PTO And World Triathlon Postpone Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon Until 2026 – And Announce Wollongong As Replacement Race For Professionals In 2025

June 27, 2025

London, UK (June 27, 2025) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon today announced they have postponed this year’s Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon until 2026.

Sam Renouf, the PTO CEO, explained the decision to postpone the Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon – due to take place on 25-26 October this year – following discussions with the local stakeholders.

“We’ve made the difficult decision to postpone the Lake Las Vegas T100 Triathlon for 2025 and switch it to 2026. Following a successful first year of the event in October 2024, which saw a spectacular course take participants around Reflection Bay Golf Course and The Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa and provide a challenging test for both our professional and amateur athletes, we were looking forward to returning. However, following extensive conversations with our local stakeholders over the past couple of weeks, we agreed to give ourselves more time to work through the course changes that will take the bike leg into Lake Mead National Recreation Area for the first time. We will offer all those amateur participants who were already signed up for the event a full refund.”

“Following this decision, and to deliver on our commitment to stage nine T100 professional legs this year at world class venues, we have decided to take the women’s and men’s professional T100 races to Wollongong and become part of World Triathlon’s Championship Finals.”

Spectators Down Under In For A Treat

The top 20 male and top 20 female professional athletes from the T100 series will race head-to-head on the stunning coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, in Australia on Saturday 18 October in the same venue as the World Triathlon Championship Finals.

Australian professional, Ashleigh Gentle, who currently sits sixth in the T100 Race To Qatar and has competed in and won the Wollongong World Triathlon World Cup in 2017 said: “Wollongong is a fantastic venue for triathlon and any opportunity to race on home soil is one I definitely cherish. I am very much looking forward to welcoming the T100 athletes to Australia in October.”

The event will see the world’s best short-course and long-course athletes converge, creating an unparalleled atmosphere for athletes and spectators alike as both the World Triathlon Champions will be crowned and the T100 athletes continue to chase points in the T100 Race To Qatar ahead of the season’s final two events in Dubai (15-16 November) and then Qatar for the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Finals (12-13 December).

The addition of the T100 race to the Championship Finals program marks another significant milestone in the collaboration between World Triathlon and the PTO, bringing together two of the sport’s most prominent organizations to elevate the profile of triathlon and provide exceptional racing opportunities for athletes.

“This is a momentous occasion for the sport of triathlon,” said World Triathlon President Antonio Arimany. “Bringing the T100 Tour to Wollongong alongside our World Triathlon Championship Finals underscores the strength of our partnership with the PTO and our shared commitment to growing the sport globally. We have seen the power of this cooperation already this year, with the successful T1 Indoor World Cup in Lievin and the upcoming joint WTCS and T100 race on the French Riviera in August. This event in Wollongong will be a true showcase of the best in triathlon, and we are excited to witness the incredible racing that will unfold.”

The 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals will feature 13 races over four days, including elite, U23, Junior, Para triathlon and Age-groups events. In addition, the schedule will include a community triathlon, giving the expected 6,700 participants from all over the world the chance to experience the excitement of a world-class event.

Destination NSW and Wollongong City Council have joined forces as key partners and stakeholders, ensuring the event delivers economic, social, and environmental benefits to the region. This collaborative effort highlights the significance of the event not only as a sporting spectacle but also as a boost to tourism and the local economy.

In addition to the 6,700-strong global contingency of triathletes there will be an expected crowd in excess of 15,000 supporters and spectators lining the stunning Wollongong foreshore, reaffirming Wollongong’s position as an iconic sporting destination to a worldwide audience.

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For Further Information:

Anthony Scammell E: Anthony.Scammell@protriathletes.org

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 (30-31 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.