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Kate Waugh Survives Sleepless Night, Nausea and Heat of Qatar to Become T100 Triathlon World Champion
Kate Waugh secured the T100 World Championship with a dramatic finish and a $200,000 prize, overcoming a narrow points lead and fierce competition in her debut 100km season.
- On Friday, Kate Waugh clinched her inaugural T100 world title in Lusail, Qatar, collapsing from exhaustion after securing the championship atop the Race To Qatar standings.
- This season, Waugh's debut over 100 kilometres featured a Singapore win and six podiums, and she trained in Abu Dhabi between the penultimate race in Dubai last month and Qatar.
- The race comprised a 2km swim, 80km bike and 18km run and saw Kate Waugh lead out of the swim before gaining on the bike and run amid drama at water stations and flowers thrown by children lining the finish.
- Georgia Taylor-Brown finished second in Qatar and ended seventh overall in the series, with the T100 Tour paying out over $8m and awarding her $85,000 for her overall finish.
- Waugh's win positions her as one of the leading talents in women's triathlon amid the British contingent including Lucy Charles-Barclay and Jess Learmonth, and next year she plans to return to world series races and more T100s to build on this breakthrough season.
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Manchester triathlete Georgia Taylor-Brown ends 'gap year' in style with second place in Qatar
The Mancunian looked right at home in Qatar despite just three previous attempts at the distance and showed her running strength to claim second place behind compatriot Kate Waugh
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