Freshly minted world champion Matthew Hauser will headline the Noosa Triathlon after a scheduling squeeze ended Ashleigh Gentle's decade-long event stranglehold.

Queenslander Hauser stormed to gold in this month's series final in Wollongong to emphatically end Australia's 15-year world championship drought.

On Sunday the 27-year-old will perform a 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km victory lap at the 42nd Noosa staging that will be missing the event's long-time dominator.

Gentle, 34, has won the past 10 Noosa Triathlons and 11 of the past 12.

But a move last year to middle-distance racing has flipped her schedule and thwarted her ability to extend one of Australian sport's greatest winning streaks.

Now racing on the lucrative T100 Triathlon World Tour, Gentle was second over the half-iro

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