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WTCS Grand Final start list as Cassandre Beaugrand and Beth Potter head the race for world title glory

Triathlon's world title for 2024 is about to be settled in Torremolinos-Andalucia and we have a stellar start list for the short-course spectacular.
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We are less than two weeks away from crowning triathlon’s women’s WTCS world champion of 2024, with a stellar start list set to line up in Torremolinos-Andalucia.

On Saturday October 19, a star-studded field will enter the water in Spain, with Olympic champion Cassandre Beaugrand heading the race to claim global glory after a thrilling season of action.

Beaugrand sat out the recent showdown in Weihai, as Germany’s Lisa Tertsch thrust herself right into title contention by claiming a first ever WTCS win.

Tertsch is now third in the standings, with reigning world champion Beth Potter separating her from Beaugrand. Potter followed Lisa home in China, with another British star Georgia Taylor-Brown completing the podium.

France’s Emma Lombardi – who also sat out Weihai – sits fourth in the standings with the in-form Taylor-Brown fifth and coming off another supertri victory last weekend, this time in Toulouse.

There will be some star power missing in Spain, with a trio of big short-course names all competing instead in that T100 Lake Las Vegas showdown in the US. They are American duo Taylor Knibb and Taylor Spivey, along with Bermuda’s former Olympic and world champion Flora Duffy.

While Knibb and Spivey are both missing, 2016 Olympic champion Gwen Jorgensen will represent the US after making her return from a broken collarbone in Weihai. Britain’s Vicky Holland meanwhile – recently crowned European champion in Vichy – will race for the final time to crown a brilliant pro career.

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WTCS Grand Final start list – Elite Women

The start list (subject to change of course) looks like this right now:

NumberNameCountry
Jessica Fullagar GBR
Mercedes Romero Orozco MEX
Yoshiko Eda JPN
Minori Ikeno JPN
Maria Carolina Velasquez Soto COL
Tereza Zimovjanova CZE
Elizabeth Carr IRL
Annika Koch GER
Lena Meißner GER
Georgia Taylor-Brown GBR
Beth Potter GBR
Kate Waugh GBR
Sian Rainsley GBR
Olivia Mathias GBR
Julie Derron SUI
Vicky Holland GBR
Nina Eim GER
Selina Klamt GER
Tanja Neubert GER
Anna Godoy Contreras ESP
Miriam Casillas Garcia ESP
Noelia Juan ESP
Sara Guerrero Manso ESP
Cassandre Beaugrand FRA
Leonie Periault FRA
Emma Lombardi FRA
Raquel Solis Guerrero CRC
Lizeth Rueda Santos MEX
Ainsley Thorpe NZL
Rachel Klamer NED
Claire Michel BEL
Jolien Vermeylen BEL
Gwen Jorgensen USA
Erika Ackerlund USA
Petra Kurikova CZE
Diana Isakova AIN
Djenyfer Arnold BRA
Summer Rappaport USA
Roksana Slupek POL
Romana Gajdošová SVK
Rosa Maria Tapia Vidal MEX
Nicole Van Der Kaay NZL
Marlene Gomez-Göggel GER
Jeanne Lehair LUX
Yuko Takahasi JPN
Maya Kingma NED
Lisa Tertsch GER
Kirsten Kasper USA
Tilda Månsson SWE
Alice Betto ITA
Verena Steinhauser ITA
Bianca Seregni ITA
Rosa Elena Martinez Melcho VEN
Genesis Carolina Ruiz Volcan VEN

Latest WTCS Standings – Elite Women

The standings look like this after WTCS Weihai:

RankNameNationalityEventsPoints
1Cassandre BeaugrandFRA3 2750.00
2Beth PotterGBR32636.26
3Lisa TertschGER32618.75
4Emma LombardiFRA32438.53
5Georgia Taylor-BrownGBR32210.01
6Flora DuffyBER31937.91
7Jeanne LehairLUX31821.44
8Kate WaughGBR31723.61
9Leonie PeriaultFRA31719.61
10Taylor KnibbUSA31629.36
11Taylor SpiveyUSA31622.94
12Nina EimGER31418.73
13Alice BettoITA31358.18
14Julie DerronSUI21349.19
15Laura LindemannGER31295.32
16Anna Godoy ContrerasESP31282.59
17Kirsten KasperUSA31229.65
18Djenyfer ArnoldBRA31169.72
19Rosa Maria Tapia VidalMEX31137.89
20Maya KingmaNED31087.12
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Graham has been involved with TRI247 & RUN247 since the summer of 2021. Since then he has provided strategic direction for all news and is passionate about the growth of triathlon as a fan sport.
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