Rankings
Triathlon Ireland is delighted to launch a new ranking system for the 2025 season, meaning that for the first time in Irish multisport history there will be national athlete rankings. The rankings, hosted on the My Tri Ranking platform, also incorporates the Duathlon and Triathlon National Series.
Triathlon is one of the most dynamic and varied sports, with no two races ever being the same—different courses, weather conditions, and field sizes make it difficult to track progress meaningfully. Until now, triathletes have had no way to accurately measure their standing outside of individual race results.
This new system changes everything. By aiming to bring together data from across all sanctioned sprint and standard distance triathlon and duathlon events, athletes can now see exactly where they rank on a national scale—racing everyone, everywhere, regardless of which races they enter.
How are the rankings calculated?
The starting point is the best athlete in the world in 2023 for a given gender and World Triathlon multisport discipline. For the men’s triathlon category that was Alex Yee, Beth Potter in women’s triathlon, Mario Mola in men’s duathlon and Emma Pallant-Browne in women’s duathlon. Alex Yee is used as an example in the following explanation.
- The score achieved by a performance at the 2023 World Number 1’s average level during the 2023 season is awarded 1000 points.
- For each race, the My Tri Ranking algorithms (a series of fancy maths equations!) estimate the time it would have taken a 2023 Alex Yee, for example, to complete the race. My Tri Ranking make a series of detailed calculations to determine what would likely have happened if Alex Yee had raced in the same event.
- My Tri Ranking then compare your actual performance in the race to the time estimated for a 2023 Alex Yee. Your performance is then awarded a score, almost certainly under 1,000 unless that race would have beaten Alex Yee’s estimated time.
- Once you have completed one scoring race in the last 12 months, then you will appear in the National Athlete rankings. If you do more than one scoring race then My Tri Ranking takes the average of your best two races to determine your ranking.
- The same scoring system is applied to calculate Triathlon and Duathlon National Series points for each event.
To view the full list of FAQs visit My Tri Ranking here.
What is changing?
The way that scores in a Duathlon and Triathlon National Series event are calculated has changed to the system outlined above, and the rankings will now be accessed on My Tri Ranking. The eligibility criteria for both National Series remains the same.
For the Duathlon National Series, it will still be an average of an athlete’s score in the National Championships plus their next two highest scores in Duathlon National Series events.
In the Triathlon National Series athletes will still be scored on the average of their four highest scores in Triathlon National Series events, one sprint and one standard distance race must be completed.
Triathlon National Series Club Rankings and the Youth Series rankings will be live for triathlon season.
For all the details on the rankings, and to view the full list of FAQs visit My Tri Ranking here.
Keep an eye out next Thursday, 13th March for the first Duathlon National Series rankings that are fully qualified, once the races at TriLakes Knockma Duathlon and Naas Duathlon complete this weekend!