WEIHAI, CHINA — USA TRI Nationwide Group athletes Gwen Jorgensen (Boulder, Colo.) and John Reed (Virginia Seaside, Va.) led the U.S. ladies and men on Saturday, Aug. 29, on the 2026 World Triathlon Championship Collection Weihai, inserting fifth and seventh, respectively, for his or her finest outcomes of the 2026 season.
Ladies’s Race
2016 Olympic gold medalist Jorgensen crossed the road fifth in 1 hour, 50 minutes, 36 seconds, her finest results of the 2026 WTCS season, eclipsing her earlier excessive of seventh at WTCS Yokohama in Could. Fellow USA TRI athletes Kirsten Kasper (North Andover, Mass.) and Gina Sereno (Madison, Wis.) rounded out the U.S. girls’s finishers, inserting 14th and fifteenth, respectively.
France’s Cassandre Beaugrand received the ladies’s race in 1:49:20, extending her unbeaten run to 4 wins this season after beforehand topping the rostrum at Alghero, Quiberon and London. She is the 2026 WTCS chief heading into WTCS Karlovy Range on Sept. 13 and the Championship Finals Sept. 23-27 in Pontevedra. Beth Potter (GBR), final yr’s Weihai champion, held on for second, 6 seconds again, with 2025 World Champion Lisa Tertsch (GER) third.
Males’s Race
Reed ran his method to cross seventh in 1:41:59, one yr after taking bronze on this similar Weihai course, a powerful exhibiting on a technical day, and his finest end of the 2026 WTCS season. After a powerful swim and holding regular within the massive, 28-member lead group on the bike, Reed made his transfer on the run, rapidly passing greater than 20 athletes after being the final athlete of the lead group of 28 on the bike to go away T2. He joined Portugal’s João Nuno Batista to go a chase group that dropped defending World Champion Matt Hauser (AUS).
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 uneven circumstances. Reed got here by the swim and onto the bike with the race’s primary pack of 28 riders — a gaggle that included practically each pre-race favourite and stayed collectively on slick, sodden roads by all eight bike laps, turning the 10-kilometer run into the day’s decisive leg.
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 say his first WTCS win of the season. David Cantero Del Campo (ESP) recovered from a late locate the run to take second, and two-time Olympian Tyler Mislawchuk (CAN) rounded out the rostrum.
After his sturdy 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, which spoiled his race after a powerful swim.
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2026 World Triathlon Championship Collection Weihai
1.5-kilometer swim, 40-kilometer bike, 10-kilometer run
Elite Ladies
Prime 3
1. Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA), 1:49:20
2. Beth Potter (GBR), 1:49:26
3. Lisa Tertsch (GER), 1:49:44
U.S. Outcomes
5. Gwen Jorgensen (Boulder, Colo.), 1:50:36
14. Kirsten Kasper (North Andover, Mass.), 1:52:20
15. Gina Sereno (Madison, Wis.), 1:52:37
Elite Males
Prime 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 Seaside, Va.), 1:41:59
20. Darr Smith (Atlanta, Ga.), 1:43:18
29. Chase McQueen (Columbus, Ind.), 1:44:19
35. Zach Leachman (Mars, Pa.), 1:47:40
DNF. Blake Bullard (Southlake, Texas)
2026 World Triathlon Championship Collection Schedule
WTCS Samarkand | April 26 | Outcomes
WTCS Yokohama | Could 16 | Outcomes
WTCS Alghero | Could 30 | Outcomes
WTCS Quiberon | June 20-21 | Outcomes
WTCS Hamburg | July 11-12 | Outcomes
WTCS London | July 25 | Outcomes
WTCS Weihai | Aug. 29
WTCS Karlovy Range | Sept. 13
Championship Finals Pontevedra | Sept. 23-27
WTCS Abu Dhabi | Postponed to Nov. 13-14
