days before the Grand Final in Lausanne, she took gold in the final to seal the overall title. In recognition of her achievements, USA Triathlon awarded Zaferes the "Women’s Olympic/ITU Triathlete of the Year". Outside World Triathlon competition, Zaferes competes in Super League Triathlon. She won both the 2018 and 2019 Super League Triathlon Championship Series, and finished third, behind Georgia Taylor-Brown and Jess Learmonth of the United Kingdom, in 2021. Zaferes year-over-year results in the World Triathlon Series include finishing 42nd in her debut year of 2013, 16th in 2014, 5th in 2015, 4th in 2016, 3rd in 2017, 2nd in 2018 and taking the overall title in 2019. 2013–2016 seasons Zaferes contested her first races as an elite athlete in the 2013 season, taking gold in the Palamos and Tiszaujvaros World Cup races. The following year Zaferes took gold in the New Plymouth World Cup race. Notably she contested the Aukland World Triathlon Series race, completing the swim, T1 and Bike portions of the race but receiving a disqualification in T2 due to "irregular transition". In 2015, Zaferes' had a break-out year, taking silver in five World Triathlon Series races (Abu Dhabi, Aukland, Cape Town, London, Stockholm) plus bronze in Gold Coast. She finished the season in 5th place overall. Next season, in 2016, Zaferes took her first ITU World Triathlon Series win in Hamburg. She also finished on the podium in Edmonton, taking bronze behind Summer Rappaport and Sarah True. She completed the 2016 World Triathlon Series ranked fourth overall. As the top-ranked woman in USA Triathlon's ranking system, Zaferes was named to the triathlon team for the 2016 Summer Olympics where she finished 18th. 2017 season For the second time in her career, Zaferes won the New Plymouth World Cup event. She was 1 second over second place Canadian Joanna Brown and 2 seconds over Belgian Claire Michel. This was the fourth time in a row an American won the race. She finished the season 3rd in the World Triathlon Series rankings, beating out Kirsten Kasper in 4th place. 2018 season Of the eight World Triathlon Series races in 2018, Zaferes finished on the podium in six of them, taking two silvers (Yokohama and Montreal), and four bronze (Bermuda, Leeds, Hamburg and the grand final in Gold Coast). At the season opener at Abu Dhabi, the race was contested with the bike and run legs on