yes thats how I see it as well.
nice one for laying it out so clearly!
totally unrelated
what I saw the other day t100 2025 series thread 50 k clicks and 89 different poster , ironman pro series 2025 16.5 clicks and 57 different poster. ( ironman not much ahead of WTCS series 2025 with 13k clicks and 41 different poster)
so at least on ST the t100 series seems to be the premier tri series.
I can’t remember whether @Jackets is into T100 but what sticks in my mind is his post event discovery that the w/e in parts of the world is Friday/Saturday.
So in case, the T100 Final is on Friday next week (Thursday West Coast).
I recommend the book: “Don’t they know it’s Friday?” (before any work in stricter countries).
Further to who might be ‘qualified’ for the End of Year contender payouts, Becharas has shared a set of conditions which ring a bell but I can’t find. She has said:
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Per the rules we received at the beginning of the year (weird that they aren’t on the website)
4. Contenders must enter the World Triathlon Waitlist for a minimum of three T100 Events during the season. This means they are eligible for Wildcards based on the criteria in the T100 Wildcard System.
a. The T100 Final is not included as a T100 Event.
b. A Contender who receives a spot in a T100 Event via the Wildcard System and is notified no later than 4-weeks prior to the event, is expected to accept their
spot.
c. Contenders who do not accept their spots if point b. is met will have their end of year T100 Contender Rankings Bonus reduced by a third (1⁄3) per event they decline.
These criteria imply that athletes currently top of the Contenders like Loevseth, Blummenfelt, Hoegenhaug, Stornes, Hering, who sfaik have not appeared on T100 waitlists (I cannot check this) let alone raced T100, are not eligible for the $16k15k/14k . . . payments. Which seems entirely fair, btw.
Ya that seems fair to me too. Let the folks that at least tried to race and some that did, take part in the $$ rankings. It’s going to be a real barn burner on both mens and women’s races, really do wish Knibb kept herself in there though, she is the one missing piece..
After Knibb’s collapse in Kona’s heat, entirely reasonable/sensible not to expose herself to anymore of that, particularly so soon. If Marbella had been forecast to be hotter than it was, I doubt she’d have travelled. Knibb said immediately after Kona that very likely she’d not be at two races she had on her planned calendar: obvious even then Dubai and Qatar would be the two without her.
And actually, even pretending she hadn’t had a Kona melt, but relying on her Marbella performance, she’d have been looking at #4 at best on Friday.
I would say if we accept that pto is dead than this makes sense. but since pto still exists, I personally dont agree with this . ie if they want to do it this way they should shut down pto completely to stop the farce that pto is. you cant be punishing athletes for not wanting to do your series and pretend you are a pro tri organisation for everybody.
Yes the series had passed her by, but coming good at the 70.3 WC seemed to indicate if her head was right, she could take a real shot at the race win. And in the end if she did win that, it would be remembered more than any series winner since she would have beaten all the ladies that beat her during the year, and evened out her spat with Lucy too… (-; 1 to 1 with an epic tie..
Out of scope of @bsnidermcgrath’s article is the minor ‘battle’ for #9-#10 as they will get an AQ for T100 Gold Coast in March or Singapore in April - we still don’t know which will be for men and which for women.
Not clear whether those 10 slots will roll down, as several thus AQ will either not want to travel to Oz or not be prepared to boil themselves, Keulen (et al) style, in Singapore.
Finally, the competition for the standing finisher spots #18 #19 #20 will be worth both watching and worth it for the athletes. $24k $22k $20k and then athletes drop into the Contender payouts.
Nice interview with Taylor Spivey here. Talks about her run focus this past year and future plans to 2028..
Should you actually get a T100 ranking if you haven’t at least waitlisted yourself? Otherwise it’s just T100 using that athlete’s name without license to be honest.
Yeah, I agree on this too. Why should athletes have a t100 contender ranking if they never even tried to contend?
I thought I had read that women will be Goldcoast and men Singapore, or was that just someone guessing?
and who do you think is going to say I dont want the 16k …
I don’t understand what you are saying ?
Random T100 story.
A few years ago I left a comment under a T100 Instagram post. Explaining that I thought 3km/80km/20km would be a great distance.
Double Olympic. Ties in more with World Triathlon than with the 70.3 distance.
IMO the 70.3 swim is too short. And weirdly still calculated from the folklore of 1978.
Anyway. The T100 Comms Admin absolutely flamed me for the suggestion. And many other commenters too. With stuff like, “can’t you count?” and “can’t you read? It’s called T100".”
Lo and behold. Maybe 2 years later. T100 finds it OK to organise a 76km bike course in Dubai. And therefore that day it was T96.
Random story over.
iam saying who is going to refuse the money from the contender ranking . like 1 in 40 athletes or is it 0 in 40 …
It isn’t about ppl refusing it, where did that even come into the convo? its that some never actually entered a t100 so deems stupid they be contending for t100 ranking money. What makes it worse if they do receive it is that the athletes whom this small amount will benefit the most, might get them out of the red for the season, will receive lower than could have due to those who wouldn’t even notice that amount onto their yearly winnings and bonuses etc.
PTO Rankings = Best 3 scores from the last 365 days
T100 Standings = Athletes who have started a T100 race
Contender Rankings, year through (year end see below) = Athletes not in the current first 10 in T100 rankings, not in the refusenik camp (Matthews, Philipp, Jewett, Laidlow, Ditlev, Baekkegaard, RvB: “Athletes who have previously held a T100 Contract in 2024 and declined a new contract for 2025 are ineligible for the T100 Contender Rankings”) Best 5 scores from previous 365 days)
Wait list: Non-contracted athletes who say they want to race a specific T100, nominated via nat feds, ordered by Contender Ranking, published by World Triathlon 33ish days before race, and updated. Any athlete allowed on, even refuseniks.
The Contender Rankings (till year end) has a sole function: ordering the Wait list. Perfectly reasonable for any athlete to be on it (unless excluded, see above).
“At the end of 2025, the top-5 ranked Contenders athletes (who aren’t already in the top 10 of the T100 Standings) will” get an invite to the first T100 race for the athlete’s sex. Note this means that those athletes who finish #11-#20 in the T100 Standings will NOT get an invite(!) but the athlete finishing #21 likely will!
Finally PTO have promised $560k for the top 40+40 in the Contender Rankings ‘End of Year’. Based on best 5 scores from 2025 the ‘new’ list excludes: athletes who made the top 20 in the final T100 Standings (watch Qatar for the drama) and refuseniks qv.
It’s unclear whether, to be included on this final Contender Ranking (and therefore payout), an athlete also has to have appeared on at least three races’ wait lists, or even one. This condition is drawn from the list shared by Becharas in my post above. I estimate (from having accessed and read all the wait list over the months this year) that there will not be 40 + 40 athletes who meet these criteria. Topping the ‘in year Contender Rankings’ are Loevseth and Blummenfelt (but neither sfaik have appeared on any waitlist).
Almost certainly me guessing, in the 2026 thread. I inferred this from the PTO using Gentle as the poster girl when Gold Coast was announced. Singapore is both brutal and an unsuitable venue so the hard men can go suffer. will the women be disappointed? Not a chance.
But early in that thread:
Source not offered.
