The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have announced ‘eight superstar hot shots’ who will be racing on the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour.
On the men’s side the elite athletes include: the Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist from New Zealand Hayden Wilde; French duo Léo Bergère, the World Triathlon Championship Series winner in 2022 and Paris 2024 Olympic bronze medallist, and Vincent Luis, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Mixed Relay bronze medallist and two times World Triathlon Championship Series winner. In addition, American Olympian Morgan Pearson, who added Mixed Relay silver in Paris to his Mixed Relay Olympic silver medal from Tokyo 2020, will be racing the T100 Triathlon World Tour in 2025.
On the women’s side are: American Olympic silver medallist Taylor Spivey; British Olympians Kate Waugh, who also competed in Paris and won the 2022 U23 World Triathlon Championship, and Jess Learmonth, a European, Commonwealth, Olympic and World Triathlon Series medal winner. Also racing the T100 Triathlon World Tour is 22-year old up-and-comer Laura Madsen of Denmark.
Between the eight athletes, they have won eight Olympic medals and 12 overall elite level World Triathlon Championship medals.
PTO adds that… ‘Hot Shots are proven performers from the world of triathlon but who didn’t automatically gain entry to the next series or qualify through their PTO World Ranking. They might be athletes who were on the cusp last season, those moving up from racing short distance racing or athletes with palmares and pedigree coming back from injury or maternity. They will all receive contracts to race on the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour.’
The ‘Hot Shots’ join Taylor Knibb (USA), Ashleigh Gentle (AUS), Julie Derron (SUI), Flora Duffy (BER), Lucy Byram (GBR), India Lee (GBR), Imogen Simmonds (SUI), Paula Findlay (CAN), Marten Van Riel (BEL), Kyle Smith (NZL), Rico Bogen (GER), Sam Long (USA) Mathis Margirier (FRA), Pieter Heemeryck (BEL), Youri Keulen (NED) and Fred Funk (GER) who are all signed up for the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour following an announcement before Christmas.
2024 saw the PTO launch the new seven-leg USD 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 – and will announce the remaining 2025 races as well as remainder of the 2025 T100 contracted athletes in the coming weeks.
