London, UK: The San Francisco T100 Triathlon will see Marten Van Riel, Kyle Smith and Rico Bogen line up for a repeat of their 2024 sprint finish after the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon announced the contracted T100 male athletes racing the Escape From Alcatraz course on Saturday 31 May.
The Belgian, Kiwi and German produced the most exciting T100 race last term, in a sensational three-way dash to the line that saw the eventual 2024 T100 World Champion Van Riel edge out Smith by less than a second; with Bogen only a further 3 seconds back. T100 commentator and triathlon GOAT Jan Frodeno, described it as the best finish to a triathlon he’d ever seen.
Also lining up are home favourites Sam Long, Jason West and Morgan Pearson. Long delivered a creditable 8th place in Singapore, but with the strong currents of San Francisco Bay expected to sweep the athletes along and reduce his swim disadvantage – much as they did in 2024 when he emerged less than a minute down to swim leader Rico Bogen – the home crowd will expect him to challenge for the podium.
West begins his T100 season determined to improve on a largely disappointing 2024 series, whilst Pearson will be itching to make his mark having had to pull out of Singapore due to a fractured wrist.
The line up of contracted men racing in their T100 Race To Qatar rankings order is here and below:
- Marten Van Riel (BEL)
- Youri Keulen (NED)
- Antonio Benito Lopez (ESP)
- Sam Long (USA)
- Mika Noodt (GER)
- Rico Bogen (GER)
- Justus Nieschlag (GER)
- Vincent Luis (FRA)
- Nicolas Mann (GER)
- Jelle Geens (BEL)
- Jason West (USA)
- Kyle Smith (NZL)
- Morgan Pearson (USA)
- Pieter Heemeryck (BEL)
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 women racing in San Francisco were announced yesterday.
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
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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 (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
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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.
