Explore what happened across five international events over the weekend
The triathlon season may be entering the home straight, but that has not slowed it in any way. Across World Cup, World Para Cup and Continental level events, the athletes threw everything at the races as if in March, and several found the perfect way to sign off for the year. Read on to find out everything that went down in your Monday Morning Mix.
Tongyeong World Cup
Xinyu Lin (CHN) did it again, the Chinese athlete backing up her maiden World Cup win in Beijing with another gold in Tongyeong. With the heavens having opened and with rivals zipping around the course probing for weaknesses, Lin was a vision of composure as she came through the challenge unscathed. Her closest challenger was teammate Anqi Huang (CHN) who overcame a penalty to seal 2nd place and a first World Cup medal of her own.
Huang ultimately finished only 3 seconds behind Lin despite the 10 second penalty, a fact that will no doubt fuel her hunt for gold at this week’s Hong Kong World Cup. As Huang charged after Lin on the final lap of the run, one athlete to take a risk was France’s Mathilde Gautier. With a big surge, Gautier held on to Huang and was rewarded with the bronze medal.
In the men’s race, Alberto Gonzalez Garcia (ESP) blasted his way to a first World Cup win in over two years. A smaller breakaway pack formed in comparison to the women’s event; whereas a front pack of around twenty women rode together, nine men escaped through the puddles. Gonzalez would lead the group into and out of T2 before flying onto the run as if fired out of a cannon.
Unlike Gonzalez, Beijing winner Max Studer (SUI) was not in the lead group and his field-leading run split (14:21) was not enough to reel in the Spaniard. Only 7 seconds would separate them at the line after 25 had stood between them at the start of the run. Hot on Studer’s heels was Keller Norland (USA) as the young American enjoyed a breakthrough outing by claiming a first World Cup podium. Norland had already finished 6th at the Asuncion World Cup a couple of months prior, suggesting a result like this was not far away, but had a day to forget at the World U23 Championships. He nonetheless thrived in the rough conditions in Tongyeong and bounced back from Pontevedra in style. View the full results here.
Alanya World Para Cup
Women’s winners
PTWC: Skyler Fisher (USA)
PTS2: Allysa Seely (USA)
PTS3: Evgeniya Koroleva (RUS)
PTS4: Kelly Elmlinger (USA)
PTS5: Irina Grazhdanova (RUS)
PTVI: Chloe MacCombe (IRL)
It was a good day for Team USA. At the penultimate World Para Cup of the season, the Americans topped the medal charts, coming away with four golds. Among the winners was Skyler Fisher. Crowned the US National champion earlier this summer, Fisher followed up her recent win at the World Para Cup in Chiba with a second straight international gold medal and increasingly looks set to take on compatriot and Tokyo Paralympic champion Kendall Gretsch (USA) in the build-up to LA 2028.
Alyssa Seely converted a silver medal in Chiba to a win in Alanya at what was her second international appearance of 2026, while Kelly Elmlinger rolled back the clock to show her enduring class with a victory in the PTS3 category.
Meanwhile, the PTVI race was a nail-biter as Chloe MacCombe beat Alison Peasgood (GBR) by 36 seconds. After trailing in the water and losing more time on the bike, a huge 20:43 5km run split, when Peasgood managed 22:47, enabled MacCombe to overturn what had been a daunting deficit in T2.
Men’s winners
PTWC: Matt Tingley (USA)
PTS2: Raf Bouwman (NED)
PTS3: Fabrizio Suarato (ITA)
PTS4: Gregoire Berthon (FRA)
PTS5: Oliver Scott (GBR)
PTVI: Maxime Gayet (FRA)
In a day in which blowout victories were a theme in the men’s events – Fabrizio Suarato’s winning margin of 4:39 in the PTS3 class stood out in that respect – Olivier Scott’s win in the PTS5 event was somewhat of an outlier. He beat Aleksandr Ialchik (RUS) by 23 seconds after using a field-best bike and run split to overhaul his rival. View the full results here.
Alanya Europe Cup
A day prior to the World Para Cup, Alanys also hosted the penultimate Europe Cup of the season, and this was an event in which the youngsters ruled the roost. Fresh off a silver medal on his World Cup debut in Rome, Martin Hubner (FRA) powered to a second Europe Cup win as he beat out Britain’s Sam Hart in a sprint finish.
The field more or less split in two on the bike, with the top contenders all safely within the front pack. Over the subsequent 5km running race, it was Hubner against Hart. Hart actually had the quicker split (15:09 to Hubner’s 15:11), but, as he showed in Rome, when the sprint finish is on the Frenchman does not disappoint. Dmitrii Karpeev (RUS) completed the podium.
The women’s race saw an even younger victor as World Junior Championship silver medallist Anouk Danna (SUI) stormed to the gold medal. Like Hubner, this was her second Europe Cup win of 2026.
An initial dozen formed the lead group after Sara Crociani (ITA) led the swim; the Italian athlete unfortunately did not finish the bike section, though. Danna had the best T1 of the day to sneak into the back of the front pack having been the 14th athlete out of the water. Things were not so tight at the other end of the race as the Swiss athlete ripped a 17:29 5km split to win by 25 seconds.
Tokyo Olympian Anabel Knoll (GER) had the second-best run split (17:59) and took silver, beating out fellow breakaway athlete Isabella Hayes (GBR) by 4 seconds. This represented a first senior medal for the British athlete. View the full results here.
Bermuda Americas Triathlon CARIFTA Championships
In a youthful field, the oldest athlete racing came out on top in the women’s event at the CARIFTA Championships, although Rebecca Jansen (ARU) would be considered young in almost any other race. The elder stateswoman of the pack having been born in 2005, Jansen was part of a three-athlete breakaway alongside Isabella Fernandez (PUR) and Alexis Lashley (BAR) that gobbled up the medals.
Lashley was the top swimmer (11:01) and the quickest on the bike (33:52) and started the run with a handy lead over her fellow breakaway partners. But Jansen had other plans and unleashed the top run of the day (18:58) to win by 1:17. Fernandez then scored the second quickest run of the day to beat out Lashley to secure the silver medal.
Lashley was joined on the podium by fellow Bajan athlete Fynn Armstrong (BAR) as Barbados was the only country to come away with two medals. Luke McIntyre (BAR) led the swim (9:48) but did not finish after helping to establish an eight-man breakaway. One athlete to profit from this break was Armstrong who rode comfortably in the group and then ran to victory with a 16:51 5km split.
Gianluca Bortoli (BER) and Liam D'Abadie (TTO) charged through from the chase pack to secure the silver and bronze medals, respectively, but both finished over a minute back of the winner. View the full results here.
Limon World Triathlon Regional Development Cup
Another three-woman breakaway dominated proceedings in Costa Rica. Sofia De Rosas (ARG) recorded the top swim split in 10:40 and was joined by Isabel Rodriguez Silverio (CUB) and Bivian Andrea Luisita Diaz Fuentes (GUA) on the bike, with Rodriguez setting the top split over the 20km (32:51). De Rosas was evidently an athlete on a mission on the run and powered to victory, beating Rodriguez by 18 seconds. Diaz held on for bronze as the chasers failed to make a meaningful dent into the gap.
Finally, a photo finish decided the men’s gold in Limon. Marcos Alejandro Fernández González of Cuba led swim (9:12) before helming a six-man breakaway on the bike. Also in the pack was Mexico’s Luis Miguel Chávez Sanchez (MEX) and as Fernández led out of T2 Chávez was his closest opponent only 1 second back. There was nothing to separate the pair over the run and it remained that way all the way to the line. A desperate final lunge was enough to hand Chávez the gold while Gerald Rojas Carvajal (CRC) finished 4 seconds back in 3rd. View the full results here.
