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U.S. Elite Triathletes to Race World Triathlon Championship Series Hamburg, Mixed Relay World Championships July 12-13

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by USA Triathlon

HAMBURG, Germany — This weekend, July 12-13, U.S. elite triathletes will race at the fourth event of the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Series in Hamburg, Germany, and four U.S. elite athletes will team up to race Sunday’s 2025 Mixed Relay World Championships.

The World Triathlon Championship Series Hamburg features an individual sprint-distance race on Saturday, July 12, followed by the Mixed Relay World Championships on Sunday, July 13.

The Triathlon’s most exciting event, the Mixed Relay, is a fast, tactical, and spectator-friendly competition where each country’s team of two women and two men competes for the World Title. Each team member races a super-sprint swim, bike, run triathlon before tagging their teammate.

The U.S. won Olympic silver at last year's Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with Taylor Spivey and Morgan Pearson teaming up with Taylor Knibb and Seth Rider to capture the country's second Olympic medal in the event. Mixed Relay made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with the U.S. winning silver (Katie Zaferes, Kevin McDowell, Knibb and Pearson).

In addition to the Olympic silver medals at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the U.S. has won several medals at the Mixed Relay World Championships, including the world title in 2016:  

2013: Bronze (Sarah Groff, Ben Kanute, Gwen Jorgensen, Cameron Dye)

2016: Gold (Gwen Jorgensen, Ben Kanute, Kirsten Kasper, Joe Maloy)

2017: Silver (Kirsten Kasper, Ben Kanute, Katie Zaferes, Matthew McElroy)

2018: Bronze (Kirsten Kasper, Ben Kanute, Katie Zaferes, Kevin McDowell)

2020: Silver (Taylor Spivey, Kevin McDowell, Katie Zaferes, Morgan Pearson)

2022: Bronze (Seth Rider, Taylor Spivey, Kevin McDowell, Summer Rappaport)

HOW TO WATCH

Fans can watch all WTCS events live or on-demand on TriathlonLIVE.tv. The platform is available on all browsers at www.triathlonlive.tv and the TriathlonLive app for Apple and Android smartphones and tablets. ThirathlonLIVE is compatible with Chromecast, Apple TV, and Android TV.

The elite men race first at 4:35 p.m. local time on Saturday, July 12 (10:35 a.m. ET/7:35 a.m. PT). The elite women follow at 6:40 p.m. local time (12:40 p.m. ET/9:40 a.m. PT).

The Mixed Relay World Championships on Sunday, July 13 begin at 1:50 p.m. local time (7:50 a.m. ET/4:50 a.m. PT).

WHO IS RACING

Nine U.S. elite triathletes are scheduled to race in Hamburg: Taylor Spivey, Gwen Jorgensen, Erika Ackerlund, Gina Sereno, Chase McQueen, John Reed, Darr Smith, Reese Vannerson and Sullivan Middaugh.

Spivey won an Olympic silver medal in the Mixed Relay at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games last summer and led the U.S. women in the individual race, placing 10th.

Jorgensen returns to Hamburg, where she won in 2015, part of her unprecedented 13 consecutive wins at World Triathlon Series events. The feat earned the moniker "Gwensanity." She won gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Ackerlund earned her first career World Cup medal last month at the World Triathlon Cup Huatulco in Mexico, a thrilling silver-medal performance.

Sereno comes to Hamburg following a fifth-place finish in Huatulco.

The U.S. men’s team in Hamburg includes young, rising talents.

Reed comes to Hamburg after a bronze medal performance at World Triathlon Cup Saidia, the third World Cup podium in his young career.

Smith placed ninth in Saidia. He and Reed are a part of USA Triathlon's Global Tri training group, coached by 2000 U.S. Olympian and USA Triathlon High Performance Director Ryan Bolton.

McQueen posted the two best WTCS performances of his career in May, with an 11th place finish at WTCS Alghero.

Vannerson and Middaugh will both make their WTCS debuts in Hamburg, as two of the youngest athletes in the field. The two rising talents train with USA Triathlon’s development squad Project Podium. Vannerson had a breakthrough race in May, winning his first World Cup gold at the World Triathlon Cup Chengdu.  

The full Hamburg start lists can be found here.

The four-person Mixed Relay rosters for the U.S. and all countries will be finalized on race morning Sunday, July 13.

2025 WORLD TRIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES SCHEDULE

Elite triathletes compete in World Triathlon races across the globe, including the World Triathlon Championship Series. The WTCS, which began in 2009, is an annual series of triathlon events where athletes compete head-to-head for points. The rankings are used to determine the best-performing triathletes of the season and, ultimately, the World Champions.

WTCS Series schedule:

WTCS Abu Dhabi | Feb. 15-16 | Mixed Relay Race Recap | Individual Race Recap

WTCS Yokohama | May 17 | Recap

WTCS Alghero | May 30 | Recap

WTCS Hamburg | July 12-13

WTCS French Riviera | Aug. 31

WTCS Karlovy Vary | Sept. 13

WTCS Weihai | Sept. 25

World Triathlon Championship Finals Wollongong | Oct. 14-18

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