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The men’s entry list for the French Riviera T100 Triathlon is out, with Hayden Wilde of New Zealand leading a field announced by the Professional Triathletes Organisation and World Triathlon. The race is set for 19 September 2026 in Saint-Raphaël-Fréjus, France.

Wilde leads the T100 Race to Qatar standings by 25 points over Australian Jake Birtwhistle. He has 61 points from a win at the Singapore T100 Triathlon and third at the San Francisco T100 Triathlon. Wilde said a lung problem had affected his training over the last few months, but he feels stronger than he did in San Francisco. He won the French Riviera race last year.

Birtwhistle is also entered, as are San Francisco winner Rico Bogen and Belgium’s Jelle Geens. Bogen was fifth at the French Riviera race last season, while Geens is returning to T100 racing for the first time in 2026 after placing third in the 2025 standings. France’s Mathis Margirier, fourth at this event last year and fifth in Qatar, is on the list. Nine of the top ten in the T100 standings are in the field.

Also named are Lasse Nygaard Priester (GER), Samuel Dickinson (GBR), Kurt McDonald (AUS), Gregor Payet (LUX), Morgan Pearson (USA), Menno Koolhaas (NED), Youri Keulen (NED), Gregory Barnaby (ITA), Henry Räppo (EST), Will Draper (GBR), Fabian Kraft (GER), Wilhelm Hirsch (GER), Guillem Montiel (ESP), Valdemar Solok (DEN) and Kyle Smith (NZL).

The weekend also includes a Youth Aquathlon on Saturday afternoon, open to children aged 6 to 15, and the Saint-Raphaël Triathlon on Sunday 20 September. About 1,400 amateur triathletes are expected for the Sunday event.

Each T100 race awards 35 points for first place, and the series counts each athlete’s best three scores plus the Qatar final. The French Riviera stop has a $275,000 prize purse, part of $4.2 million in athlete compensation across the tour.

Source: t100triathlon.com

The women’s professional start list for the 2026 IRONMAN World Championship is confirmed, and defending champion Solveig Løvseth of Norway will wear bib F1 in Kailua-Kona.

Løvseth won her first IRONMAN World Championship in 2025 in 8:28:27. In 2026 she won IRONMAN Texas and the IRONMAN Hamburg European Championship.

The next bibs go to Kat Matthews and Laura Philipp. Matthews, a two-time IRONMAN Pro Series champion, was runner-up in Kona last year and ran a marathon more than eight minutes faster than any other athlete. She also won IRONMAN New Zealand, IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong and IRONMAN 70.3 Elsinore in 2026. Philipp, the 2024 champion, took third last year for a third consecutive IRONMAN World Championship podium and won IRONMAN Kalmar with a new course-best time.

Lucy Charles-Barclay and Taylor Knibb both retired late in the 2025 IRONMAN World Championship. Charles-Barclay won the 2025 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Marbella, and Knibb finished second there.

Two first-timers are also on the list. Paula Findlay won IRONMAN Lake Placid in her first IRONMAN start and has 14 IRONMAN 70.3 wins. Julie Derron, the Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalist, qualified by winning IRONMAN Switzerland.

Hannah Berry and Lisa Perterer return after finishing fourth and fifth at Kona last year. Berry’s result was the best by a New Zealand woman at the IRONMAN World Championship since 2007, and Perterer was in her first championship appearance.

Chelsea Sodaro, the 2022 IRONMAN World Champion, is also listed after retiring from last year’s race.

Kona is the final event of the 2026 IRONMAN Pro Series season, with a maximum of 6,000 points for the winner and the season title still to be decided.

The race covers a 2.4-mile swim in Kailua Bay, the 112-mile bike course through Hawi and the lava fields of Queen Kaahumanu Highway, and a 26.2-mile marathon finishing on Alii Drive. Live coverage will be free on IRONMAN Pro Series channels and YouTube.

Source: ironman.com

The Ironman 70.3 World Championship is in Nice this weekend, with about 6,500 amateur triathletes and 150 professionals entered over two days. Women race Saturday on a 1.9km swim, a 90km bike into the Maritime Alps and a 21.1km run along the Promenade des Anglais. Men use the same course Sunday. The World Triathlon Grand Finals follow on the final weekend of September, and the Ironman World Championship is in October.

Last year Lucy Charles-Barclay won the women's race, while Jelle Geens held off Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt to defend the men's title. Geens is back, but Charles-Barclay is not on the women's start list.

Among the women, Taylor Knibb is the only previous 70.3 world champion entered. She has won the title three times and will head from Nice to the cycling world championships in Canada before Kona. Solveig Lovseth, the reigning Ironman world champion, won Ironman Texas and Ironman Hamburg this year, with both times 8hr 11min.

British women include Kat Matthews, the reigning Ironman Pro Series champion and twice the 70.3 Worlds runner-up. She finished second to Laura Philipp in the 2024 Ironman World Championship in Nice, but pulled out on the run at last year's 70.3 Worlds in Marbella with a calf injury. A bike mechanical led to a DNF at Ironman Texas this year, and she finished fourth at Challenge Roth.

Philipp arrives after wins at Ironman Sweden and Ironman 70.3 Zell am See in August. Julie Derron, an Olympic silver medallist in 2024, placed fifth at the 2024 70.3 Worlds in New Zealand. Other British women entered are Lizzie Rayner, Rebecca Anderbury, Kate Curran and Sophie Evans. Rayner finished eighth last year.

In the men's race, Geens has won the past two titles in Taupo, New Zealand, and southern Spain last autumn. Lasse Nygaard Priester beat him at an Ironman 70.3 in Austria two weeks ago. Blummenfelt, Gustav Iden and Casper Stornes are among the Norwegians entered. Blummenfelt was second and Stornes third in Marbella last year, and Stornes is the reigning Ironman world champion.

Hayden Wilde of New Zealand, a two-time individual Olympic medallist, missed last year's race while winning the T100 series title, taking six of seven 100km races he entered. Marten Van Riel has the fastest 70.3 time in history and has never lost a 70.3 race. He won the 2024 T100 world title and won on the Nice 70.3 course in June last year.

Other men on the start list include Rico Bogen, the 2023 70.3 world champion, Morgan Pearson, multiple short-course world champion Vincent Luis and South Africa's Jamie Riddle. Britain's men are Sam Dickinson and James Teagle.

Source: 220triathlon.com