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WTCS Hamburg 2025: Start time, preview and how to watch live

There are strong men's and women's start lists - plus a Mixed Relay - to look forward to over the Sprint distance in Germany this weekend
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Hamburg has a long association with the World Triathlon Championship Series, with the streets of the northern German city hosting a WTCS race in every season since its inception.

The 2025 event takes place on 12-13 July and will once again feature the great and good of the sport, with Olympic Champion Cassandre Beaugrand the headline draw on the women’s side, fresh from her win at WTCS Alghero.

Meanwhile, 2023 World Champion Dorian Coninx and current Series leader Matthew Hauser, who won in Hamburg last year, are among the big names on the men’s side.

The city is hosting the fourth round of the 2025 Series, with the elite men’s and women’s sprint-distance races, and a mixed relay.

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Start time and how to watch live

The action gets under way on Saturday at 16:35 (CEST) with the elite men’s sprint distance. That’s 15:35 UK time, 10:35 Eastern and 07:35 Western. The elite women then go off two hours later.

On Sunday the elite mixed team relay begins at 13:50 CEST.

You can watch all the races live on TriathlonLive.tv. A subscription is required.

Elite Women

Can anyone stop Beaugrand? That’s the question on everyone’s lips on the women’s side. She dominated Alghero despite a stop / start build up and is going for another win here.

The reigning World Champion will take some stopping having won here in 2023 and 2024, and if she makes it a hat-trick she will leave as the only multiple race winner of the season so far, and the overwhelming favourite for a second world title.

Lisa Tertsch Cassandre Beaugrand Beth Potter Hamburg WTCS 2024 Photo credit: Tommy Zaferes / World Triathlon
Beaugrand was the Hamburg winner in 2024 [Photo credit: Tommy Zaferes / World Triathlon]

Compatriot Emma Lombardi was fourth at the Paris Olympic Games and has multiple WTCS medals to her name but is yet to claim a first win.

Beth Potter heads up the British contingent, took silver on her return in Yokohama and has happy memories of medalling in Hamburg before.

Joining her will be Georgia Taylor-Brown, who was the last woman to beat both Beaugrand and Potter in the same WTCS race (Cagliari in 2023).

She’s enjoyed a mini break from the sport this season to focus on road and gravel biking so should head into this refreshed and raring to go.

Abu Dhabi winner Lisa Tertsch of Germany is another one to watch, along with Yokohama winner Jeanne Lehair in what should be the race of the season so far.

And the US are headlined by 2016 Olympic champion Gwen Jorgensen and Taylor Spivey.

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Elite Men

Aussie Hauser, the current Series leader, will attempt to defend the gold medal he claimed last time out in Hamburg.

Matt Hauser Hamburg WTCS 2024 Photo credit: Tommy Zaferes / World Triathlon
Hauser won in Hamburg in 2024 [Photo credit: Tommy Zaferes / World Triathlon]

The winner of this year’s Yokohama event, he hasn’t finished outside the top two so far in the 2025 Series, but he will face renewed competition in Germany.

Brazil’s Miguel Hidalgo poses a threat after his maiden Series win in Alghero, with compatriot Manoel Messias – the first person to run a sub 2:30 marathon in a full-distance race – also set to take part at the other end of the distance spectrum.

Dorian Coninx, the 2023 world champion, is also a multiple WTCS winner and if it comes to a sprint finish you wouldn’t bet against him.

Then there is Portugal’s Vasco Vilaca, the bronze medallist in Abu Dhabi, who has won medals three times in Hamburg already.

Among the home contingent, Henry Graf will be one to watch. He finished fourth in Abu Dhabi before pulling out of Yokohama and Alghero.

The winner in Abu Dhabi of course was Hayden Wilde but he won’t be taking part in Hamburg after a nasty bike crash in training in May left him with broken ribs and damaged lungs.

Paul Brown
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