Let’s all focus now on 70.3 little Elm, with it’s huge 40 k price money. This is the key race for march.
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Here’s the revised Wait List (top five)
Hollioake is racing IMNZ a fortnight before.
Revised start list
Since Knibb is on the Oceanside start list, is she just hedging her bets and going on both lists and then deciding which one with a week to go?
Gentle still there. McDonald still there
Meißner added! Græsbøll Christensen (who was a wildcard) removed.
Can someone explain to me how the waitlist and the wild cards are given? so many weak athletes ahead of much stronger ones? cant be PTO ranking
I appreciate that reading previous messages is tiresome.
Or this Slowtwitch article PTO-announces-big-changes-to-t100-no-contracts-and-alternate-mens-and-womens-races/
Who (“stronger athletes”) do you think wants to race but hasn’t been offered an invitation? No, it isn’t PTO Ranking.
From October (and repeated ? last week)
In practice the PTO go to the final T100 standings after Qatar and invite the top 10, and fill any refused slots by roll down, to get 10. Then they go to the unpublished waitlist: basically a register of all athletes who, through their nat fed, have said they want to race. That list is ordered by the 2025 Contender Rankings (for these two races only). A joint PTO and World Tri panel select 5 wildcards from that list and then invite athletes off that list, in order. If they get a drop out, the vacant slot is filled from the top of the, by now published wait list.
The first cut of the World Tri start list is “created the Tuesday immediately prior 30 days before the event”. The PTO push theirs out but the updating between the two on an every two days basis, as necessary, does creat ‘anomalies’ (c) @TheStroBro
To try to make sense of this, here’s my reckoning of the make up of the start list.
Wildcards are:
| First name | Surname | Nation |
|---|---|---|
| Jessica | Fullagar | GBR |
| Imogen | Simmonds | SUI |
| Danielle | De Francesco | AUS |
| Nicole | Van Der Kaay | NZL |
Athletes who finished in the top 20 T100 Standings and accepted invitations (rolled down) are:
| First name | Surname | Nation |
|---|---|---|
| Ashleigh | Gentle | AUS |
| Kate | Waugh | GBR |
| Taylor | Knibb | USA |
| Sara | Perez Sala | ESP |
| Ellie | Salthouse | AUS |
| Lucy | Byram | GBR |
| Hanne | De Vet | BEL |
| Holly | Lawrence | GBR |
| Julie | Derron | SUI |
Athletes drawn from Contender Rankings are:
| First Name | Last Name | Nation |
|---|---|---|
| Lena | Meißner | GER |
| Lotte | Wilms | NED |
| Daniela | Kleiser | GER |
| Alanis | Siffert | SUI |
| Natalie | Van Coevorden | AUS |
| Marlene | De Boer | NED |
McDonald is not racing.
Unsure about Græsbøll Christensen (wildcard).
Have the athletes been paid for 2025 yet?
If I was Knibb, and haven’t been paid yet, I’d get on that list. If they don’t pay up, that’s a good reason not to show and if they bring up the no-show at a later date it’s a good reason to reply with.
and in your mind, what would be the good reason to be on the ocean side list and not doing it ?
Anyone got an idea when the T100 Frejus AG might open up for registration? It doesn’t even have a T100 page yet.
It is common for pro athletes to register interest in lots of races pre season snd then decide later if they are actually going to start. Hell Cam Wurf is a classic for that..
I have forgotten which top athlete it was who looked liked missing out on a IMWC qualification because the Q race had a field limitand they left it too late to register. Im sure Ajax will correct me on that.
I think the T100 series would be similar . Throw out interest everywhere and then adhust your calendar later..
It is interesting to see Roth going all out promoting the top athletes who are going this year.
I am not to sure for t100 but at least in itu if you get off the startlist 8 days after it is is published , you cant race another world tri race for some time and there is penalties for feds ( after jokers that each fed gets depending on size are used ) and I would assume the latest by 2028 this will be enforced for t100.
also for the pro series you cant do a cam wurf anymore and enter every race at the start of the year as they have all entry windows now.
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Yesbut
Knibb is not just any old Pro athlete. Between the PTO and her, she has previous with this. Last year they put her on the Singapore start list, full well knowing that she had said 'I will not race Singapore" when she signed the contract. Eventually (with ?10 days to go) she said that for ‘personal reasons’ she was DNSing (NB IM Texas in 3 weeks). On the plus side that opened a slot for McDonald for that and several T100 starts and a money finish in Qatar.
[Off topic] Roth’s steady revelation of the athletes racing is being done well. You have to assume that Philipp will be the next on their list (will she race Hamburg only 4 weeks earlier to prejudice a head-to-head (and ?sub-8) with Matthews)? LCB rumoured to have signed up before the plantaris tendon surgery. Would not surprise me if Laidlow, as defending champion, and Lange are announced. Have we seen a peep out of Luis (who debuted last year)? Schomburg with structurally sound bars? Grosse-Freese? Bogen as a debut full? Walchshöfer can only afford so much, though he seems to have excelled already this year!!
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Add another one to the party…….and Ajex starts a new Roth thread in 3…2..1
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[Off topic; but Roth is doable for every athlete who is otherwise focussing on the T100 races. Pamplona/SF will be done and dusted and then nothing till Vancouver in August.]
I didn’t know Bogen was racing Roth. Or maybe there’s been some public nuanced chat.
I have been tempted to start a Roth 2026 thread but, frankly, this daily drip of athletes plays out perfectly well in insta. Once we see all the runners and riders maybe the time to start properly looking forward to it. WPro looks like a Hamburg 2025 reprise, but with shorter transitions. I assume Stornes and Iden will ‘have to’ race Frankfurt (ie not Roth; for their IM Pro Series). Van Riel?
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T100 specific it was said t 100 did not work so well for Rico marketing wise and that sponsors were keen for him to do roth. ( Which I guess also means Patrick is in Frankfurt)
The 2 Kona champs are doing Frankfurt it was said a while ago.
Iden and laidlow roth from what I hear
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If you don’t feel ready to win it and don’t trust yourself to be in a position to not win without going to the well and sabotaging the next month of training?
The ‘good reason’ is that she’d have raced Gold Coast a week earlier. Blummenfelt can do KB things (ie after Geelong) but Knibb has always struck me a super-sensible (and sure Lorang counsels that way too). 10th October, baby!
I assume this is Knibb hedging her bets - 7 weeks out when she needed to say ‘yes’ to the PTO and to enter Oceanside. Her Jan/Feb often seems not to run smoothly. And look at her choice of these MD races from the perspective of Texas on 18th April. T100 Gold Coast gives her an extra week: on the other hand it’ll be hot and loses shedloads of time (travel/jet lag) to decent training compared to the hop down to SoCal and Camp Pendleton.
Guerard now on the T100 Gold Coast start list, in the 20th slot, vacated by the ‘never racing’ Mrs Hough.
From the top of the Waiting List. Next listed are Hollioake and Hartnett. Both are entered in 70.3 Geelong (same weekend).
Theres alot of people double registered for 70.3 Geelong and Gold Coast!
Strength of Field Comparison (Female Pro)
| Race | Date | Projected SOF Score | Key Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| T100 Gold Coast | 21 March 2026 | ~96.50 – 98.50 | Diamond |
| Ironman 70.3 Geelong | 22 March 2026 | ~82.00 – 85.00 | Gold |
that was ai which is total bs more like 95 vs 87 but still one is a tier one race one not
Well I’ve only looked at the WPros: there is only one: Simmonds. Working off the data I have. Men - not looking.
For @pk SOF for the T100 is shown as 97.96
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First, obviously triathlon is trivial compared to the toll on humanity with what’s happening now. But schedule of T100 and WTCS tours seem to be in jeopardy right now. Abu Dhabi WTCS for sure will have to be cancelled. Who knows what will happen in Nov-Dec for Dubai, Saudi, Qatar. Horrible times.
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