John Reed Notches Season-Finest Seventh to Lead USA TRI Elites at WTCS Weihai

Published On: August 29, 2026

John Reed Notches Season-Best Seventh to Lead USA TRI Elites at WTCS Weihai

WEIHAI, CHINA — USA TRI Nationwide Crew athlete John Reed (Virginia Seashore, Va.) led the U.S. males on Saturday, Aug. 29, on the 2026 World Triathlon Championship Collection Weihai, inserting seventh for his greatest results of the 2026 season.

Chase McQueen (Columbus, Ind.) and Blake Bullard (Southlake, Texas) put the U.S. on the entrance of the race from the gun, main the 1.5-kilometer swim by way of uneven circumstances off a pontoon that set an unsettled tone for the day. Reed got here by way of the swim and onto the bike with the race’s important pack of 28 riders — a bunch that included practically each pre-race favourite and stayed collectively on slick, sodden roads by way of all eight bike laps, turning the 10-kilometer run into the day’s decisive leg.

Reed made the race’s second choice on the run, becoming a member of Portugal’s João Nuno Batista to go a chase group that dropped defending World Champion Matt Hauser (AUS). Reed held on to cross seventh in 1 hour, 41 minutes, 59 seconds, one yr after taking bronze on this similar Weihai course, a powerful displaying on a technical day, and his greatest end of the 2026 WTCS season.

Switzerland’s Max Studer battled a rain-soaked, chaos-strewn course to defend the WTCS Weihai title he received a yr in the past. Racing the boys’s standard-distance occasion over a 1.5-kilometer swim, 40-kilometer bike and 10-kilometer run, Studer crossed the road alone in 1:41:08 to assert his first WTCS win of the season. David Cantero Del Campo (ESP) picked himself up from a late locate the run to take second, and two-time Olympian Tyler Mislawchuk (CAN) rounded out the rostrum.

After his robust swim, McQueen positioned twenty ninth. Fellow USA TRI athletes Darr Smith (Atlanta, Ga.) positioned twentieth, whereas Zach Leachman (Mars, Pa.) positioned thirty fifth. Bullard didn’t end after a problem along with his bike shoe, spoiling his race after his robust swim.

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2026 World Triathlon Championship Collection Weihai

1.5-kilometer swim, 40-kilometer bike, 10-kilometer run

Full Outcomes

Elite Males

High 3

1. Max Studer (SUI), 1:41:08

2. David Cantero Del Campo (ESP), 1:41:18

3. Tyler Mislawchuk (CAN), 1:41:25

U.S. Outcomes

7. John Reed (Virginia Seashore, Va.), 1:41:59

20. Darr Smith (Atlanta, Ga.), 1:43:18