Sports · T100 title raceTaylor Brown Dubai win: 10-second victory brings six-point T100 leadWritten November 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM UTCWatchTranscript0:00Taylor Brown Dubai win ten second victory brings six point T one hundred lead.0:07Georgia Taylor Brown won by ten seconds and took the T one hundred championship0:11lead.0:11She now leads Julie Duron by six points with one race left.0:15December's grand final will decide whether she wins her first T100 world title.0:19Can she protect that advantage through the deciding race in Doha?0:21Taylor Brown finished in three hours, thirty five minutes and nineteen seconds.0:25New Zealand's Nicole Vanderkee crossed ten seconds later with Switzerland's Julie0:29Deren third.0:29That finishing order changed the championship lead.0:32Dubai on November14 was the fourth event of the women's two thousand and twenty-six0:37campaign.0:37Only the grand final remains.0:39So Daron has one race left to recover the lead.0:42Taylor Brown takes a six-point advantage over Daron into the final.0:45Daron had led the championship after winning in Vancouver in August.0:49Now she's chasing Taylor Brown, who has put herself in front at the season's0:52penultimate stop.0:54Taylor Brown had to overcome Cramp late in the bike leg before making her winning0:57move.0:58She began the run in fourth.0:59Then worked her way to the front.1:00Her strongest part of the race came after that physical setback.1:04T one hundred packs three disciplines into one hundred kilometers.1:07Athletes swim two kilometers, cycle eighty, then run another eighteen.1:11Taylor Brown reached the lead just under four kilometers into that final run,1:15leaving most of the running distance still ahead of her.1:22She opened a thirty-second advantage, but Van der Kai closed in.1:25By the finish, Taylor, Brown's cushion had shrunk to ten seconds.1:28She held enough of that lead to win the race and move ahead of Daron in the1:32championship.1:33Subscribe to this channel to follow Taylor.1:35Brown's title challenge through the deciding race in Doha.1:38Daron's third place gap differs by one second.1:41The figures are two minutes six seconds and two minutes seven seconds.1:44That difference hasn't been resolved, but her third place and the order of the1:48podium are clear.1:49Taylor Brown already had a T one hundred victory before arriving in Dubai.1:52Her season has combined wins at this longer distance with another strong finish in1:56the shorter distance world triathlon series.1:58She won her first T100 race in Pamplona, Spain in May, then finished third in2:03Vancouver in August.2:04Dubai gives her two victories this season, with the biggest remaining prize still to2:08be decided in Qatar.2:09The thirty-two-year-old from Manchester won individual Olympic silver at the2:13Tokyo2020 Games.2:14She's also a former world champion over the shorter Olympic distance, and finished2:18third in this season's World Triathlon Series.2:20She's now pursuing her first World Championship in T100.2:24Britain's Kate Wah finished ninth in Dubai immediately ahead of fellow Briton Lizzie2:28Rayner.2:28The20205 champion missed this season's opening two events with a calf injury.2:33She heads into the final eighth overall.2:35Waugh's injury has interrupted her title defense.2:38Taylor Brown, meanwhile, arrives at the last race with two wins and the championship2:41advantage over Duran.2:43Doha hosts the grand final in December.2:45Taylor Brown's six-point lead gives her the advantage going into that race.2:48With the title still to be won, Duran arrives second in the standings after losing2:52the lead in Dubai.Read the articleStory timelineHeyDex
