London, UK: The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have introduced a new T100 Contenders Ranking system, in order to promote a clear pathway onto the T100 Triathlon World Tour, which starts this weekend in Singapore at the first T100 race of its second season.
The initiative will provide up to three women’s and men’s Wildcards at every T100 race, based on their ranking, as well as five contracts for the 2026 T100 Triathlon World Tour and $560,000 USD in prize money to a total of 80 athletes; 40 women and 40 men.
“One of the things that was clear to ourselves and the PTO Athlete Board after the first season of the T100 Tour, was the need to find a clear way to promote and incentivise a path onto the tour for those athletes not yet eligible,” said PTO CEO Sam Renouf. “The new T100 Contender Rankings does exactly that and is underpinned with a compelling prize money structure that sits beneath it. This is crucial as we seek to build on the positive momentum of our first season and look to establish the T100 as the world’s premier triathlon series.”
The move to the T100 Contender Rankings will mean that the PTO World Rankings will continue to operate but will have no financial compensation attached.
“Whilst the PTO World Rankings provide a fair and transparent assessment of an athlete’s performance over a season and will remain important to do that, what they didn’t do was actively signpost or encourage a way for aspiring T100 athletes to go about making it onto the tour,” added Ruth Astle from the PTO Board, who worked closely on the initiative. “What we needed to do was show unambiguous support for those athletes who are prioritising their ambitions to race the T100 Tour.”
How The T100 Contender Rankings Works
- Any eligible PTO Member Athlete who is ranked in the PTO World Rankings will be included by default in the T100 Contender Rankings
- Athletes who have previously held a T100 Contract in 2024 and declined a new contract for 2025 are ineligible for the T100 Contender Rankings
- Athletes who previously held a T100 Contract and declined a new contract for 2025 due to injury (where the injury would have restricted them from meeting their contract terms) or maternity leave will still be eligible for the T100 Contender Rankings
- Athletes included in these rankings will be known as ‘Contenders’
- An Athlete’s 5 Best Scores using the PTO World Rankings Points System will be used to determine an Athlete’s T100 Contender Ranking, with a maximum of 2 Full-distance Events counting towards their total. The 5% bonus on an Athlete’s single best Gold tier or lower race performance still applies for the T100 Contender Rankings.
The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour will take place across nine races, including a return to Singapore this weekend, to start the new series, then San Francisco (31 May-1 June), Vancouver (13-15 June), France (27-29 June), London (9-10 August), Valencia (20 September), Lake Las Vegas, Dubai (15-16 November) and Qatar (12-13 December) for the first Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final.
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How the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour works:
- Athletes score 35 points for first place to 1 pt for 20th place at each of the nine races, with increased points for 2nd (up from 28 to 29 points); 3rd (up from 25 to 26); and 4th (up from 22 to 23), to encourage more competitive racing
- The Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final has increased points to up the ante (55 pts down to 4 pts) as well as a similar upweight of points from 2nd (now 46 points from 45) to 13th position.
- Each athlete’s best four T100 race scores plus the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will count towards the women’s and men’s T100 World Championship titles
- $250,000 USD prize fund at each T100, totalling $2,250,000 across the nine races (1st place – $25,000k; 2nd – $17,000; 3rd – $13,000 at each race)
- The series winners following the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will be crowned T100 Triathlon World Champion and collect $200,000 USD from an additional total prize pool of $2,940,000
- The T100 Contenders Rankings will pay 1st to 40th place from a total prize pool of $560,000 (1st place – $16,000; 2nd place – $15,000; 3rd place – $14,000 down to 40th place – $3,000)
- Between the athlete contracts, T100 race prize fund, T100 Triathlon World Tour pool and the T100 Contenders Rankings, the series provides more than $8,000,000 in athlete compensation, and is distributed in a way that not only rewards the winners, but also recognises the significant achievement of racing at this level and a pathway that feeds into the T100 series
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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, San Francisco, Vancouver, France, London, Valencia, Lake Las Vegas, Dubai and then Qatar for the 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. For more information visit: www.triathlon.org
