{"id":439824,"date":"2025-09-21T01:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439824\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:31:12","slug":"hayden-wilde-wins-in-spain-to-keep-tight-grip-on-t100-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439824\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Wilde wins in Spain to keep tight grip on T100 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KF55HP_241215IronmanWorldMen_47_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Hayden Wilde during the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Taupo, 2024.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nHayden Wilde during the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Taup\u014d last year.<br \/>\nPhoto: PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand triathlete Hayden Wilde made it four wins from four in the T100 world series he ran out a clear-cut winner in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Wilde continued a season of dominance which began in the season-opener in Singapore, followed by two more recent wins in London and the French Riviera.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old has bounced back in remarkable fashion from shocking injuries suffered mid-year when hit by a truck while training in Japan and now appears well on course to be crowned series champion.<\/p>\n<p>Wilde&#8217;s latest success, in Valenica, saw him stave off a challenge from reigning 70.3 world champion Jelle Geens, who threw down a challenge early on the run leg.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Kiwi was more than up to it and he eased clear at the halfway point to cross more than two minutes clear of his rival, with Germany&#8217;s Jonas Schomburg third.<\/p>\n<p>Wilde will take a perfect score into the T100 grand final in Qatar in December, where the points from that race add to an athlete&#8217;s best four results.<\/p>\n<p>Wilde&#8217;s win came on the day that his great rival Alex Yee, who pipped him to Olympic triathlon gold in Paris last year, announced he&#8217;s going all-in on marathon running for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, <b>a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Wilde during the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Taup\u014d last year. Photo: PHOTOSPORT New Zealand triathlete Hayden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[1816,9409,2000,299,12,196,10975,10973,10974,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-439824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-podcasts","14":"tag-public-radio","15":"tag-radio-new-zealand","16":"tag-rnz","17":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115239708038069729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}