The World Triathlon Podcast

The 2026 World Triathlon Championship Series commentary duo Will McCloy and Belinda Granger join the podcast to preview a massive first WTCS of 2026 in Samarkand on 25 April.
After the postponement of Abu Dhabi, attentions turn to the Silk Road, Uzbekistan, where one of the strongest women's fields we have seen in recent memory lines up, including Olympic and World Champions Lisa Tertsch, Cassandre Beaugrand, Gwen Jorgensen, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Beth Potter, before last year's overall silver and bronze Miguel Hidalgo and Vasco Vilaça try to hold off young guns like John Reed, Henry Graf and Oliver Conway in the men's race!
Plus with T100 Singapore pitting World Champions Matt Hauser and Hayden Wilde head-to-head for the first time over the 100km distance, 25 April is shaping up to be a massive day of racing - watch it all over on TriathlonLive.tv.

Out of the fires of the Lanzarote World Cup emerged men's gold medallist David Cantero, overcoming a 10s penalty to come soaring back and set up one of the great World Cup finishes, and Hungary's 18-year-old wonder kid Fanni Szalai. Even a hard, late bike crash wouldn't derail her debut, running in a gutsy top 10 finish that suggests very big things to come through the LA28 and Brisbane 2032 Olympic cycles and beyond...
Watch it all back on TriathlonLive.tv and stay tuned for the Haikou World Cup and T100 Gold Coast on 21 March.

Great Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown took 'a year out' in 2025, only to finish in the PTO top 10 thanks to a flurry of world-class performances over the middle distance. Now, she sets her sights firmly back on Olympic goals, and the path to LA28 begins at the Lanzarote World Cup!

James Elvery is one half of the team behind Race Ranger, the biking draft zone innovation shaking up racing and bringing tech into the notoriously murky waters of draft monitoring.
From PTO to Para Triathlon, Ironman to Paris 2024, the three-light system has helped clarify racing for athletes, officials and organising and Race Ranger now has set its sights and lights on an Age Group race near you. Eight years on from the first conversations with World Triathlon and at the centre of a major shift of Ironman rules into line with PTO, James Elvery reveals the labour of love and endless hours that have brought his vision into reality.

For a self-confessed chilled-out Pacific islander, coming to terms with short-course swimming chaos has been a steep learning curve for Guam’s Manami Iijima.
We caught up with the Team World Triathlon athlete at the end of the 2025 season to catch up on a whirlwind rise through the sport to the biggest start line of them all.
From the development of triathlon in the Pacific region to the tough realities of learning the artform, the country's first ever Olympic triathlete rewinds over a fast-track route to Paris 2024 and her journey through the anxiety of an Olympic debut. Hear about those first international races as a wide-eyed solo traveller and the secret power of not over-thinking... and proudly representing a vast-yet-tiny corner of the Oceania continent.

>> The Lava Song (sadly without Manami's ukelele)