Qatar T100 World Tour men’s final 2025: Date, start times, how to watch live and can Geens or Noodt stop incredible Wilde?

Having dominated for much of the season – when he has been fit – all eyes will be on Kiwi Hayden Wilde on Friday as he looks to complete his incredible injury comeback by being crowned T100 World Champion.

A winner of five T100 World Tour races this season, he goes into Friday’s final with the maximum points possible from his four counting races (140) and sits on top of a rankings list which sees his rivals 18 points and more back.

The only three races that he did not win were those at San Francisco and Vancouver, when he was recovering from the horrific injuries suffered in a bike incident last May, and the Dubai debacle, where he was leading on the bike before confusion reigned.

Few would be brave enough to bet against him this week, and surely fewer still would begrudge him the reward of a World Championship title following months of painstaking rehabilitation to not only fight back from a punctured lung, six broken ribs and a smashed-up scapula, but to then dominate the remainder of this T100 season.

The likes of Jelle Geens and Mika Noodt are waiting in the wings should he falter in spectacular style… But even they must be wondering how such an unlikely opportunity could potentially present itself as Wilde seemingly marches on to glory.

Here is all you need to know about the T100 World Tour Men’s Final…

Start times and how to watch live

Both the men’s and women’s races will take place on Friday, December 12, with the men starting at 1pm local Arabian Standard Time (AST). For UK audiences, this means the race will start at 10am (GMT), while in Central Europe it will be 11am.

American viewers on the Pacific Coast will need to tune in at 1am on Friday, while it is a 3am start for those in the Central Standard Time zone and 4am for the East Coast.

The race is free to view on the T100 Triathlon World Series channel PTO+, which can be accessed by clicking HERE.

Viewers in the UK and Ireland can watch live on TNT Sports, while in Central Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Indian subcontinent will have access on Discovery+ and Eurosport. For those in the US, it will also be broadcast live on Max.

For more details on how to watch the race, click HERE.

How the points system works

While most will already know how the points work in the T100 World Series, it is worth a look again at how this weekend’s boosted rewards could play a major hand in deciding the overall World Champion.

The athletes arrive in Qatar having raced in four or more of the regular-season races and bring with them a current tally of the points accumulated from the best four of those finishes.

Until now, a win has been rewarded with 35 points, second place with 29, and third with 26, continuing on a sliding scale right down to just a single point for the athlete who finishes in 20th.

For Friday’s final, those points have been increased to 55 for the winner, 46 for the runner-up, 41 for third place, and four points for the 20th-placed competitor.

The increased points on offer will at least give some hope to the chasing pack, who will be lurking and waiting to see if Wilde slips up in any way.

Race scenarios – Is there any hope for Geens and Noodt?

With 55 points on offer to the winner of Friday’s race, there is still a chance that Wilde (140) can be caught by the likes of Belgium’s Geens (122) and Germany’s Noodt (113).

Fourth-placed Rico Bogen (93), also of Germany, has a mathematical chance of causing a major upset but would need everyone above him to fail spectacularly.

Here is what each of the top three men needs to win the title.

Wilde: A podium finish, anywhere in the top three, would give Wilde the title, as the points for third place (41) would put him on 181 points and out of reach of Geens in second place.

Wilde’s strong position puts the onus on his closest rivals to achieve podium finishes; indeed, Noodt pretty much needs to win at all costs, and even if Wilde comes home down in 9th, his score of 161 would be better than the 159 Geens would get for coming fourth.

Geens: Realistically, Geens would have to win in Qatar so that he can pick up the full 55 points and boost his score to 177. He would then have to hope that Wilde misses out on the podium, as finishing in fourth would give the New Zealander the same total as Geens. With both men locked on 177 points, the title would go to the athlete with the better result in Qatar.

Should Geens finish in second place, but ahead of Noodt, then the maximum number of points he could achieve is 168, meaning that he could only beat Wilde if the Kiwi finished in seventh place or lower, with seventh seeing him finish on 167.

Noodt: Noodt also needs a win in Qatar to stand any real chance of staging what would be a monumental smash-and-grab raid on his rivals. A 55-point victory would put him on 168 points, which would only be enough to knock Wilde off of top spot if he, in turn, were to finish outside of the top six.

A Noodt win would also see him edge above Geens, even if the Belgian were to come in second, due to him winning the decisive Qatar final. Second place would only be good enough for Noodt if Wilde finished in ninth and Geens no higher than fourth.

T100 series standings

Prize money – $2.94m purse to be won

A whopping $200,000 US will go to the winners of both the men’s and women’s T100 World Series finals on Friday, as the overall purse of $2.94m US is paid out on a sliding scale right down to the athlete who is placed 20th in the overall standings.

The overall runners-up will take home $170,000 US, and third will earn $150,000 US.

T100 Series End Purse: $2.94m US

• 1 $200,000
• 2 $170,000
• 3 $150,000
• 4 $120,000
• 5 $110,000
• 6 $90,000
• 7 $85,000
• 8 $80,000
• 9 $75,000
• 10 $70,000
• 11 $50,000
• 12 $45,000
• 13 $40,000
• 14 $35,000
• 15 $30,000
• 16 $28,000
• 17 $26,000
• 18 $24,000
• 19 $22,000
• 20 $20,000