Triathlon’s biggest single-day payday of 2026 is almost here as many of the biggest names in the sport head to Jersey for the Supertri Pro Series Final.
A remarkable $800,000 prize purse is on offer on Sunday September 6, with $400,000 split between each gender and a huge $100,000 going to both race winners.
And Supertri has assembled a field worthy of the money, with the men’s race set to feature the long-awaited first showdown of 2026 between Olympic champion Alex Yee and great rival Hayden Wilde – with reigning world champion Matt Hauser thrown into the mix for good measure.
On the women’s side, Olympic champion Cassandre Beaugrand headlines an already stellar line-up which also includes Supertri great Georgia Taylor-Brown and defending champion Jeanne Lehair.
Here’s everything we know so far about Supertri Jersey 2026.
When is Supertri Jersey 2026?
Supertri Jersey takes place on Sunday September 6, 2026, with the professional women racing first at 14:10 local time.
The men’s race follows at approximately 15:15.
Jersey is on the same time as the UK, so the start times are:
Elite women: 14:10 UK / 15:10 CEST / 09:10 Eastern / 06:10 Pacific
Elite men: 15:15 UK / 16:15 CEST / 10:15 Eastern / 07:15 Pacific
How to watch Supertri Jersey live
The Supertri Pro Series Final will be broadcast live on Supertri’s YouTube channel and we have embedded it below so you don’t have to leave this page.
It’s also available on various broadcast partners and TriathlonLive.tv.
Biggest single-day prize purse in triathlon
If the quality of the field wasn’t enough to guarantee fireworks, the money at stake certainly should be.
Supertri has put up an $800,000 prize purse, the biggest single-day professional prize fund in triathlon this season.
That’s split equally between the men’s and women’s races, with $100,000 going to each winner.
Second place will earn $75,000 and third $60,000, with the prize money extending down to 10th position.
For comparison, the total purse is even greater than the $750,000 available at the IRONMAN World Championships – albeit the winners at Kona receive a larger individual first prize of $125,000.
It represents a major change for Supertri in 2026, with athletes now competing entirely as individuals rather than as part of the team-based competition which had been such a prominent feature of previous seasons.
Yee vs Wilde vs Hauser
The men’s race could hardly have a more compelling headline act.
Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde and Matt Hauser are all confirmed for Jersey, bringing together the reigning Olympic champion, his great Kiwi rival and the reigning world champion.
Remarkably, it will be the first time Yee and Wilde have raced one another in 2026.
Their rivalry produced some unforgettable moments during 2024, most notably when Yee somehow overturned a 14-second deficit late in the Olympic run in Paris to snatch gold from Wilde.
They then produced another thriller at the Supertri Grand Final in NEOM, where Yee outsprinted Wilde by a single second, although the New Zealander had the consolation of taking the overall Supertri crown.
Their only meeting since came at WTCS French Riviera in August 2025.
Wilde has spent much of the intervening period establishing himself as a dominant force over the T100 distance, while Yee stepped away from triathlon for much of 2025 to pursue his running ambitions before returning to short-course racing this season.
Neither has had the short-course campaign they might have envisaged in 2026, which makes Jersey an intriguing opportunity for both.
And Hauser could prove the man to beat.
The Australian has won three of his five WTCS races this season but didn’t have the perfect preparation at WTCS Weihai last weekend.
A bike crash contributed to Hauser finishing 10th in China, and he has opted to skip the final regular-season WTCS race in Karlovy Vary to prioritise his preparation for the Grand Final in Pontevedra.
But Jersey fits perfectly into that plan.
Hauser says he will use Supertri to fine-tune his speed before Pontevedra – and with $100,000 available to the winner, it promises to be rather more than a training exercise.
Who else is racing in the men’s field?
The final start list also features athletes who earned their places through Supertri’s three qualifying races in Austin, Blenheim Palace and Toronto.
Those events formed part of a revamped 2026 Pro Series, with three athletes per gender qualifying at each race to join Supertri’s invited stars in Jersey.
Germany’s Tim Hellwig won the opening event in Austin before Britain’s Oliver Conway took an impressive victory on home soil at Blenheim Palace.
Canadian veteran Tyler Mislawchuk then won in Toronto – and comes into Jersey in excellent form after finishing third at WTCS Weihai.
Among the other athletes to earn qualification across the three events were Charles Paquet, Luke Willian, Solomon Okrafo-Smart, Nathan Grayel and Nathan Lessmann.
The full final men’s start list is as follows:
| Athlete | Nationality |
| Oliver Conway | Great Britain |
| Michael Gar | Great Britain |
| Nathan Grayel | France |
| Matthew Hauser | Australia |
| Tim Hellwig | Germany |
| Aurélien Jem | France |
| Mitch Kolkman | Netherlands |
| Csongor Lehmann | Hungary |
| Nathan Lessmann | France |
| Matthew McGoey | USA |
| Tyler Mislawchuk | Canada |
| Solomon Okrafo-Smart | Great Britain |
| Tayler Reid | New Zealand |
| Seth Rider | USA |
| Carter Stuhlmacher | USA |
| Hayden Wilde | New Zealand |
| Luke Willian | Australia |
| Alex Yee | Great Britain |
Beaugrand headlines women’s race
There is every bit as much star power on the women’s side.
Olympic champion Cassandre Beaugrand is confirmed and arrives in sensational form after winning each of her four WTCS starts this season.
Her latest victory came in Weihai, where the French superstar ran away from Beth Potter and Lisa Tertsch in the closing stages to take a perfect 4,000 points into the WTCS Grand Final.
Jersey therefore offers another opportunity for Beaugrand to demonstrate her devastating speed over the shortest formats.
But she will face athletes with outstanding Supertri pedigrees.
Georgia Taylor-Brown is the most successful female athlete in Supertri history and has repeatedly shown how well suited she is to the frantic, tactical nature of the format.
And reigning Supertri champion Jeanne Lehair is also set to return to defend her crown.
Belgium’s Jolien Vermeylen is another confirmed name and arrives having won the Blenheim Palace qualifier earlier this season.
Who qualified for the women’s race?
The three qualifying events have also added plenty of depth to the women’s field.
Former Olympic champion Gwen Jorgensen produced a trademark run to win the opening qualifier in Austin (though she doesn’t race here so there was a roll down place), while Vermeylen prevailed at Blenheim Palace.
Zuzana Michaličková then took victory in Toronto.
Other athletes earned their places in Jersey through those races, meaning the final promises an intriguing mix of established global stars and athletes who have had to race their way onto the biggest Supertri stage of the year.
There’s also a nice local interest as Jersey’s own Siena Stephens lines up having been a last minute replacement on the island in 2025 after running 10k at the RBC Race for the Kids in the morning.
The complete women’s start list is as follows:
| Athlete | Nationality |
| Cassandre Beaugrand | France |
| Eleanor Beveridge | USA |
| Jessica Fullagar | Great Britain |
| Annie Fuller | USA |
| Kira Gupta-Baltazar | Canada |
| Lottie James | Great Britain |
| Jeanne Lehair | Luxembourg |
| Emma Lombardi | France |
| Michelle Magnani | USA |
| Olivia Mathias | Great Britain |
| Mackenzie McConagha | USA |
| Zuzana Michaličková | Slovakia |
| Léonie Périault | France |
| Siena Stephens | Jersey, Channel Islands |
| Georgia Taylor-Brown | Great Britain |
| Jolien Vermeylen | Belgium |
| Eve Whitaker | Great Britain |
You can see how each athlete booked their place via the embed below.
What is the Supertri format?
While the qualifying events used draft-legal sprint-distance racing, Jersey sees the return of the classic Supertri ‘Enduro’ format.
And that means racing which is short, relentless and almost completely devoid of opportunities to recover.
The athletes complete three continuous stages of swim-bike-run, with no break between them.
Each stage consists of:
300m swim / 4km bike / 1.6km run
Once the athletes complete the opening run they head immediately back into the water to begin stage two, before doing exactly the same again for the third and final stage.
That creates a total race distance of 900m swimming, 12km cycling and 4.8km running, with six transitions thrown into the mix.
Positioning is crucial and mistakes can be brutally punished.
There is also a 90-second rule, meaning athletes who fall more than 90 seconds behind the leader at designated points can be eliminated from the race.
Short Chutes explained
Another distinctive feature is the Short Chute.
These provide athletes with the opportunity to take a shorter route during the final run, potentially proving decisive in a close race.
In previous editions, Short Chutes were earned for teams and could then be allocated tactically by team managers.
That’s changed in 2026.
With the team competition removed and every athlete now racing as an individual, Short Chutes are earned by the athletes themselves.
That puts even greater emphasis on racing aggressively throughout the early stages.
The Jersey course
Jersey is Supertri’s spiritual home and has played an important part in the history of the series.
The Channel Island staged the first full Supertri event in 2017 and has since hosted races in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2025.
The racing is centred around Elizabeth Marina in St Helier and the compact nature of the course makes it perfect for Supertri.
The swim takes place in the marina before athletes face a seriously steep exit / run towards transition.
From there they head onto a tight and technical bike course where positioning, acceleration and bike handling are critical – and the exposed location means wind can add another complication.
There is one notable alteration for 2026.
The roundabout where British great Jonny Brownlee crashed during last year’s race has been removed from the race course, with a U-turn replacing it this time around.
With three bike stages and repeated transitions, however, there will still be little margin for error.
