The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO), Visit Qatar, World Triathlon and the Qatar Triathlon Federation have announced that the final of the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour will take place in Qatar for the next five years, starting this December.

The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Championship Final is to be staged in Doha, Qatar, from December 11-13, 2025. It marks a shift in focus for PTO – with new age-group qualifier stages in T100 Triathlon World Tour events throughout the year – bringing together elite and amateur athletes on a ‘T100 Race to Qatar’.

The swim takes place in the Arabian Gulf. The bike and run legs will wind around the cities of Doha and Lusail – taking in many of the local landmarks, including the Lusail Stadium where the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final between Argentina and France took place and which has now become a community hub for local schools, shops and other sporting facilities.

The event will be known as the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final. As well as hosting many of the world’s best professional triathletes, a multisport weekend will also feature a series of swim, bike and run events for amateur athletes, including the opportunity to take on the same 100km triathlon distance (2km swim, 80km bike, 18km run) as the professionals.

The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour will take place across nine races, including a return to Singapore in April, to start the new series, then San Francisco, Vancouver, France, London, Spain, Lake Las Vegas, Dubai and Qatar.

“We’ve been very clear with our strategy for the T100 Triathlon World Tour to visit iconic locations, along with our desire to position the series as a race to one ‘hero’ destination, as happens in many other professional sports,” said PTO CEO Sam Renouf at a press conference held in Doha.

“This five-year partnership with Visit Qatar allows us to do exactly that, with the season-long series now being known as the T100 Race to Qatar in one of the fastest growing, family friendly tourist destinations in the world, which saw more than five million visitors last year.

“Qatar’s local population and visitors are also showing a strong demand not only to attend world class sports events, but also, increasingly, to participate in them – following the influx of events like the FIFA World Cup and Formula 1 in recent years. So, as well as being a spectacular venue for the climax of our new professional series, the weekend will also host events for amateur swimmers, cyclists and runners – from first-timers through to our inaugural T100 Age Group World Championships.”

He continued, “Although rooted in heritage, Qatar has a keen eye on the future and as well as being the home to global universities, cutting edge health and research centres, it also has a rapidly growing sports ecosystem, with training and sports medicine, in addition to offerings in wellness – which together represents a great fit for what we’re trying to build with the T100.”

At the first T100 Triathlon World Championship Final, hosted in Dubai in 2024, PTO reported that almost 10,000 amateur athletes completed either a Sprint triathlon (750km swim, 20km bike, 5km run), a 100km triathlon or a 5km Music Run.

As well as these mass participation events, the Doha weekend in Qatar will also see the climax of the best age-group athletes from around the world. The PTO and World Triathlon are developing a qualification system, which is planned to be based on providing slots at each T100 event, on top of the traditional quota system allocated to each national federation, in order for the top athletes from each age group qualify for their own T100 Age Group World Championship in Qatar.

Commenting on the partnership, Abdulaziz Al-Mawlawi, CEO of Visit Qatar, said “We are delighted to partner with the Professional Triathletes Organisation to host the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final in our vibrant cities for the next five years.

“This event underscores Qatar’s growing reputation as a premier sports destination, showcasing our commitment to hosting world-class international sporting events. Qatar’s infrastructure, state-of-the-art facilities, and rich sports culture offers the perfect environment to host this event. This collaboration further strengthens Qatar’s position as a global hub for sports tourism, inspiring both professional athletes and enthusiasts alike.”

The list of elite athletes who will compete on the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour was announced earlier this month and includes a roll call of Olympic champions and world championship winners from 13 different countries. This year’s series is led on the women’s side by American and Belgian Olympians, Taylor Knibb and Marten Van Riel, who respectively won the inaugural T100 Triathlon World Championship Finals last year in Dubai to become the first ever T100 series World Champions.

Each elite athlete will have to compete in at least five T100 races during the season, with their four best scores plus their result in the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final, where points will be increased, contributing to their final T100 standing.

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