The 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series was the 14th season of the World Triathlon Championship Series, the top level international series for triathlon, since its establishment in 2009, and crowned the 34th official World Triathlon Champion for both men and women since the first was crowned in 1989.
The season consisted of seven pairs of triathlon races for both a men's and women's competition, beginning on May 14 in Yokohama, and concluding on November 26 with the grand final in Abu Dhabi. The World Champion is decided on a cumulative points basis, with the sum of their four best points scores, plus their score in Abu Dhabi, deciding the series rankings, medallists and champions.
The Montreal leg introduced a super-sprint eliminator format, and will host both the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships and World Triathlon Sprint Championships; which crowned the third World Triathlon Sprint champion for both men and women, and the tenth Mixed Relay champion team. Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain won their first World Sprint titles; it was Yee's first World title overall, while it was Taylor-Brown's second after her Elite World Championship win in 2020. France won the Mixed Relay title, while Great Britain, in silver, took the available Olympic Mixed Relay Qualification spot, as France had pre-qualified as hosts. The event included the world championship events for junior men and women, and the mixed relay world championship for junior and under-23 triathletes.
The grand final was held in Abu Dhabi with increased points and prize money to round off the series. As part of the event, Abu Dhabi also hosted the World Championships races in the elite under-23 category, and the six para-triathlon disciplines. Other non-title races were held for age-group athletes.
Kristian Blummenfelt and Flora Duffy began the season as defending champions from the 2021 season. While Blummenfelt, the 2021 Olympic, World and Ironman champion, had concentrated on the Ironman 70.3 events in 2022, winning his first World title in the discipline in 2022, and did not figure in the WTCS race shake-up, Duffy retained her WTCS world title, her fourth, to add to her 2022 Commonwealth Games title, winning over World Triathlon Sprint champion, 2022 Super League Triathlon champion and erstwhile rival Georgia Taylor-Brown in both the Abu Dhabi Grand Final and the overall standings, while Léo Bergère of France leapfrogged over pre-race standings leaders, 2022 Super League Triathlon champion Hayden Wilde and Commonwealth Games and World Sprint champion Alex Yee by winning the Grand Final race, taking his first overall title by just 20 points from Yee. The Abu Dhabi victory was Bergére's first ever in a WTCS event.
Overview
Calendar
The 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series visited seven cities.
+EventsDateLocationTypeMay 14–15 YokohamaStandardJune 11–12 LeedsStandardJune 24–26 MontrealEliminator Incorporating the World triathlon Sprint ChampionshipsJuly 9–10 HamburgStandardOctober 7–8 CagliariStandardNovember 5–6 BermudaStandardNovember 23–26 Abu DhabiStandard (Grand Final) +Mixed RelaysDateLocationTypeJune 12 LeedsMixed RelayJune 26 MontrealMixed RelayIncorporating the World triathlon Mixed Relay ChampionshipsJuly 10 HamburgMixed Relay
Results
Championship series summary (elite)
Men YokohamaLeedsMontreal *HamburgCagliariBermudaAbu Dhabi Grand FinalOverall World Championship
* The Montreal event, held in super-sprint eliminator format, doubled as the stand-alone World Triathlon Sprint Championships.
Women YokohamaLeedsMontreal *HamburgCagliariBermudaAbu DhabiGrand FinalOverallWorld Championship
* The Montreal event, held in super-sprint eliminator format, doubled as the stand-alone World Triathlon Sprint Championships.
World Sprint Championship
The event was held as a leg of the World Triathlon Championship Series in Montreal, in conjunction with the World Mixed Relay Championships Sprint Men Sprint Women
Mixed relay Leeds Lasse Nygaard PriesterAnabel KnollLasse LührsLaura Lindemann Tom BishopSophie ColdwellGrant SheldonGeorgia Taylor-Brown Tom RichardSandra DodetLéo BergèreAudrey MerleMontrealWorld Championship Pierre le CorreEmma LombardiVincent LuisCassandre Beaugrand Alex YeeSophie ColdwellSam DickinsonGeorgia Taylor-Brown Seth RiderTaylor SpiveyKevin McDowellSummer RappaportHamburg Barclay IzzardSian RainsleySam DickinsonKate Waugh Luke WillianSophie LinnMatthew HauserNatalie Van Coevorden Valentin WernzLisa TertschLasse Nygaard PriesterLaura Lindemann
Overall standings In the individual events, the athlete who accumulates the most points throughout the season is declared the year's world champion.
Men RankAthletePoints4741.894721.414696.4844384.5253880.9563232.5673000.6582895.5792792.69102727.14
Women
RankAthletePoints5105.635081.254179.2343889.4453801.3263537.297 3479.868 3296.1493101.88103019.96
List of 2022 World Championship podiums
The following is a list of all the World Championship medalists crowned on the various legs of the World Triathlon Championship series. While the men and women's elite championships were decided over the full series, the Sprint, Mixed Relay, Under-23, Junior and Para-triathlon World Championships were all decided by single races, either on the Montreal leg (junior, sprint and both elite and u-23/Jr mixed relay) or Abu Dhabi grand final (Under-23 and paratriathlon).
SeniorMen's overallMen overall title, World Triathlon Championships 2022season-longWomen's overall Final standing, Women overall title, World Triathlon Championships 2022season-longMixed relayWorld Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships 2022, final results Montreal Pierre le CorreEmma LombardiVincent LuisCassandre Beaugrand Alex YeeSophie ColdwellSam DickinsonGeorgia Taylor-Brown Seth RiderTaylor SpiveyKevin McDowellSummer Rappaport Men's sprint Montreal Women's sprint MontrealAge-gradeMen's U-23 Men's Under-23 Results, Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi Women's U-23 Women's Under-23 Results, Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi Men's junior Men's Junior Results, MontrealMontreal Women's junior Women's Junior Results, MontrealMontreal Mixed relay U-23/JrWorld Triathlon U-23/Junior Mixed Relay Championships 2022, final results Montreal
World Triathlon Para Championships
The 2022 World Triathlon Para Championships, a series of single-race Championships for paratriathletes, was held as part of the Grand Final event in Abu Dhabi.
Para triathlonMen's PTWC Men's PTWC Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Men's PTS2 Men's PTS2 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Men's PTS3 Men's PTS3 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Men's PTS4 Men's PTS4 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Men's PTS5 Men's PTS5 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Men's PTVI Men's PTVI Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Women's PTWC Women's PTWC Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Women's PTS2 Women's PTS2 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Women's PTS3 Women's PTS3 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi colspan="2" *Women's PTS4 Women's PTS4 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Women's PTS5 Women's PTS5 Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi Women's PTVI Women's PTVI Results, Abu Dhabi 2022 Abu Dhabi
* Due to the classification consisting of only 2 competitors, only the gold medal was awarded.
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