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Olympic triathlon champion heads indoors for ‘first big target’ of 2025

Cassandre Beaugrand, the biggest name in women's short course triathlon, will bid to start the year in style with another world title.
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Reigning Olympic and world champion Cassandre Beaugrand will look to add another title to her impressive collection at the Supertri E World Triathlon Championship in London on April 5.

The Frenchwoman had the perfect year in 2024, with the obvious highlight of winning triathlon’s biggest prize on home soil in Paris.

Three months later she overcame a bizarre start to be crowned World Champion after the WTCS Grand Final in Torremolinos.

And she is the first athlete announced for the showpiece event at London Aquatics Centre as she looks to go one better than last year and claim the first triathlon world title of the season.

Home from home

This will be Beaugrand’s fourth Supertri E appearance in London – at Supertri E (formerly the Arena Games), she won in 2022 before finishing second to Beth Potter in both 2023 and 2024.

Cassandre Beaugrand supertri London run 2024 photo credit Supertri
Cassandre Beaugrand in action in London in 2024 [Photo credit: Supertri]

She has a magnificent overall short-course record in the UK too, winning Supertri and WTCS events outdoors and until this year was based at Loughborough for her training.

Beaugrand announced recently that she’s moved to the triathlon hotbed of Girona in Spain to join forces with the PTC crew headed up by coach Glenn Poleunis

‘First big target’

With Supertri E now a one-day World Championship final, and a changed format that sees athletes swim, bike and run three times back-to-back continuously, Beaugrand is optimistic of her chances and has made clear winning the title is her first priority for the year.

She said: “I am very happy to be racing at such an amazing venue. This will be my fourth time racing at the London Aquatic Centre and it is an incredible experience. The venue is beautiful and with thousands of very loud fans there it makes racing so much fun, even though it is hard.

“After Paris last year, I am focussed on winning world titles in 2025 and this is my first big target.

“I won the race in London in 2022 but was runner-up for the World Championship title last year, so I feel this is my year. I know and understand the technology and have experience with this exciting way of racing and I think and hope the slight change in race format will suit me this year more than some of the other athletes, so I am really looking forward to racing.”

Further athlete announcements will be made later this week for what will be the sixth edition of the format which combines the worlds of real life and virtual racing.

Powered by MyWhoosh, for the first time, the event showcases cutting-edge technology and fierce competition and this year’s event, for which tickets are now on sale, will see kids go free as part of Supertri’s commitment to inspiring the ‘Future of Triathlon’.

Jonathan Turner
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Jonathan Turner
Jonathan Turner is News Director for both TRI247 and RUN247, and is accustomed to big-name interviews, breaking news stories and providing unrivalled coverage for endurance sports.  
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