T100 Triathlon World Tour starts with stacked women’s start list In Singapore
The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour will take place across nine races, including the return to Singapore to start the new series
The world’s top three ranked women will go head-to-head at the Singapore T100 Triathlon, after the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon announced the contracted T100 female athletes racing on Saturday 5 April.
American Taylor Knibb, the 2024 T100 World Champion, will line up for her first ever T100 race in the Lion City and renew her rivalry with Australian Ashleigh Gentle, who was the runner up in the inaugural series but has won both the PTO’s 100km races in Singapore, proving herself highly adept in hot and humid conditions.
Speaking about her approach for the new season, Gentle has underlined the importance of her mental preparation, saying: “I’m telling myself that I can be the T100 World Champion. That’s the mentality I have to have and I believe it will give me the best chance – along with giving everything I have in training, which of course I feel like I always have.”
“I switched coaches at the middle of last year. So going into Singapore this year will be different preparation for me and I’m excited to see if that’s going to work out. I definitely feel good about how training’s going. It’s a slog in Queensland right now [due to the hot weather], but I know that that’s really good preparation for the sauna that is Singapore.”
Swiss Olympic star Julie Derron completes the top ranked trio. Derron won silver at the Paris 2024 Games last summer and showed how much of a threat she will be by delivering standout performances in Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas and Dubai last term, where she finished in second place.
Also on the start line is Tokyo 2021 Olympic champion Flora Duffy, who after a full winter training on a TT bike is sure to be in contention. Paris 2024 Olympic relay silver medallist Taylor Spivey will be in a similar position and proved how fast she can be in the swim and run during the second half of last year. British breakthrough star Lucy Byram came sixth overall on the T100 Tour last year and is looking to improve. 2023 Ironman World Champion, Lucy Charles-Barclay, who came second in Singapore in 2024 after leading deep into the run, will also be a contender.
The full line up of contracted T100 women is listed below:
- Taylor Knibb (USA)
- Ashleigh Gentle (AUS)
- Julie Derron (SUI)
- India Lee (GBR)
- Lucy Byram (GBR)
- Flora Duffy (BER)
- Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR)
- Caroline Pohle (GER)
- Els Visser (NED)
- Marta Sanchez (ESP)
- Taylor Spivey (USA)
- Grace Thek (AUS)
- Hannah Berry (NZL)
- Jess Learmonth (GBR)
- Kate Waugh (GBR)
The last five slots will be taken by Wildcards who will be announced on T100 social channels at the end of this week. The contracted T100 men racing in Singapore will be announced tomorrow [Wednesday 5 March].
T100 weekends are ‘festivals of multisport’ and feature a range of opportunities for amateur athletes of all levels to get involved. From experienced amateurs tackling the 100km triathlon on a similar course to the professionals, to first-time swim, bike and run participants taking on single discipline, untimed events. As well as a 100km triathlon in Singapore, amateurs can also do a Standard (4.5km Run/32km Bike/4.5km Run) or Long (9km Run/64km Bike/9km Run) Duathlon, or an untimed 5km Music Run. All three events are on public sale here, but hurry as places are selling fast. Last year, Singapore’s Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung and only Olympic champion Joseph Schooling joined 5,000 amateur participants across the weekend.
The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour will take place across nine races, including the return to Singapore to start the new series. It will then go to San Francisco (31 May-1 June), Vancouver (13-15 June), France (27-29 June), London (9-10 August), Valencia (20 September), Lake Las Vegas and Dubai (15-16 November). Before climaxing in Qatar for the new Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final (12-13 December) following a five-year partnership with Visit Qatar.
