With seven races in the locker and one huge Championship Finals to come, the women’s 2025 World Championship race remains wide open. The past two world champions may be level on points at the top of the rankings and coming in as hot favourites, but as the men’s Series has shown in recent years, anything can, and usually does, happen in the Grand Final cauldron.
You can check out the course preview here, and read on to find out what it could take to win the title in Wollongong on 19 October.
The 2025 rankings explained
This year’s WTCS season consists of 7 Series races and the Championship Finals.
The overall WTCS rankings will be based off each athlete’s best three points totals plus those earned at the Finals.
There is 1,000 points for a Series win, the number dropping by 12.5% per position.
There is 1,250 points for a Finals win, each position thereafter also worth -12.5%.
(NB. WTCS Abu Dhabi was still worth 750 points, the rule change to bring sprint distance wins up from 750 points to the same 1,000 as Olympic distance having come in to force after the opening race of the season).
Beaugrand x Potter: game on
With two wins and a silver leaving them both on 2,925 points, defending champion Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA) and 2023 champion Beth Potter (GBR) both know only too well that – as happened in the past two years - a win will also see them crowned women’s world champion.
Both those years, Beaugrand held a slender points lead heading into the Finals. In Pontevedra, Potter famously took the tape and title with a commanding run. In Torremolinos, Beaugrand even more famously hauled her way back after veering wildly off course in the swim. What drama lies in store this time around?
Lehair & Tertsch in touch
For Luxembourg’s Jeanne Lehair, a gold, silver and 4th in a career-best season so far have left her 209 points behind in third. A win would take her up to 3966 points, meaning Beaugrand and Potter would both have to finish fourth or lower for Lehair to take the world title.
Then there is Germany’s Lisa Tertsch. Weihai silver and bronze in both Yokohama and Karlovy Vary were more valuable than the 750 points win in Abu Dhabi, taking her on to 2636 points. The most she can gather with a Finals win is therefore 3886 points, meaning Potter and Beaugrand would also need to finish fifth or lower for Tertsch to take the title, regardless of Lehair’s finishing position.
Long shot for Leonie?
Currently in fifth in the standings and another 49 points back is France’s Leonie Periault. Were she to take the tape and move up to 3837 points, Potter and Beaugrand need to finish sixth or lower and Lehair third or lower to win the title.
From there, the odds lengthen considerably for USA's Taylor Spivey, currently sitting on 2342 points, 583 adrift of the leaders. In 2023, Dorian Coninx was 511 points off Alex Yee and went on to win the title. Could the American pull off something truly remarkable by winning her first ever top-tier race and all of those above her fail to make an impact on the race? Clear the schedules, this one is going down to the wire!
Women’s Championship Finals Wollongong
2pm local time, Sunday 19 October 2025
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