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London T100 Triathlon 2025

🏊‍♀️🚴🏃‍♀️ NEWSFLASH: The London T100 Triathlon is a wrap for 2025!  Results 👇

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2025 RESULTS

CONGRATULATIONS to GB star Lucy Charles-Barclay who claimed top spot in the women’s elite rate at the London T100 Triathlon.  The British star overhauled her compatriot Kate Waugh on the run leg to claim a memorable victory.  2024 T100 world champion Taylor Knibb from the USA completed the podium places.

In the men’s elite race, Olympic silver medallist Hayden Wilde made a stunning return from serious injury.  Wilde had been hit by a truck in early May, sustaining a punctured lung and six broken ribs.  But the New Zealander would not be denied in London to take a famous victory.  Germany’s Mika Noodt was second, with Jelle Geens from Belgium finishing in third.

2025 PREVIEW

London’s Docklands is the place to be on Saturday 9 August for the London T100 Triathlon featuring an array of the world’s best athletes.

The T100 Triathlon World Tour returns to the capital in 2025 following its successful debut event in 2024.  Run by the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO), the tour features a women’s and men’s T100 World Championship with points available at each race.  The London T100 triathlon is the fourth of nine pro events taking place around the world in 2025.

Featuring the best triathletes in the world each athlete much complete a minimum of 4 races, plus the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championships Final.  20 of the world’s top pro triathletes (in the women’s and men’s category) are contracted to take part.  Each race has a prize fund of $250,000.  The T100 World Champions (overall series winners) receive an additional $200,000 each.

The first T100 race of the season took place in Singapore in early April.  The tour descends on the capital for the London T100 Triathlon, before heading to the French Riviera at the end of August.  The T100 Triathlon season finale takes place in Quatar where the ultimate champions are decided.

The marquee London race features a closed road course taking place entirely within central London, with both the women’s race and men’s race on Saturday 9 August. 

👀 Read on for the ‘ones to watch’, timings and spectator/travel info

WOMEN’S PRO RACE 

Australia’s Ashleigh Gentle won the T100 in London in 2024.  She is due back to defend her title.  Gentle will face stiff competition from among others GB stars Lucy Charles-Barclay, Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown.

Also set to take part is Flora Duffy who made history becoming Bermuda’s first-ever Olympic gold medallist when she struck triathlon gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The full list of contracted T100 women competing in the 2025 London T100 can be viewed here.  See below for the 2024 startlist.

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MEN’S PRO RACE – SUNDAY

Sam Laidlow from France won the first men’s London T100 Triathlon event last July.  The then current Ironman world champion finished ahead of New Zealander Kyle Smith.  British star Alistair Brownlee was eighth.

At the time of writing there are 19 male triathletes contracted to complete in 2025.  These include Belgium’s Marten Van Riel and the aforementioned Kyle Smith looking to go one better in London than his second-placed finish in 2024.  Also looking to be crowned the T100 champion for 2025 is PTO World #4 American Sam Long.  Olympic silver medallist from Paris 2024, Hayden Wilde, could be the man to beat after his stunning T100 Triathlon debut in Singapore where he won the men’s pro race in dominant fashion.

The full list of contracted T100 men competing in the 2025 London T100 can be viewed here.  See below for the 2024 startlist.

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LONDON T100 TRIATHLON – SPECTATING, TIMINGS & TRAVEL

🎟️ Spectating at the LondonT100 Triathlon is free on the route.

⏱️ Race timings:

Women’s Pro RaceSaturday 9 August.  Race starts at 12 midday.

Men’s Pro Race – Saturday 9 August.  Race starts at 2.45pm.

🧭 Race route:

The course maps can be viewed here.  Starting and finishing at ExCel London, the swim is in the sheltered Royal Victoria Dock.  The multi-lap bike course consists of 8x10km laps starting at ExCel London and heading west along the Thames to a turnaround across the river from The O2 Arena.  Then it’s back past ExCel and eastwards to a second roundabout.  The race finishes with a multi-lap run alongside the Royal Victoria and Royal Albert Docks.  A total of 6x3km laps.  Spectating is free on the route.  Tap on the ‘Spectators’ tab here for recommended viewing spots.

🚊🚗 Travel tips: Plan your journey to ExCel London using their ‘Getting here’ guide.

ABOUT THE PROFESSIONAL TRIATHLETES ORGANISAION (PTO)

The PTO is a sports body co-owned by its professional athletes.  It is seeking to elevate and grow the sport of triathlon and take it to the next level.  The T100 Triathlon World Tour is the new name for the PTO Tour.  It has been designated by World Triathlon as the ‘official World Championship for long distance triathlon’.

It is a season-long schedule of nine T100 races during 2025.  The race distance is over 100km (2km swim, 80km bike and 18km run).  The world’s best triathletes will feature going head-to-head in Singapore (5-6 April), San Francisco (31 May), Vancouver (14-15 June), London (9 August), French Riviera (30-31 August), Valencia (20 September), Lake Las Vegas (25 October), Dubai (15-16 November) and Qatar (World Championship Final, 12-13 December).  There will also be racing opportunities for amateurs at all the events. 

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