The Professional Triathletes Organisation’s (PTO) has confirmed that its world #1 athlete Taylor Knibb and world #3 Sam Long will headline the USA’s leading professional triathletes competing at the inaugural Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon.
Held on October 19-20, 2024, Lake Las Vegas is the sixth stop on PTO’s new seven-leg T100 Triathlon World Tour. The series has already been to Miami, Singapore, San Francisco and London this year and will be touching down in Ibiza, Las Vegas, and Dubai over the coming months.
Taylor Knibb, who hails from Washington DC but lives and trains in Boulder, Colorado, won her second Olympic silver medal in the mixed relay triathlon in Paris. She’ll be joined on the Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon start line by mixed relay triathlon team-mate, Taylor Spivey, as well as 2022 IRONMAN World Champion Chelsea Sodaro.
Sam Long lives and trains in Tuscon, Arizona, and will lead the charge for the US in the men’s pro race. Joining him will be T100’s fastest runner, Jason West, who trains in Boulder, Colorado, and has averaged 3 minute, 7 second kilometres for the 18km run already this year.
At the Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon, 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 race finishes with an18km run split into six 1.8 mile laps around Reflection Bay Golf Club.
As well as the professional races, amateurs will also be able to take on a 100km triathlon over a similar course. 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 series ambition to offer a variety of different distances and events, the PTO has announced 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 pro race, which starts at 08:15 local time, and the men’s pro race, which begins at 14:15.
The amateur 100km triathlon will start from 07:00 on the Sunday morning.
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