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Triathlon · T100
T100 Abu Dhabi 2027
- Race day
- Saturday, 13 March 2027
- Location
- Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Distance
- 100 km total
2km swim 80km bike 18km run
T100 Abu Dhabi 2027: date, what's known (and disputed) about the venue and distance tier, and real Verus athletes racing it.
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Key Race Metrics & Overview
- Date
- Saturday, 13 March 2027
- Venue
- Abu Dhabi, UAE (exact swim/bike/run venue not yet announced)
- Distance
- T100 — 100km total
- Start Time
- Not published — no athlete guide exists yet for this event.
- Draft-Legal Bike
- No — non-drafting
- Cut-Off
- Not published — no athlete guide exists yet for this event.
Also this weekend
No distance options beyond the headline 100km have been published for Abu Dhabi. Given the unresolved tier question below, it is not even confirmed that a 100km T100 race is what happens here.
Leg 1 of 3
Swim — 2km
No swim venue has been published for T100 Abu Dhabi. For informed precedent only — not a confirmed T100 course — Abu Dhabi has hosted World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) racing annually since 2016, historically with a Yas Marina swim off Yas Island, moving to Hudayriyat Island for the 2026 WTCS edition. Neither of those is confirmed as the T100 venue.
- Venue
- Not yet announced
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Sea — open water (venue not yet announced).
Wetsuit: Not published. Worth flagging as a genuine unknown rather than assuming Dubai's pattern: independent sea-temperature data for Abu Dhabi in mid-March runs roughly 21-23°C, well below the 24.6°C threshold above which World Triathlon prohibits wetsuits — the opposite situation from T100 Dubai's warm November swim. A wetsuit-legal (or even wetsuit-recommended) race is plausible here, but this hasn't been stated by the organiser.
Leg 2 of 3
Bike — 80km
No route has been published for T100 Abu Dhabi. WTCS Abu Dhabi precedent (Hudayriyat Island, 2026 edition) describes a flat bike course; the earlier Yas Island-era WTCS course ran through Yas Island past Ferrari World and Yas Mall. Neither is confirmed as the T100 route.
- Venue
- Not yet announced
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Road (route not yet announced).
Non-drafting
Leg 3 of 3
Run — 18km
No route has been published for T100 Abu Dhabi. WTCS Abu Dhabi precedent describes a flat run course at both its historic Yas Island venue and its 2026 Hudayriyat Island venue. Neither is confirmed as the T100 route.
- Venue
- Not yet announced
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Road (route not yet announced).
Transitions
Not published — no venue has been announced for this race yet.
T100 Abu Dhabi Split Calculator
T100 Abu Dhabi Split-Time Calculator
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Projected Finish Time
5:03:00
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Where T100 Abu Dhabi starts and finishes
T100 Abu Dhabi starts at Abu Dhabi, UAE (exact swim/bike/run venue not yet announced) and finishes at Not yet announced. We haven't been able to place those on a map accurately enough to show one — a pin in the wrong place is worse than no pin.
These are the start and finish points, not the route. Verus doesn't hold course files for this race, and drawing a line between two pins would be a guess you might end up training on.
What you can qualify for
Not confirmed. T100's other 2027 venues (e.g. Saudi Arabia) are explicitly billed as qualifiers for the Qatar T100 Age-Group World Championships, but three independent sources reporting on the official 2027 calendar do not list Abu Dhabi among the T100 stops at all — it appears only on their T50 calendars. Until the organiser publishes an Abu Dhabi event page, don't assume this race carries T100 Qatar qualification.
Entry & Ballot
Direct entry summary
T100 Abu Dhabi is listed on t100triathlon.com/triathlon-world-tour with dates of 13-14 March 2027 and status "Get Priority Access" — no pricing or registration link is live yet, and t100triathlon.com/abu-dhabi/ (the pattern used for Dubai and Saudi Arabia's dedicated pages) currently 404s. Importantly, this date and tier conflict with independent reporting: coverage of the same PTO/World Triathlon 'Triathlon World Tour' launch by Slowtwitch, Triathlon Magazine (Canada) and tri-mag.de all list an Abu Dhabi stop only on the separate T50 World Championship Tour calendar, dated 27-28 March 2027 — and none of their published 2027 T100 calendars (Gold Coast, Singapore, San Francisco, Vancouver, Marbella, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, French Riviera) include Abu Dhabi at all. Treat the '100km T100 race' framing for Abu Dhabi as unconfirmed until the organiser publishes a dedicated event page.
Ballot policy
Not a ballot — "Get Priority Access" sign-up only, per t100triathlon.com; no registration is open yet.
Age requirement
Not published for this event.
Charity Places
No charity partner or charity-place scheme was found published for this event.
Race Day Info & Checklist
On the day
- There is a genuine, sourced conflict over what 'T100 Abu Dhabi' even is. t100triathlon.com/triathlon-world-tour lists it under the T100 brand for 13-14 March 2027 with 'Get Priority Access' status. But independent coverage of the same PTO/World Triathlon calendar launch (Slowtwitch, Triathlon Magazine Canada, tri-mag.de) places an Abu Dhabi stop only on the shorter-format T50 World Championship Tour, dated 27-28 March 2027 — and their T100 'Race to Qatar' calendars (Gold Coast, Singapore, San Francisco, Vancouver, Marbella, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, French Riviera) don't include Abu Dhabi. This is the same T50-not-T100 pattern that has turned up for other brand-new 2027 Triathlon World Tour cities. Verify directly against a dedicated Abu Dhabi event page once the organiser publishes one — none exists yet (t100triathlon.com/abu-dhabi/ currently 404s).
- Abu Dhabi has real, long-running triathlon pedigree, just not (yet) at the T100 100km distance: it has hosted World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) racing every year since 2016. That's offered here as precedent, not as a confirmed T100 fact. The historic WTCS venue was Yas Island / Yas Marina Circuit (swim in Yas Marina, bike past Ferrari World and Yas Mall, finish at the F1 circuit); the event moved to Hudayriyat Island for the 2026 WTCS edition, with a sea swim, flat bike and flat run, November water temperatures of 20-23°C and air of 23-29°C.
- No IRONMAN 70.3 race is held in Abu Dhabi — the UAE's IRONMAN 70.3 presence is Dubai (and, regionally, Bahrain), so it isn't cited here as precedent.
- March sea temperatures off Abu Dhabi run roughly 21-23°C by independent seatemperature data — notably cooler than T100 Dubai's 28-29°C November swim, and below the 24.6°C threshold above which World Triathlon prohibits wetsuits. If the current mid-March date holds, a wetsuit-legal swim is plausible, unlike Dubai's near-certain non-wetsuit race. Not officially confirmed either way.
- No athlete WhatsApp group link or QR code was found published anywhere for this event — unlike T100 Dubai, which does run one. None is stated here rather than reusing or inventing one.
- Zayed International Airport (AUH) is the main gateway, roughly 15-20 minutes / around 17 miles from Yas Island. Most EU/EEA, UK, US, Canadian, Australian, Japanese and South Korean passport holders (49 nationalities in total) get 90-day visa-free entry to the UAE; GCC nationals get 30 days visa-free; many other nationalities qualify for visa-on-arrival.
Checklist
- Light, warm-weather kit for mid-March Abu Dhabi — average air temperature runs roughly 21-28°C
- A wetsuit — unlike Dubai, March Gulf water (~21-23°C) plausibly sits in wetsuit-legal territory, though this has not been officially confirmed
- Patience with logistics: no venue, course map, pricing or athlete guide has been published for this race yet
- A close eye on the official T100 Abu Dhabi page once it exists, and on whether the event is confirmed as T100 (100km) or T50 (shorter format) — independent reporting currently disagrees with t100triathlon.com's own listing on this point
Transport, Spectating & Where to Stay
Transport
No passenger rail serves this purpose in Abu Dhabi — Zayed International Airport (AUH) is the practical way in, roughly 15-20 minutes by road from Yas Island, with a taxi or rideshare onward. Exact venue transit guidance is not published since no venue has been announced.
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Spectator guide
Not published for this event.
Not published for this event.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is T100 Abu Dhabi 2027?
Listed as 13-14 March 2027 on t100triathlon.com/triathlon-world-tour, with 'Get Priority Access' status. Note: independent reporting on the same PTO/World Triathlon 2027 calendar places an Abu Dhabi stop on the separate T50 tour instead, dated 27-28 March 2027 — see the tier question below.
Is T100 Abu Dhabi a full T100 (100km) race or a T50 (shorter) race?
Genuinely unclear from public sources as of research. t100triathlon.com's own calendar page lists Abu Dhabi under the T100 brand. But Slowtwitch, Triathlon Magazine (Canada) and tri-mag.de, all reporting on the same official calendar launch, list Abu Dhabi only on the T50 World Championship Tour calendar for 2027, and don't include it on their T100 'Race to Qatar' calendars at all. No dedicated Abu Dhabi event page exists yet to resolve this.
Where exactly will T100 Abu Dhabi be held?
Not yet announced. Abu Dhabi has hosted World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) racing since 2016, historically at Yas Island / Yas Marina Circuit and, for 2026, at Hudayriyat Island — but neither is confirmed as the T100 venue.
Do you need a wetsuit at T100 Abu Dhabi?
Not officially stated. Independent sea-temperature data for mid-March (~21-23°C) sits below the 24.6°C threshold at which World Triathlon prohibits wetsuits, unlike T100 Dubai's warm November swim — so a wetsuit-legal race is plausible here, but unconfirmed.
Is there a WhatsApp group for T100 Abu Dhabi athletes?
None found published as of research — unlike T100 Dubai, which runs an official athlete WhatsApp community.
Can you qualify for the T100 World Championships at Abu Dhabi?
Not confirmed. Independent reporting doesn't list Abu Dhabi among the 2027 T100 'Race to Qatar' calendar stops at all, so its role (if any) in Qatar World Championship qualification is unclear until the organiser publishes a dedicated event page.
How do I get to T100 Abu Dhabi?
Zayed International Airport (AUH) is the main gateway, roughly 15-20 minutes by road from Yas Island. Most nationalities from the EU/EEA, UK, US, Canada, Australia and several parts of Asia get 90-day visa-free entry to the UAE.
When were T100 Abu Dhabi results published?
Pending — nothing exists until the race actually runs. Check the official results source if you need it sooner than this page updates.