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Triathlon · T100
T100 Tauranga 2027
- Race day
- Saturday, 20 November 2027
- Location
- Tauranga, New Zealand
- Distance
- 100 km total
2km swim 80km bike 18km run
T100 Tauranga 2027: date, entry, and what's known so far about this brand-new Bay of Plenty venue on the Triathlon World Tour.
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Key Race Metrics & Overview
- Date
- Saturday, 20 November 2027
- Venue
- Tauranga / Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty (exact swim/transition venue not yet announced)
- Distance
- T100 — 100km total
- Start Time
- Not published — this is an inaugural venue with no prior edition to draw a precedent from.
- Draft-Legal Bike
- No — non-drafting
- Cut-Off
- Not published — this is an inaugural venue with no prior edition to draw a precedent from.
Also this weekend
Distances for Tauranga have not been published anywhere by the organiser — the T100 site itself describes the venue only as 'age-group distances TBC.' Worth flagging directly: independent press coverage of the official 2027 Triathlon World Tour calendar (Triathlon Magazine Canada, Slowtwitch, TRI247) lists this 20-21 November 2027 Tauranga stop under the T50 World Championship Tour (an Olympic-distance-format race, roughly 1.5km/40km/10km) rather than the 100km T100 tour that this page is filed under. Until the organiser publishes confirmed distances, don't assume the full 100km format applies here.
Leg 1 of 3
Swim — 2km
No swim venue, distance or course layout has been officially published for this event — the organiser's own registration page offers only 'Get Priority Access,' with no athlete guide out yet. For useful (but unconfirmed) context: Mount Maunganui, the obvious local base for a Tauranga triathlon, has two established swim venues used by past multisport events — the sheltered harbour waters of Pilot Bay, and the open-ocean Main Beach/Moturiki Island (Leisure Island) stretch used for the 2025 Oceania Sprint & Mixed Relay Championships (beach start off Moturiki Island, HQ at Hopukiore Reserve/Mount Drury on Marine Parade). Neither has been confirmed as the T100 venue.
- Venue
- Not yet announced — likely a Bay of Plenty coastal or harbour venue, exact beach unconfirmed
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Sea — open water off the Bay of Plenty coast (exact venue not yet announced).
Wetsuit: Not published. Applying the general T100/World Triathlon banding (mandatory below 15.9°C, prohibited above 24.6°C) against Tauranga's typical late-November sea temperature of roughly 16-19°C, a wetsuit looks near-certain to be mandatory or at least legal — but this hasn't been stated by the organiser, so treat it as a strong inference rather than a confirmed rule.
Leg 2 of 3
Bike — 80km
No route, distance or course description has been published for this event. The 100km T100 format elsewhere on the tour uses an 80km bike leg, but distances for Tauranga specifically have not been confirmed — see the note above on the T50-vs-T100 classification discrepancy for this venue.
- Venue
- Tauranga / Bay of Plenty (exact route not yet announced)
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Road — no details published.
Non-drafting
Leg 3 of 3
Run — 18km
No route, distance or course description has been published for this event.
- Venue
- Tauranga / Bay of Plenty (exact route not yet announced)
- Elevation gain
- No official figure published — see notes above
- Surface
- Road — no details published.
Transitions
Not published — no venue map exists yet for this inaugural race.
T100 Tauranga Split Calculator
T100 Tauranga Split-Time Calculator
Enter your own swim, bike and run pace to project a real finish time.
Projected Finish Time
5:03:00
Racing a different distance? Try the generic split calculator or the swim pace calculator.
Where T100 Tauranga starts and finishes
T100 Tauranga starts at Tauranga / Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty (exact swim/transition venue not yet announced) and finishes at Not yet announced — likely a Bay of Plenty coastal or harbour venue, exact beach unconfirmed. 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
T100's 100km races are generally advertised as qualifiers for the Qatar T100 Age-Group World Championships, but this has not been confirmed for Tauranga specifically — and given the T50-vs-T100 classification question above, it may turn out that Tauranga instead feeds into the T50 World Championship Tour's own finals structure (Hamburg hosted the 2027 T50 World Championship Finals) rather than Qatar. Check directly with the organiser before assuming either qualification pathway.
Entry & Ballot
Direct entry summary
This is a brand-new venue, announced as part of the joint PTO/World Triathlon 'Triathlon World Tour' brand launch and its initial 2027 calendar. Entry is at 'Priority Access' sign-up only via the official site, with no pricing published. One thing worth being upfront about: while this event reached our desk framed as 'T100 Tauranga,' independent press coverage of the official calendar (Triathlon Magazine Canada, Slowtwitch, TRI247) lists the 20-21 November 2027 Tauranga stop specifically under the T50 tour, not T100 — the organiser's own age-group listing page doesn't state a distance either way. Tauranga does have real, separate multisport credibility regardless of which tour this ends up under: New Zealand secured a three-year World Triathlon partnership in August 2025 that brings a World Triathlon Cup (2026), a World Triathlon Championship Series race (2027), and the World Triathlon Championship Series Grand Final plus Age Group and Para World Championships (November 2028) to Tauranga.
Ballot policy
Not a ballot — priority access sign-up now, with full registration to follow once further detail is published.
Age requirement
Not published for this event.
Charity Places
No charity-place scheme was found published for this event.
Race Day Info & Checklist
On the day
- This will be a genuinely new event on the Triathlon World Tour — the organiser's own athlete-info section for Tauranga currently offers nothing beyond a 'Get Priority Access' sign-up, with no course map, athlete guide, or confirmed distances.
- Tauranga is not new to hosting major multisport, even though this particular event is: the town (via Mount Maunganui) has run the long-standing Tauranga Half since 1990 and the EVES Surfbreaker Triathlon since 1985, hosted the 2022 Oceania Triathlon Cup and the 2025 Oceania Sprint, Mixed Relay & Para Triathlon Championships (HQ at Hopukiore Reserve/Mount Drury, beach start off Moturiki Island/Leisure Island), and — separately from anything T100/Triathlon World Tour-related — was confirmed in August 2025 to host a World Triathlon Cup (2026), a World Triathlon Championship Series race (2027), and the World Triathlon Championship Series Grand Final plus Age Group and Para World Championships in November 2028, under a three-year, NZ$2.65m-backed partnership between Triathlon New Zealand, MBIE, Tauranga City Council and World Triathlon. None of that history or those separate 2028 World Championship Finals should be read as confirming any detail of this specific 2027 T100/Triathlon World Tour race.
- Mount Maunganui, the beach town across the harbour from central Tauranga, is the obvious local base for any race here — it has two distinct swim venues used by past events: Pilot Bay (sheltered harbour water) and Main Beach/Moturiki Island (open ocean surf). Neither has been named as this event's venue.
- Independent press (Triathlon Magazine Canada, Slowtwitch, TRI247) covering the official 2027 Triathlon World Tour calendar classifies the 20-21 November Tauranga stop as a T50 (Olympic-distance-format, ~1.5km/40km/10km) World Championship Tour race rather than a T100 (100km) race — a discrepancy from how this venue was briefed to us, and one worth resolving with the organiser before treating any of the 100km-specific figures on this page (swim/bike/run distances) as reliable.
Checklist
- A wetsuit — likely needed given typical Bay of Plenty water temperatures of 16-19°C in late November, though this has not been officially confirmed
- Warm and waterproof kit for transition and pre-race, given Tauranga's changeable early-summer weather (averaging 94mm of rain over 12 days in November)
- Patience with logistics as a first-year event — course maps, distances, transition rules and cut-offs are all still to be published
- An NZeTA (New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority) sorted well before travel if you're a visa-waiver-country passport holder — it's mandatory even for visa-free entry, costs roughly NZ$117-123 including the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy, and should be applied for before boarding your flight
- A close eye on the official site for updates, since this page will need real updating once distances and venue details are confirmed
Transport, Spectating & Where to Stay
Transport
No practical passenger rail serves Tauranga for this purpose. Tauranga Airport (TRG) has limited scheduled service (domestic, via Air New Zealand); Auckland Airport (AKL) is the main international gateway, roughly 2h15-2h30 by road from Tauranga.
Not published for this event.
Not published for this event.
Spectator guide
Not published for this event.
Not published for this event.
Where to stay
Mount Maunganui
+ The beach town most likely to be close to any race village given local triathlon precedent, with its own hotel, motel and dining scene and easy access to both Pilot Bay and Main Beach.
– Exact proximity to the eventual T100 venue is unconfirmed until course details are published; a popular domestic beach destination, so book early regardless.
Tauranga city centre
+ Short drive or bridge crossing to Mount Maunganui, with a wider range of accommodation and the region's main services.
– Further from the beach venues than staying at the Mount itself.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is T100 Tauranga 2027?
20-21 November 2027 — a brand-new venue on the Triathlon World Tour, with no prior edition to draw on.
Where exactly in Tauranga is the race held?
Not yet announced. Mount Maunganui, across the harbour from central Tauranga, is the town's established multisport base and the most likely location given past events there, but the organiser hasn't named a specific venue.
Is Tauranga actually a T100 (100km) race?
This is genuinely unclear. The organiser's own age-group listing page files it alongside T100 venues but states no distance. Independent press coverage of the official 2027 Triathlon World Tour calendar (Triathlon Magazine Canada, Slowtwitch, TRI247) instead lists this 20-21 November Tauranga stop under the T50 tour — an Olympic-distance format (roughly 1.5km/40km/10km), not the 100km T100 format. Treat the distances on this page as unconfirmed until the organiser clarifies.
What distances does T100 Tauranga offer?
Not published. The organiser's own site describes the venue only as "age-group distances TBC" — see the note above on the T50/T100 classification discrepancy for why even the headline distance is uncertain.
Has Tauranga hosted triathlons before?
Yes, extensively, through Mount Maunganui — the Tauranga Half (since 1990), the EVES Surfbreaker Triathlon (since 1985), the 2022 Oceania Triathlon Cup, and the 2025 Oceania Sprint, Mixed Relay & Para Triathlon Championships. Separately, New Zealand secured a three-year World Triathlon partnership in August 2025 bringing a World Triathlon Cup (2026), a World Triathlon Championship Series race (2027) and the World Triathlon Championship Series Grand Final, Age Group and Para World Championships to Tauranga in November 2028. None of this confirms any detail of the 2027 T100/Triathlon World Tour event specifically.
Do you need a wetsuit at T100 Tauranga?
Not officially stated, but likely — late-November Bay of Plenty sea temperatures typically run 16-19°C, well inside the range where a wetsuit is either mandatory or legal under general T100/World Triathlon rules. This hasn't been confirmed by the organiser for this event.
Do UK, EU or US travellers need a visa for T100 Tauranga?
Most visa-waiver-country passport holders (including the UK, EU states, the US, Canada and Australia) don't need a full visa, but do need a New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority (NZeTA) — mandatory since 2019, applied for online or via app before travel, costing roughly NZ$117-123 including the mandatory tourism levy.
When were T100 Tauranga results published?
No results exist before race day. Once the 2027 edition has taken place, they'll appear here and on the official results page.