Only 11 contracted Women doing T100 San Francisco… Where are the rest of them??
Edit: Good spot! Start lists are not due publication till Tuesday. And after I clipped the list below, the start list has been taken down!!!
Well we heard Perterer (#2 in Singapore and then #3 in Texas) will wait for another hottie.
Not sure how both Knibb AND Waugh can be #1?
First wildcards will go to DeBoer, Wattkinson and McDonald (in Perterer’s absence) iaw World Tri/PTO Rules appendix.
Kingma for a wildcard?
1 Simmonds awaiting ITA panel decision and/or promulgation (within 18 days?)
2 EPB pregnant
3 LCB in action (or inaction) elsewhere (perhaps prudent post IM Lanza??)
4 Madsen injured
5 Pohle still hors de combat?
6 Lee ?
7 Salthouse rehab from op still
8 Visser ?
9 Berry ?
NB Spivey and Waugh after Yokohama
Lake Las Vegas Oct 25-26
From the article: The new bike course in Lake Mead National Recreation Area will be a stern test for the amateurs, with more than 3,600 feet of elevation, which promises to be the most on a T100 circuit in 2025.
Also a sign up link for Alcatraz + LLV if anyone wants to register: https://in.registrations.protriathletes.org/lake-las-vegas-t100-2025?currentPage=select-competition
That gives Taylor 2 weeks to recover from Kona. I guess we will see…
I get the impression T100 has favorites. Maybe they don’t have a lot of Knibb content, after all, she only cleaned up at a number of their races, but after seeing that image I was surprised that’s the best shot they have of her. Scanning through their social media channel and Knibb is almost entirely absent going back for months.
I have to assume her manager is media savvy enough to notice that. Why would T100 expect her to show up and race when as their best athlete she’s extremely rarely represented on their marketing?
They released a pretty entertaining 30 minute YT feature on her 4 months ago. I’d wager that they can’t use any latest photo of her since she wasn’t in Singapore for all the media stuff where they took all photos for their marketing/social media. There’s also the thing with new sponsors. Might not make sense to use old photos especially when athletes have changed or have new sponsors partnerships. In her case, BV13 and Hoka are new for this year. For sure they’ll update all these for SF.
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What will be interesting is to see how many races all the contenders do, and which ones are against Knibb. Knibb if she only races 4 race min, has essentially no room for error. Which means anytime one of the contenders races in any of those 4 Knibb races, they essentially can double or nothing by beating her. They would gain points, and more importantly keep Knibb from gaining max points. But of course so far up until this year Knibb has been invincible. That 4th race if it’s after Kona will be very very interesting.
Im no expert on marketing, but maybe they think they can attract more casual sports fans with Waugh as a poster girl, she’s a good looking girl, some of her social media seems to be the sort of stuff girls her age would post (less triathlon focused) posey with music etc.
Also completely backed it all up in her last performance!
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360 EUR for the entry. Bit of a brutal price with 4 months to go.
I thought that was relatively reasonable to be fair. Works out about £300 and that isn’t much more than I have paid for other 70.3/Middle Distance races that aren’t IM branded.
I’m keen for this one, just waiting on a couple of other ballot rejections for races that weekend and I’ll probably enter. Planning on taking my campervan down and doing some other cycling / running in Sth France. Was tempted to hang around for 2 weeks and watch the IMWC Nice but my holidays won’t stretch that far!
Fair. The usual price here in France is about half or even a third for a very good Non-IM branded 70.3. E.g. Bayman L is 200 EUR at the moment and it is sold out to 97% (M and XXL fully sold out). I think it is daring to ask for that much when you organize the race late and no one has any clue if it is gonna be any good. In my triclub group, they have already called it another Challenge Montpellier fiasco waiting to happen… I would love to do a T100 race though, so maybe next year or the year after. And if you come by Paris with the campervan feel free to drop by for a ride!
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Men’s San Francisco start list (partial) published by World Tri (Tuesday before 30 days, on schedule).
Fourteen (14) on list so 6 wildcards available.
Missing (6) contracted athletes:
Wilde, Smith, Bergere, Barnaby, Margerier, Funk
Maybe wildcards: RvB, Dubrick, Stapley, Rider, Stratmann, Hanson. Knibb
I cant remember all the processes of who can and can’t get wildcard these days. Can Matt McElroy potentially race SF? He finished 2nd at St. Anthony’s this weekend behind Dubrick. That’s probaly one of the last olympic distance hold outs in the US. so glad to see him having some non-draft success. Although I kinda feel like he’ll be an non-factor even less in non-draft than what he was in ITU. He still sorta boggles my mind that he wasn’t an Olympian even though he was top 2 American for nearly 2 Olympic cycles. Them’s the breaks I suppose.
Wildcards (# = 20 minus # of contracted who want to race) are offered:
- first to the first three non contracted in the top 10 of the T100 Standings, and if one says no to the next if in top 10 (there are 4 in the women but none in the men, after just Singapore)
- second to any non-contracted in the Contender List order
- third to the published wait list (World Tri, one per nation, etc) (and no chance this will ever kick in except to replace last minute DNSs, but NB this wheeze was used to get Derron a late start in Ibiza iirc, and the rest is history)
So no route for McElroy to race SF. The latitude which the PTO negotiated with World Tri last year to give themselves a few inspired picks (eg Coldwell for London) is no longer.
This would also apply to Stapley and Rider, no where near any ranking in the contenders nor regular pto, but this is from the contenders page info…
Any remaining slots available at a T100 race in addition to the 3 Contenders slots will be chosen on a discretionary invitational basis. All PTO Member Athletes are eligible for invitational slots, including those who are ineligible for the Contender Rankings
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Now that is a spectacular bike course, like the Silverman and 70.3 Worlds Henderson of old.
Agree: Stapley and Rider not in the mix. I typed my suggestions for wildcards earlier without research.
You offer a quote and its source.
But this does not reflect what the authoritative World Tri /PTO agreed doc says. That does not include words like “discretionary” or “invitational”.
Maybe the PTO will fill only the first 3 wildcards with the system I described in my earlier post. We’ll see.
From the 'T100 TRIATHLON WORLD TOUR QUALIFICATION CRITERIA’:
“[the] remaining slots will be filled by Athletes without permanent qualification slots [ie contracted] and not ranked according to the T100 Contender Rankings. They are sorted as one per National Federation in alphabetical order of the IOC country code, starting with the host National Federation.”
That is a great bike course. I’m almost tempted, but I’ve got 2 major fall races already. If I don’t qualify for Kona and they run it next year, I’m in.
Kyle Smith is on the start list, Koolhaas is not. Based on T100 Instagram post.