A wide-eyed and ambitious schoolboy when it was announced that London would host the 2012 Olympic Games, a 24-year-old man when he took the tape and the first of his two Olympic titles, Britain’s Alistair Brownlee has today announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 36.

The only athlete on the planet to have been crowned Junior World Champion, U23 World Champion, European Champion, World Champion and Olympic Champion, his incredible collection of honours marks him out as the greatest the sport has ever seen.

His two world titles in 2009 and 2011 and battles with...

Earlier this week, we dove into the top stats of the leading performers in the 2024 men’s WTCS. Today, it is the turn of the women. The goal of this article is to survey the average performances of the best athletes in the women’s Series by looking at how they ranked in each discipline across the various WTCS stops and Paris Olympic Games. From that perspective, we can develop a picture of where the overall podium stood apart from the rest of the top-10 and, in turn, where the top-10 elevated themselves over the rest of the field.

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What separates the best from the rest? With plenty of moving parts, triathlon can be a complicated sport at times and the ingredients of success hard to identify. A fast run may ostensibly seem like the most important factor. After all, as the final discipline the run is often the decisive part of any race. It might surprise you to learn that the three men on the overall podium of the 2024 WTCS were actually the three best exponents of a different part of the race. While they were very good at the run, there was another area in which...

Marten Van Riel defied the intense heat and then outran the world’s best triathletes to win the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Championship Final and take the first-ever T100 Triathlon World Championship Title in commanding fashion this afternoon in Dubai.

Van Riel chalked up his 3rd T100 win from 4 T100 starts and make history – following victories in San Francisco, Ibiza and now Dubai – earning $301,000 in prize money along the way.

Rico Bogen’s 2nd place finish in Dubai saw him jump 7 places in the T100 Standings up to 3rd overall and earn an extra $90,000, while a...

Taylor Knibb delivered a flawless swim, bike and run performance to win the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Championship Final and take the first-ever T100 Triathlon World Championship Title in dominant fashion, despite the sweltering heat in Dubai today.

Knibb has notched up four wins from four T100 starts in the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Tour and stamp her name in the record books, following victories in San Francisco, Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas and now Dubai, earning $310,000 in prize money along the way.

The American star wasn’t firing on all cylinders pre-race, but a monumental effort saw her stride to victory...

The World Triathlon Championship Series may have been wrapped up almost a month ago, but the subsequent World Cups in Tongyeong, Miyazaki and Brasilia helped to define the final World Triathlon Rankings at the end of a packed year on the blue carpet.

The annual WTCS Rankings determine the season’s World Champions, but the World Rankings are used to determine athletes’ selection for racing. Points are earned from the maximum 1250 available for the winner of the Championship Finals down to 50 for the national championships (and points decreasing by 7.5% per position), and full criteria can be found...

It was the last World Triathlon Cup of the 2024 season and it finished with a bang. The men’s race at the Brasilia World Cup was a brilliant display of running legs, especially for Brazil’s Manoel Messias, who took victory on home soil with an impressive run. Behind him, Australia’s Callum McClusky rounded his season with yet another World Cup podium in second, while Spain’s Sergio Baxter Cabrera proved that he has overcome the injuries that kept him out of the blue carpet for months to finish in third place.

Forty-six men lined up at the start,...