World Triathlon

The World Triathlon Championship Series may have been wrapped up almost a month ago, but the subsequent World Cups in Tongyeong, Miyazaki and Brasilia helped to define the final World Triathlon Rankings at the end of a packed year on the blue carpet.

The annual WTCS Rankings determine the season’s World Champions, but the World Rankings are used to determine athletes’ selection for racing. Points are earned from the maximum 1250 available for the winner of the Championship Finals down to 50 for the national championships (and points decreasing by 7.5% per position), and full criteria can be found here.

With the rankings covering the best six results from 2023 and 2024, it is little surprise to see the table more or less mirroring that of the World Triathlon Championship Series at the top, but there are some important differences for those with fewer WTCS opportunities to date as they head into 2025.

Jorgensen the top American woman

On the women’s side, Beth Potter’s remarkable consistency for the past two years means the 2023 World Champion stands on top of the World Rankings despite finishing with the overall Series silver this year behind Olympic and World Champion Cassandre Beaugrand.

Another major difference is Gwen Jorgensen’s place in the top 10. That makes her the top-ranked American woman at the end of the year courtesy of five World Cup wins and 6th place in Weihai, and ensures her WTCS presence at the start of 2025.

The rankings also show Olympic relay gold medallist Laura Lindemann as only the sixth-highest German after Tanja Neubert’s 4th place in Weihai catapulted her up the table. At 22-years-old, Xinyu Lin (CHN) and Zuzana Michalickova (SVK) are the two youngest women in the top 50, and in terms of national federation representation, a remarkable 8 Germans, 8 Americans and 7 Brits comprise almost half of the top 50.

French men flex

France is the nation with most athletes in the men’s World Rankings top 50, where it is Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde and Leo Bergere’s dominance of the podium places in the biggest races of the past two years that sees the World Rankings and WTCS top three match.

Elsewhere though, Yanis Seguin’s impressive end to 2024 sees him become the fifth highest-ranked Frenchman, just two spots behind Dorian Coninx, teammate Maxime Hueber-Moosbrugger climbing 10 places after winning in Miyazaki to become the sixth of seven tricolors in the top 50.

Alberto Gonzalez Garcia firmly established himself as Spain’s number one across 2024, while the U23 Word Champion David Cantero del Campo is now the third-highest Spanish male after his fine end to the season. Cantero will be hungry to prove himself at the Series level in 2025.

Morgan Pearson remains the highest of the three American males in the top 50 but, at 15th, he sits just three spots ahead of newcomer John Reed, the US young gun looking forward to a big year of WTCS racing ahead.

At just 22 years-old, Henry Graf is now the third highest German male, Vetle Bergsvik Thorn has become the top-ranked Norwegian, and Brazil’s Miguel Hidalgo is the sole South American inside the men’s top 50.