The fourth installment of the Photo of the Year contest was a tight battle for much of the week. But in a last-minute come from behind win, Igor Polyanskiy’s shot exiting the water won the contest.

Nestled in the Alpine mountains, Kitzbühel provided a technically and physically demanding bike course, perfect for some of the best photos of the season. Vote now for your favourite.

The ITU World Triathlon Madrid, which twists and winds through beautiful Casa de Campo Park, always elicits great shots. Check out this week's favourite photo now.

In the third week of the Photo of the Year competition, we head over to Europe for the ITU World Triathlon Madrid. Vote for your favourite now.

In this week’s Photo of the Year competition, Manny Huerta (USA) received an overwhelming 1/3 of the votes. On that day in San Diego, Huerta punched his ticket to London as the second-fastest American to finish in the top-9.

Yannick Bourseaux was recently named the International Paralympic Committee's October Athlete of the Month after claiming his fourth world championship title in Auckland last month.

In our second instalment of the photo competition, we head to the U.S. where the second ITU World Triathlon Series took place beachside in San Diego.

With such a large amount of stunning imagery, opinions and votes were pretty divided this week. In the end the week’s winner in the photo of the year series won by just 5% of votes.

As the 2012 ITU season closes the curtain on one of its most exciting years of competition to date, we take a look back at the images captured during the ITU World Triathlon Series. Choose the 2012 ITU Photo of the Year.

The 2012 ITU World Triathlon Series season is a wrap. As we close the series that traveled across eight cities and four continents, check out these highlights from the past week in Auckland