Wilde survived two elimination stages at the World Triathlon Sprint and Relay World Championships before saving his best performance until last with a scintillating time of 19min 26sec.

The result marks Olympic bronze medallist Wilde's second successive triumph in Hamburg and also his second victory in this season's World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS), following the Yokohama stop in May.

The closing stages of the decisive third round saw Wilde battling Britain's Alex Yee, Tokyo 2020 champion Kristian Blummenfelt of Norway, and Portugal's Vasco Vilaca for the lead.

He was eventually able to open a gap at the transition between the 7.5-kilometre cycle and 1.75km run, which was preceded by a 300-metre swim.

Wilde showed a clean pair of heels to clock in two seconds quicker than Yee in the first lap which proved to be insurmountable.

It is the first time that Wilde has been able to beat Yee on the WTCS. 

The Briton was also pipped to silver by Vilaca by a matter of inches as they both recorded times of 19:28.

"I had to do some work in that first round and the legs weren't feeling too good but I was a bit more relaxed in the second out front, but my tactic was always to try and get a couple of seconds swinging round into transition and get away," said Wilde.

"It was a bit of a gamble and I normally fumble a bit in T2 then it was just keep pushing and keep pushing and got the win.

"Everyone's upping their game and starting that race it was always going to be difficult to get it done."

Beaugrand executed the same strategy in the women's final but reached another level in the third stage as she finished a colossal 12 seconds faster than her previous attempts, with 21:35 to her name. 

The 26-year-old made sure to get ahead quickly in the swim to avoid catching a stray limb as the athletes made their way through the darkness under the Jungfernstieg bridge.

She then had the space to extend her advantage and left overall Series leader Beth Potter of Britain in her wake.

Beaugrand is the first non-British woman to win an event on the Series so far this year following Potter, Sophie Coldwell, and Georgia Taylor-Brown's triumphs.

Potter crossed the line in Hamburg 10 seconds later than Beaugrand before Germany's Laura Lindemann rounded out the top three in 21:47.