London, UK: The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have announced the eight superstar Hot Shots who will be racing on the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour.
On the men’s side they 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. Plus American Olympian Morgan Pearson, who added Mixed Relay silver in Paris to his Mixed Relay Olympic silver medal from Tokyo 2020.
On the women’s side they feature: American Olympic silver medalist Taylor Spivey, who proved she can mix it with the best at three T100 races following Paris 2024; 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. Plus 22-year old up-and-comer Laura Madsen of Denmark, who had a breakthrough season of wins in Ironman 70.3 and Challenge events during 2024.
Between the eight athletes, they have won eight Olympic medals and twelve overall elite level World Triathlon Championship medals.
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.
Wilde has already entered into the spirit of the T100 by posting a video aimed at this season’s men’s T100 World Champion Marten Van Riel, who he knows well from the World Triathlon Championship Series. Filmed outside Van Riel’s house in Antwerp, Wilde said:
“I’m absolutely stoked to announce that I’m going to be racing the T100 series for 2025 and hopefully challenge my mate Marten for his T100 title. To celebrate me attempting to give Marten a good battle through the season, I’m just outside his house in Loenhout [Antwerp, Belgium]. My partner’s from Belgium and we’re having Christmas in Belgium and I guess the mind games start now…have a good Christmas Marten and see you next season.”
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 the announcement before Christmas.
2024 saw the PTO launch the new 7-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 iconic 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 5-6 April, 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 new year.
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About 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. The T100 Triathlon World Tour was the new name for the PTO Tour and has been designated by World Triathlon as the ‘official World Championship for long distance triathlon’. It was a season-long schedule of T100 races during 2024 that are competed over 100km (2km swim, 80km bike and 18km run) and featured the world’s best triathletes going head-to-head in Miami (9 March), Singapore (13-14 April), San Francisco (8-9 June), London (27-28 July), Ibiza (28-29 September), Lake Las Vegas (19-20 October) and then the Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final (16-17 November). There were also racing opportunities for amateurs at all the events, including the new 100km distance at five stages, including: Singapore, London, Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas and Dubai. The global broadcast shows 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.
