T100 World Champion Kate Waugh Headlines Star-Studded Spain T100 Triathlon

May 5, 2026

Pamplona-Navarra (May 5, 2026) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Reigning T100 World Champion Kate Waugh tops a stellar field at next month’s Spain T100 Triathlon in Pamplona-Navarra on 23 May, 2026.

The British Olympian will go head-to-head with new PTO World #1 Julie Derron (SUI).

“I can’t wait to get racing,” said Waugh, who now lies World #3 having had to miss the Gold Coast T100 due to a calf injury. “It’s been a frustrating wait until my first race of the season, but I’m feeling good and really enjoying being back to full gas in training.”

“Watching the other girls compete in Australia made me realise how much I enjoy being out there competing. So with my T100 world title to defend, it’s important I put in a strong performance in Spain against a high calibre field. The course in Pamplona-Navarra looks incredible. Especially the 80km point-to-point bike course which I’ve heard great things about and I think will suit me.”

Swiss ace Derron has risen to #1 in the PTO World Rankings, despite only kicking off her 2026 season just over a week ago when she won the Challenge Taiwan Half. This is due to her best counting races in 2025 having been later in the year.

“It was frustrating to miss out on the Gold Coast, but I’ve been training well over the last few weeks and I am looking forward to putting down a strong performance in Spain against a quality field.”

Spanish hopes will rest with Sara Perez Sala, with the star hoping to improve on her 6th place finish on the Gold Coast.

The list of professional women competing in the Spain T100 Triathlon includes:

1. Imogen Simmonds (SUI)
2. Nicole Van Der Kaay (NZL)
3. Bianca Bogen (GER)
4. Sara Pérez Sala (ESP)
5. Lotte Wilms (NED)
6. Natalie Van Coevordan (AUS)
7. Alanis Siffert (SUI)
8. Julie Derron (SUI)
9. Kate Waugh (GBR)
10. Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)
11. Holly Lawrence (GBR)
12. Lisa Perterer (AUT)
13. Hanne De Vet (BEL)
14. India Lee (GBR)
15. Taylor Spivey (USA)
16. Lizzie Rayner (GBR)
17. Daniela Kleiser (GER)
18. Leana Bissig (SUI)
19. Cathia Schär (SUI)
20. Sophie Evans (GBR)

The Spain T100 Triathlon weekend will also feature the Spanish Middle Distance National Championships, which are being hosted in Pamplona-Navarra for the fourth time [2017, 2022, 2024]. These take place alongside an amateur T100 on a glorious 2km swim in the Alloz Reservoir, a rolling 80km point-to-point bike course on beautiful roads across Navarra and leading to Pamplona, before an 18km run around the historic town culminating in the iconic Plaza del Castillo. To sign up for the last few spaces, visit https://t100triathlon.com/spain/participate/

Famous internationally for the San Fermín festival and its ‘Running of the Bulls’ event in July, Pamplona has quickly built an impressive reputation for hosting triathlon events thanks to the success of the Half Triathlon Pamplona-Iruña, and proved its international pedigree by hosting the European Middle Distance Championships last year. Organised in partnership with the local triathlon clubs Trikideak and Navarra Triathlon Federation, it is also backed by the Pamplona City Council and the Navarra Government.

For Further Information:

PTO – Anthony Scammell E: Anthony.Scammell@protriathletes.org
FETRI – Daniel Márquez E: daniel.marquez@triatlon.org

About 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’. This is part of a 12-year strategic partnership with the sport’s international governing body to develop the sport and it will grow further in 2027 with the launch of the new Triathlon World Tour. 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. In 2026, the T100 Tour will deliver its 9-stop T100 Race To Qatar to: the Gold Coast (21-22 March), Singapore (25-26 April), Spain (23-24 May), San Francisco (6-7 June), Vancouver (15-16 August), French Riviera (19-20 September), Dubai (12-15 November), Saudi Arabia (November) & Qatar (11-12 December). 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

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.

About FETRI

The Spanish Triathlon Federation is a private entity of public utility, egalitarian, inclusive and socially committed to the environment and sustainability. She leads the practice of triathlon, paratriathlon and their different disciplines, being represented in the governing bodies of the most important international institutions of this sport. Throughout his more than 30 years he has achieved multiple successes for Spanish sport, including nine World Championships, a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games and more than 30 victories in the World Series, among others.