – including Singapore, San Francisco, London, Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas and then Dubai for the T100 Triathlon World Championship Final last month.
It has already announced seven stops for 2025 which includes a return to Singapore on April 5-6, to start the new series, then a new trip to France for the first French Riviera T100 Triathlon before going to San Francisco, London, Ibiza, Las Vegas and Dubai.
PTO will announce the remaining 2025 races as well as remainder of the 2025 T100 contracted athletes in the new year.
PTO’s CEO Sam Renouf said “The first year of T100 Triathlon World Tour passed all expectations and the calibre of the athletes who qualified in the top 10 this season illustrates that.
“It was always our ambition to get the best athletes racing each other more consistently across the season; and, as a result, fans have been treated to some spectacular racing. This is essential for the professional sport to grow and the rest of the sport to then benefit – we can’t have a situation when the best athletes only come together once or twice per year.
“We also wanted to race in iconic locations and bucket list destinations. Looking at Taylor and Marten coming across the line in Dubai with the city skyline and the Burj Khalifa in the background, we think we achieved exactly that.”
He continued, “Can we do more and improve on this season? Of course. This is a long term project – we knew it wouldn’t be perfect overnight and it would take some time to work out some of the ‘kinks’ of a new product.
“But we look forward to making more progress in 2025 and will take a great deal of positive momentum into next year.”
