The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and World Triathlon have confirmed the line up for the men’s Singapore T100 triathlon on 14 April, 2024, the second stop on the new eight-leg T100 Triathlon World Tour.
It features 15 of the world’s top 20 PTO Ranked athletes and will continue many of the battles started in Miami. Led by #2 Magnus Ditlev, who put in a commanding performance to win the first race of the season in Miami, the field will also feature American #3 Jason West, who’ll be looking to improve on his seventh place in Florida, and fellow American and the new #5 Sam Long, who’ll be bursting with confidence after biking and running through the field to go from the last swim pack to second on the podium and only 35 seconds down on Ditlev.
Flying Dutchman Youri Keulen gets another T100 wildcard, following his impressive fourth at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, and double Olympic champion from Great Britain Alistair Brownlee – who led for long periods in the Miami heat but ultimately ran out of gas on the run – goes again after having taken heart from his first outing of the season.
After finishing a creditable fifth, Brownlee said: “I can go away [from Miami] and try and prepare specifically for Singapore and be competitive there. I’ve taken a lot of confidence that I can get that engine capacity back swimming and especially riding really fast. After literally three weeks of training, from being pretty unfit to being able to race at this level – I’m pretty happy with that. Running I can’t rush. But I’ll spend another four weeks or so of the same, trying to prepare specifically for the heat.”
The full line up for the Singapore T100 features 16 of the 20 contracted T100 athletes and 4 wildcards. This time including Spanish triathlon legend Javier Gomez who’s due to make his first race of the season and new starters Kyle Smith from New Zealand, Mika Noodt from Germany and Kacper Stepniak from Poland.
Full Start List
Magnus Ditlev (DEN)
Jason West (USA)
Sam Long (USA)
Pieter Heemeryck (BEL)
Rudy Von Berg (USA)
Sam Laidlow (FRA)
Daniel Baekkegard (DEN)
Youri Keulen (NED)
Alistair Brownlee (GBR)
Leon Chevalier (FRA)
Fred Funk (GER)
Clement Mignon (FRA)
Bradley Weiss (RSA)
Aaron Royle (AUS)
David McNamee (GBR)
Ben Kanute (USA)
Kacper Stepniak (POL)
Kyle Smith (NZL)
Mika Noodt (GER)
Javier Gomez (ESP)