London, UK: The San Francisco T100 Triathlon will set up some intriguing head-to-head battles in the women’s race after the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon announced the contracted T100 female athletes racing the Escape From Alcatraz course on Saturday 31 May. 

Singapore winner Kate Waugh, who took the top step with a record-breaking performance on her first T100 outing, will take on last year’s T100 World Champion and San Francisco winner, American Taylor Knibb.

British Olympic star Waugh described the win as ‘the biggest victory of her career’ by the largest T100 winning margin seen to date of 6 minutes 41 seconds. The question in the Golden Gate city as the world’s top female triathletes take on the legendary Escape From Alcatraz course will be: ‘Can she repeat it?’

Ashleigh Gentle will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing 6th position in Singapore, having set her sights higher. The Australian has won on this course twice in the past, in 2019 and 2015, and will be looking to channel those past, positive memories. Also looking for improvement will be Swiss star Julie Derron, who came 12th in Lion City, having previously always finished on the podium in her first three T100 races. Bermuda’s Olympic champion Flora Duffy DNF-ed in Singapore and will be looking to open her Race To Qatar points tally.  As will Canadian Paula Findlay, who is entering the T100 fray following a convincing win to start her season at the Ironman 70.3 in Oceanside. 

Also on the start line is Great Britain’s other Olympian Jess Learmonth, who won lots of admirers and respect for the way she raced in Singapore, pushing the pace hard on the swim and bike to lead going into the run, but then overheating in the humid conditions but refusing to pull out, eventually finishing 13th. American Olympian Taylor Spivey delivered an encouraging start to her 2025 T100 challenge by finishing 5th in Singapore and will be looking forward to racing on home soil. 

The line up of contracted women racing in their T100 Race To Qatar rankings order is here and below:  

1. Kate Waugh (GBR)
2. Taylor Spivey (USA) 
3. Ashleigh Gentle (AUS) 
4. Grace Thek (AUS) 
5. Marta Sanchez (ESP)
6. Julie Derron (SUI)
7. Jess Learmonth (GBR)
8. Flora Duffy (BER)
9. Lucy Byram (GBR)
10. Paula Findlay (CAN) 
11. Taylor Knibb (USA) 

The remaining slots will be taken by Wildcards who will be announced on T100 social channels at the end of this week.  The contracted T100 men racing in San Francisco will be announced tomorrow [Tuesday 29 April]. 

The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour got under way in Singapore earlier this month (5-6 April) when professionals Kate Waugh of Great Britain and New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde produced two world class performances to win and take the lead in the T100 Race To Qatar Rankings. Singapore also saw 7,000 amateurs compete in a combination of a 100km triathlon, two distances of duathlon and an untimed 5km music run.

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Notes To Editors 

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

For Further Information: 

Anthony Scammell E: [email protected] 

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 (5-6 April), San Francisco (31 May-1 June), Vancouver (13-15 June), London (9-10 August), France (29-31 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. 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.