The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have confirmed the 17 contracted T100 women, and 11 contracted T100 men, who will take the start line for the Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon on October 19-20, 2024.
The elite women’s race pits T100 series leader Australian Ashleigh Gentle against American Olympic silver medallist Taylor Knibb and British star Lucy Charles-Barclay. It will be the first time the three women have gone head-to-head in the same race since the PTO race in Dallas in 2022, when Gentle caught Knibb on the run and Charles-Barclay finished third.
In the elite men’s race, American favourite Sam Long will be up against Belgium’s Pieter Heemeryk, Germany’s Rico Bogen and Frederic Funk, France’s Mathis Margirier and Britain’s double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee.
October’s Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon is the sixth and penultimate leg of the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Tour – ahead of the Dubai T100 World Championship Final on November 16-17, where the first T100 World Champions will be crowned.
The full list of contracted women competing in the Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon – in the order they appear in the current T100 standings – is:
Ashleigh Gentle (AUS)
India Lee (GBR)
Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR)
Imogen Simmonds (SWI)
Lucy Byram (GBR)
Kat Matthews (GBR)
Laura Philipp (GER)
Paula Findlay (CAN)
Amelia Watkinson (NZL)
Taylor Knibb (USA)
Emma Pallant-Browne (GBR)
Tamara Jewett (CAN)
Chelsea Sodaro (USA)
Anne Haug (GER)
Marjolaine Pierre (FRA)
Flora Duffy (BER)
Taylor Spivey (USA)
The full list of contracted men competing in the Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon – in the order they appear in the current T100 standings – includes:
Sam Long (USA)
Pieter Heemeryk (BEL)
Rico Bogen (GER)
Mathis Margirier (FRA)
Fred Funk (GER)
Alistair Brownlee (GBR)
Marten Van Riel (BEL)
Aaron Royle (AUS)
Jason West (USA)
Javier Gomez (ESP)
Max Neumann (AUS)
The 100km (2 km/1.2 mile swim; 80 km/49 mile bike; 18 km/11 mile run) pro women’s race will start at 08:15 local time on Saturday, October 19, with the men’s pro race going off at 14:15 the same day.
The pros start with a 2km 2-lap swim in Lake Las Vegas, before a first transition in the shadow of the Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa. The 80km bike course breaks down into five 11 mile laps which each start with a steep 20% gradient climb onto a rolling course that goes through Wetlands Park and Calico Ridge towards Henderson and back.
The total elevation over the five laps is more than 1,400m – the most on any bike course in the T100 series. The course finishes with an 18km run split into six 1.8 mile laps around Reflection Bay Golf Club.
The amateur 100km triathlon over a similar course starts from 07:00 on Sunday morning. The swim in Lake Las Vegas will be just one 1.2 mile lap. The bike leg will follow the same climb out of the resort, but there will be four 12 mile laps, courtesy of an extended loop along Lake Las Vegas Parkway, before following the same rolling route out and back to Henderson. The 18km run takes place in a different section of the Reflection Bay Golf Club and will be made up of three 3.3 mile laps.
In keeping with the T100 ambition to offer a variety of different distances and events, there are also 2km (1.2 mile) and 4km (2.4 mile) open water swims in Lake Las Vegas. These will take place on the Saturday afternoon between the women’s and men’s pro races.
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