How far is the race?

Let’s keep it at Olympic distance.

US wins easily. Finke/McNulty/Fisher. Not even close. Women would as well Ledecky/Dygert/Sisson.

Most teams only have 2 olympians unless you're allowed to pick former olympians in which case...

Jonny Brownlee Swim
Ali Brownlee Bike
Alex Yee Run

Can't see anyone doing better than that 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I think Australia men would give them a run for their money... if the bike was a TT. US doesn't have anyone to match Rohan Dennis.
It'd be close for sure.

I think OP meant that a country could choose any Olympian (ie a track athlete for the run, a pool swimmer for the swim, etc) not just three triathletes to make up a team

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a pool swimmer for the swim, etc) not just three triathletes to make up a team //


Actually it would be an OW swimmer in most cases, remember that is an olympic event too...

would it though? the basis was ITU tri so i assume we're talking a 1500 swim. i believe the only OWS in the olympics is the 10km which is quite a different distance. you might have some interesting dynamics depending on how the water conditions turn out on the day - a fast 1500 or less pool swimmer struggling in rough water vs a relatively slow 10km OW swimmer thriving in the conditions. pool swimmers getting lost because there's no black line to follow!

i think it would be an interesting competition, open to a lot of countries unlike many of the team/relay events where to have a number of top level athletes in the same discipline limits it to big countries only

Lots of the open water 10k swimmers race in the pool Sharon van Rouwendaal won the 10K in Rio and is on the 10k start list also swam 200m Backstroke at this games ...

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The Netherlands

Def for women:
Rouwendaal/Vleuten/Hasan
Men might be close
Weertman/Dumoulin/Nageeye

Italy

Paltrineri
Ganna
Crippa

If ITU rules:
MVdP

If non draft: Tom Dumoulin

Ignoring the rules and branching out to Ironman, considering current competitors.
UK has a combined long distance (IM) time which would be difficult to match:
Lucy C-B swimming 49 (Challenge Roth 19), Ruth Astle riding 4:32 (IM Florida 20) and Katrina Matthews (IM Tulsa 21) running 2:49
Total 8:11.

how about australia in the early 2000s:
-thorpe swims
-o'grady/mcewan bikes (?)
-craig mottram runs

not a bad team, i'd think . . .

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I found this thread interesting

1.5km swim / 40km TT / 10km run

WOMEN

1. Netherlands Van Rouwendaal- Van Vleuten- Hassan
2. USA Ledecky- Dygert- Sisson
3. Germany Köhler- Brennauer- Klosterhalfen


MEN
1. Italy Paltrinieri- Ganna- Crippa
2. USA Finke- Mc Nulty - Fisher
3. GBR Jervis-Thomas- Farah

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