British triathlete Georgia Taylor-Brown held on to win the penultimate race of the ladies’s T100 season in Dubai and transfer high of the general standings.
The 2020 Olympic silver medallist claimed her second victory of the season within the fourth occasion of the marketing campaign, with December’s grand ultimate in Qatar remaining.
Taylor-Brown will take a six-point benefit over Switzerland’s Julie Derron into that ultimate occasion.
The 32-year-old Mancunian, who’s a former world champion within the shorter Olympic distance and completed third on this season’s World Triathlon Collection, is aiming for her first T100 world title.
Taylor-Brown received her first T100 race – which features a 2km swim, 80km bike journey and 18km run – in Spain in Might and was third in Vancouver, Canada in August.
She hit the entrance in Dubai just below 4km into the run and opened a 30-second benefit earlier than holding off New Zealand’s Nicole van der Kaay to win by simply 10 seconds, ending in three hours 35 minutes and 19 seconds.
Derron, who took the lead within the total standings with victory in Vancouver, was third in Dubai, ending two minutes seven seconds behind Taylor-Brown.
Britain’s Kate Waugh, the 2025 champion, was ninth, simply forward of team-mate Lizzie Rayner.
Waugh missed the opening two occasions of the season with a calf damage and is eighth total heading into subsequent month’s Grand Ultimate in Doha.
