Well over $1million of prize money will be up for grabs in the new supertri season – with the majority of it based around the team standings in a major change to the series.
The action gets under way in Boston this Sunday, with the winners of 11 Olympic medals in Paris competing for glory across a five-round series, including individual gold medallists Cassandre Beaugrand and Alex Yee.
And this time the prize pool is very much focussed on the teams and rewarding emerging talent in the sport – with over two thirds of the total $1.365million pot based on the final team standings.
Who are the supertri teams?
The 16 male and 16 female athletes are split into four teams, with Brownlee Racing, Crown Racing, Podium Racing and Stars & Stripes Racing all vying for glory.
It all means the Olympic medallists will renew their rivalries from Paris as well forge their new team dynamics under respective managers Non Stanford, Chris McCormack, Tim Don and Parker Spencer.
The Teams League prize pool is $925,000, with the leading team of four men and four women collecting a cool $375,000. That’s more than the treble the overall team prize pot of $300,000 from 2023.
And it’s in addition to the prize money paid to the top five athletes in the Men’s and Women’s Leagues and the winners of the Swim, Bike and Run Leagues.
Waugh and Beaugrand team up for Crown Racing this year, with Lehair, right, in Podium Racing [Photo credit: Super League]
The new prize money split is designed to further incentivise team racing under new franchise owners, and also to reward not only those at the very top of the sport but also promising young athletes – each team must have an under-23 athlete on their roster – as well as those on the margins.
Who’s in which team?
The teams are listed in full below and we’ve got an explainer here for Sunday’s opening race, including how to watch.
Brownlee Racing:
Women – Beth Potter, Olivia Mathias, Jess Fullagar and Alice Betto
Men – Alex Yee, Connor Bentley, Sergio Baxter Cabrera and Hugo Milner
Crown Racing:
Women – Cassandre Beaugrand, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Kate Waugh and Barbara De Koning
Men – Hayden Wilde, Vincent Luis, Max Stapley and Vetle Bergsvik Thorn
Podium Racing:
Women – Jeanne Lehair, Fanni Szalai, Vittória Lopes and Léonie Périault
Men – Matt Hauser, Dorian Coninx, Kenji Nener and John Reed
Stars & Stripes:
Women – Katie Zaferes, Taylor Spivey, Kirsten Kasper and Cathia Schär
Men – Chase McQueen, Seth Rider, Vasco Vilaça and Tim Hellwig
Fanni Szalai is one of the stars in the Podium Racing team [Photo credit: Darren Wheeler That Cameraman / SLT]
Prizemoney: What’s on the line?
There’s a total of $925,000 for the teams, with an additional $410,000 for the top five indivduals and a further £30,000 for the swim / bike / run leaders, all adding up to $1.365million.
It’s split as follows…
Teams League (per Team):
1. $375,000
2. $250,000
3. $175,000
4. $125,000
Women’s League/Men’s League (per gender):
1. $80,000
2. $50,000
3. $35,000
4. $25,000
5. $15,000
Discipline Leagues (per gender):
Swim: $5,000
Bike: $5,000
Run: $5,000
Source : Tri247