Toronto

Alex Yee returned to the top of the triathlon podium, displaying his proven class and awesome footspeed to win the first Supertri League event of the season in Toronto, Canada, ahead of Csongor Lehmann and Vasco Vilaça.

Having focussed on the London Marathon for the first half of the 2025 season (producing a 2:11hr marathon in April), Toronto was the Olympic champion’s first triathlon race of the season – not that he looked rusty with a series of lightning-fast transitions and dominant run leg performances over the chasers.

“It’s nice to be back in the fold,” said Yee at the finish. “I enjoyed that. I wanted to do Supertri because it gave me three opportunities to do a tri and to learn from them very fast. I loved every second of it – it was an amazing crowd at an amazing venue. I think, like everyone, when you do your first race of the season you worry that you’ve lost it all, but I’ve still got it. It was a nice confidence boost as I was pushed to my limits today.”

Belgian triathlete Jolien Vermeylen has today surged to her first Supertri title in remarkable fashion. The 31-year-old outpaced the established Supertri forces of Léonie Périault and Cassandre Beaugrand on the final run leg of the day to cross the line first in Toronto, Canada. And all on her very first Supertri race.

Vermeylen’s victory also made it a great start to the 2025 Supertri season for her Brownlee Racing team (now managed by triathlon legend Tim Don), who pushed the pace from the very start of the three-stage triathlon to overcome the formidable Crown Racing lineup of France’s reigning Olympic Games champ Beaugrand and 2024 Supertri champ Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain.

The Belgian’s margin of victory would be just two seconds over French racer Périault, with Beaugrand six seconds back despite having taken the lead with a kilometre of the run to go. Emma Lombardi and Jeanne Lehair would round out the top five. Taylor-Brown, having rarely raced in 2025, would finish sixth.