The men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo on 26 July 2021.
The race began with a false start, as a media boat blocked about a third of the field from entering the water. After the restart, the field remained close together coming out of the water. In the cycling leg, a group of 10 broke away for the first few laps but the chasing pack eventually reeled them by the end of the fifth lap to form a lead group of 37 triathletes. On the last lap, Andrea Salvisberg broke away solo to lead by 16 seconds heading into the second transition, but he was caught by the rest of the field on the first lap of the running leg. The lead group remained together until the end of the third lap, when Alex Yee, Kristian Blummenfelt, and Hayden Wilde surged ahead. In the final mile, Blummenfelt accelerated away from the other two to take the gold medal. Yee finished 11 seconds later to take the silver, with Wilde completing the podium a further nine seconds back.
Course The event took place at the Odaiba Marine Park and was long along a flat course. Competitors began with a swimming leg, consisting of a lap followed by a shorter lap. Then, they took on the cycling leg, made of eight laps of a course. Finally, competitors finished with four laps that made up the running leg.
Results Rank Triathlete Nation 43 Kristian Blummenfelt 18:04 56:19 29:34 1:45:04 55 Alex Yee 18:09 56:17 29:44 1:45:15 + 0:11 2 Hayden Wilde 18:17 56:07 29:52 1:45:24 + 0:20 4 27 Marten van Riel 17:45 56:37 30:21 1:45:52 + 0:48 5 54 Jonathan Brownlee 17:49 56:38 30:22 1:45:53 + 0:49 6 52 Kevin McDowell 18:29 55:56 30:24 1:45:54 + 0:50 7 18 Bence Bicsák 17:55 56:26 30:24 1:45:56 + 0:52 8 44 Gustav Iden 18:24 55:59 30:29 1:46:00 + 0:56 9 47 Max Studer 18:25 55:59 30:35 1:46:06 + 1:02 10 22 Mario Mola 18:21 56:06 30:38 1:46:13 + 1:09 11 45 Casper Stornes 17:58 56:21 30:50 1:46:19 + 1:15 12 20 Fernando Alarza 18:20 56:09 30:42 1:46:22 + 1:18 13 7 Vincent Luis 17:39 56:45 30:51 1:46:24 + 1:20 14 30 Kenji Nener 17:51 56:31 30:53 1:46:24 + 1:20 15 15 Tyler Mislawchuk 17:50 56:35 30:55 1:46:28 + 1:24 16 10 Jacob Birtwhistle 18:14 56:11 31:01 1:46:32 + 1:28 17 6 Dorian Coninx 18:04 56:18 31:15 1:46:48 + 1:44 18 1 Tayler Reid 17:45 56:40 31:25 1:46:54 + 1:50 19 31 Makoto Odakura 18:21 56:05 31:26 1:47:03 + 1:59 20 38 Shachar Sagiv 18:12 56:14 31:37 1:47:10 + 2:06 21 5 Léo Bergère 18:00 56:22 31:47 1:47:20 + 2:16 22 46 Andrea Salvisberg 18:02 56:03 32:10 1:47:25 + 2:21 23 25 João Silva 17:55 56:30 31:53 1:47:30 + 2:26 24 11 Matthew Hauser 18:07 56:18 31:59 1:47:35 + 2:31 25 21 Javier Gómez Noya 18:22 56:05 32:08 1:47:46 + 2:42 26 12 Aaron Royle 18:09 56:14 32:21 1:47:57 + 2:53 27 24 João Pereira 17:56 56:31 32:27 1:48:03 + 2:59 28 34 Manoel Messias 18:37 57:40 30:43 1:48:11 + 3:07 29 19 Tamás Tóth 18:07 56:20 32:39 1:48:19 + 3:15 30 39 Diego Moya 17:50 56:34 32:48 1:48:29 + 3:25 31 40 Crisanto Grajales 18:23 57:52 31:06 1:48:36 + 3:32 32 8 Dmitry Polyanskiy 17:40 56:49 33:08 1:48:46 + 3:42 33 56 Oscar Coggins 17:54 56:29 33:23 1:48:55 + 3:51 34 28 Lukas Hollaus 18:38 57:38 31:34 1:48:59 + 3:55 35 37 Ran Sagiv 18:24 57:50 31:35 1:49:04 + 4:00 36 23 Felix Duchampt 18:39 57:42 31:38 1:49:06 + 4:02 37 35 Gianluca Pozzatti 18:00 56:24 33:31 1:49:14 + 4:10 38 4 Jonas Schomburg 17:42 58:38 32:02 1:49:34 + 4:30 39 36 Delian Stateff 17:54 56:31 34:24 1:50:00 + 4:56 40 3 Justus Nieschlag 18:09 56:14 34:32 1:50:10 + 5:06 41 33 Rostislav Pevtsov 18:27 57:50 33:17 1:50:46 + 5:42 42 53 Morgan Pearson 18:02 58:17 34:32 1:52:05 + 7:01 43 14 Stefan Zachaus 17:56 56:29 36:45 1:52:21 + 7:17 44 32 Mehdi Essadiq 17:58 58:13 35:46 1:53:25 + 8:21 45 41 Irving Pérez 18:06 1:01:14 33:34 1:54:02 + 8:58 46 42 Mohamad Maso 18:07 58:10 36:33 1:54:12 + 9:08 47 17 Russell White 18:35 57:40 37:05 1:54:40 + 9:36 48 16 Matthew Sharpe 17:56 56:31 41:50 1:57:32 + 12:28 51 Henri Schoeman 17:43 56:41 Did not finish 29 Alois Knabl 17:55 Did not finishDSQ 9 Igor Polyanskiy 17:47 58:30 34:34 1:52:07 + 7:03 Source: Official results
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