WTCS Grand Final results 2024: How Britain’s Alex Yee became World Triathlon Champion

He finally did it – Britain’s Alex Yee is your triathlon World Champion for 2024.

After three years of the nearest of misses, the 26-year-old Londoner sits on top of the world on Sunday night after clinching glory in the WTCS Grand Final in Torremolinos-Andalucia.

Yee completed a spectacular year which had brought him Olympic gold in Paris in July by finally claiming the one prize that had so far eluded him.

Alex needed to finish in the first six to guarantee himself the title, and he did better than that by finishing on the podium behind great rival Hayden Wilde and French star Leo Bergere.

Wilde was utterly peerless at the front, producing a terrific swim and dominating affairs from there. Yee meanwhile was chasing all day, but he did produce the race’s second fastest run to ensure that world title would be his.

There were four Frenchman in the top eight, including two-time world champion Vincent Luis in the final race of his glittering short-course career. He moves on to longer distances next season.

Here is how the final results looked once the dust had settled in Spain on Sunday evening.

WTCS Grand Final Results 2024 – Elite Men

The full finishing order in Torremolinos was as follows:

PosNameCountryTimeSwimBikeRun1Hayden Wilde NZL01:42:2200:19:2300:52:0400:29:292Léo Bergere FRA01:43:2400:19:2000:52:0700:30:313Alex Yee GBR01:43:5000:19:3100:53:3900:29:174Dorian Coninx FRA01:44:0300:19:1800:53:4700:29:315Pierre Le Corre FRA01:44:0400:19:2400:53:4700:29:296Csongor Lehmann HUN01:44:0800:19:2100:53:4300:29:357Tayler Reid NZL01:44:1200:19:1800:52:1100:31:178Vincent Luis FRA01:44:2200:19:1900:52:1000:31:289Tyler Mislawchuk CAN01:44:2600:19:2200:53:4200:29:4910Hugo Milner GBR01:44:3100:19:3200:54:4000:28:4711Simon Westermann SUI01:44:3800:19:1800:52:0800:31:4412Vetle Bergsvik Thorn NOR01:44:4400:19:1600:53:5000:30:1113Sergio Baxter Cabrera ESP01:44:5900:19:3300:53:3600:30:2614Kenji Nener JPN01:45:0000:19:1500:53:5100:30:2415Luke Willian AUS01:45:0400:19:2000:53:4300:30:3216Morgan Pearson USA01:45:0800:19:1900:53:4800:30:2817Antonio Serrat Seoane ESP01:45:1300:19:2700:53:4400:30:3318Connor Bentley GBR01:45:1700:19:2300:53:3800:30:4119Alberto Gonzalez Garcia ESP01:45:2000:19:2500:53:4500:30:4420Miguel Hidalgo BRA01:45:3600:19:2200:53:4500:30:5821Chase McQueen USA01:45:4800:19:2000:53:4500:31:1522Harry Leleu GBR01:45:5100:19:1900:53:5300:31:1523Tim Hellwig GER01:46:0000:19:2300:53:4300:31:2624Vasco Vilaca POR01:46:0800:19:2200:53:3900:31:3625Gianluca Pozzatti ITA01:46:2200:19:2000:53:4200:31:4326Miguel Tiago Silva POR01:46:3500:19:1000:53:5600:31:5927Max Stapley GBR01:46:3900:19:1800:53:4800:31:5828Shachar Sagiv ISR01:46:5000:20:0100:54:1900:31:0629Márk Dévay HUN01:47:0500:19:2000:53:4200:32:2530Sylvain Fridelance SUI01:47:1100:19:2500:53:4100:32:3531Sebastian Wernersen NOR01:47:1900:19:3100:53:3800:32:4432Roberto Sanchez Mantecon ESP01:47:2500:20:3500:54:5000:30:3133Brandon Copeland AUS01:47:2900:19:3400:54:4300:31:4534Jack Willis GBR01:47:3900:19:2800:53:3900:33:0235Tjebbe Kaindl AUT01:47:4900:19:2500:53:3800:33:1636Gregor Payet LUX01:48:0700:20:0300:54:1300:32:2437Kyotaro Yoshikawa JPN01:48:0900:19:4900:54:1900:32:2838Felix Duchampt ROU01:48:1200:20:3600:54:5500:31:1439Eric Diener GER01:48:1300:20:3800:54:4800:31:1840Vicente Hernandez ESP01:48:1600:19:5900:55:2800:31:1541Nicola Azzano ITA01:48:2600:19:2100:54:5000:32:3942Crisanto Grajales Valencia MEX01:48:4300:20:2400:54:5600:31:4643Matthew Wright BAR01:48:5200:20:0300:55:2100:31:5944Erwin Vanderplancke BEL01:48:5900:19:2800:54:4000:33:1245Maxime Fluri SUI01:49:1200:20:3700:54:4700:32:1846Callum McClusky AUS01:49:1900:20:0300:55:3100:32:2347Ren Sato JPN01:49:2200:19:5500:55:2400:32:2948Charles Paquet CAN01:51:1800:19:3000:58:0000:32:1349Arnaud Mengal BEL01:51:3400:20:4100:56:4700:32:33DNFAdrien Briffod SUIDNF00:19:4400:00:0000:00:00DNFCasper Stornes NORDNF00:19:1900:54:5000:00:00DNFDarr Smith USADNF00:19:3800:55:4000:00:00DNFMatthew Hauser AUSDNF00:19:1100:00:0000:00:00DNFYhousman David Perdomo Peña VENDNF00:19:2300:00:0000:00:00DNSSamuel Dickinson GBRDNS00:00:0000:00:0000:00:00DNSTakumi Hojo JPNDNS00:00:0000:00:0000:00:00DNSAram Michell Peñaflor Moysen MEXDNS00:00:0000:00:0000:00:00DNSAoba Yasumatsu JPNDNS00:00:0000:00:0000:00:00LAPAndres Eduardo Diaz COLLAP00:22:1100:00:0000:00:00

Final WTCS 2024 Standings – Elite Men

After a terrific year of racing, the top of the WTCS standings looks like this:

RankNameCountryEventsPts1Alex Yee GBR44069.532Léo Bergere FRA43728.333Hayden Wilde NZL43726.404Pierre Le Corre FRA43025.485Csongor Lehmann HUN42810.696Luke Willian AUS42531.907Vincent Luis FRA42528.288Matthew Hauser AUS32301.409Miguel Hidalgo BRA42215.0010Alberto Gonzalez Garcia ESP42136.6811Morgan Pearson USA42108.1312Vetle Bergsvik Thorn NOR42033.1413Kenji Nener JPN41960.8114Tayler Reid NZL41797.5315Vasco Vilaca POR41765.6216Charles Pacquet CAN31750.8617Hugo Milner GBR41580.2718Tyler Mislawchuk CAN31500.1919Ricardo Batista POR31498.4920Antonio Serrat Seoane ESP41404.55

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Graham Shaw

Graham has been involved with TRI247 & RUN247 since the summer of 2021. Since then he has provided strategic direction for all news and is passionate about the growth of triathlon as a fan sport.

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