TRIATHLON: Triathlete Erin Densham's bid to add the ITU World Championship to her Olympic bronze resumes this weekend in Sweden.

Densham heads into the Stockholm leg of the championship sitting third behind New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt and Swiss Olympic champion Nicola Spirig.

The Australian has 3025 points with Hewitt on 3141 and Spirig on 3109 with three rounds, including this weekend, remaining.

Australian team performance manager Michael Flynn said Densham has overcome an illness in the wake of the London Games and is determined to maintain her world championship push into the season finale in Auckland in October.

"Erin was a little sick after London and she went back to (her training base in) Spain a little earlier than everyone else so hopefully she will be refreshed and ready to go," Flynn said.

"All medical reports are very positive and Erin clearly has the ITU World Championship in her sights.

"She is talking and acting with real conviction and focus and her attitude is clearly fixed on finishing the year on a high.

"There is no doubt that 2012 is clearly Erin's breakout year and she has a great chance to beat anyone or anything that will be thrown at her."

Emma Moffatt, the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist and two-time world champion, has recovered from her crash during the bike leg in London and will line up in Stockholm, as will 21-year-old Emma Jackson.

However, Brendan Sexton looks likely to be the only one of Australia's three male Olympic representatives to compete in Stockholm.

Courtney Atkinson has returned to Australia while Brad Kahlefeldt is unlikely to race due to a bout of bronchitis.

National sprint champion Drew Box is likely to take Kahlefeldt's place if the dual Olympian is ruled out.

Ed Jackson
AAP