Matt Hauser strides to victory at the Supertri Pro Series Final
Matt Hauser stormed to victory at the 2026 Supertri Pro Series Final in Jersey. The Australian surged to the front on the final run stage of the day ahead of New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde, with Mitch Kolkman of the Netherlands taking the final podium slot.
Matt Hauser stormed to victory at the 2026 Supertri Pro Series Final in Jersey. The Australian surged to the front on the final run stage of the day ahead of New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde, with Mitch Kolkman of the Netherlands taking the final podium slot.
The competitors had no answer to Hauser’s final-leg run strength, with the 2025 World Triathlon champion winning by 7-seconds over Wilde to take home the $100,000 top prize, the biggest payday of the triathlon season.
The race was the first time 2024 Olympic champ Alex Yee (GB) and Wilde have shared a start line in over a year, but their much-touted showdown curtailed due to the Brit snapping a chain on the second bike leg of the day.
“It was on from the start today and I know this Enduro Supertri format is about staying in the race,” said Hauser at the finish, having crashed at a World Triathlon race in China a week ago. “I’m stoked to have finished it off and it’s good to have got my swagger back this weekend.”
STARRING STORY
Jersey has been central to Supertri's story since the very first full event was hosted there. in 2017, and has since held races in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2025, and now its sixth edition in 2026.
Supertri offered a prize purse of more than $800,000 for this race, the biggest payday in triathlon this year. Winners of the men's and women's races each took home $100,000.
The event was Supertri's signature format: three back-to-back rounds of swim, bike and run raced out over roughly 55 minutes, with eliminations and the Short Chute – the race-changing shortcut earned during the racing – adding jeopardy all the way to the line.
STAGE 1
Onto the first 300m swim of the day in Jersey’s chilly 19C waters, and Matt Hauser (AUS) was the first to seize the initiative and lead a convoy of athletes into T1, crossing the mount line first to secure the first Short Chute on the day.
Pre-race favourites Alex Yee (GB) and Hayden Wilde (NZ) were in the second pack to enter the 4km bike course, 6secs and 10secs back, respectively. Tyler Mislawchuk would crash out after hitting a cone on the technical bike course, the Canadian’s race over soon after it started. Seth Rider (USA) emerged into the lead by the final lap, with Yee and Wilde lurking behind.
Rider would step onto the 1.6km run course in first ahead of Csongor Lehmann (HUN), securing a Short Chute in the process. A top seven had formed by the end of the first lap, boasting all the pre-race favourites and some dark horses for the Pro Series title. Lehmann would enter T2 first to bag the third Short Chute of the day. Yee and Wilde were loitering close behind.
STAGE 2
The second 300m swim in Jersey’s Elizabeth Marina would see Lehmann pushing the tempo at the front, exiting the water 2secs ahead of Hauser and Rider.
Onto the second four-lap 4km bike leg, and the pack of seven leaders remained, with Mitch Kolkman of the Netherlands (having eaten 13 pieces of toast for breakfast) now leading the group at the front and Luke Willian (AUS) also in the mix. That group would enter T2 together, but the big news would be Alex Yee snapping his (gold SRAM) chain on the bike and falling out of the race.
The Yee-free 1.6km run would see Wilde and Hauser exchange places at the front of the leading half dozen, with Lehmann also to the fore and Rider and Willian losing time to the leaders.
STAGE 3
Onto the final 300m swim of the day and the leading group was down a fixed four, with Wilde, Hauser, Lehmann and Kolkman set to duke it out for the three podium spaces. But Rider had somehow swum himself back into the reckoning, bridging the gap by the halfway stage.
The final 4km bike saw Wilde, Lehmann and Hauser duking it out at the front ahead of Kolkman and Rider, but there was the feeling that the contenders were saving their matches for the final run leg.
The 1.6km run would begin with Hauser to the fore after a transition mishap by Wilde and Lehmann having his helmet out of the box for a 5sec penalty. The halfway stage would see Hauser take the Short Chute with Wilde falling 5secs behind, and Kolkmann now in the final podium place. Hauser would soon cross the line 7secs ahead of Wilde and 11sec ahead of Kolkman, with Lehmann and Rider rounding out the top five.