Hayden Wilde (born 1 September 1997) is a New Zealand professional triathlete. He was the bronze medallist at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the silver medalist at the

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and the winner of the 2021

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World Championships. He finished second in the 2021

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Championship Series, having taken the win at the SLT London race. Wilde won the 2022 Super League Triathlon Championship Series, having been victorious in 3 of the 5 series races.

Personal life

Wilde was born in Taupō, is the youngest of three brothers, and grew up in Whakatāne, New Zealand. Wilde attended

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. Growing up Wilde played

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and hockey before moving into running for fitness.

Career

Wilde has been coached by Craig Kirkwood since 2016 and currently trains in Tauranga, New Zealand. Wilde only took up Triathlon after watching the event at the

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. Wilde comes from a long-distance off-road background and has previously been the ITU Cross Tri U23 World Champion. Career Highlights include: * 3rd place at the 2019 Tokyo ITU World Triathlon Olympic Qualification Event * 4th place at the 2019 ITU World Triathlon Edmonton * 6th place at the 2019 Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon * 10th place at the 2019 Daman World Triathlon

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* 1st place at the 2019 Devonport OTU Sprint Triathlon Oceania Championships * 3rd place at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. * 2nd place in the 2021

Championship Series. *

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finalist for New Zealand’s Favourite Sporting Moment 2022 for Tokyo

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Bronze medal win

2019 season

Wilde finished the season in 11th place in the ITU World Triathlon Series rankings, with 2019 being the first year he appeared in the top 50.

2021 season

Wilde finished fifth on the World Cup circuit in Leeds and third at the

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in Austria. Wilde won the Super League Triathlon London race, ahead of France's Vincent Luis and British Athlete

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. He went on to finish the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship Series in 2nd, behind Britain's Alex Yee.

2022 season

Wilde won the Arena Games Triathlon 2022 Series finale, held at Marina Bay, Singapore. It was his debut racing at Arena Games Triathlon format. This result was also good enough to see Wilde finish fifth in the inaugural Esport Triathlon World Championship. He won a silver medal at the 2022 Commonweath Games. This was however meet with controversy when he was penalized for not racking his bike correctly costing him a ten second penalty, ultimately losing out on the gold to England's Alex Yee. Despite this Wildes sportsmanship was praised by the press and on social media. Wilde made a strong start to the 2022

(SLT) season. He defended his SLT London title, with his second win in the British capital in as many years, and then finished third in SLT Munich the following week. Wilde followed up his early season success with further victories at SLT Malibu and SLT Toulouse, Super League's first event to be held in France. Wilde finished third at the 2022 SLT series finale in NEOM, this was enough for him to secure the overall series victory. Wilde contested his penalty at the

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but this was later rejected.

Sponsorship and advertising

April 2022 saw Wilde gain sponsorship from

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World Triathlon Series competitions

Wilde's World Triathlon Series race results are:

World Triathlon Cup competitions

Wilde's

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Series race results are:;

References

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