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.
WTCS Grand Final start list – Elite Women
The start list (subject to change of course) looks like this right now:
| Number | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| – | 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:
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Events | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cassandre Beaugrand | FRA | 3 | 2750.00 |
| 2 | Beth Potter | GBR | 3 | 2636.26 |
| 3 | Lisa Tertsch | GER | 3 | 2618.75 |
| 4 | Emma Lombardi | FRA | 3 | 2438.53 |
| 5 | Georgia Taylor-Brown | GBR | 3 | 2210.01 |
| 6 | Flora Duffy | BER | 3 | 1937.91 |
| 7 | Jeanne Lehair | LUX | 3 | 1821.44 |
| 8 | Kate Waugh | GBR | 3 | 1723.61 |
| 9 | Leonie Periault | FRA | 3 | 1719.61 |
| 10 | Taylor Knibb | USA | 3 | 1629.36 |
| 11 | Taylor Spivey | USA | 3 | 1622.94 |
| 12 | Nina Eim | GER | 3 | 1418.73 |
| 13 | Alice Betto | ITA | 3 | 1358.18 |
| 14 | Julie Derron | SUI | 2 | 1349.19 |
| 15 | Laura Lindemann | GER | 3 | 1295.32 |
| 16 | Anna Godoy Contreras | ESP | 3 | 1282.59 |
| 17 | Kirsten Kasper | USA | 3 | 1229.65 |
| 18 | Djenyfer Arnold | BRA | 3 | 1169.72 |
| 19 | Rosa Maria Tapia Vidal | MEX | 3 | 1137.89 |
| 20 | Maya Kingma | NED | 3 | 1087.12 |
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