The World Triathlon Podcast

With this weekend marking 25 years of top-tier triathlon action in Hamburg, the podcast welcomes back Will McCloy and World Triathlon's Kris Gemmell - themselves no strangers to the dangers of the infamous swim tunnel of despair - to preview the fifth stop of the 2026 Series and Mixed Team Relay World Championships. Unique insight, attempts at foresight, and a little friendly bite, it's the one-st...

We take a spin through all the action from the WTCS Quiberon weekend, where Dorian Coninx's win couldn't stop Vasco Vilaça's stranglehold on the Series getting a little tighter and Cassandre Beaugrand made it four from four on home soil before the Mixed Relay took charge in fine style on the Sunday. From course question marks to the moto drafting drama and what is next for Alex Yee, the return of...

We recap an action-packed weekend of Huatulco World Cup and European Championship Tarragona racing, and look ahead to the fourth stop of the 2026 World Triathlon Championship Series in Quiberon, where Cassandre Beaugrand headlines a home race, Alex Yee tries to reel in men's leader Vasco Vilaça, and the first Serie Mixed Team Relay takes over on Sunday. You can watch all the WTCS Quiberon action w...

Ahh Sardinia. Home of some high triathlon drama over the years, and the third stop of the 2026 World Triathlon Championship Series lived up to that reputation every which way at the end of May. Will McCloy and Belinda Granger join Doug Gray to pour through the racing and what impact it all has on the world title chase, with some big guns like Matt Hauser and Alex Yee mis-firing and Cassandre Beaug...

After another yahoo in Yokohama, the team sets its sights on WTCS Alghero, where the mouthwatering prospect of Matt Hauser, Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde, Vasco Vilaça and countless others will go toe-to-toe for the first time this year. Series commentator Belinda Granger and World Triathlon's Kris Gemmell give their reflections on the brilliance and guts of young Tilda Mansson's sprint finish against Be...

After 9 podiums, we get the run down on the first Series gold of his career from the man himself, Vasco Vilaça, as the 'Little Man' demands a showdown with commentator Will McCloy...

The World Triathlon Championship Series was back with a bang at the weekend with two firing WTCS Samarkand races that saw Vasco Vilaça scoop a gritty first Series gold and Beth Potter back to her best with a consummate 10km off a hot and hard 40km bike. Will McCloy and Belinda Granger are also back to give their view from the commentary booth, Marton Kropko dials in to tell all about his triple br...

The 2026 World Triathlon Championship Series commentary duo Will McCloy and Belinda Granger join the podcast to preview a massive first WTCS of 2026 in Samarkand on 25 April. After the postponement of Abu Dhabi, attentions turn to the Silk Road, Uzbekistan, where one of the strongest women's fields we have seen in recent memory lines up, including Olympic and World Champions Lisa Tertsch, Cassandr...

Out of the fires of the Lanzarote World Cup emerged men's gold medallist David Cantero , overcoming a 10s penalty to come soaring back and set up one of the great World Cup finishes, and Hungary's 18-year-old wonder kid Fanni Szalai. Even a hard, late bike crash wouldn't derail her debut, running in a gutsy top 10 finish that suggests very big things to come through the LA28 and Brisbane 2032 Olym...

Great Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown took 'a year out' in 2025, only to finish in the PTO top 10 thanks to a flurry of world-class performances over the middle distance. Now, she sets her sights firmly back on Olympic goals, and the path to LA28 begins at the Lanzarote World Cup!

James Elvery is one half of the team behind Race Ranger, the biking draft zone innovation shaking up racing and bringing tech into the notoriously murky waters of draft monitoring. From PTO to Para Triathlon, Ironman to Paris 2024, the three-light system has helped clarify racing for athletes, officials and organising and Race Ranger now has set its sights and lights on an Age Group race near you....

For a self-confessed chilled-out Pacific islander, coming to terms with short-course swimming chaos has been a steep learning curve for Guam’s Manami Iijima. We caught up with the Team World Triathlon athlete at the end of the 2025 season to catch up on a whirlwind rise through the sport to the biggest start line of them all. From the development of triathlon in the Pacific region to the tough rea...

She went into the 2025 Championship Finals as the Series leader, knowing that victory would bring her a second world title in just three years and establish herself as an all-time great of British triathlon. What transpired in Wollongong was hard to believe. From the flying form of two wins in two leading to the Grand Final, to facing down an injury she knew was serious enough that her team might...

It was ten years in the making, and the world title that Australia's Matt Hauser and his coach Dan Atkins were able to conjure up in 2025 was won in the perfect fashion: taking the tape, in Australia, in front of thousands, to give the home fans their first men's champion in 20 years. But the path to the top never runs smoothly. The two close friends reminisce on the long, late conversations they...

The 2025 season rewind continues with the newly crowned Men's U23 World Champion, Britain's rising star, Oliver Conway, joining the World Triathlon Podcast this week. Oli looks back over the processes and rapid progressions that helped him soar from Junior European Cups start lines to World Cup gold and WTCS debut power moves in the space of twelve short months, all the while juggling competition...

Richelle Hill lit the fuse on the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals Wollongong for the hosts Australia, igniting one of the great Grand Finals with the kind of finish that dreams are made of, hoovering up a seemingly unassailable gap to take the U23 world title in the most dramatic fashion. She then went on a self-imposed social media lockdown ahead of the Mixed Relay, before finally relivi...

Join us for a special on-the-ground preview of the Championship Finals from Wollongong, Australia with Chelsea Burns and Tommy Zaferes, analysing the chances of favourites Matt Hauser, Cassandre Beaugrand and Beth Potter and what it will take for their closest rivals to stop them

Fresh from his mammoth debut World Triathlon Championship Series win in Karlovy Vary, Germany's latest triathlon talent Henry Graf joins Doug Gray and Tommy Zaferes for a full run-down of the latest and greatest Battle of Bohemia! 📈 Being nearly two metres tall in an era of smaller, faster triathletes 🍿 Winning your debut the same day as Ironman short-distancers light up Nice – shouts to Casper...

Third in the world heading to WTCS Karlovy Vary on 14 September, it was in the south of France last weekend that Jeanne Lehair ripped up her coach's notes and took the race to Cassandre Beaugrand at WTCS French Riviera. Photographer Tommy Zaferes is back on the podcast this week as we pick through the ashes of that race and look ahead to the penultimate action of the Series ahead of the Championsh...

The newly crowned European Sprint Triathlon Champion, Belgium's Jolien Vermeylen is one of the sport's great characters, and heads to Istanbul at the end of August chasing a huge continental double with the Olympic Distance title. On episode 105, the 31-year-old opens up about having her post-Paris 2024 words twisted and the pain of a resulting social media pile-on, putting her 70.3 ambitions on h...

In recovery after suffering a bad bike crash at WTCS Hamburg in mid-July, Roksana Slupek is our guest this week, and the Poland number one shares her reflections on the highs and lows of her journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic start line. From attacks of self doubt and depression to ultimately qualifying for her life’s dream, and the harsh realities of racing on – and crashing out of – the world’s b...

A second individual gold in the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Series strengthened Matt Hauser's grip on the Series Rankings after WTCS Hamburg marked the halfway point of the season. The 27-year-old followed it up with one of the greatest Mixed Relay legs you will see as he reeled in a 20-second deficit to 2023 World Champion Dorian Coninx and helped secure Australia their first World title si...

The first Brazilian to win a World Triathon Championship Series gold in the modern era, Miguel Hidalgo now has his sights set on a first World Championship title, but knows all too well just how far there is still to go if he is to be challenging in October's finals in Wollongong, Australia, against the likes of home favourite Matt Hauser.

If you achieved your dream double of becoming Olympic and World Champion in the same year, what would you do? For Alex Yee, the answer was simple. Test himself over running's marquee distance on one of the biggest stages of them all: The London Marathon. We headed to Brockley, south London, just a few miles from that start line, to speak to one of the most understated, unflappable and, quite simpl...

A very special guest joins the podcast to mark the 100th episode, the Paris 2024 Olympic Triathlon Champion Cassandre Beaugrand! It is a deeply honest hour in the company of our Olympic and World Champion, each story revealing a little more about just where all the grit, determination and competitive spirit that has taken the 27-year-old to the very top of the sport came from. Cass explains why sh...