In the final weekend of April, Great Britain’s Sam Dickinson joined some of the world’s best triathletes at the opening race of the men’s 2026 T100 Triathlon World Tour Series, where he finished second, behind only last year’s T100 Triathlon World Champion Hayden Wilde, with a time of 3:28:19.

Dickinson finished in the top 10 of all three different disciplines, with his best time coming in the swimming, where he finished first with a time of 26:00, before he placed third in the cycling and seventh in the run.

On his placing throughout the triathlon, York-born Dickinson said: “I think it all came down to heat prep if I’m being honest. If we’re talking about the times and powers that we push on the bike and swim speed, if I’m being really honest, no one else wanted to lead the swim, so that’s why I ended up leading the swim. Because it’s so hot, it’s just a race of controlling your core body temperature, and luckily enough, I felt easy enough to be able to go to the front.”

“Then on the bike it was a case for me of just trying to control my heart rate and let everyone go up the road for the start, and then in the second half of the bike I was able to then come back, and Hayden kept making a gap, but at least I was at the front of the race for second, let's say.”

“The run was a bit up and down because the French athlete went off hard, but then unfortunately he had plantar fasciitis apparently, so he ended up hobbling halfway round on the run, which meant that I could overtake him and come second. Which is never the way that you want to beat someone, but I mean, that’s the sport, and we’re all dealing with injuries, so at the end of the day it all came down to preparation.”

However, since the completion of the race, Dickinson has been in rehab with a 'grade 4 bone stress’ in his foot after he went for a scan after the Singapore T100.

Therefore, Dickinson will miss the San Francisco T100 as well as the WTCS London, but the gap between the T100 races means he will likely be back for the third T100 race of 2026.

The run was a bit up and down because the French athlete went off hard, but then unfortunately he had plantar fasciitis apparently, so he ended up hobbling halfway round on the run, which meant that I could overtake him and come second

On his rehab and what it means for the rest of the T100 series, 28-year-old Dickinson said: “It’s news that an athlete dreads all the time. It was pretty tough to take, but luckily now we’re three weeks in, we’ve got the first couple of hard weeks out of the way, and now we’re just gradually bringing more things back in so everything’s step by step at the moment.”

“Luckily, I say it’s lucky I did come second, and I have a good result, and we can drop one race in the series. I will be dropping San Francisco in a few weeks, but I can still get back for the next few races, and I can still have a full season, so in that sense it's ok, but in the other sense, as an athlete, you always want to be as good as you can be and to reach your potential, and this is obviously a setback in doing that.”

Dickinson will hope to kick on with his season once he returns after the second T100 race after his strong start at Singapore, which saw him earn his highest-placed finish in his T100 career.

The result saw him step onto the T100 podium for the second time in his career, after a third-placed finish at the 2025 French Riviera race, and he will be looking to continue his long-distance form throughout the year.

On his previous results and what they mean for the remainder of his season, British men’s number 1 Dickinson said: “Finishing 8th overall was good for the series last year, but I knew this year if I could really target the races, then I could hopefully go better.

“It started well in Singapore, being the best of the rest behind Hayden, but I know there’s a long way to go for the whole series, and if I could just keep challenging the podium and keep coming away with podiums each race, then I’ll hopefully be able to get a podium at the end of the year rankings.”

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The LA2028 Triathlon qualification window has also recently been opened and as a result the world’s best triathletes, including Dickinson, are now vying for the required points and results to secure their place at the next Olympic games.

Dickinson will be looking to secure qualification for his second Olympic Games, after he competed at Paris 2024, at which he won a bronze medal in the mixed team relay alongside Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Beth Potter.

On Olympic qualification and his next steps, PTO men's world number 8 Dickinson said: “It’s absolutely something I’m thinking of doing. The Olympics is really special, and I’d say everyone has heard of the Olympics and they know the Olympics, so what I’ve learnt since Paris is how far it spreads and how inspiring it is to younger athletes and athletes all over the place.”

“So that Olympic experience and being able to hopefully inspire the next generation through the Olympics is something I’m really keen to do as well. From a personal perspective, upgrading a bronze medal to a gold medal would be what I’d personally really want to do but it’s going to be challenging to make the British team; the team’s going to be super hard but I definitely have my eyes set on going.
back to LA.”

Dickinson will plan to make his T100 return on 19th September in the French Riviera event before the Saudi Arabian 4th round in November.

The T100 World Tour Series will then come to a close on 11th December with the World Championship Final, which is set to be held in Qatar.