Hayden Wilde hails from a mountain biking background, and was two time XTERRA U19 and World Triathlon U23 Cross Triathlon World Champion before making the change to full triathlon to chase his dream of competing at an Olympic Games. That he did at Tokyo 2020 and in fine style, with an outstanding bronze medal performance, before finishing the season with fifth place overall. That superb campaign was then built on in 2022, where Wilde traded podium places with Alex Yee all season, including wins at WTCS Leeds and WTCS Hamburg to set up a grandstand finish to the year at the Abu Dhabi Championship Finals. Knowing victory would see him crowned World Champion, Wilde crossed the line in sixth, ensuring a career-best overall Series bronze. In 2023, Wilde again went into the Finals as one of the favourites for the world title, only to be denied by Dorian Coninx’s sprint-finish win. Then, at Paris 2024, it was a bold run pace that saw him take to the front and lead for much of the 10km run before ultimately winning the silver in one of the most dramatic Olympic finales of all time.

Leo Bergere had a meteoric rise through the sport from the age of 15, with early success in the French Junior Mixed and Youth Men’s Relay squads, scoring European Championship gold in the former in 2015. A podium finish in the Junior World Championships in Chicago followed, before Bergere broke fully onto the World Cup scene with some strong performances across 2016. The Frenchman took fourth in the U23 World Championships on the Gold Coast, then spearheaded his team’s gold-medal finish in the U23 Mixed Relay.  Now an integral part of the World Champion Elite French Mixed Relay Team, he scored a clutch of WTCS podiums and 21st place in his Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 before having an incredible, world-beating 2022. After claiming three WTCS podiums and the European Championship title by August, Bergere went on to score a career-first Series gold at the Championship Finals Abu Dhabi and in doing so won a dramatic world title, beating Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde at the wire to be crowned 2022 World Triathlon Champion. Further glory followed on home soil as he claimed the bronze medal in the men’s individual event at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Since developing an early reputation for delivering sub 14-minute 5Ks, Alex Yee has proved he is no slouch in the water or on the bike either. Junior European titles and 5th place in the Cozumel Grand Final in 2016 hadn’t prepared the triathlon world for what was to come. A serious bike accident in his first World Triathlon Cup in Cagliari may then have set Alex back temporarily, but to make his return to racing on that very same course 12 months later and finish in the top 10 gave a hint of what was to come. Third place in Weihai at the end of 2018 was his first taste of a World Cup podium but it was in the 2019 season opener, one week before his 21st birthday, that Yee took a first World Cup gold in Cape Town and then a silver medal at the World Triathlon Series race in Abu Dhabi, establishing himself as one of the sport’s hottest young prospects. That promise was delivered upon in grand style in 2021 as he first won WTCS Leeds to ensure his place on the Tokyo 2020 start line and then produced a brilliant Olympic race to take silver on the biggest stage of them all, before anchoring the GB Mixed Relay team to a stunning Olympic gold. Alex went on to finish 2021 third overall in the World Triathlon Championship Series. In 2022, after winning the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham he would go one place better. This time it was to be overall silver after a superb campaign saw wins in WTCS Yokohama, Montreal and Cagliari, before his fourth-place finish at the Championship Finals Abu Dhabi saw him pipped to the world title in a dramatic season finale. Again going in to the 2023 Finals as a favourite only to be denied right at the death, it was at Paris 2024 that a date with Olympic Games destiny was realised, as he hauled in a seemingly impossible deficit over the final 300m to win the Paris 2024 gold medal. Bronze in the Mixed Relay followed, marking the Brit out as the most decorated Olympic triathlete of all time. Yee would then go on to secure his first World title at the Torremolinos Championship Finals, a race in which the bronze medal was sufficient to see him take the crown after a memorable season of racing that established the Brit as a true great of the sport. 

Junior World Champion in 2017, Australian Matt Hauser finished 4th in the Commonwealth Games 2018 before finally scoring his first World Cup wins a year later, with back-to-back golds in Chengdu and Nur-Sultan. In 2021, Hauser scooped the bronze at the U23 World Championships.

Pierre Le Corre hails from from Vannes in the west of France, where he took up swimming at the age of six before moving to Philadelphia, USA, in 2006. There, he discovered the joys of running and, without abandoning his beloved swimming, decided to take up triathlon. Launching himself onto the global scene with the U23 World Championship title in 2013, the following year he landed the French national title, a feat he would repeat in 2015 as well as a top-10 world ranking. In 2016, Le Corre made his Olympic debut at Rio 2016, finishing 25th with a time of 1:48:36 and earned his first World Series podium at WTS Stockholm, a feat he would go on to repeat in 2017 alongside top 10 finishes in WTS Leeds, WTS Montreal, WTS Edmonton and the Grand Final Rotterdam. After mixed fortunes in 2018, the year ended on a high thanks to a superb gold in the European Championships in Glasgow and fourth place in the Grand Final Gold Coast, helping Le Corre secure a career-best 8th place in the overall rankings. Recent Highlights - 1st place 2018 European Championships Glasgow - 4th place 2018 ITU Grand Final Gold Coast - 7th place 2017 Rotterdam World Triathlon Series Grand Final - 2nd place 2017 Düsseldorf ETU Sprint Triathlon European Championships - 3rd place 2017 ITU World Triathlon Stockholm - 8th place 2017 ITU World Triathlon Leeds - 9th place 2017 ITU World Triathlon Montreal - 7th place at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Edmonton

Coached by his father Tibor and based in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary’s Csongor Lehmann has continued the Lehmann triathlon dynasty in style since winning the Junior World Championships back in 2018. One year later at the Lausanne Grand Final, Csongor took the U23 silver, before going one better in 2021 in Edmonton, out-running the competition to scoop the world title and mark his full-time entrance into the elite circuit in grand style, quickly following it up with a first World Triathlon Cup podium with third place on the notoriously tough Karlovy Vary course. Career highlights: - 2021 World Triathlon U23 Champion - 2019 World Triathlon U23 silver medalist - 2018 World Triathlon Junior Champion

Also known as Miguel Lopes Hidalgo

Vasco Vilaça was born in December 1999 in Amadora, in the Lisbon area of Portugal. From early childhood he was always interested in sports and started practicing gymnastics when he was just three years old. In 2006, and still only aged six, Vasco took part in his first duathlon and as soon as he finished he said: “I want to be a Triathlete”. Since 2016, Vasco has been involved in the Portuguese Olympic project with a series of strong international results, including 15th in his first ever World Series race at WTS Edmonton in 2019. During 2020, the lockdown gave him time to train without interruption, sickness or injury, which he needed to step up to the Elite Podiums. After months without racing, that September came a big breakthrough, finishing second in the standalone World Championships and following that with another silver at the Karlovy Vary World Cup. Career highlights: -2020 World Championship silver -2020 Karlovy Vary World Cup silver -2017 Junior World Championship silver -2017 Junior European Champion -2016 Youth European Champion

Vincent Luis has been competing since 2005 and has been a central part of the multiple world title-winning French Mixed Relay Team. In 2019, Luis was crowned World Champion after finishing the season narrowly ahead of training partner Mario Mola in a nail-biting climax at the Lausanne Grand Final, a title he successfully defended in 2020 at the standalone World Championships in Hamburg. At the Tokyo 2020 Games, the French star helped his country’s Triathlon Mixed Relay team to a memorable bronze as the format made its Olympic debut. Highlights: - Tokyo 2020 Olympic Mixed Relay bronze medalist - 2020 + 2019 World Champion - Mixed Team Relay World Champion