The San Francisco T100 Triathlon will set up some intriguing head-to-head battles in the women’s race on Saturday 31 May.
Singapore winner Kate Waugh, who took the top step with a record-breaking performance on her first T100 outing, will take on last year’s T100 World Champion and San Francisco winner, American Taylor Knibb.
British Olympic star Waugh described the win as ‘the biggest victory of her career’ by the largest T100 winning margin seen to date of 6 minutes 41 seconds. The question in the Golden Gate city as the world’s top female triathletes take on the legendary Escape From Alcatraz course will be: ‘Can she repeat it?’
Ashleigh Gentle will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing 6th position in Singapore, having set her sights higher. The Australian has won on this course twice in the past, in 2019 and 2015, and will be looking to channel those past, positive memories. Also looking for improvement will be Swiss star Julie Derron, who came 12th in Lion City, having previously always finished on the podium in her first three T100 races. Looking to open her Race To Qatar points tally will be Canadian Paula Findlay, who is entering the T100 fray following a convincing win to start her season at the Ironman 70.3 in Oceanside.
Also on the start line is Great Britain’s other Olympian Jess Learmonth, who won lots of admirers and respect for the way she raced in Singapore, pushing the pace hard on the swim and bike to lead going into the run, but then overheating in the humid conditions but refusing to pull out, eventually finishing 13th. American Olympian Taylor Spivey delivered an encouraging start to her 2025 T100 challenge by finishing 5th in Singapore and will be looking forward to racing on home soil.
Also taking the start will be wildcards Vittoria Lopes (BRA), Hanne de Vet (BEL) or Kaidi Kivioja (EST), to name a few.
Check the full start list HERE.
The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour got under way in Singapore earlier this month (5-6 April) when professionals Kate Waugh of Great Britain and New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde produced two world class performances to win and take the lead in the T100 Race To Qatar Rankings. Singapore also saw 7,000 amateurs compete in a combination of a 100km triathlon, two distances of duathlon and an untimed 5km music run.