Honourable Mentions
Kristian Blummenfelt Norway
After closing out 2018 with a new
70.3 world record at the Middle East Championships in Bahrain, Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt followed up with a monster 2019, highlighted by his win at the WTS Grand Final in Lausanne. He also took fourth at the Ironman
70.3 World Championship and has had a strong start to the Super League season, currently ranked fourth.
Gustav Iden Norway
Iden, who was a close runner-up to Blummenfelt in Bahrain back in December, staked his claim as the best 70.3 athlete on the planet in 2019 by winning the world championships in Nice, out-running two-time Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee in the process. Iden also placed third at the Amlin Triathlon in Bermuda in April, and fourth at both the Olympic test event in Tokyo and the WTS Grand Final in August.
Vincent Luis France
Luis had an incredible short course campaign, winning both the WTS World Championship and Super League titles. On the WTS circuit, the 30-year-old Frenchman placed no worse than sixth over the course of seven races, including a win in Yokohama, to come out on top by over 100 points over Spaniard Mario Mola. After closing out the previous season’s Super League title in February, Luis is well on his way to winning another having won the first two races of the 2019–20 campaign.