2023 World Triathlon Championship Series Explained

2023 World Triathlon Championship Series
League:	World Triathlon Championship Series
Sport:	Triathlon
Season:	Men's Series
Season Champs:	Dorian Coninx (FRA)
Season Champ Name:	Series Champion
League Champ Name:	Points
League Champs:	4237.60 Points
Season2:	Women's Series
Season Champs2:	Beth Potter (GBR)
Season Champ2 Name:	Series Champion
League Champs2:	4559.38 Points
League Champ2 Name:	Points
Seasonslistnames:	World Triathlon Championship Series
Prevseason Year:	2022
Nextseason Year:	2024

The 2023 World Triathlon Championship Series was the 15th season of the World Triathlon Championship Series, the top level international series for triathlon, since its establishment in 2009, and crowned the 35th official World Triathlon Champion for both men and women since the first was crowned in 1989.

The season consisted of seven pairs of triathlon races for both a men's and women's competition, beginning on 3 March 2023 in Abu Dhabi, and concluding on 24 September 2023 with the grand final in Pontevedra. The World Champion is decided on a cumulative points basis, with the sum of their four best points scores, plus their score in Pontevedra, deciding the series rankings, medallists and champions. In addition, a mixed relay only event was held in Paris as a test event for the 2024 Summer Olympics, doubling as a qualifier. Junior, under-23, age-grade and sprint and mixed relay world championships were held at several of the events.

In 2022, the Montreal leg introduced a super-sprint eliminator format, and hosted both the official World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships and World Triathlon Sprint Championships; which crowned the third World Triathlon Sprint champion for both men and women, and the Mixed Relay champion team. In 2023 these events were moved to the Hamburg leg on 15 and 16 July, although a mixed relay was still held in Montreal. Unlike Hamburg, however, the Hamburg individual triathlon was held over the traditional 'sprint' or half-standard distance rather than the multiple-race eliminator format.

The grand final was held in Pontevedre with increased points and prize money to round off the series.

Overview

Calendar

The 2023 World Triathlon Championship Series visited seven cities.

Events!Date!Location!Type!Other events at same leg
March 3–4	Abu Dhabi	Sprint
May 13–14	Yokohama	Standard
October 7–8	Cagliari	Standard
June 25–26	Montreal	Sprint	Mixed relay
July 15–16	Hamburg	Eliminator	Sprint World Championships Mixed Relay World Championships Junior World Sprint Championships Age-grade World Championships
July 29–30	Sunderland	Sprint	Mixed relay
August 20	Paris	Mixed relay only	Mixed relay (Olympic qualifier)

September 23–26	Ponteverde	Standard WTCS Grand Final	World Para-triathlon Championships Under-23 World Championships

Mixed Relays!Date!Location!Type
June 26	Montreal
July 16	Hamburg	World Mixed Relay Championships
July 30	Sunderland
August 20	Paris	Olympic mixed relay qualifier

Results

Championship series summary (elite)

Men

Abu Dhabi	width=220	width=220	width=220
Yokohama	width=220	width=220	width=220
Cagliari	width=220	width=220	width=220
Montreal	width=220	width=220	width=220
Hamburg *	width=220	width=220	width=220
Sunderland	width=220	width=220	width=220
Ponteverde ^{Grand Final}	width=220	width=220	width=220
Overall ^{World Championship}	align=left width=220	align=left width=220	align=left width=220

* The Hamburg event, held in super-sprint eliminator format, doubled as the stand-alone World Triathlon Sprint Championships.

Women

Abu Dhabi	width=220	width=220	width=220
Yokohama	width=220	width=220	width=220
Cagliari	width=220	width=220	width=220
Montreal	width=220	width=220	width=220
Hamburg *	width=220	width=220	width=220
Sunderland	width=220	width=220	width=220
Ponteverde ^{Grand Final}	width=220	width=220	width=220
Overall ^{World Championship}	align=left width=220	align=left width=220	align=left width=220

* The Hamburg event, held in super-sprint eliminator format, doubled as the stand-alone World Triathlon Sprint Championships.

World Triathlon Sprint Championship

The event was held as a leg of the World Triathlon Championship Series in Hamburg, in conjunction with the World Mixed Relay Championships.

Hamburg Men's championship	width=200		width=200		width=200
Hamburg Women's Championship	width=200		width=200		width=200

World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championship

Sunderland	width=220	Tom Richard Emma Lombardi Pierre Le Corre Cassandre Beaugrand	width=220	Barclay Izzard Beth Potter Max Stapley Jessica Fullagar	width=220	Vetle Bergsvik Thorn Lotte Miller Casper Stornes Solveig Løvseth
Montreal	cancelled due to forest fires in Quebec^[1]
Hamburg ^{World Championship}	width=220	Tim Hellwig Annika Koch Simon Henseleit Laura Lindemann	width=220	Hayden Wilde Ainsley Thorpe Tayler Reid Nicole Van Der Kaay	width=220	Max Studer Julie Derron Sylvain Fridelance Cathia Schär

Paris test event and Olympic qualifier

Race Results

Abu Dhabi

Men

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	9:20	1:14	27:33	0:23	14:26	0:52:53
	9:17	1:14	27:35	0:22	14:32	0:52:59
	9:40	1:14	27:15	0:27	14:32	0:53:06
4	8:57	1:15	27:54	0:22	14:45	0:53:11
6	8:59	1:14	27:53	0:22	14:48	0:53:14
5	9:21	1:16	27:28	0:21	14:51	0:53:15
7	9:26	1:16	27:23	0:23	14:52	0:53:18
8	9:31	1:13	27:23	0:22	14:52	0:53:19
9	9:32	1:16	27:22	0:21	14:51	0:53:20
10	9:30	1:14	27:25	0:21	14:57	0:53:24

Women

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	9:40	1:18	29:52	0:24	16:46	0:57:56
	9:27	1:28	29:54	0:23	17:04	0:58:14
	9:35	1:19	29:55	0:24	17:18	0:58:27
4	9:31	1:20	29:59	0:24	17:24	0:58:35
6	9:52	1:23	30:23	0:26	16:38	0:58:39
5	9:33	1:21	29:56	0:24	17:29	0:58:39
7	10:16	1:18	30:00	0:23	16:51	0:58:45
8	9:58	1:22	30:15	0:23	16:50	0:58:46
9	10:03	1:21	30:10	0:22	16:55	0:58:48
10	10:18	1:17	29:59	0:24	16:59	0:58:53

Yokohama

Men

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	17:26	0:59	53:57	0:23	29:30	1:42:13
	17:13	1:01	54:13	0:23	29:29	1:42:17
	17:22	1:03	53:59	0:33	29:24	1:42:18
4	17:17	1:01	54:07	0:22	29:38	1:42:22
6	17:17	1:03	54:02	0:22	29:45	1:42:26
5	17:45	1:03	53:38	0:21	29:52	1:42:37
7	17:47	1:02	53:34	0:21	30:00	1:42:42
8	17:54	1:08	53:20	0:26	30:02	1:42:48
9	17:21	1:04	54:00	0:25	30:05	1:42:53
10	17:22	1:02	54:04	0:25	30:10	1:43:01

Women

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total Time
	18:38	1:06	59:31	0:26	33:53	1:53:32
	18:47	1:02	59:27	0:27	34:08	1:53:49
	18:37	1:10	59:29	0:31	34:17	1:54:02
4	18:43	1:07	59:24	0:26	34:35	1:54:14
6	18:38	1:03	59:35	0:27	34:39	1:54:20
5	18:35	1:08	59:33	0:26	35:00	1:54:40
7	19:06	1:06	1:34	0:28	33:35	1:54:48
8	18:41	0:59	59:35	0:31	35:19	1:55:03
9	19:15	1:02	1:29	0:28	33:58	1:55:10
10	18:36	1:03	1:1:11	0:30	34:11	1:55:30

Cagliari

Men

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	17:22	0:36	49:38	0:23	28:31	1:36:28
	17:22	0:38	49:36	0:23	28:35	1:36:33
	17:23	0:39	49:34	0:20	29:11	1:37:04
4	17:10	0:35	49:50	0:19	29:22	1:37:15
6	17:21	0:37	49:39	0:20	29:27	1:37:21
5	17:16	0:35	49:44	0:21	29:45	1:37:39
7	17:24	0:35	49:36	0:22	29:57	1:37:52
8	17:16	0:35	49:45	0:22	30:03	1:37:58
9	17:18	0:35	49:42	0:20	30:05	1:38:00
10	17:23	0:36	49:37	0:20	30:10	1:38:04

Women

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total times
	18:18	0:38	54:41	0:23	32:45	1:46:43
	18:11	0:39	54:46	0:23	33:10	1:47:06
	18:17	0:38	54:41	0:24	33:38	1:47:36
4	18:33	0:41	55:44	0:23	32:25	1:47:44
6	18:40	0:40	55:39	0:23	32:40	1:48:00
5	18:46	0:40	55:34	0:25	32:41	1:48:04
7	18:09	0:43	54:44	0:22	34:14	1:48:12
8	18:28	0:37	55:54	0:25	33:29	1:48:51
9	18:45	0:37	55:36	0:24	33:35	1:48:55
10	18:46	0:40	55:35	0:22	33:36	1:48:57

Montreal

Men

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total Time
	8:02	1:42	29:10	0:32	14:23	53:47
	8:32	1:40	28:44	0:36	14:29	53:58
	8:29	1:44	28:40	0:34	14:38	54:02
4	8:06	1:42	29:04	0:35	14:37	54:03
6	8:36	1:44	28:32	0:36	14:40	54:05
5	8:22	1:45	28:46	0:32	14:45	54:07
7	8:22	1:42	28:50	0:40	14:39	54:10
8	8:38	1:40	28:33	0:31	14:53	54:15
9	8:11	1:39	29:03	0:34	14:53	54:18
10	8:04	1:44	29:04	0:34	14:55	54:19

Women

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	9:22	1:47	30:17	0:37	16:08	58:10
	9:09	1:55	30:25	0:38	16:08	58:12
	8:54	1:55	30:21	0:36	16:35	58:19
4	9:23	1:50	30:14	0:38	16:25	58:28
6	8:56	1:54	30:40	0:36	16:31	58:33
5	8:52	2:01	30:18	0:39	16:49	58:36
7	9:00	1:51	30:34	0:39	16:44	58:45
8	9:04	1:51	30:28	0:32	16:53	58:46
9	8:59	1:52	30:35	0:36	16:51	58:51
10	9:25	1:48	30:13	0:39	16:50	58:54

Hamburg

(Finals only)

Men

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	3:48	0:27	9:59	0:19	4:55	19:26
	3:44	0:29	10:03	0:22	4:53	19:28
	3:47	0:27	10:01	0:21	4:54	19:28
4	3:50	0:28	9:57	0:21	4:57	19:32
6	3:44	0:28	10:04	0:20	4:59	19:33
5	3:51	0:28	9:59	0:23	5:00	19:38
7	3:45	0:36	9:56	0:21	5:05	19:41
8	3:42	0:31	10:03	0:21	5:09	19:44
9	3:46	0:28	10:04	0:22	5:09	19:47
10	3:41	0:29	10:06	0:21	5:17	19:52

Women

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	4:05	0:32	11:08	0:22	5:30	21:35
	4:07	0:34	11:03	0:22	5:42	21:45
	4:05	0:31	11:09	0:23	5:41	21:47
4	4:09	0:32	11:04	0:23	5:47	21:52
6	4:11	0:32	11:02	0:24	5:48	21:55
5	4:12	0:33	11:00	0:23	5:51	21:57
7	4:07	0:33	11:05	0:23	5:54	21:59
8	4:20	0:34	10:50	0:22	5:56	22:00
9	4:10	0:31	11:08	0:22	5:58	22:07
10	4:05	0:34	11:10	0:23	6:21	22:30

Sunderland

Men

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	8:59	0:46	29:14	0:32	14:37	54:06
	8:53	0:40	29:15	0:34	14:46	54:06
	9:02	0:39	29:18	0:30	14:55	54:21
4	9:02	0:43	29:15	0:36	14:51	54:25
6	9:06	0:40	29:16	0:37	14:50	54:27
5	9:02	0:46	29:13	0:34	14:56	54:28
7	8:54	0:44	29:24	0:33	14:58	54:30
8	9:01	0:38	29:22	0:33	15:01	54:32
9	8:57	0:46	29:19	0:39	14:59	54:39
10	8:56	0:42	29:11	0:41	15:12	54:40

Women

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	9:20	0:41	33:09	0:35	16:10	59:53
	9:28	0:41	32:58	0:34	16:33	1:00:11
	9:31	0:41	32:55	0:38	16:34	1:00:17
4	9:45	0:47	32:39	0:38	16:35	1:00:22
6	9:39	0:49	32:42	0:39	16:38	1:00:25
5	9:39	0:45	32:44	0:35	16:49	1:00:30
7	9:43	0:47	32:37	0:36	16:52	1:00:34
8	9:33	0:44	32:54	0:38	16:52	1:00:38
9	9:56	0:46	32:26	0:35	17:02	1:00:43
10	9:35	0:49	32:47	0:37	17:00	1:00:46

Grand Final Pontevedre

Men

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	18:03	1:15	52:56	0:25	29:46	1:42:22
	18:09	1:13	52:53	0:25	29:44	1:42:22
	18:00	1:15	53:00	0:24	29:45	1:42:22
4	18:05	1:13	52:55	0:22	29:55	1:42:28
6	18:16	1:16	52:41	0:23	30:09	1:42:44
5	18:17	1:15	52:41	0:23	30:13	1:42:48
7	18:04	1:14	52:57	0:23	30:19	1:42:54
8	17:57	1:15	53:00	0:21	30:31	1:43:04
9	18:15	1:13	52:48	0:22	30:32	1:43:09
10	18:47	1:09	53:02	0:23	29:57	1:43:17

Women

Rank	Swim		Bike		Run	Total time
	19:58	1:19	58:13	0:25	33:26	1:53:19
	19:59	1:20	58:09	0:27	33:44	1:53:37
	19:49	1:19	58:22	0:28	33:54	1:53:50
4	20:10	1:15	58:16	0:29	33:53	1:54:01
6	20:07	1:23	58:13	0:28	33:59	1:54:08
5	19:53	1:18	58:17	0:25	34:18	1:54:09
7	19:43	1:19	58:25	0:27	34:19	1:54:12
8	20:23	1:20	57:58	0:27	34:09	1:54:14
9	20:31	1:14	58:00	0:28	34:20	1:54:31
10	19:51	1:21	58:18	0:31	34:36	1:54:35

Overall standings

In the individual events, the athlete who accumulates the most points throughout the season is declared the year's world champion.

Men

Rank	Athlete	WTCS Points	WTCS Wins	WTCS Podiums
	Dorian Coninx	4,237.60	1	1
	Hayden Wilde	4,061.43	2	4
	Léo Bergere	4,002.88	0	2
4	Vasco Vilaca	3,703.42	0	3
5	Alex Yee	3,628.99	2	3
6	Pierre le Corre	3,343.07	1	2
7	Matthew Hauser	3,239.13	1	2
8	Tim Hellwig	2,950.13	0	1
9	Kristian Blummenfelt	2,689.11	0	0
10	Csongor Lehmann	2,643.25	0	0

Women

Rank	Athlete	WTCS Points	WTCS Wins	WTCS Podiums
	Beth Potter	4,559.38	3	4
	Cassandre Beaugrand	4,410.98	2	3
	Emma Lombardi	3,792.64	0	2
4	Taylor Spivey	3,225.08	0	2
5	Sophie Coldwell	2,998.38	1	2
6	Kate Waugh	2,992.50	0	1
7	Lisa Tertsch	2,909.42	0	0
8	Jeanne Lehair	2,762.23	0	0
9	Nina Eim	2,671.77	0	0
10	Rosa Maria Tapia Vidal	2,486.02	0	1

List of 2023 World Championship podiums

The following is a list of all the World Championship medalists crowned on the various legs of the World Triathlon Championship series. While the men and women's elite championships were decided over the full series, the Sprint, Mixed Relay, Age-grade, under-23, Junior and Para-triathlon World Championships were all decided by single races, either on the Hamburg leg (junior, sprint and both elite and u-23/Jr mixed relay) or Ponteverde grand final (Under-23 and paratriathlon).

Senior
width=250	Men's overall^[2] ^season-long	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's overall ^[3] ^season-long	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Mixed relay^[4] ^Hamburg	width=220	Tim Hellwig Annika Koch Simon Henseleit Laura Lindemann	width=220	Hayden Wilde Ainsley Thorpe Tayler Reid Nicole Van Der Kaay	width=220	Max Studer Julie Derron Sylvain Fridelance Cathia Schär
Men's sprint ^Hamburg	width=200		width=200		width=200
Women's sprint ^Hamburg	width=200		width=200		width=200
Age-grade
Men's U-23	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's U-23	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Men's junior	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's junior	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Mixed relay U-23/Jr	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Para triathlon
Men's PTWC^[5]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Men's PTS2	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Men's PTS3	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Men's PTS4	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Men's PTS5	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Men's PTVI	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's PTWC ^[6]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's PTS2 ^[7]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's PTS3 ^[8]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's PTS4 ^[9]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's PTS5 ^[10]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Women's PTVI ^[11]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220
Open mixed PT relay ^[12]	align=left width=220		align=left width=220		align=left width=220

References

Web site: Triathlon . World . 2023-06-25 . Cancellation of Montreal Mixed Relay . 2024-09-28 . World Triathlon . en.
https://triathlon.org/rankings/world_triathlon_championship_series/male Men overall title, World Triathlon Championships 2023
https://triathlon.org/rankings/world_triathlon_championship_series/female Final standing, Women overall title, World Triathlon Championships 2023
https://www.triathlon.org/results/result/2023_world_triathlon_sprint_relay_championships_hamburg World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships 2023, final results
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: PTWC Men 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: PTWC Women 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: PTS2 Women 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: PTS3 Women 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: PTS4 Women 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: PTS5 Women 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: PTVI Women 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.
Web site: Triathlon . World . Results: Open Para Triathlon Mixed Relay 2023 World Triathlon Para Championships Pontevedra . 2024-09-29 . World Triathlon . en.

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