Vincent Luis and the year that marks his definitive leap to middle distance.
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Vincent Luis faces a decisive 2025 after leaving short-distance racing to focus on the T100 circuit and his first Ironman complete.
Vincent Luis: a 2025 of transition, challenges and a new direction in middle distance
The French Vincent Luis, two-time World Series champion and one of the most influential figures in modern triathlon, appears as the protagonist of episode six of Dare to Dream 2: The Next MovePublished by World Triathlon.
The chapter reviews a key year for the triathlete, marked by his retirement from short distance and his definitive leap towards new goals in middle and long distance.
A chapter closes after more than a decade in the Olympic elite
Luis faced his last major challenge in short distance in the Final WTCS from Torremolinos 2024, competing for the last time in the French trisuit. He said goodbye with the legacy of two world titles, an Olympic bronze in the mixed relay in Tokyo and more than ten years among the best in the world.
As she admits in the documentary, the decision of “when to stop” was more complex than the decision of “stopping.” Her initial idea was to retire after Tokyo, then after Paris, but circumstances—including injuries and the difficulty of even getting on start lists—made 2024 her natural endpoint.
The leap to the T100: a new challenge and a new showcase
The 2025 season has brought a radical change. With a contract Hot Shot Within the T100 circuit, Luis found a different competitive environment, longer and with very established rivals in the middle distance.
His debut in Singapore It was tough, with his performance far from his best. San Francisco He lost too much time on the bike again, a factor he himself acknowledges as a consequence of the previous work for Challenge RothEven so, after adjusting his position and training after Roth, he began to feel competitive again in the water and on the bike.
Challenge Roth 2025: the first Ironman of his career
One of the highlights of the year has been his debut in the full distance in Challenge Roth, where he finished just shy of the podium.
Luis himself admits in the documentary that preparing for Roth "drained" him of the spark needed for the T100, but also gave him a huge foundation to face the second half of the season.
He faces Qatar with a clear objective: to raise the ribbon again.
With his injuries behind him and his competitive form on the rise, Luis has set his sights on an ambitious end to the season. The episode closes with a sentence that sums up his current mindset:
“I have two more years in this sport. And I want them to count. I want to hold a ribbon again.”
At 35, the Frenchman faces a new stage with the same ambition as always, but with a more mature, more strategic approach and with the middle distance as the territory for his second great sporting act.
