Waugh finished in three hours 31.30 seconds after the swim, cycle and run – 20 seconds clear of fellow Briton, Georgia Taylor-Brown, who came second in Friday’s race and seventh in the overall standings.<\/p>\n
She added: “Going on to the last lap I felt the floor starting to tilt a bit and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m in trouble now’. <\/p>\n
“I just held it together and then Georgia was putting me under pressure and I luckily just got across the line.”<\/p>\n
Success capped a remarkable debut season at the 100-kilometre distance for Waugh, who won her first T100 race in Singapore and finished on the podium in all six of her appearances.<\/p>\n
She had moved up to the longer distance – the T100 is almost twice the Olympic triathlon distance of 51.5 km – for a fresh start after her disappointing 15th-placed finish at Paris 2024. <\/p>\n
T100 races consist of a 2km swim, 80km bike ride and 18km run, with the tour including eight global stops. An athlete’s best four results, plus their finish in the final, determined the overall standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waugh finished in three hours 31.30 seconds after the swim, cycle and run – 20 seconds clear of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-180622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}