This is a preview of the event – click on the names to read about impressive victories for Cassandre Beaugrand and Henry Graf.
The opening event of the 2025 T1 Indoor Triathlon World Cup takes place on Saturday March 22 in the Northern French commune of Liévin. And it should be an absolute thriller with some of the sport’s biggest names in action.
Triathlon’s short-course greats will be in attendance at the Arena Stade Couvert Liévin as a crowd of 5,000 watches the new collaborative format put forward by World Triathlon and the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO).
There are plenty of big names in action with France’s Olympic superstar Cassandre Beaugrand set to headline the women’s race, while Paris Games runner-up Hayden Wilde will start favourite in the men’s event as the current World Triathlon number one-ranked athlete.
How to watch, start times and live tracking
The racing is set to start at 13:00 local time (12:00 GMT/08:00 Eastern in the US) on Saturday, March 22 with the men’s heats. The women’s event will begin an hour and a half later at 14:30 local time (13:30 GMT/09:30 EDT).
Coverage is available on Eurosport 2 and PTO+ / T100 YouTube, which is embedded below, with the action also airing on triathlonlive.tv.
Pro Women
Olympic and World Champion Beaugrand is the standout name in the field on the women’s side. The French superstar claimed victory at the Paris Olympic Games before clinching a world title thanks to a World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) Finals success in Torremolinos-Andalucia.
Outdoors, Beaugrand was unbeatable as an individual – winning four races from four starts including two further WTCS events in Cagliari and Hamburg. Already in 2025, the 27-year-old has smashed the national 5km road running record at the Monaco 5km.
Another Olympic gold medallist, Laura Lindemann of Germany, will want to usurp the French hope. She claimed Mixed Relay honours at the Paris Games and started off the 2025 season strongly with a third place finish at WTCS Abu Dhabi in February.
She was beaten on the day by fellow German Nina Eim who finished second in Abu Dhabi and won twice on the World Triathlon Cup series in 2024 – in Rome and and Wels.
Pro Men
New Zealander Wilde is the heavy favourite in the men’s event. Despite the disappointment of finishing second to Great Britain’s Alex Yee in Paris last year, the 27-year-old bounced back with victory at WTCS Finals Torremolinos-Andalucia.
He has started 2025 on the right foot as well, having claimed victory at WTCS Abu Dhabi ahead of potential T1 contenders Henry Graf and Adrien Briffod.
Many of his regular rivals on the short course such as Yee and Matt Hauser are dipping their toes in other sports and formats early in the 2028 Olympic cycle, which could leave Wilde clear to take the title in Liévin.
His nearest challenger in terms of current world rankings is Great Britain’s Hugo Milner, who was a DNF in Abu Dhabi in February.
Race Format
The format will consist of five races for each category involving a 200m swim in a purpose-built 25m swimming pool, before triathletes exit the water and complete a 2.8km bike leg. The final discipline is a 1km run.
Each heat will consist of 12 triathletes (10 or 9 in the women’s event), with the top five in each race earning a berth in the semi-finals. The other competitors will goes to the repechage. All athletes will race on at least two occasions during the competition.
On the men’s side there will be three repechages, the top three of each and two lucky losers make it to Semis, the rest go home. For the women, there will be two races, with the top five in each race and one lucky loser heading through.
In total, 36 athletes make it to the semi-finals and there are three semi-finals. The top four in each semi-final go to Final A, athletes 5 to 8 to Final B, and the rest go home.
The Final B will decide athletes 13 to 24 in the final classification. The Final A will decide athletes 1 to 12 in the final classification.
Heat Lineups
World Triathlon has given some indication of who will be in each heat, but has yet to provide the full start list. Heat one will feature Hayden Wilde (NZL) along with Esteban Basanta (ESP), Harry Leleu (GBR) and James Edgar (IRL).
Mitch Kolkman (NED) heads heat two with Euan De Nigro (ITA), Antonie Duval (FRA) and Gyula Kovacs (HUN). Heat three consists of Yanis Seguin (FRA), Chase McQueen (USA), Hamish Reilly (GBR), Genis Grau (ESP) and Jawad Abdelmoula (MOR) among others.
Heat four boasts Graf (GER), Jack Willis (GBR), Tjebbe Kaindl (AUT) and Leo Fernandez (FRA), with the final grouping involving Tom Richard (FRA), Nicola Azzano (ITA), Briffod (SUI) and Alois Kindl (AUT).
On the women’s side, Olympic and World Champion Beaugrand (FRA) is the headline act in heat one with Lena Meißner (GER), Maria Casals Mojica (ESP) and Cathia Schär (SUI) also featuring.
Sandra Dodet (FRA) enters heat two along with Eim (GER) and Julia Bröcker (GER), with Julian Hauser (AUT) also in contention. Rosa Maria Tapia Vida (MEX), Annika Koch (GER), Anabell Knoll (GER) and Celine Senia (ESP) are part of heat three.
Tanja Neubert (GER) will take on the likes of Zuzana Michalickova (CZE), Nora Gmur (SUI) and Marta Pintanel (ESP) in heat four, while Olmypic Mixed Relay gold medallist Lindemann (GER) takes on Jolien Vermeylen (BEL), Sara Guerrero Manso (ESP) and Franka Rust (GER) in the final women’s heat.
Prize Money
Athletes finishing from first to 15th will earn a share of the prize purse in both the men’s and women’s race. The individual prize breakdown for each race is below:
- €7,500
- €6,000
- €4,500
- €3,000
- €2,100
- $1,800
- $1,500
- €900
- €675
- €525
- €450
- €375
- €300
- €225
- €150
