WTCS Cagliari 2023: Date, initiate times and interrogate are residing

The 2nd edition of WTCS Cagliari will seemingly be held this weekend, because the capital metropolis of the island of Sardinia hosts the third World Triathlon Championship Sequence event of the season, following races at WTCS Abu Dhabi and WTCS Yokohama.

Final year, British stars Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee took the wins in Italy on their way to ending 2nd general within the sequence. This year, every will hope victory can abet them on their way to the cease step of the podium on the cease of the season.

Males’s WTCS leader Vasco Vilaca will seemingly be on the initiate line, with females’s sequence leader Sophie Coldwell opting to sit down down this hurry out after winning her first ever WTCS a fortnight within the past in Japan.

Originate up time and put together are residing

An Olympic distance hurry, the 2-lap sea swim takes station at Poetto, Cagliari’s predominant seashore, because the athletes quilt 1500m within the Mediterranean.

The 38km bike direction is ‘entirely flat’ in accordance to the hurry facts, and athletes will no query be grateful that any individual will seemingly be counting the 10 laps for them on a circuit which easy manages to squeeze in spherical 14 corners.

The hurry – pan flat all over again – contains four laps of 2.5km, following essential of the the same route because the bike direction, looping out by the town before coming again in alongside the seashore entrance.

You’ll be ready to interrogate the total movement are residing by task of TriathlonLive.tv or, whenever you’ve earn entry to, by task of the BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport web keep and app.

Elite hurry initiate times (native) are:

• Saturday Can also 27: Elite Ladies people – 1100 (1000 UK, 0500 EST)
• Saturday Can also 27: Elite Males – 1515 (1415 UK, 0915 EST)

Elite Ladies people

The cease ranked athlete heading into the weekend is The US’s Taylor Spivey. The 32 year frequent, who has executed third and fourth to this level within the WTCS this season, is per chance the most constant racer within the WTCS ranks currently. These spectacular stats consist of simplest ending initiate air of the cease-10 in individual WTCS and World Triathlon Cup competitors once within the final five years, including fourth at this hurry which used to be held in October 2022.

Despite these spectacular stats and currently holding the cease situation within the World Triathlon rankings and 2nd within the 2023 WTCS standings, there’ll no doubt easy be essential center of attention in other areas within the US team.

Gwen Jorgensen, the 2016 Olympic Champion, will line up for her first WTCS hurry since she announced her comeback to triathlon on the initiate of the year, with Katie Zaferes, the double Olympic medalist from Tokyo, moreover on the initiate line.

The pair, alongside with Spivey and a host of diversified American females, will seemingly be competing for the dear aspects on provide in Italy, because the hurry for Olympic qualification heats up heading into the crux of the season, which culminates with the Olympic Test Tournament in Paris this August.

Speaking of aggressive groups to earn, Britain has two females racing, with WTCS Abu Dhabi winner Beth Potter making the initiate line after skipping Yokohama, with fellow countrywoman Georgia Taylor-Brown, whose season is transferring within the merely direction after a unhurried initiate, moreover racing.

Shock WTCS Yokohama runner up Rosa Maria Tapia Vidal of Mexico starts as #2, as Verena Steinhauser and Ilaria Zane characteristic because the most efficient representatives of the dwelling nation.

Absent from the hurry are American Taylor Knibb, who executed third in Yokohama, Coldwell who leads the WTCS rankings and reigning world champion Flowers Duffy, who is on her method again from damage.

Elite Males

In the males’s hurry, fans are keep for the essential anticipated strive in opposition to between Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde. Yee obtained in Abu Dhabi after Wilde suffered a bike mechanical, and Wilde obtained a fortnight within the past in Yokohama within the absence of Yee.

With all eyes on Wilde and Yee, some high names within the topic, equivalent to Portugal’s Vasco Vilaca, may presumably well cruise under the radar. The younger Portuguese athlete, who currently heads the WTCS rankings, leads a stable contingent of JFT Crew athletes in Cagliari including Belgium’s Jelle Geens, Australia’s Brandon Copeland and Hungarian Bence Bicsak.

Defending world champion Leo Bergere will moreover line up in Sardinia alongside compatriots Pierre Le Corre, Tom Richard and Dorian Coninx, with the hurry for the French Olympic team in Paris hotting up, particularly with Vincent Luis currently sidelined.

As well to the French, the Norwegians will moreover be on the town this weekend, with Gustav Iden, Kristian Blummenfelt and Vetle Thorn all racing. A fortnight within the past, Blummenfelt used to be eighth, Thorn 12th and Iden method down in 39th, because the IRONMAN World Champion’s return to quick direction racing is easy yet to rob off.

Finally, Yee will seemingly be joined by Jonathan Brownlee and Barclay Izzard in Cagliari, with Brownlee – who executed 2nd here final year within the again of Yee – taking a ogle to transfer one higher this time spherical.

Recent Cagliari Winners 

2022: Alex Yee (GBR) / Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR) 2019: Alistair Brownlee (GBR) / Sophie Coldwell (GBR) 2018: Delian Stateff (ITA) / Lisa Perterer (AUT)
2017: Adrien Briffod (SUI) / Jolanda Annen (SUI) 2016: Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) / India Lee (GBR)

NOTE: All earlier Cagliari races before 2022 had been over the Shuffle distance, and had been World Triathlon Cup events. The 2023 hurry would be the 2nd time it has hosted a high tier (WTCS) event, and can moreover be over the Customary distance.

Prize Money: What’s on the road?

As with every spherical of the World Triathlon Championship Sequence (Championship Finals apart), there is a prize purse of $150,000 to be raced for. Right here’s paid 20-deep, with the winners amassing $18,000.

• 1. $18,000
• 2. $12,000
• 3. $8,000
• 4. $6,000
• 5. $4,900
• 6. $4,100
• 7. $3,400
• 8. $2,800
• 9. $2,300
• 10. $1,900
• 11. $1,600
• 12. $1,400
• 13. $1,300
• 14. $1,200
• 15. $1,100
• 16 to twenty. $1,000 every