Fresh from their breakthrough teams relay world championship triumph in Hamburg two weeks ago, Birtwhistle, 22, and Queensland teenager Matt Hauser will line up in Saturday’s sixth World Triathlon Series round in Edmonton.

An all-star field led by Spaniards Mario Mola, Fernando Alarza and Javier Gomez plus two-time Olympic medallist Johnny Brownlee (GB), Richard Murray (RSA) and Vincent Luis (Fra) will compete over the sprint course of 750m swim, 21km bike and 5km run.

Birtwhistle showed all his maturity in Hamburg to cap the efforts of Hauser, Charlotte McShane and Ashleigh Gentle with Australia’s first ever world teams relay crown in the new Olympic event.

It came 24 hours after he had burst back from the pack to take the silver behind Mola in the WTS round over the Hamburg sprint course to rocket the Launceston talent into the ranking’s top 10.

“It's certainly been a quick turnover since Hamburg,” said Birtwhistle, the only Australian to have secured a nomination for next year’s Commonwealth Games.

“But I had a good week of recovery and am now looking forward to racing again this weekend. 

“My only other time racing in Edmonton was the ITU junior world championships in 2014 where I finished up second best in a sprint for gold (with Frenchman Raphael Montoya).

“I'll be keeping that in mind this week and won't be making the same mistakes this time.”