Gentle And Wilde Headline Wollongong T100 Triathlon

October 6, 2025

London, UK /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Australian superstar Ashleigh Gentle and New Zealand’s serial winner Hayden Wilde headline the women’s and men’s start lists for the Wollongong T100 Triathlon, the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have announced.

Wilde has a perfect four wins from four races in his debut T100 season, following victories in Singapore, London, France and Spain – and leads the T100 Race To Qatar rankings by 18 points going into the seventh leg of the nine stop series.

Whilst Gentle is up to third place in the women’s T100 Race To Qatar following an impressive win on the French Riviera at the end of August and then a hard fought fourth place in Spain last month.

Both will be looking to make a statement on the Gong. Gentle on home soil and Wilde to complete an unprecedented fifth T100 win in a row.

The Wollongong T100 races take place on Saturday 18 October and will be one of the highlights of the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals taking place from 16-19 October, which also feature an exciting climax to this season’s World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS); as well as World Champions being crowned at Para, Junior, U23 and Age Group levels.

The full list of women and men competing in the Wollongong T100 includes:

1. Kate Waugh (GBR)
2. Ashleigh Gentle (AUS)
3. Taylor Spivey (USA)
4. Grace Thek (NZL)
5. Ellie Salthouse (AUS)
6. Caroline Pohle (GER)
7. Hanne De Vet (BEL)
8. Cecilia Perez (MEX)
9. Els Visser (NED)
10. Amelia Watkinson (NZL)
11. Anne-Sophie Pierre (FRA)
12. Sara Perez Sala (ESP)
13. Alanis Siffert (SUI)
14. Leana Bissig (SUI)
15. Julie Iemmolo (FRA)
16. Fenella Langridge (GBR)
17. Lotte Wilms (NED)
18. Natalie Van Coevorden (AUS)
19. Hayden Wilde (NZL)
20. Mika Noodt (GER)
21. Youri Keulen (NED)
22. Gregory Barnaby (ITA)
23. Menno Koolhass (NED)
24. Kyle Smith (NZL)
25. Sam Dickinson (GBR)
26. Wilhelm Hirsch (GER)
27. Jason West (USA)
28. Jamie Riddle (RSA)
29. Marc Dubrick (USA)
30. Jacob Birtwhistle (AUS)
31. Dylan Magnien (FRA)
32. Braden Currie (NZL)
33. Mike Phillips (NZL)
34. Sam Appleton (AUS)

The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour kicked off in Singapore (5-6 April) and has since stopped off in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, France and Spain. The series climaxes with the first Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final in Doha this December (12-13).

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Notes To Editors

How the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour works:

• Athletes score 35 points for first place to 1 pt for 20th place
• The Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final has increased points to up the ante (55 pts down to 4 pts)
• Each athlete’s best four T100 race scores plus the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will count towards the women’s and men’s T100 World Championship titles
• $250,000 USD prize fund at each T100, totalling $2,250,000 across the nine races (1st place – $25,000k; 2nd – $17,000; 3rd – $13,000 at each race)
• The series winners following the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final will be crowned T100 Triathlon World Champion and collect $200,000 USD from an additional total prize pool of $2,940,000
• The T100 Contenders Rankings will pay 1st to 40th place from a total prize pool of $560,000 (1st place – $16,000; 2nd place – $15,000; 3rd place – $14,000 down to 40th place – $3,000)
• Between the athlete contracts, T100 race prize fund, T100 Triathlon World Tour pool and the T100 Contenders Rankings, the series provides more than $8,000,000 in athlete compensation, and is distributed in a way that not only rewards the winners, but also recognises the significant achievement of racing at this level and a pathway that feeds into the T100 series

For Further Information:

Anthony Scammell E: Anthony.Scammell@stg-www.protriathletes.org

About the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO)

The PTO is a sports body that is co-owned by its professional athletes, seeking to elevate and grow the sport of triathlon and take it to the next level. Its T100 Triathlon World Tour was introduced in January 2024 and is designated by World Triathlon as the ‘official World Championship for long distance triathlon’, which is part of a 12-year strategic partnership with the sport’s international governing body. The T100 Triathlon World Tour is a season-long schedule of World Championship level races competed over 100km (2km swim, 80km bike and 18km run), where the world’s best triathletes go head-to-head in iconic locations on a global broadcast showing the races live around the world in 195+ territories, courtesy of the PTO’s partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery as well as a range of other international, regional and local broadcasters. In 2025 these will include: Singapore (5-6 April), San Francisco (31 May-1 June), Vancouver (13-15 June), London (9-10 August), France (29-31 August), Valencia (20 September), Wollongong (18 October), Dubai (15-16 November) and Qatar (12-13 December) for the first Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final. 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 distance to first-time swim, bike and run participants taking on single discipline, untimed events. For more information visit www.t100triathlon.com

About World Triathlon

World Triathlon is the international governing body for the Olympic and Paralympic sport of triathlon and all related multisport disciplines around the world, including duathlon, aquathlon, cross triathlon and winter triathlon. Triathlon made its Olympic debut in Sydney 2000, with a third medal event, the Mixed Team Relay, added to the programme at Tokyo 2020, while para triathlon was first added to the Paralympic programme at Rio 2016. World Triathlon is proudly committed to the development of the sport worldwide, with inclusion, equality, sustainability and transparency at our core as we seek to help triathletes at all levels of the sport to be extraordinary.