2022 World Triathlon Championship Series

2022 World Triathlon Championship Series
League	ITU World Triathlon Series
Sport	Triathlon
Men's Series
Series Champion	Léo Bergère (FRA)
Points	4742 Points
Women's Series
Series Champion	Flora Duffy (BER)
Points	5106 Points

The 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series was the 14th season of the World Triathlon Championship Series, the top level international series for triathlon, since its establishment in 2009, and crowned the 34th 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 May 14 in Yokohama, and concluding on November 26 with the grand final in Abu Dhabi. The World Champion is decided on a cumulative points basis, with the sum of their four best points scores, plus their score in Abu Dhabi, deciding the series rankings, medallists and champions.

The Montreal leg introduced a super-sprint eliminator format, and will host both the 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 tenth Mixed Relay champion team. Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain won their first World Sprint titles; it was Yee's first World title overall, while it was Taylor-Brown's second after her Elite World Championship win in 2020. France won the Mixed Relay title, while Great Britain, in silver, took the available Olympic Mixed Relay Qualification spot, as France had pre-qualified as hosts. The event included the world championship events for junior men and women, and the mixed relay world championship for junior and under-23 triathletes.

The grand final was held in Abu Dhabi with increased points and prize money to round off the series. As part of the event, Abu Dhabi also hosted the World Championships races in the elite under-23 category, and the six para-triathlon disciplines. Other non-title races were held for age-group athletes.

Kristian Blummenfelt and Flora Duffy began the season as defending champions from the 2021 season. While Blummenfelt, the 2021 Olympic, World and Ironman champion, had concentrated on the Ironman 70.3 events in 2022, winning his first World title in the discipline in 2022, and did not figure in the WTCS race shake-up, Duffy retained her WTCS world title, her fourth, to add to her 2022 Commonwealth Games title, winning over World Triathlon Sprint champion, 2022 Super League Triathlon champion and erstwhile rival Georgia Taylor-Brown in both the Abu Dhabi Grand Final and the overall standings, while Léo Bergère of France leapfrogged over pre-race standings leaders, 2022 Super League Triathlon champion Hayden Wilde and Commonwealth Games and World Sprint champion Alex Yee by winning the Grand Final race, taking his first overall title by just 20 points from Yee. The Abu Dhabi victory was Bergére's first ever in a WTCS event.

Overview

Calendar

The 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series visited seven cities.

Events

Date	Location	Type
May 14–15	Yokohama	Standard
June 11–12	Leeds	Standard
June 24–26	Montreal	Eliminator
July 9–10	Hamburg	Standard
October 7–8	Cagliari	Standard
November 5–6	Bermuda	Standard
November 23–26	Abu Dhabi	Standard (Grand Final)

Mixed Relays

Date	Location	Type
June 12	Leeds	Mixed Relay
June 26	Montreal	Mixed Relay
July 10	Hamburg	Mixed Relay

Results

Championship series summary (elite)

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yokohama	Alex Yee (GBR)	Hayden Wilde (NZL)	Léo Bergère (FRA)
Leeds	Hayden Wilde (NZL)	Léo Bergère (FRA)	Lasse Luhrs (GER)
Montreal *	Alex Yee (GBR)	Hayden Wilde (NZL)	Léo Bergère (FRA)
Hamburg	Hayden Wilde (NZL)	Matthew Hauser (AUS)	Jawad Abdelmoula (MAR)
Cagliari	Alex Yee (GBR)	Jonny Brownlee (GBR)	Manoel Messias (BRA)
Bermuda	Vincent Luis (FRA)	Antonio Serrat (ESP)	Roberto Sanchez (ESP)
Abu Dhabi Grand Final	Léo Bergère (FRA)	Morgan Pearson (USA)	Jelle Geens (BEL)
Overall World Championship	Léo Bergère (FRA)	Alex Yee (GBR)	Hayden Wilde (NZL)

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

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze s
Yokohama	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Léonie Périault (FRA)	Flora Duffy (BER)
Leeds	Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA)	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Sophie Coldwell (GBR)
Montreal *	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA)	Beth Potter (GBR)
Hamburg	Flora Duffy (BER)	Beth Potter (GBR)	Lisa Tertsch (GER)
Cagliari	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Emma Lombardi (FRA)	Taylor Knibb (USA)
Bermuda	Flora Duffy (BER)	Taylor Knibb (USA)	Beth Potter (GBR)
Abu Dhabi Grand Final	Flora Duffy (BER)	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Lena Meissner (GER)
Overall World Championship	Flora Duffy (BER)	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Taylor Knibb (USA)

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

World Sprint Championship

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint Men	Alex Yee (GBR)	Hayden Wilde (NZL)	Léo Bergère (FRA)
Sprint Women	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA)	Beth Potter (GBR)

Mixed relay

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Leeds	Germany (GER) Lasse Nygaard Priester Anabel Knoll Lasse Lührs Laura Lindemann	Great Britain (GBR) Tom Bishop Sophie Coldwell Grant Sheldon Georgia Taylor-Brown	France (FRA) Tom Richard Sandra Dodet Léo Bergère Audrey Merle
Montreal World Championship	France (FRA) Pierre le Corre Emma Lombardi Vincent Luis Cassandre Beaugrand	Great Britain (GBR) Alex Yee Sophie Coldwell Sam Dickinson Georgia Taylor-Brown	United States (USA) Seth Rider Taylor Spivey Kevin McDowell Summer Rappaport
Hamburg	Great Britain (GBR) Barclay Izzard Sian Rainsley Sam Dickinson Kate Waugh	Australia (AUS) Luke Willian Sophie Linn Matthew Hauser Natalie Van Coevorden	Germany (GER) Valentin Wernz Lisa Tertsch Lasse Nygaard Priester Laura Lindemann

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	Points
	Léo Bergère (FRA)	4741.89
	Alex Yee (GBR)	4721.41
	Hayden Wilde (NZL)	4696.48
4	Jelle Geens (BEL)	4384.52
5	Vincent Luis (FRA)	3880.95
6	Matthew Hauser (AUS)	3232.56
7	Antonio Serrat Seoane (ESP)	3000.65
8	Vasco Vilaça (POR)	2895.57
9	Lasse Lührs (GER)	2792.69
10	Pierre Le Corre (FRA)	2727.14

Women

Rank	Athlete	Points
	Flora Duffy (BER)	5105.63
	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	5081.25
	Taylor Knibb (USA)	4179.23
4	Taylor Spivey (USA)	3889.44
5	Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA)	3801.32
6	Sophie Coldwell (GBR)	3537.29
7	Beth Potter (GBR)	3479.86
8	Laura Lindemann (GER)	3296.14
9	Maya Kingma (NED)	3101.88
10	Miriam Casillas Garcia (ESP)	3019.96

List of 2022 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, Under-23, Junior and Para-triathlon World Championships were all decided by single races, either on the Montreal leg (junior, sprint and both elite and u-23/Jr mixed relay) or Abu Dhabi grand final (Under-23 and paratriathlon).

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Senior
Men's overall season-long	Léo Bergère (FRA)	Alex Yee (GBR)	Hayden Wilde (NZL)
Women's overall season-long	Flora Duffy (BER)	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Taylor Knibb (USA)
Mixed relay Montreal	France (FRA) Pierre le Corre Emma Lombardi Vincent Luis Cassandre Beaugrand	Great Britain (GBR) Alex Yee Sophie Coldwell Sam Dickinson Georgia Taylor-Brown	United States (USA) Seth Rider Taylor Spivey Kevin McDowell Summer Rappaport
Men's sprint Montreal	Alex Yee (GBR)	Hayden Wilde (NZL)	Léo Bergère (FRA)
Women's sprint Montreal	Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR)	Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA)	Beth Potter (GBR)
Age-grade
Men's U-23 Abu Dhabi	Connor Bentley (GBR)	Gergely Kiss (HUN)	Hamish Reilly (GBR)
Women's U-23 Abu Dhabi	Kate Waugh (GBR)	Annika Koch (GER)	Bianca Seregni (ITA)
Men's junior Montreal	Thomas Hansmaennel (FRA)	Toby Powers (AUS)	Reese Vannerson (USA)
Women's junior Montreal	Tilda Månsson (SWE)	Jule Behrens (GER)	Livia Gross (SUI)
Mixed relay U-23/Jr Montreal	France (FRA)	Great Britain (GBR)	Germany (GER)
Para triathlon
Men's PTWC Abu Dhabi	Jetze Plat (NED)	Florian Brungraber (AUS)	Geert Schipper (NED)
Men's PTS2 Abu Dhabi	Jules Ribstein (FRA)	Lionel Morales (ESP)	Wim De Paepe (BEL)
Men's PTS3 Abu Dhabi	Daniel Molina (ESP)	Nico van der Bergte (NED)	Max Gelhaar (GER)
Men's PTS4 Abu Dhabi	Alexis Hanquinquant (FRA)	Pierre-Antoine Baele (FRA)	Jeremy Peacock (AUS)
Men's PTS5 Abu Dhabi	Stefan Daniel (CAN)	Martin Schultz (GER)	Chris Hammer (USA)
Men's PTVI Abu Dhabi	Dave Ellis (GBR)	Thibaut Regaudeau (FRA)	Antoine Perel (FRA)
Women's PTWC Abu Dhabi	Lauren Parker (AUS)	Kendall Gretsch (USA)	Jessica Ferreira (BRA)
Women's PTS2 Abu Dhabi	Hailey Danz (USA)	Melissa Stockwell (USA)	Anu Francis (AUS)
Women's PTS3 Abu Dhabi	Elise Marc (FRA)	No medals awarded*
Women's PTS4 Abu Dhabi	Andrea Miguelez Ranz (ESP)	Kelly Elmlinger (USA)	Marta Frances Gomez (ESP)
Women's PTS5 Abu Dhabi	Grace Norman (USA)	Claire Cashmore (GBR)	Kamylie Frenette (CAN)
Women's PTVI Abu Dhabi	Susana Rodriguez (ESP)	Francesca Tarentello (ITA)	Alison Peasgood (GBR)

* Due to the classification consisting of only 2 competitors, only the gold medal was awarded.