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| Sport | Triathlon |
|---|---|
| First season | 2009 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Alex Yee (GBR) Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA) |
| Most titles |  Javier Gómez (ESP) (5) |
| Sponsor(s) | NTT |
| Official website | wtcs.triathlon.org |
 2024 World Triathlon Championship Series | |
The World Triathlon Championship Series is an annual series of triathlon events organised by World Triathlon. The series is used to crown an annual world champion since 2008. Previously, the ITU (the former name of World Triathlon) world champion between 1989 and 2008 had been decided in a single annual championship race.
The Championship Series consists of multiple rounds of competitions culminating in a Grand Final race. Athletes compete head-to-head for points in these races that will determine the overall World Triathlon champion. The elite championship races are held, with one exception, over one of two distances, the standard or 'Olympic' distance (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, 10 km run) which lasts between 1.5 and two hours, and the sprint distance, which is half of the standard distance and lasts around one hour (750 m swim, 20 km bike, 5 km run).
Since 2018 a mixed relay series has been run in tandem, where national teams compete in mixed team relays for prize money and Olympic qualifying points.[1] From these races, one is denominated as the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships. Relays typically consist of four 'super-sprint' legs.
Since 2021 the leg holding the Mixed Relay Championships has also included the reinstated World Triathlon Sprint Championships under the combined branding of World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships. The stand-alone Sprint championship had previously been discontinued in 2011. Races in the sprint world championships are held over Super-sprint distances (300 m swim, 5 km bike, 2.5 km run) using a multi-race eliminator format which is unique to that event.
The final leg of the overall series is designated and marketed as the Grand Final, and has a greater points allocation, which must be included in the athletes final score ranking for the season along with a fixed number of best other results. In addition, the week of the Grand Final event sees other stand alone World Championship events held, including an elite under-23 event, single-race elite para-triathlon championship events, and a series of non-elite age-grade championships, similar to Gran Fondo World Championships in road cycling and World Athletics Road Running Championships.
- ^ "2018-WTS-Media-Guide" (PDF). 23 August 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 March 2018.