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2022 WTCS Montreal Final - Elite Women’s Highlights

Top-ranked Georgia Taylor-Brown completed her first experience of the blue carpet elimination format with a dazzling gold, coming through the intense heat and racing triumphant. It had been a huge effort in rising temperatures, but it was Taylor-Brown who broke away on the final bike leg with Beth Potter (GBR) and Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA) for company, and it became a chase for the podium positions, WTCS Leeds champion Beaugrand able to pass Potter late on to take silver.
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2022 WTCS Montreal Elite Men’s Qualification Races

It was a duathlon format for the men’s qualification races following heavy rains in the lead up to the event affecting the water course, but that didn’t dampen the excitement as the battles to progress without the need for a repechage began.
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2022 WTCS Montreal - Women’s Qualification Races

The good news that Saturday’s finals would be held over the planned swim-bike-run greeted the start of the WTCS Montreal action on Friday afternoon after the qualifiers had to be switched to duathlons and two qualifier super-sprint races, followed by a repechage for those outside the top tens, all in offering 30 spots on the next day’s start line.
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2022 World Triathlon Junior World Championships - Men

After a format change to duathlon due to bad weather affecting the water quality, the intensity was cranked up for the start of the men’s Junior World Championship race in Montreal. The leaders chopped and changed in what looked like being an unpredictable chase for the title, until Thomas Hansmaennel put the hammer down after just a few hundred metres of the final 5km to pull clear. With nobody able to respond, Hansmaennel carved out a huge gap behind him, and was able to soak up the moment down the final stretch of blue carpet, finishing 18 seconds ahead of Toby Powers (AUS) in second, Reese Vannerson (USA) with the bronze.
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2022 World Triathlon Junior Championships Montreal - Women

Following up on her world championship silver in Quarteira last year, Sweden’s Tilda Mansson powered to the gold in Montreal pulling away from Jule Behrens over the last run lap to take the tape and the 2022 world title. The format had been changed to duathlon after heavy rains in the preceding days affected the water course, and the previous year’s top two were soon locked in battle across the run-bike-run, eventually leaving the rest of the field trailing, Livia Gross of Switzerland was able to win the challenge for bronze.
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Targu Mures - World Triathlon Multisport Age-Group Championships

2022 Huatulco World Cup Elite Men’s Highlights

A titanic battle down the Huatulco World Cup blue carpet ends with a debut victory for Spain's Genis Grau who had just enough in the tank to deny Canada's Tyler Mislawchuk a third straight gold, Miguel Hidalgo, of Brazil, with another dynamite display for bronze.
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2022 Huatulco World Cup Elite Women’s Highlights

Annika Koch of Germany is the 2022 World Triathlon Cup Huatulco Champion. Koch had the legs in the heat to extend her narrow lead out of T2 and win a first ever World Cup gold, Canada's Emy Legault holding off the charge of Italy's Bianca Seregni to take silver and her first World Cup podium.
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World Triathlon Education: May 2022 highlights

The World Triathlon Development and Education team delivered a series of initiatives in May 2022 including 2022 Subic Bay World Triathlon Coaches Level 1 Course, Hanoi World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar, Punta Cana World Triathlon Technical Officials Level 1 Seminar and the Kuwait World Triathlon Coaches Level 1 Course.
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2022 WTCS Leeds Elite Women’s Highlights

French triathlon star Cassandre Beaugrand made an impactful comeback to the World Triathlon Championship Series podiums to claim the victory in Leeds, outrunning the powerful British squad on home soil. A month after the disappointment of not finishing the previous race, Beaugrand sprinted to victory despite having to stop during 10 seconds to serve a penalty, with local stars Georgia Taylor-Brown and Sophie Coldwell claiming the other two places on the podium.
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WTCS Leeds Elite Men’s Race Highlights

A superb run from New Zealand's Hayden Wilde got him on top of a World Triathlon Championship Series podium for the first time in his career, after out sprinting Frenchman Leo Bergere with 2.5km to go to take the tape. The bronze medal was for Germany’s Lasse Luhrs who stepped onto his first WTCS podium.
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2022 Huatulco World Cup preview

The two-time gold medalist on Mexico's Pacific coast Tyler Mislawchuk (CAN), women's race #1 Erika Ackerlund (USA) and the rising Spanish star Sergio Baxter (ESP) give their verdicts ahead of the World Triathlon Cup Huatulco.
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2022 WTCS Leeds Highlights - Elite Men

A superb run from New Zealand's Hayden Wilde got him on top of a World Triathlon Championship Series podium for the first time in his career, after out sprinting Frenchman Leo Bergere with 2.5km to go to take the tape. The bronze medal was for Germany’s Lasse Luhrs who stepped onto his first WTCS podium.
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2022 WTCS Leeds Highlights - Elite Women

French triathlon star Cassandre Beaugrand made an impactful comeback to the World Triathlon Championship Series podiums to claim the victory in Leeds, outrunning the powerful British squad on home soil. A month after the disappointment of not finishing the previous race, Beaugrand sprinted to victory despite having to stop during 10 seconds to serve a penalty, with local stars Georgia Taylor-Brown and Sophie Coldwell claiming the other two places on the podium.
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2022 WTCS Leeds Highlights - Mixed Relay

In the Mixed Relay race that gave the first points on the Mixed Relay Olympic qualification ranking for the Paris 2024 Games, it was the Germans who proved once again that they are one of the strongest nations when it comes to this format, claiming the victory ahead of Great Britain, who crossed the line earning silver, while Team France grabbed the last spot on the podium in bronze.
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Team Norway ready for Mixed Relay in Leeds

Team Norway are ready for the Mixed Relay in Leeds, with Olympic Ranking points for Paris 2024 on the line. Introducing the relay team in Leeds with Gustav Iden, Lotte Miller, Solveigh Lovseth and Thorn Vetle Bergsvik.
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Andrea Hansen back racing WTCS

Andrea Hansen (nee Hewitt) has won two Commonwealth Games medals, competed at three Olympic Games and Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 will be her fourth Commonwealth Games with Team New Zealand. Andrea Hansen (nee Hewitt) talks on being back racing WTCS and lining up for the Mixed Relay in Leeds.
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WTCS YOKOHAMA: 5IVE THINGS WE LEARNED

WTCS Yokohama got 2022 up and running in the best possible fashion, here are the talking points: 1. U23 World Champion Emma Lombardi finished fourth in her first WTCS race, underlining her one-to-watch status 2. The Aussies and Kiwis were back in force after their pandemic travel restrictions, with Wilde and Hauser leading the men's charge 3. But the French - and the Portuguese - were also flying, with top 5 finishers Leo Bergere and Pierre le Corre, Leonie Periault and Emma Lombardi 4. Australia's Nic Beveridge scored his first ever win on the World Triathlon Para Series stage to take men's PTWC gold 5. Vincent Luis was clearly out of sorts as he pulled up on the run, but it looks like a temporary blip on his latest title campaign
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WTCS Yokohama: 5IVE THINGS WE LEARNED

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Olympic Solidarity and World Triathlon

The aim of Olympic Solidarity is to provide assistance to all National Olympic Committees for athlete development programmes, in particular those with the greatest needs of it. This assistance is achieved through multi-faceted programmes prioritising athlete development, but also training of coaches and sports administrators and promoting the Olympic values.
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