London, UK: The world’s top three ranked women will go head-to-head at the Singapore T100 Triathlon, after the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon announced the contracted T100 female athletes racing on Saturday 5 April.
American Taylor Knibb, the 2024 T100 World Champion, will line up for her first ever T100 race in the Lion City and renew her rivalry with Australian Ashleigh Gentle, who was the runner up in the inaugural series but has won both the PTO’s 100km races in Singapore, proving herself highly adept in hot and humid conditions.
Speaking about her approach for the new season, Gentle has underlined the importance of her mental preparation, saying: “I’m telling myself that I can be the T100 World Champion. That’s the mentality I have to have and I believe it will give me the best chance – along with giving everything I have in training, which of course I feel like I always have.”
“I switched coaches at the middle of last year. So going into Singapore this year will be different preparation for me and I’m excited to see if that’s going to work out. I definitely feel good about how training’s going. It’s a slog in Queensland right now [due to the hot weather], but I know that that’s really good preparation for the sauna that is Singapore.”
Swiss Olympic star Julie Derron completes the top ranked trio. Derron won silver at the Paris 2024 Games last summer and showed how much of a threat she will be by delivering standout performances in Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas and Dubai last term, where she finished in second place.
Also on the start line is Tokyo 2021 Olympic champion Flora Duffy, who after a full winter training on a TT bike is sure to be in contention. Paris 2024 Olympic relay silver medalist Taylor Spivey will be in a similar position and proved how fast she can be in the swim and run during the second half of last year. British breakthrough star Lucy Byram came sixth overall on the T100 Tour last year and is looking to improve. 2023 Ironman World Champion, Lucy Charles-Barclay, who came second in Singapore in 2024 after leading deep into the run, will also be a contender.
The full line up of contracted T100 women is listed below:
- Taylor Knibb (USA)
- Ashleigh Gentle (AUS)
- Julie Derron (SUI)
- India Lee (GBR)
- Lucy Byram (GBR)
- Flora Duffy (BER)
- Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR)
- Caroline Pohle (GER)
- Els Visser (NED)
- Marta Sanchez (ESP)
- Taylor Spivey (USA)
- Grace Thek (AUS)
- Hannah Berry (NZL)
- Jess Learmonth (GBR)
- Kate Waugh (GBR)
The last five 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 Singapore will be announced tomorrow [Wednesday 5 March].
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 triathlon on a similar course to the professionals, to first-time swim, bike and run participants taking on single discipline, untimed events. As well as a 100km triathlon in Singapore, amateurs can also do a Standard (4.5km Run/32km Bike/4.5km Run) or Long (9km Run/64km Bike/9km Run) Duathlon, or an untimed 5km Music Run. All three events are on public sale here, but hurry as places are selling fast. Last year, Singapore’s Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung and only Olympic champion Joseph Schooling joined 5,000 amateur participants across the weekend.
The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour will take place across nine races, including the return to Singapore to start the new series. It will then go to San Francisco (31 May-1 June), Vancouver (13-15 June), France (27-29 June), London (9-10 August), Valencia (20 September), Lake Las Vegas and Dubai (15-16 November). Before climaxing in Qatar for the new Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final (12-13 December) following a five-year partnership with Visit Qatar.
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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 which contribute towards their T100 Race To Qatar ranking
- The Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final has increased points to up the ante (55 pts down to 4 pts)
- 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
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About Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO)
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.
