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Paula Findlay at T100 Vancouver, 2025. Photo: PTO\/ James Mitchell<\/p>\nPaula Findlay at T100 Vancouver, 2025. Photo: PTO\/ James Mitchell<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s hard to argue that this weekend\u2019s T100 Vancouver will include many of the biggest names in the sport (defending champ Taylor Knibb isn\u2019t here, and the likes of Lucy Charles-Barclay and Kat Matthews haven\u2019t been on a T100 start list so far this year), Saturday\u2019s race is still shaping up to be an incredibly competitive and interesting one. Three Swiss stars (Imogen Simmonds, Alanis Siffert and Julie Derron) are among the top seeds at the event, along with Olympic medalist and T100 Spain champ Georgia Taylor-Brown. Adding to the fun is Canada\u2019s own Paula Findlay, fresh off an impressive IRONMAN debut in Lake Placid. All of which should make for some fun racing here on Canada\u2019s left coast.<\/p>\n
First off, here\u2019s the start list for Saturday\u2019s race:<\/p>\n
NameCountryT100 RankingImogen SimmondsSwitzerland1Georgia Taylor-BrownGreat Britain2Alanis SiffertSwitzerland4Julie DerronSwitzerland5Nicole Van der KaayNew Zealand7Taylor SpiveyUnited States8Bianca BogenGermany9Sara P\u00e9rez SalaSpain10Kate WaughGreat Britain\u2013Ellie SalthouseAustralia15Hannah BerryNew Zealand\u2013Paula FindlayCanada\u2013Lizzie RaynerGreat Britain14Lotte WilmsNetherlands12Daisy DaviesGreat Britain\u2013Audrey MerleFrance17Lena Mei\u00dfnerGermany\u2013Rebecca AnderburyGreat Britain\u2013Lucy ByramGreat Britain\u2013Lydia RussellUnited States\u2013<\/p>\n
Quick Facts:<\/p>\n
The race is the third women\u2019s stop in this year\u2019s T100 Triathlon World Tour<\/p>\n
Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026<\/p>\n
Venue: Locarno Beach, Vancouver, BC<\/p>\n
Distance: 100 km \u2013 2 km swim, 80 km bike, 18 km run<\/p>\n
Pro Women\u2019s start: 11:05 am Pacific, 2:05 pm EDT, 7:05 pm BST (UK), 8:05 pm (CEST)<\/p>\n
Course: Rolling, closed-road bike course, hard-packed trail run. <\/p>\n
How to Watch<\/p>\n
TriathlonLive.tv<\/a> will carry the race live and free worldwide, as will the T100 YouTube channel<\/a>. There are a number of regional partners \u2013 you can check out the full broadcast schedule here<\/a>. <\/p>\n Who to Watch<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s race features a Swiss who\u2019s who of racing, starting with PTO points leader Imogen Simmonds. She arrives having raced both women\u2019s T100 events this year, taking third at the Gold Coast race and seventh in Spain. Alanis Siffert is here in Vancouver on a hot streak that includes a huge win at Challenge Roth last month<\/a>, followed by a third-straight win at the Alpe d\u2019Huez Triathlon last week. Then there\u2019s last year\u2019s runner here in Vancouver, Julie Derron, who also took second at T100 Spain and comes to Vancouver off a win over Simmonds at IRONMAN Switzerland in July.<\/p>\n Great Britain\u2019s Georgia Taylor-Brown appears to be back on her Olympic track again this year after spending 2025 racing up a storm at pretty much every distance she could imagine<\/a> (including some gravel racing). That doesn\u2019t mean she hasn\u2019t given up on the long-distance race front \u2013 she finally took her first T100 victory in Spain earlier this year, which makes her one of the women\u2019s favourites for Saturday\u2019s race. <\/p>\n Taylor-Brown\u2019s countrywoman, Kate Waugh, makes a return to T100 racing this weekend as the reigning T100 world champ. She\u2019s only raced once the year \u2013 WTCS Yokohama \u2013 after learning the hard way that trying to bounce back too quickly from a soleus muscle tear (it\u2019s a deep calf muscle below the gastrocnemius) is never a good plan. <\/p>\n The other big story for the weekend is Paula Findlay, who will be competing here in Vancouver as not quite a hometown hero, but close enough. The Edmonton native is both extremely well known and popular wherever she races in Canada, so there will be lots of crowd support for her as she races here in Vancouver. Findlay had a spectacular IRONMAN debut in Lake Placid, taking the win and nailing a Kona slot along the way. <\/p>\n The field of 20 includes many more women who are more than capable of finishing on the podium. American Taylor Spivey took third at T100 Spain and has been consistent on the WTCS scene this year. Daisy Davies has only raced twice this year, but those two races include a win at IRONMAN South Africa and third at Challenge Roth. It will be interesting to see how she fares as she moves into the speedster world of T100 racing \u2013 as far as I can tell this is her first go at the distance. We had a great chat with Davies in Roth earlier this year \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n While brother Rico was taking third at Challenge Roth last month, Bianca Bogen was winning her first 70.3 race in Sweden (over Marjoleine Pierr\u00e9), so it will be interesting to see how she fares in her third T100 race of 2026.<\/p>\n Slowtwitch is here in Vancouver this weekend and will be offering up lots more coverage of both the pro and age group racing \u2013 the age-group T100 race takes place on Sunday, with sprint- and Olympic-distance races taking place on Saturday along with the pro event. Stay tuned for more!<\/p>\n Tags:T100<\/a>T100 Triathlon World Tour<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paula Findlay at T100 Vancouver, 2025. 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Taylor Spivey on the run at last year\u2019s Vancouver T100. Photo: PTO\/ That Cameraman<\/p>\n