PTO unveils athletes, prize purse and aspects for freshly launched T100 Triathlon World Tour

Having real offered the begin of their highly anticipated T100 Triathlon World Tour calendar, the PTO hold moreover published the athletes who shall be taking to the originate up traces.

With an sharp combination of Olympic and World Champions, rising stars and short route legends, the diminished in size athletes for 2024 are amongst the particular on this planet across all disciplines.

With contracts stipulating that many of the athletes will compete in 5 regular season races and the Mighty Final, the tour appears to be like build of dwelling to host a different of fabulous matchups all three hundred and sixty five days long.

Who will strive against it out for the World Championship title?

With a world championship title on the road and a indispensable prize purse, the PTO hold managed to stable one of the well-known well-known particular athletes on this planet to the series.

The girls’s line up has the total high PTO World Ranked athletes, in conjunction with: present #1 Anne Haug (GER),  #2 Ashleigh Gentle (AUS), #3 Taylor Knibb (USA), #4 Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR), #5 Laura Philipp (GER), #6 Kat Matthews (GBR), #7 Paula Findlay (CAN), #8 Daniela Ryf (SUI), #9 Imogen Simmonds (SUI), #10 Emma Pallant-Browne (GBR), #11 Chelsea Sodaro (USA), #12 Marjolaine Pierré (FRA), #13 Skye Moench (USA), #14 Tamara Jewett (CAN), #15 India Lee (GBR), #17 Amelia Watkinson (NZL) #22 Holly Lawrence (GBR), #25 Lucy Byram (GBR), Taylor Spivey (USA) and Flowers Duffy (BER).

The males’s moreover aspects the particular that you just are going to be in a plot to mediate of athletes, in conjunction with present #2 Magnus Ditlev (DEN), #3 Jason West (USA), #5 Pieter Heemeryck (BEL), #6 Mathis Margirier (FRA), #7 Rudy Von Berg (USA), #8 Leon Chevalier (FRA), #9 Sam Lengthy (USA), #11 Daniel Baekkegard (DEN), #12 Bradley Weiss (RSA), #13 Sam Laidlow (FRA), #14 Frederic Funk (GER), #15 Clement Mignon (FRA), #16 Aaron Royle (AUS), #17 David McNamee (GBR), #23 Ben Kanute (USA), #26 Rico Bogen (GER), #31 Alistair Brownlee (GBR), #174 Max Neumann (AUS), #205 Marten Van Riel (BEL) and #267 Javier Gomez (ESP). 

PTO Chief Government Chris Kermode talked about that the calibre of athletes build of dwelling to bustle the series was once a mountainous step against the corporate’s goal of elevating the game.

“Right here’s a indispensable step forward for the game of triathlon and our ambition to elevate genuine triathlon on a world sporting stage and is the culmination of what we’ve been working laborious to enact over the closing 12 months.

“But, as I’ve talked about to the athletes and the PTO team over the previous few weeks, in triathlon phrases the PTO is most productive real emerging from the water and there may be aloof an awfully essential distance to head to the spoil line.

“But to hold the calibre of these athletes offered this day signal up and decide to the fresh T100 Triathlon World Tour is a extensive endorsement of what we’re both constructing.”

Facets and Prize Purse

The athletes will accumulate up to a most of 35 aspects per regular season bustle, with first inform receiving the most amount and 20th inform receiving one level at each and every bustle.

At the Mighty Final, which is decided to be within the Middle East at a but to be confirmed date, the aspects readily obtainable across the board will amplify, with the winner receiving 55 aspects and 20th receiving four aspects.

For each and every T100, there shall be a prize purse of $250,000 as share of a $2,000,000 purse across the eight races, with the winners of each and every tournament incomes $25,000. The Mighty Final winners will accumulate $210,000 from an additional prize pool of $2,000,000.

Across the regular season prize pool, Mighty Final bonus purse and the athletes’ contracts, the PTO will present bigger than $7,000,000 in athlete compensation and can honest recognise the quite quite a bit of success of racing at this level.

What the pros had to advise

Speaking after the announcement was once made, British stars Lucy Charles-Barclay and Alistair Brownlee were chunky of reward for the series, with Charles-Barclay excited to head searching how far she will be able to run over the structure.

“For me, the T100 Triathlon World Tour is where our sport is heading. Having performed four of the PTO 100km races now, I treasure the ambiance, rivals and narrate they devise.

“I really hold tried the Olympic distance and cherished the mercurial prance excitement of flat out racing, and on the different aspect of the spectrum I really hold raced and performed really effectively at the Ironman distance which is all about pacing and patience.

“But really putting one thing within the heart and bringing in athletes from the long route and from the Olympic distance, it’s real a melting pot of talent and the extent of racing is elevated than we’ve ever considered within the game.

“I mediate in what the PTO and World Triathlon are doing and how sharp and mountainous it’ll also develop into and that’s what I must be a share of. So my non-public goal this three hundred and sixty five days is the T100 tour. I’ve by no methodology fascinating relating to the 100km distance fully sooner than and I real must run searching how far I will run over the structure.”

Brownlee echoed the IRONMAN World Champion’s sentiments, bringing up that he was once sure that despite the challenges the tour will inevitably face, its inception will back the game greatly.

“I must run searching more other folks watching high level long distance triathlon, being inspired by seeing the halt athletes racing. It’s well-known that the PTO succeeds and I’m joyful that the T100 Triathlon World Tour’s success shall be triathlon’s success.

“It’s complicated to create one thing fresh but come what may it’ll back each and every triathlete, so having the PTO work carefully with World Triathlon to build on these mountainous races in mountainous places that enable athletes to flourish and bustle to the particular of their capacity – and broadcasting it across the enviornment within the correct formula – has bought to be systems to head to herald fresh fans and of us that must make a choice within the game in a fresh contrivance.”