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Deep Dive Into the 2025 Triathlon Money Lists

Welcome to the 2025 Triathlon Money List! For the eighth consecutive year, I’m pulling back the curtain on professional triathlon earnings. What started as a simple curiosity—who’s actually making money in this sport and which organization pays how much?—has evolved into the most comprehensive tracking of prize money in professional triathlon. As in previous years, this analysis tracks prize money across all major professional series and independent races. The totals represent officially announced prize money only; they don’t include appearance fees, sponsorships, or other private compensation.

If you want to check out last year’s analysis, you can find it in my post “Deep Dive Into the 2024 Triathlon Money List“.

Money List – Overview

Last year saw the introduction of the T100 Tour and the Ironman Pro Series, resulting in a massive 29% increase in prize money. Compared to that, 2025 was a year of consolidation with a modest 2% growth. Let’s start with an overview of the races that are included in the money lists and comparisons between the 2025 and 2024 seasons grouped by the different organizers.

Organizer Description Total Money 2025 Change
to 2024
Total Money 
2024
# Pro Events
2025 (2024)
Ironman Ironman-distance races
+ 70.3-distance races
+ Ironman Pro Series
$ 2.520.000
$ 1.805.900
$ 1.700.000
+ 6%
+ 1%
+/- 0%
$ 2.479.450 
$ 1.786.700
$ 1.700.000
23 (22)
45 (38)
1 (1)
PTO T100 races (incl. T100 Series Pool)
+ PTO Rankings Bonus
$ 5.071.250
$   650.000
+ 36%
– 68%
$ 3.735.000 
$ 2.000.000
10 (8)
1 (1)
Challenge Challenge-branded races $   862.513 – 7% $ 927.876  22 (28)
WT World Triathlon Championship Series (incl. Bonus Pool) $ 2.123.800 + 23% $ 1.731.800  8 (6)
SuperTri SuperTri Professional Events
(incl. Series and Team Pools)
$ 1.360.000   + 2% $ 1.335.000 5 (5)
Other Independent Races (e.g Embrun,
XTerra World Championships, Alpe D’Huez)
$   777.178 – 2% $ 794.195  25 (26)
Total   $ 16.870.641 + 2% $ 16.490.021 138 (135)

As always, the totals are shown in US$, for races that paid their prize purse in a different currency the amounts have been converted into US$. Just as last year, I have not included T100 contract money.

Some more detailed observations:

  • The overall prize money increased by a modest 2%, most of the increase was provided by World Triathlon’s bigger series.
  • Events organized by WTC (Ironman) always have small ups and downs from year-to-year, this year was a slight “up” year. Money for Ironman-distance events increased by 6% while the money in 70.3s was higher by a minuscule amount. The money for the Pro Series stayed the same, even if they slightly tweaked the payout scheme.
  • The PTO prize money total remained relatively stable compared to last year but saw a shift from the Rankings Bonus to their own T100 series, a trend that might continue in the coming years. The collaboration between T100 and World Triathlon will change things, and many details are still to be worked out. 
  • Challenge saw a 6% reduction of prize money across their series. They’ve discontinued their race series bonus and slightly reduced the number of events with prize money. This also resulted in a reduction of athletes making money, from 220 last year down to 207 this year.
  • The World Triathlon prize money per WTCS race (200k), for the Finale (330k) and their Series “Bonus Pool” (600k) has stayed the same for this year, however they have added two more events in 2025 – last year had the Olympic Games (no official prize money) and one canceled event. Correspondingly, they added about 400k to the prize money paid out this year, a 23% increase. Next year might see another increase since they’ve announced 9 races plus the final.
  • Total money for SuperTri has practically stayed the same between 2024 and 2025, but they have once again adjusted how they pay out the money, shifting some money from the teams to individual performances. As last year, I have broken down the “Team Money” to each team’s athletes based on their number of starts.
  • There’s always a bit of movement in the “Other” category with independent races dropping out and some new ones getting added. The sum of just under 800k has stayed the same, one fewer event contributed to 2% less money.

With these movements in mind, let’s look at which individual athletes capitalized on the 2025 prize money landscape.

Overall Money List

After two years of female “Money List Winners” (2024 Kat Matthews and  2023 Anne Haug), we have a men’s leader this year. It’s been close between Hayden Wilde (with a clear T100 focus) and Kristian Blummenfelt (racing the Ironman Pro Series) and the first female – Kate Waugh – is not too far behind in third overall. Gender distribution remained balanced (five men and five women in the Top 10, 11 women in the Top 20). The number of athletes making at least $100,000 is also quite similar to last year (42 in 2025, 41 athletes last year), and the total number of athletes making money has even been unchanged at 823. However, there were almost no athletes who successfully raced both the T100 and the Ironman Pro Series, resulting in the top earners making less money than last year (Hayden $382,300 vs. Kat last year $549,000). 

Hayem Wilde Qatar Run

Photo: Hayden Wilde on the run course at the Qatar T100, securing the T100 World title and the top spot in 2025 Money List (Photo provided by the PTO)

# Name Nation Sex Total Ironman 70.3 PTO Challenge WTCS SuperTri Other
1 Hayden Wilde NZL M $382,300     $356,000   $26,300    
2 Kristian Blummenfelt NOR M $369,500 $301,000 $52,500 $16,000        
3 Kate Waugh GBR F $348,000     $339,000   $9,000    
4 Jelle Geens BEL M $328,500   $82,500 $246,000        
5 Kat Matthews GBR F $325,000 $310,000 $15,000          
6 Solveig Loevseth NOR F $323,250 $284,000 $23,250 $16,000        
7 Lucy Charles-Barclay GBR F $323,000 $8,000 $82,500 $232,500        
8 Casper Stornes NOR M $320,500 $272,500 $35,000 $13,000        
9 Julie Derron SUI F $285,000 $15,000 $6,000 $264,000        
10 Mika Noodt GER M $262,500     $262,500        
11 Lisa Perterer AUT F $222,000 $142,500 $6,500 $73,000        
12 Georgia Taylor-Brown GBR F $216,533   $19,000 $121,000   $2,200 $70,333 $4,000
13 Ashleigh Gentle AUS F $208,500     $208,500        
14 Jeanne Lehair LUX F $208,161   $4,000     $63,000 $141,161  
15 Taylor Knibb USA F $202,000 $22,000 $45,000 $135,000        
16 Morgan Pearson USA M $201,333     $183,000   $10,000 $8,333  
17 Marten Van Riel BEL M $195,000 $47,000 $4,000 $144,000        
18 Matthew Hauser AUS M $194,777         $184,400   $10,377
19 Rico Bogen GER M $194,250   $16,250 $178,000        
20 Leonie Periault FRA F $189,671         $95,800 $93,871  
21 Jessica Learmonth GBR F $187,000   $14,000 $173,000        
22 Jonas Schomburg GER M $170,584 $59,000 $22,250 $65,000 $21,834 $2,500    
23 Vasco Vilaca POR M $154,800         $79,800 $75,000  
24 Kristian Hogenhaug DEN M $151,876 $119,500 $2,000 $14,000 $16,376      
25 Hannah Berry NZL F $145,517 $51,500 $5,000 $85,000       $4,017
26 Samuel Dickinson GBR M $145,000 $5,000 $16,000 $124,000        
27 Lisa Tertsch GER F $144,700         $144,700    
28 Csongor Lehmann HUN M $138,111       $3,166 $34,600 $100,345  
29 Ellie Salthouse AUS F $137,500   $11,000 $126,500        
30 Mathis Margirier FRA M $136,000   $3,000 $133,000        
31 Gustav Iden NOR M $132,250 $123,500 $3,750 $5,000        
32 Holly Lawrence GBR F $131,000 $28,000   $103,000        
33 Taylor Spivey USA F $130,148     $76,000   $50,700 $3,448  
34 Youri Keulen NED M $124,000     $124,000        
35 Jackie Hering USA F $123,250 $90,500 $19,750 $13,000        
36 Gregory Barnaby ITA M $118,500     $118,500        
37 Laura Philipp GER F $116,751 $78,000 $6,000   $32,751      
38 Miguel Hidalgo BRA M $115,500   $7,500     $108,000    
39 Nick Thompson AUS M $111,750 $108,000 $3,750          
40 Lucy Byram GBR F $111,500     $111,500        
41 Menno Koolhaas NED M $104,500 $15,000   $89,500        
42 Paula Findlay CAN F $103,000 $5,000 $29,500 $68,500        
43 Jason West USA M $96,000 $10,000 $13,250 $72,750        
44 Alanis Siffert SUI F $90,879 $4,750   $21,000 $22,381     $42,748
45 Antonio Benito Lopez ESP M $89,000 $17,000   $57,000       $15,000

Triathlon Millionaires

With my prize money data going back to 2018, I can calculate “career earnings” for athletes and look for athletes who have earned at least one million dollars in prize money—the “Triathlon Millionaires”. Of course, there were successful athletes before 2018, but I don’t have solid prize money data for their earlier careers. However, since there’s significantly more money in triathlon now than in previous eras, there likely aren’t many additional athletes who crossed the million-dollar threshold before my tracking began. (Let me know if you have more data—the athletes in the table below are the ones I can verify with race-by-race breakdowns.) The 2025 season added three new athletes to the Triathlon Millionaires club. This brings the total verified count to 14 athletes who have earned seven figures in prize money since 2018.

Daniela Ryf still leads the career earnings table even though she ended her racing career in 2024. She remains in the sport, lending her insights to race coverage, but she’s likely to lose her top spot next year if Kristian Blummenfelt or Lucy Charles-Barclay earn similar amounts to this year.

Dani Solveig

Photo: Daniela with Kona winner Solveig Loevseth after the race (Photo from Daniela’s Instagram)

Below are all  fourteen verified Triathlon Millionaires and how much money they earned this year from official prize money:

Pos (2024) Name Sex Nation Career Prize Money 2025 Prize Money
1 (1) Daniela Ryf F SUI $1,858,470 retired
2 (2) Kristian Blummenfelt M NOR $1,729,595 $369,500
3 (4) Lucy Charles-Barclay F GBR $1,660,259 $323,000
4 (3) Taylor Knibb F USA $1,541,750 $202,000
5 (6) Ashleigh Gentle F AUS $1,501,135 $208,500
6 (11) Kat Matthews F GBR $1,333,400 $325,000
7 (5) Anne Haug F GER $1,299,725 retired
8 (new) Hayden Wilde M NZL $1,288,763 $382,300
9 (7) Jan Frodeno M GER $1,187,707 retired
10 (10) Laura Philipp F GER $1,130,074 $116,751
11 (8) Patrick Lange M GER $1,120,179 $21,000
12 (9) Lionel Sanders M CAN $1,092,500 $23,500
13 (new) Gustav Iden M NOR $1,024,415 $132,250
14 (new) Georgia Taylor-Brown F GBR $1,011,308 $216,533

T100 Tour

This year, the T100 Tour was dominated by Hayden Wilde, winning six of his seven races and becoming the undisputed men’s T100 World Champion. He also earned the biggest part of the T100 money, just over $350k, closely followed by the female Champion Kate Waugh. Unlike 2024, where Kat Matthews successfully balanced T100 and Ironman Pro Series racing, 2025’s top T100 earners were almost exclusively focused on the series. There are two notable exceptions in the Top 10, 70.3 World Champions Lucy Charles-Barclay and Jelle Geens. After 122 athletes last year, the PTO provided money to 143 athletes in 2025. This increase is a result of clear separation between the T100 series bonus and the “Contenders” rankings bonus – if an athlete received money from the T100 bonus, they were no longer eligible for the (lower) Rankings bonus.

Wile Bike Qatar

Photo: Hayden Wilde leading the field in the final race of the 2025 T100 Tour in Qatar (Photo provided by the PTO)

# Name Sex T100 Total Share
1 Hayden Wilde M $ 356.000 $ 382.300 93%
2 Kate Waugh F $ 339.000 $ 348.000 97%
3 Julie Derron F $ 264.000 $ 285.000 93%
4 Mika Noodt M $ 262.500 $ 262.500 100%
5 Jelle Geens M $ 246.000 $ 328.500 75%
6 Lucy Charles-Barclay F $ 232.500 $ 323.000 72%
7 Ashleigh Gentle F $ 208.500 $ 208.500 100%
8 Morgan Pearson M $ 183.000 $ 201.333 91%
9 Rico Bogen M $ 178.000 $ 194.250 92%
10 Jessica Learmonth F $ 173.000 $ 187.000 93%
11 Marten Van Riel M $ 144.000 $ 195.000 74%
12 Taylor Knibb F $ 135.000 $ 202.000 67%
13 Mathis Margirier M $ 133.000 $ 136.000 98%
14 Ellie Salthouse F $ 126.500 $ 137.500 92%
15 Samuel Dickinson M $ 124.000 $ 145.000 86%
15 Youri Keulen M $ 124.000 $ 124.000 100%
17 Georgia Taylor-Brown F $ 121.000 $ 216.533 56%
18 Gregory Barnaby M $ 118.500 $ 118.500 100%
19 Lucy Byram F $ 111.500 $ 111.500 100%
20 Holly Lawrence F $ 103.000 $ 131.000 79%
21 Menno Koolhaas M $ 89.500 $ 104.500 86%
22 Hannah Berry F $ 85.000 $ 145.517 58%
23 Taylor Spivey F $ 76.000 $ 130.148 58%
24 Lisa Perterer F $ 73.000 $ 222.000 33%
25 Jason West M $ 72.750 $ 96.000 76%

Ironman Races

Similar to last year, the Ironman money list is topped by winners of the Ironman Pro Series. Kristian Blummenfelt performed slightly better in the Championship races than Kat Matthews (who DNF’d at 70.3 Worlds) and earned the most money from Ironman. They are followed by the World Champions Casper Stornes and Solveig Loeveseth, making it three Norwegians in the Top 4 (and four in the Top 6). After a slump in 2024, Ironman have increased the number of Pro events this year, also resulting in an increase of athletes who earned money in their events from 432 to 450 this year, even if they aren’t back to the 2023 levels of 524 athletes in 70 events.

Blummenfelt Frankfurt

Photo: Kristian celebrating his win at IM Frankfurt, an important stepping stone to win the Ironman Pro Series (Photo by Getty Images for IRONMAN)

# Name Sex IM 70.3 Pro Series Ironman Total Share
1 Kristian Blummenfelt M $ 101.000 $ 52.500 $ 200.000 $ 353.500 $ 369.500 96%
2 Kat Matthews F $ 110.000 $ 15.000 $ 200.000 $ 325.000 $ 325.000 100%
3 Casper Stornes M $ 142.500 $ 35.000 $ 130.000 $ 307.500 $ 320.500 96%
4 Solveig Loevseth F $ 154.000 $ 23.250 $ 130.000 $ 307.250 $ 323.250 95%
5 Lisa Perterer F $ 57.500 $ 6.500 $ 85.000 $ 149.000 $ 222.000 67%
6 Gustav Iden M $ 73.500 $ 3.750 $ 50.000 $ 127.250 $ 132.250 96%
7 Kristian Hogenhaug M $ 34.500 $ 2.000 $ 85.000 $ 121.500 $ 151.876 80%
8 Nick Thompson M $ 38.000 $ 3.750 $ 70.000 $ 111.750 $ 111.750 100%
9 Jackie Hering F $ 20.500 $ 19.750 $ 70.000 $ 110.250 $ 123.250 89%
10 Lucy Charles-Barclay F $ 3.000 $ 82.500 $ 5.000 $ 90.500 $ 323.000 28%
11 Laura Philipp F $ 73.000 $ 6.000 $ 5.000 $ 84.000 $ 116.751 72%
12 Jelle Geens M   $ 82.500   $ 82.500 $ 328.500 25%
13 Jonas Schomburg M $ 29.000 $ 22.250 $ 30.000 $ 81.250 $ 170.584 48%
14 Laura Jansen F $ 17.500 $ 6.000 $ 50.000 $ 73.500 $ 86.959 85%
15 Anne Reischmann F $ 36.500 $ 5.000 $ 30.000 $ 71.500 $ 71.500 100%
16 Regan Hollioake F $ 24.000 $ 5.000 $ 40.000 $ 69.000 $ 74.000 93%
17 Taylor Knibb F $ 17.000 $ 45.000 $ 5.000 $ 67.000 $ 202.000 33%
18 Rudy von Berg M $ 21.000 $ 5.000 $ 40.000 $ 66.000 $ 66.000 100%
19 Hannah Berry F $ 36.500 $ 5.000 $ 15.000 $ 56.500 $ 145.517 39%
20 Matthew Marquardt M $ 49.000   $ 5.000 $ 54.000 $ 54.000 100%
21 Marten Van Riel M $ 42.000 $ 4.000 $ 5.000 $ 51.000 $ 195.000 26%
22 Danielle Lewis F $ 14.000 $ 14.750 $ 20.000 $ 48.750 $ 58.750 83%
23 Magnus Ditlev M $ 31.000 $ 12.000 $ 5.000 $ 48.000 $ 48.000 100%
24 Sam Long M $ 13.000 $ 26.500 $ 5.000 $ 44.500 $ 82.000 54%
24 Lotte Wilms F $ 34.000 $ 5.500 $ 5.000 $ 44.500 $ 63.784 70%

Challenge

In previous years, the Challenge Family “World Bonus” provided an incentive for athletes to race many Challenge events throughout the season. This $100k bonus was no longer on offer for 2025 (instead of paying into a pool for the bonus, the races increased their prize money). But without this incentive, winning Roth (which increased prize money this year) was nearly sufficient for Laura Philipp and Sam Laidlow to secure the top spot. Only Will Draper was able to earn more Challenge money, claiming three wins (Mogan-Gran Canaria, Samarkand and Almere) in his seven Challenge starts.

WillDraper Samarkand

Photo: Will Draper winning Challenge Samarkand, one of the highest paying Challenge events (Photo provided by Challenge Family)

# Name Sex Challenge Total Share
1 Will Draper M $ 38.855 $ 67.855 57%
2 Laura Philipp F $ 32.751 $ 116.751 28%
2 Sam Laidlow M $ 32.751 $ 67.751 48%
4 Sara Perez Sala F $ 23.079 $ 75.079 31%
5 Alanis Siffert F $ 22.381 $ 90.879 25%
6 Jonas Schomburg M $ 21.834 $ 170.584 13%
6 Grace Thek F $ 21.834 $ 75.584 29%
8 Daisy Davies F $ 20.796 $ 28.546 73%
9 Marcel Bolbat M $ 17.429 $ 20.704 84%
10 Kristian Hogenhaug M $ 16.376 $ 151.876 11%
10 Hanne De Vet F $ 16.376 $ 79.876 21%
12 Ognjen Stojanovic M $ 15.607 $ 21.245 73%
13 Amelia Watkinson F $ 12.275 $ 37.186 33%
14 Marta Lagownik F $ 11.553 $ 40.238 29%
15 Elisabetta Curridori F $ 10.918 $ 27.557 40%
16 Jan Stratmann M $ 10.917 $ 10.917 100%
17 Kieran Storch M $ 10.372 $ 16.698 62%
17 Cathia Schaer F $ 10.372 $ 13.272 78%
19 Henry Raeppo M $ 9.825 $ 34.325 29%
20 Nina Derron F $ 9.716 $ 51.708 19%

Short Course

As in previous years, the top earners of short-course prize money found success across both major series, the World Triathlon Championship Series and SuperTri. Both 2025 World Triathlon Champions, Lisa Tertsch and Matt Hauser, did not race SuperTri, which opened the door for Jeanne Lehair and Leonie Periault to claim the top spots in short-course earnings. With two notable exceptions – Georgia Taylor-Brown and Taylor Spivey, who both earned significant T100 money – the top athletes among short-course earners list were heavily specialized, with all others earning 94% or more of their prize money from short-course racing. Despite increased prize money and more events, the number of athletes earning short-course money grew only modestly from 166 to 172 this year.

Lehair SuperTri

Photo: Jeanne Lehair winning her first SuperTri in Toulouse (Photo provided by SuperTri)

# Name Sex WTS SuperTri Short Course Total Share
1 Jeanne Lehair F $ 63.000 $ 141.161 $ 204.161 $ 208.161 98%
2 Leonie Periault F $ 95.800 $ 93.871 $ 189.671 $ 189.671 100%
3 Matthew Hauser M $ 184.400   $ 184.400 $ 194.777 95%
4 Vasco Vilaca M $ 79.800 $ 75.000 $ 154.800 $ 154.800 100%
5 Lisa Tertsch F $ 144.700   $ 144.700 $ 144.700 100%
6 Csongor Lehmann M $ 34.600 $ 100.345 $ 134.945 $ 138.111 98%
7 Miguel Hidalgo M $ 108.000   $ 108.000 $ 115.500 94%
8 Ricardo Batista M $ 24.700 $ 57.333 $ 82.033 $ 82.033 100%
9 John Reed M $ 15.200 $ 64.161 $ 79.361 $ 85.414 93%
10 Jolien Vermeylen F $ 30.100 $ 46.000 $ 76.100 $ 76.100 100%
11 Beth Potter F $ 75.700   $ 75.700 $ 75.700 100%
12 Cassandre Beaugrand F $ 61.000 $ 13.333 $ 74.333 $ 77.792 96%
13 Georgia Taylor-Brown F $ 2.200 $ 70.333 $ 72.533 $ 216.533 33%
14 Henry Graf M $ 58.500   $ 58.500 $ 58.500 100%
15 Taylor Spivey F $ 50.700 $ 3.448 $ 54.148 $ 130.148 42%
16 Bianca Seregni F $ 51.600   $ 51.600 $ 51.600 100%
17 David Cantero Del Campo M $ 48.700   $ 48.700 $ 48.700 100%
18 Taylor Reid M   $ 47.161 $ 47.161 $ 47.161 100%
19 Zuzana Michalickova F $ 1.200 $ 45.161 $ 46.361 $ 46.361 100%
20 Alberto Gonzalez Garcia M $ 4.100 $ 39.581 $ 43.681 $ 43.681 100%

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