British Triathlon has released the new World Class Programme for building towards LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032, including a number of new U23 and final year Junior athletes. They join some well-established names and Olympic medallists already on the programme, including the likes of Alex Yee and Beth Potter.

New Olympic Programme Athletes

The new athletes selected onto the Olympic Programme after a successful 2025 are Oliver Conway, Alex Robin, Brandon Pye, Michael Gar, Jack Willis and Sian Rainsley. Of these 6, Alex Robin and Brandon Pye both competed in their final year as juniors this year, before they enter the senior ranks next year. Oliver Conway and Michael Gar both found success in their senior/elite and U23 seasons, and are joined on the programme by elite senior athletes Jack Willis and Sian Rainsley.

• Alex Robin –

Alex Robin’s first major championship of the season was out in Melilla for the Junior European Champs. He took 17th in the individual before taking bronze the next day in the Junior Mixed Relay with the GB team. At Mallory Park in September for the British qualifier for the Junior World Champs in Wollongong, Robin took 1st, gaining his spot for the Worlds GB team. At the World Champs in Australia, he pulled out his most successful race to date, taking silver at the Junior World Championship before adding another medal to his weekend as part of the GB U23/Junior Mixed Relay team who claimed Gold and the 2025 U23/Junior Mixed Relay World title.

• Brandon Pye –

Pye started his 2025 season with a statement win at the European Junior Cup in Quarteira. In July he followed this up by taking 3rd at the European Championship in Melilla as well as leading the GB Junior team to bronze in the Mixed Relay the following day. 2025 was also his SuperTri debut, racing for Brownlee Racing in Chicago against some of the top short course elite men on the circuit. With 2nd at the British qualifier in September he gained his spot on the GB team in Wollongong, but unfortunately a DNS meant he missed the Junior World Champs this year.

• Oliver Conway –

In his debut year as a senior and U23 he quickly gained strong results with 2nd at the Elite European Cup in Quarteira, before taking his first European Cup elite win, in Olsztyn, Poland, in April. Further into the season Conway closed in on Olympian Tyler Mislawchuk, in the final stage of the Saidia World Cup in Morocco and went on to win his first elite World Cup. He took 5th at the U23 European Champs in Melilla and then made his World Triathlon Championship Series debut in Karlovy Vary, taking 4th against the biggest names in short course triathlon, including finishing ahead of elite World Champion, Matt Hauser. He then closed out his season in the best way he could off, at the U23 Worlds in Wollongong, taking control early into the run and securing the U23 World Triathlon title on debut. With World Champ status gained, he ran the GB team home into Gold in the Mixed Relay with the U23/Junior team.

• Michael Gar –

Michael Gar’s season hit a huge high late into the season, but still performed on the World and European circuit, taking 2nd behind fellow Brit Oliver Conway at the Olsztyn European Cup in April, going on to take 28th U23 at the European Championship in Spain’s Melilla in July. A win at the Italian Triathlon Champs in September showed his top form and he finished 29th at the U23 World Champs in Wollongong after being well with the top 10 group for much of the race. With two World Cups left in Asia, he truly progressed from his performance in Australia, with a standout performance in Miyazaki to take 3rd to make his first World Cup podium and then back up his form, by rounding out his 2025 season with 4th at the Tongyeong World Cup.

• Jack Willis –

Willis is returning back onto the World Class programme after multiple World Cup top 10s, including 6th in the T1 Indoor Cup Liévin in March and 9th in the Tiszaujvaros World Cup. In September he took his best result of the season so far, with 5th at the European Triathlon Championships in Istanbul, backing up the form two weeks later with 11th in WTCS Weihai. He then went on to the World Championship Finals in Wollongong, claiming 19th in the elite men.

• Sian Rainsley –

Finishing the year ranked 17th in the world by World Triathlon and the World Triathlon Championship series, her results in elite competition this year go even better. She had strong consistency across 5 WTCS stops, with 13th at Yokohoma, 15th in Alghero, 16th at Hamburg and 15th again in French Riviera, before taking her first WTCS top 10 with 10th at Karlovy Vary in September. Despite a DNF in Weihai a couple weeks later, she took arguably her best performance of the season with 12th at the World Triathlon Championship Finals in Wollongong, ending a strong season of WTCS racing.