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Triathlon · T100
T100 French Riviera 2026
- Race day
- Saturday, 19 September 2026
- Location
- St Raphaël & Fréjus, France
- Distance
- 100 km total
2km swim 80km bike 18km run
T100 French Riviera: the Saint-Raphaël & Fréjus T100 course, the 2026 pro-only race, and what's known about age-group racing's 2027 return.
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Key Race Metrics & Overview
- Date
- Saturday, 19 September 2026
- Venue
- Base Nature François Léotard, Fréjus, is the race village, transition and finish for the amateur/age-group races (2025 precedent) — but the professional race and the separately branded WTCS elite race instead swim, and largely transition, at Plage du Veillat in central Saint-Raphaël, a few kilometres away. The two towns share the event; which one you experience depends on which race you're watching or racing.
- Distance
- T100 — 100km total
- Start Time
- 08:05 CEST for the professional men's race (Plage du Veillat swim start), per the Estérel Côte d'Azur tourism authority's own 2026 event page. This is a pro-only race weekend — there is no age-group start time to publish for 2026, since no amateur race runs here this year. As 2025 precedent only: the amateur 100km started at 10:00, Olympic at 07:45 and Sprint at 08:15, all from Base Nature Fréjus.
- Draft-Legal Bike
- No — non-drafting
- Cut-Off
- Not published for a 2027 race. As 2025 precedent only, for the 100km amateur distance (10:00 start): swim + T1 cut-off 11:20; a series of staged bike cut-offs from 13:30 (km 63.8, with the option to shortcut onto the run) through 14:20 at T2; overall course cut-off 17:20 — a 7-hour-20-minute race window. Olympic (07:45 start) closed at 12:45; Sprint (08:15 start) also closed at 12:45, though Sprint athletes who missed the single bike cut-off were still allowed to finish.
Also this weekend
As 2025 precedent only, not confirmed for 2027: alongside the 100km T100 distance, the French Riviera also ran Olympic (1.5km/40km/10km) and Sprint (750m/20km/5km) amateur races the same weekend, plus a youth aquathlon. The 2026 season offers none of these here — there is no amateur race of any distance at this venue in 2026. Whether the full 100km/Olympic/Sprint menu returns in 2027 hasn't been published; only the 100km 'Triathlon (Individual)' format has been named so far for 2027.
Olympic
2025 precedent only — not confirmed as offered in 2027. Ran as 3 bike laps and 3 run laps that year.
Sprint
2025 precedent only — not confirmed as offered in 2027. Ran as a single 20km bike lap and 2 run laps that year.
Leg 1 of 3
Swim — 2km
For the professional race, a single 2km lap off Plage du Veillat in central Saint-Raphaël — a short walk from the Saint-Raphaël Valescure train station, with paid parking nearby and most of the town's hotels within walking distance. This is a different swim location from the amateur/age-group race: the 2025 Athlete Guide's own venue map places the 'T100 Amateur Swim Start/Exit' at Base Nature Fréjus instead, several kilometres along the coast. Whether the 2027 age-group swim returns to Base Nature or moves to Plage du Veillat hasn't been published.
- Venue
- Plage du Veillat, central Saint-Raphaël, directly in front of the Casino (professional race, confirmed for 2026)
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Sea — open water off a Mediterranean beach.
Wetsuit: The 2025 Athlete Guide states the standard World Triathlon banding explicitly: wetsuits mandatory below 15.9°C, forbidden at or above 24.6°C — no French Riviera-specific variation was published. The organiser's own pro-race page cites an average water temperature of roughly 21°C for the mid-September pro race weekend, which sits inside the optional band. The 2025 amateur race, held in late August, recorded warmer water (22-28°C per the athlete guide) — close to or above the forbidden threshold — so the correct call will depend heavily on which weekend and month the 2027 age-group race is eventually scheduled for, not just the venue.
Leg 2 of 3
Bike — 80km
The professional race rides a single-lap, largely point-to-point 80km route along the Corniche d'Or, climbing into the Estérel massif via the Col du Testanier before a fast descent back to Fréjus — described in independent third-party course recon (not the organiser's own athlete guide) as featuring roughly 10km of sustained climbing at gradients up to 8%. This is a genuinely different course from the amateur race: the 2025 Athlete Guide describes the 100km amateur bike leg as six laps of a much shorter ~13km circuit, which reads as a closed, repeatable loop rather than the pros' one-way mountain route — almost certainly for road-closure and marshalling reasons rather than a lesser course. Don't assume the amateur race climbs the Corniche d'Or at all until the organiser confirms a 2027 route.
- Venue
- The Corniche d'Or, between Saint-Raphaël and the Estérel massif (professional race); a shorter looped circuit near Base Nature Fréjus for the amateur race (2025 precedent)
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Closed road — the pro route is genuinely hilly (independently reported at roughly 900m/2,950ft of gain, though this figure has not been published by the organiser and is not presented here as confirmed); the amateur loop is flatter and repeated, per the 2025 guide.
Non-drafting
Leg 3 of 3
Run — 18km
Entirely within Base Nature, Fréjus — flat, fast and spectator-friendly by design, on a mix of tarmac and compact trail. The 2025 amateur race ran this as five laps (four of 3.7km plus one of 3.2km); the 2026 pro race is scheduled as six laps of the same general venue, per the Estérel Côte d'Azur tourism authority's 2026 circulation page. Lap counts differ by category, but the run stays within Base Nature for every distance — unlike the swim and bike, which diverge between Saint-Raphaël (pro/WTCS) and Fréjus (amateur).
- Venue
- Base Nature François Léotard, Fréjus
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Mixed tarmac and compact trail within Base Nature Fréjus — flat.
Transitions
For the amateur/age-group divisions (2025 precedent, not confirmed for 2027): a single transition at Base Nature François Léotard, Fréjus, served as both T1 and T2 for the 100km, Olympic and Sprint races, with bikes and both transition bags checked in the day before racing (no race-morning bike check-in). The professional race and the WTCS elite race instead transition near their shared swim start at Plage du Veillat in central Saint-Raphaël — a genuinely different setup, since pro/WTCS athletes don't travel between the two towns the way amateurs on the same weekend historically have.
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Where T100 French Riviera starts and finishes
T100 French Riviera starts at Base Nature François Léotard, Fréjus, is the race village, transition and finish for the amateur/age-group races (2025 precedent) — but the professional race and the separately branded WTCS elite race instead swim, and largely transition, at Plage du Veillat in central Saint-Raphaël, a few kilometres away. The two towns share the event; which one you experience depends on which race you're watching or racing. and finishes at Plage du Veillat, central Saint-Raphaël, directly in front of the Casino (professional race, confirmed for 2026). 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. The official course map is the one to use: view it on the organiser's site .
What you can qualify for
As 2025 precedent: the top 10 men and top 10 women in each age group in the 100km Triathlon qualified for the Qatar T100 Age-Group World Championships that December, per the official Athlete Guide. This is the standard T100-wide qualification structure used at other venues, and is likely — but not confirmed — to apply again whenever the 2027 age-group race is held here.
Entry & Ballot
Direct entry summary
The confirmed next race at this venue is the professional men's T100, 19 September 2026 — there is no amateur/age-group entry to buy for 2026. Age-group racing returns to the French Riviera in 2027 under the Triathlon World Tour banner, per the organiser's own page, but the date, distances and pricing are all still unpublished. Entry is currently 'Priority Access' sign-up only, via t100triathlon.com/triathlon-world-tour. For context only — not a confirmed 2027 detail — the last time age-groupers raced here, 29-31 August 2025, the 100km amateur event was put 'on general sale' with PTO CEO Sam Renouf comparing its ambition to the Roc d'Azur, the 20,000-plus-rider mountain-bike festival held in the same Estérel region; exact 2025 pricing was not found published either.
Ballot policy
Not a ballot — Priority Access sign-up now for 2027, with full registration expected once a date is confirmed.
Age requirement
Not published for a confirmed 2027 race yet. Not published in the 2025 Athlete Guide either — check the French Federation rules the event runs under once 2027 registration opens.
Charity Places
No charity-place scheme was found published for this event.
Race Day Info & Checklist
On the day
- The Estérel Côte d'Azur region has real triathlon pedigree beyond T100 itself: per the PTO's own launch media release, it has hosted French national triathlon team training camps every year since 1990, and French pro Léo Bergère trains locally in Saint-Raphaël. The wider Côte d'Azur also has deep endurance-sport history — Nice held a long-distance triathlon from 1982 (won ten years running by Mark Allen), then IRONMAN France from 2005, and the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in 2019 — though that's a different town roughly 40km along the coast, not Saint-Raphaël/Fréjus itself.
- Ashleigh Gentle (3:41:42) and Hayden Wilde (3:12:23) won the first-ever French Riviera T100 pro race in 2025, per PTO's own results archive.
- 2025 Athlete Guide draft rule (precedent only): non-drafting throughout, with a 12m draft zone for the 100km distance and 7m for Sprint/Olympic; a first offence draws a verbal warning, a second a time-based blue card (5 minutes for 100km, 1-2 minutes for Sprint/Olympic), and a third disqualification. Two broom-wagon vans collect athletes who miss the bike cut-offs or DNF on the bike.
- Timing chips are worn on the left ankle in the 2025 precedent; a lost or unreturned chip and strap cost US$75.
- Broadcast (confirmed series-wide, not venue-exclusive): the PTO+ app and the T100 YouTube channel carry the race free globally; Discovery+, Eurosport and Max carry it live across Europe.
- The organiser's own 2026 course-map note reads '2025 course map – full 2026 course TBC,' consistent with the pro course changing between years — treat any course description here as informative rather than a guarantee of what's raced in a given year.
- Worth checking directly if you're planning to race age-group here in 2026: the Estérel Côte d'Azur tourism authority's own 2026 event page lists 'Amateur Triathlons' on Sunday 20 September, but this appears to be a separate World Triathlon-sanctioned age-group race run alongside the WTCS elite event under a different banner from T100 — French Riviera does not appear on T100's own list of 2026 amateur venues. Don't assume a T100-branded amateur entry exists here in 2026 based on that listing alone.
Checklist
- A wetsuit, with the actual call dependent on both water temperature and which month the eventual 2027 race falls in — see the wetsuit note above
- Kit for warm, sunny Riviera conditions — expect air in the low-to-mid 20s°C for a September race, or high 20s for an August one, per the two data points published so far
- Patience with logistics if racing age-group in a future year: the amateur race uses a different swim/transition location (Base Nature Fréjus) from the professional race (Plage du Veillat, Saint-Raphaël), so double-check exactly where your own race starts
- A close eye on the official French Riviera page for the 2027 date, distances and pricing, none of which are published yet
Transport, Spectating & Where to Stay
Transport
Saint-Raphaël Valescure is the local station — roughly 10 minutes by car or a 35-40 minute walk to Base Nature Fréjus, or Bus Line 1 direct (per the 2025 Athlete Guide). From Nice Côte d'Azur Airport: Tram Line 2 to Nice Saint-Augustin station (about 5 minutes), then a TER regional train to Saint-Raphaël Valescure (about 1 hour).
No parking directly on the pro course. The Estérel Côte d'Azur tourism authority's 2026 page recommends parking on the periphery and walking or using public transport in; the Bonaparte and Kennedy car parks near Saint-Raphaël have exit restrictions during the race window.
Per the Estérel Côte d'Azur tourism authority's 2026 circulation page: the bike route (Kennedy roundabout, Saint-Raphaël, to Port d'Agay) bans parking from Friday 14:00 and closes to traffic Saturday 03:00-10:30 (resident exits allowed until 06:30); the run route (Fréjus to the Saint-Raphaël waterfront) bans parking from Friday 14:00 and closes its southbound lanes Saturday 03:00-12:00. Roads reopen progressively once the last competitors pass.
Spectator guide
Per the Estérel Côte d'Azur tourism authority: Jardin Bonaparte in Saint-Raphaël is the main viewing zone; Plage du Veillat has a fan zone along the north-lane sidewalk; beaches stay accessible to pedestrians via marshalled crossing points through the morning.
Bus lines around Saint-Raphaël and Fréjus may be diverted or interrupted during the race; the tourism authority publishes local transport-enquiry numbers for both towns on its own event page rather than a single unified spectator shuttle.
Where to stay
Saint-Raphaël town centre / Plage du Veillat
+ Walking distance to the pro/WTCS swim start and, per the 2025 guide, most of the town's hotels; closest to the Saint-Raphaël Valescure train station.
– Not close to Base Nature Fréjus, where the expo, amateur transition and finish line are — you may need a car, bus or a long walk depending which race you're following.
Fréjus / Base Nature area
+ Closest to Base Nature François Léotard itself — the expo, amateur race village, transition and finish for every distance.
– Further from the pro/WTCS swim start in Saint-Raphaël town, and from the Valescure train station.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is the next T100 French Riviera race?
19 September 2026, but it's professional men's racing only — no amateur/age-group entry exists at this venue in 2026.
When does age-group racing return to T100 French Riviera?
2027, per the organiser's own page — but no date, distances or pricing have been published yet. Only 'Priority Access' sign-up is available.
Has T100 French Riviera always been pro-only?
No — the inaugural 2025 edition (29-31 August) ran the full weekend: pro T100, a separately branded WTCS elite race, and amateur racing across 100km, Olympic and Sprint distances, all at Base Nature Fréjus and Plage du Veillat. 2026 dropped the amateur race entirely; it's due back in 2027.
Where exactly is T100 French Riviera held?
Across the twin towns of Saint-Raphaël and Fréjus. The professional/WTCS swim and (largely) transition happen at Plage du Veillat in central Saint-Raphaël; the amateur race (2025 precedent) swam and transitioned at Base Nature François Léotard in Fréjus instead. The run, for every distance, stays within Base Nature.
Is the T100 French Riviera bike course hilly?
For the professional race, yes — a single-lap 80km route along the Corniche d'Or with a genuine climb (the Col du Testanier) into the Estérel massif, independently reported at around 900m of gain, though the organiser hasn't published an official elevation figure. The 2025 amateur race instead rode a shorter, flatter looped circuit near Fréjus — a different course, not a shorter version of the same one.
Do you need a wetsuit at T100 French Riviera?
It depends on the month as much as the venue. The standard World Triathlon banding applies (mandatory below 15.9°C, forbidden at or above 24.6°C). The organiser's pro-race page cites average water around 21°C for a mid-September race — inside the optional band — while the 2025 amateur race, held in late August, recorded water up to 22-28°C, close to or above the forbidden threshold.
Has Saint-Raphaël/Fréjus hosted triathlon before?
Yes, extensively, if informally — the region has hosted French national triathlon team training camps every year since 1990, according to the PTO's own launch release, and pro Léo Bergère trains there. The wider Côte d'Azur is also long-distance triathlon heartland: Nice ran a long-distance triathlon from 1982 and IRONMAN France from 2005, hosting the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in 2019 — though that's a separate town on the coast, not Saint-Raphaël/Fréjus itself.
Can you qualify for a World Championship at T100 French Riviera?
As 2025 precedent: the top 10 per age group and gender in the 100km distance qualified for the Qatar T100 Age-Group World Championships that December. This is T100's standard qualification structure and is likely, but not confirmed, to apply again once the 2027 age-group race is scheduled.
Is there an athlete WhatsApp group for T100 French Riviera?
None found published. The organiser's 2025 Athlete Guide and current event pages don't mention a WhatsApp community for this venue — if one exists, it hasn't been made public. Don't trust a WhatsApp invite you find elsewhere without verifying it against the official t100triathlon.com French Riviera page first.
When were T100 French Riviera results published?
Results only exist once the race has been run. Check back here, or the official results page, after the 2025 edition takes place.