London, UK: The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have announced a number of revisions to the 2026 T100 Triathlon World Tour format, including an adapted competition schedule, removal of season-long contract commitments and increased event prize money.
This new format will take place over a nine race T100 Race To Qatar in 2026 with the PTO and World Triathlon also confirming the return dates for the Singapore T100 on 25-26 April, 2026, and the Vancouver T100 on 15-16 August, 2026; which are added to the Gold Coast T100 in Australia on 21-22 March, 2026.
Revisions For 2026 T100 Tour
As the PTO continues its journey to elevate the sport and take it mainstream, the revisions to the T100 competition format include:
- Adapting the event schedule to allow for fewer mandatory races for professional women and men – instead of hosting joint female and male T100 race weekends, they will each race four individual dates before coming together for the Qatar T100 World Championship Final in Doha. Each athlete’s best three T100 race scores plus the final will count towards the women’s and men’s T100 World Championship titles.
- Removal of season-long contracts – Moving to ranking-based selection of events, providing athletes with more flexibility throughout the season. In the lead up to each event, the PTO will simply issue invitations to the best female and male professionals. For the first race this will be based on their 2025 T100 Race To Qatar finishing position [top 10]; the top 5 from the Contender Rankings and 5 Wildcards. After that, it will be the top 10 in the 2026 T100 Race To Qatar, along with the next 8 from the PTO World Rankings System and 2 Wildcards.
- Increased prize money per race – Each T100 race in 2026 will offer a $275,000 prize fund, more than double the prize fund per race this year, starting with $50,000 for first place, $40,000 for second, $30,000 for third, down to $3,500 for 20th place. The series prize pool will be worth $1,450,000 split equally between women and men, with $100,000 to each series winner.
Commenting ahead of this weekend’s T100 and WTCS races in Wollongong, Australia, the PTO CEO Sam Renouf said:
“What is clear and supported by our professional athletes’ feedback and actions over the last 18 months, is that getting the pros to compete across all the legs of a nine stop series has been a challenge, for a variety of reasons. Equally, we know from the feedback from our commercial partners, that if triathlon wants to elevate itself and compete with the many other forms of sport and entertainment in the world, we need to deliver a season-long calendar that has enough volume to ‘cut through’. By adapting our competition format to keep our race calendar intact, while incorporating the feedback of the professionals, we believe we can deliver the best of both worlds.”
“We also recognize the impact our racing has on our other stakeholders, be that the fans who tune-in and spectate, the hosts who close their roads and the broadcasters who dedicate their valuable airtime to the competition. An unanticipated impact of our calendar in 2025 was a professional product that sometimes extended to six or seven hours – far longer than we’d ever anticipated when creating the T100 as the optimum distance to professionalise the sport. By adapting to this single race format, we can deliver the ideal product for all our stakeholders in a 4-hour event window consistent with other major professional sports, making our events for both genders even more competitive, rewarding and exciting for everyone involved.”
World Triathlon President, Antonio F. Arimany, said: “World Triathlon is really proud of the strong partnership and collaborative spirit we share with the PTO. By listening to our key stakeholders, especially the athletes, we are confident that the evolution of the T100 series will result in an even more compelling and successful circuit in 2026. Together, we are committed to elevating the sport and providing the best possible platform for our athletes to shine.”
The PTO Athlete Board, who have played a key role around the competition format changes, said: “Establishing the T100 Triathlon World Tour has been a significant step forward for our sport, leading to a better broadcast product, that for the first time has incorporated RaceRanger as well as live biometric athlete data for sports fans around the world. Our professional athletes are also being looked after in a way that has elevated the professionalism and care of professional triathletes – through increased athlete remuneration & minimum payments, airport transfers & accommodation, access to training facilities, bike mechanics, & massage, and, in general, a pro athlete focused set up at all T100 Events. We have seen how this environment has produced a world class tour and adapting the competition format to ensure the quality and consistency remains, while also searching for improvements for all stakeholders was paramount in deciding these changes. We are as excited as ever to see how the 2026 T100 Tour will unfold.”
The remaining six events for 2026 will be announced in the coming weeks, around the final events of the 2025 season, which include Wollongong (18 October 2025), Dubai (15-16 November 2025) and the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final in Doha on 12-13 December.
The series returns to Singapore for a fourth year and has quickly established itself as a ‘must watch’ professional event and ‘must do’ amateur challenge, with its swim in the iconic Marina Bay, bike course around the heart of the financial district and over Sheares Bridge – and run around Marina Bay. Vancouver’s second year follows overwhelmingly positive pro and amateur feedback, with the event recording the highest amateur event feedback score on the T100 Tour to date.
The Gold Coast T100 in 2026 has already proven extremely popular with the 100km amateur race selling out in just nine days and the PTO and Events Management Queensland (EMQ) announcing last week that a 10km fun run has been added to the weekend schedule. To sign up and/or register interest for any of these events, go to https://t100triathlon.com/participate/
The PTO also announced on Wednesday this week that the World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) will return to London in 2026 at the London T100 Triathlon weekend (25-26 July,2026). The PTO and World Triathlon deciding to switch out the professional T100km distance races for 2026 for the shorter WTCS format. Whilst the amateur part of the weekend will continue to feature the PTO’s signature 100km triathlon (2km swim, 80km bike, 18km run) as well as Olympic, Sprint and Relay options.
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About the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO)
The PTO is a sports body that is co-owned by its professional athletes, seeking to elevate and grow the sport of triathlon and take it to the next level. Its T100 Triathlon World Tour was introduced in January 2024 and is designated by World Triathlon as the ‘official World Championship for long distance triathlon’, which is part of a 12-year strategic partnership with the sport’s international governing body. The T100 Triathlon World Tour is a season-long schedule of World Championship level races competed over 100km (2km swim, 80km bike and 18km run), where the world’s best triathletes go head-to-head in iconic locations on a global broadcast showing the races live around the world in 195+ territories, courtesy of the PTO’s partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery as well as a range of other international, regional and local broadcasters. In 2025 these will include: Singapore (5-6 April), San Francisco (31 May-1 June), Vancouver (13-15 June), London (9-10 August), France (29-31 August), Spain (20 September), Wollongong (18 October), Dubai (15-16 November) and Qatar (12-13 December) for the first Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final. T100 weekends are ‘festivals of multisport’ and feature a range of opportunities for amateur athletes of all levels to get involved. From experienced amateurs tackling the 100km distance to first-time swim, bike and run participants taking on single discipline, untimed events. For more information visit www.t100triathlon.com
About World Triathlon
World Triathlon is the international governing body for the Olympic and Paralympic sport of triathlon and all related multisport disciplines around the world, including duathlon, aquathlon, cross triathlon and winter triathlon. Triathlon made its Olympic debut in Sydney 2000, with a third medal event, the Mixed Team Relay, added to the programme at Tokyo 2020, while para triathlon was first added to the Paralympic programme at Rio 2016. World Triathlon is proudly committed to the development of the sport worldwide, with inclusion, equality, sustainability and transparency at our core as we seek to help triathletes at all levels of the sport to be extraordinary.
