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'The doors blew off': Hayden Wilde runs riot in Spain to extend win streak
Kieran Bingham • September 23rd, 2025 1:17 pm
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Hayden Wilde has pulled off his fourth straight T100 win, storming home in Spain despite a rough start and serious pressure from Belgian rival Jelle Geens.
Geens had the jump heading into the run, but Hayden kept his cool, even if his mind wasn’t exactly in the race from the get-go.
“Yeah, it was quite a complicated one,” he told Sport Nation’s Scotty & Izzy.
“The demons inside me were like, alright, you’ve just had an absolute 'mare putting your socks on. I may need to talk to Mum about putting my socks back on, and putting them on quick…”
But by the 4km mark, everything changed.
“All of a sudden, the doors blew off and I was like, alright, here’s my chance, off we go.”
The win is even more remarkable considering where he was just a few months ago - laid up in hospital after being hit by a truck during the bike leg of a race. The crash left him with six broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a smashed scapula.
Wilde win 98 days after being hit by truck | Scotty & Izzy
“I’m still feeling the repercussions, more in the swim,” he said.
“In those dying moments of the last 300 metres of the 2km swim, I really start fatiguing quite a lot. I am really busting my balls a little bit to keep in the group. But literally as soon as I get on land, the non-sea mammal just starts rolling it on.”
With four wins in a row and a string of podiums this season, Hayden’s confidence is peaking, but it’s built through experience, not ego.
“I get a lot of my confidence from how I race. The more I race, the more I do better, the more confident I get, and it just unlocks more within me.
"The hardest part is getting to the top. But once you get that sniff of a win, it opens up that confidence and it becomes a snowball effect.
“But also, you’ve got to remember, when you do have those losses, you don’t let it get to you. You just get back into the race, get back into the scene, and work hard again. I’ve lost more than I’ve won, 100%. But those are the ones I’ve learned the most from.”
From hospital bed to a four-race win streak, Hayden Wilde isn’t just back. He’s flying.
Listen to the full interview below:
