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Ironman Cairns 2019 (June 9th) – Entry List

Updates:

  • May 4th: Added Els Visser (WPRO) and Igor Amorelli, Jarrod Harvey, Thiago Vinhal (MPRO)
  • May 8th: Linsey Corbin indicated she no longer plans to race, I have crossed her name off the list.

Kona Slots and Prize Money

IM Cairns has 2m+2f +2u Pro Kona slots. It has a total prize purse of 150.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

Male Race Participants

Name Nation
Igor Amorelli BRA
Terenzo Bozzone (KQ) NZL
Matt Burton AUS
Braden Currie NZL
Alister Foot AUS
Jarrod Harvey AUS
Blake Kappler AUS
Tim Van Berkel AUS
Thiago Vinhal BRA
Justin Wendemuth AUS

Female Race Participants

Name Nation
Linsey Corbin (KQ) USA
Sarah Crowley (KQ) AUS
Claire Davis AUS
Chloe Lane AUS
Kristin Liepold GER
Kierra Sansome AUS
Sarah True USA
Els Visser NED
Kelsey Withrow USA

Kona Qualifying – April 2019

Here’s a look at how the Kona 2019 Pro field is shaping up.

With the changed Pro Qualifying system a number of athletes have already secured their place on the Kona start line, and a few more with Automatic Qualifier slots still need to validate with an Ironman finish but can also be reasonably certain to race in Kona this October. All the rest have to finish at the front of one of the remaining qualifying races.

Overview

Here’s a quick description of the categories in the following graphs:

  • Qualified (the athletes in this category can be found on this page which is updated soon after each race)
    • Automatic Qualifiers
      Athletes with Automatic Qualifier slots (previous Kona winners, last year’s 70.3 winner, last year’s Kona podium finishers) that have already validated their slot with a finish in an Ironman.
    • Race Slots
      Athletes that have received a slot by winning a Pro Ironman race or finishing near the top.
  • Not (Yet) Qualified
    • Upcoming Race (in the following graphs: Texas) – with a likely number of slots as some are unassigned to the male or female Pros
      Some of the athletes looking to win a slot in an upcoming race. (Athletes with an unvalidated AQ are also listed, but they won’t block one of the race slots.)
    • Automatic Qualifiers
      Athletes with an “AQ” that still have to validate by finishing an Ironman.
    • Notables
      Some other high profile athletes that have not yet secured their Kona slots. I have added some of their race plans (as far as they are known) – please let me know if some plans are incomplete or when someone is missing.
    • Unlikely
      Athletes that are unlikely to go for a Kona slot.

Graphical Views

 

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Ironman Texas 2019 (April 27th) – Seedings

IMTexasLogoUpdates:

  • April 26th: There were a few athletes missing at the Pro Meeting. Some have confirmed previous withdrawals (these athletes are crossed out), some might still check in later (these have a question mark next to their names).
    If all of the athletes that signed in are going to start the race (and only those), it would mean that there are 26 male and 14 female Pros. This would result in 4 male and 2 female Kona slots. (For the slot assignment to change, at least six male Pros would have to not start – quite unlikely.)
  • April 22th: A few more withdrawals on the latest start list (Clemente Alonso and Reece Barclay).
  • April 13th: Both Jan van Berkel (focuses on IM Switzerland in July) and Kristy Jahn (currently focused on running) won’t be racing in Texas.

Previous Winners

Year Male Winner Time Female Winner Time
2011 Eneko Llanos (ESP) 08:08:20 Catriona Morrison (GBR) 08:57:51
2012 Jordan Rapp (USA) 08:10:44 Mary Beth Ellis (USA) 08:54:58
2013 Paul Amey (GBR) 08:25:06 Rachel Joyce (GBR) 08:49:14
2014 Bevan Docherty (NZL) 08:09:37 Kelly Williamson (USA) 08:54:42
2015 Matt Hanson (USA) 08:07:03 Angela Naeth (CAN) 08:55:19
2016 Patrick Lange (GER) 07:13:13 Julia Gajer (GER) 08:11:01
2017 Matt Hanson (USA) 07:52:44 Jodie Robertson (USA) 08:56:32
2018 Matt Hanson (USA) 07:39:25 Melissa Hauschildt (AUS) 08:31:05

Last Race Results

You can find the full results from last year’s race here and a longer discussion of the validity of the performances here.

Male Top 3

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Matt Hanson USA 00:52:31 04:07:27 02:34:39 07:39:25
2 Ivan Tutukin RUS 00:49:30 04:10:21 02:35:19 07:39:57
3 Will Clarke GBR 00:49:49 04:09:58 02:40:43 07:45:22

Female Top 3

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Melissa Hauschildt AUS 00:59:07 04:29:55 02:57:07 08:31:05
2 Jodie Robertson USA 01:00:42 04:27:30 03:08:52 08:43:16
3 Lesley Smith USA 00:57:50 04:39:56 02:58:47 08:43:51

Course Records

Leg Gender Record Athlete Date
Total overall 07:52:44 Matt Hanson 2017-04-22
Swim overall 00:46:20 John Flanagan 2011-05-21
Bike overall 04:01:14 Andrew Starykowicz 2017-04-22
Run overall 02:41:38 Matt Hanson 2014-05-17
Total female 08:49:14 Rachel Joyce 2013-05-18
Swim female 00:48:52 Lauren Brandon 2017-04-22
Bike female 04:40:39 Corinne Abraham 2015-05-16
Run female 02:51:46 Caitlin Snow 2012-05-19

As noted above, I don’t consider last year’s results eligible for course records. Otherwise Matt Hanson would “improve” on his overall and run records (to 7:39:25 and 2:34:39) and Andrew Starykowicz on his bike record (to 3:54:59). We’d also have new course records on the female side: Lauren Brandon would still have the swim record (but with a 48:19), the bike record would go to Jen Annett (4:25:10) and the overall course record would be by Mel Hauschildt (8:31:05).

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Texas is 15:30.

Race Adjustments for IM Texas

Year Adjustment Swim Adj. Bike Adj. Run Adj. # of Finishers Rating Swim Rating Bike Rating Run Rating
2011 11:41 -02:25 17:43 -03:37 41 11:41 -02:25 17:43 -03:37
2012 14:01 -01:15 13:04 02:13 27 12:51 -01:50 15:24 -00:42
2013 07:02 -02:12 11:26 -02:12 30 of 46 10:55 -01:58 14:05 -01:12
2014 17:00 00:27 14:38 01:55 44 of 55 12:26 -01:21 14:13 -00:25
2015 09:29 -01:44 17:12 -05:58 33 of 52 11:50 -01:26 14:49 -01:32
2017 18:46 -01:34 17:56 02:25 42 of 56 13:00 -01:27 15:20 -00:53
(2018) 30:35 -01:51 31:35 00:51 54 of 62 15:30 -01:31 17:39 -00:38

Estimated Time Plan

The following table shows the time plan for the race start and the estimated times for the first athlete in the transition zones or across the finish line. The estimates are based on the start time and my time estimates, these times can change based on how fast or slow the race ends up:

What Est. Racetime Est. Local Time
Male Pro Start 06:25
Female Pro Start
(tentative)		 06:30
Age Group Start 06:40
First Male in T1 00:48:56 07:13
First Female in T1 00:54:43 07:24
First Male in T2 04:57:43 11:22
First Female in T2 05:29:34 11:59
Male Winner 07:57:30 2:22pm
Female Winner 08:28:42 2:58pm

The Woodlands is on Central Daylight Time, 5 hours ahead of UTC. Here are the conversions to a few other time zones:

  • + 15 hours: Melbourne (AEST), race starts 9:25pm
  • +6 hours: United Kingdom (BST), race starts at 12:25pm
  • +7 hours: Central Europe (CEST), race starts at 1:25pm
  • +1 hour: US East Coast (EDT), race starts at 7:25am
  • -2 hours: US West Coast (PDT), race starts at 4:25am

The race will be available on Ironman NOW through Facebook Watch.

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM Texas has 2m+2f +2u Pro Kona slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 150.000 US$, paying 10 deep. With the current number of Pros (37 males and 17 females), it’s most likely that both “floating slots” will get assigned to the male Pros, but that will be decided based on the number of Pros starting the race.

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 56% of a typical Kona field.

# Bib Name Nat Expected Rating ESwim EBike ET2 ERun Consistency Overall
1 10 Patrik Nilsson SWE 07:57:30 08:20:04 00:48:56 04:16:10 05:10:06 02:47:24 36% +15% -49% (12) 17
2 1 Matt Hanson (KQ) USA 07:58:11 08:28:12 00:52:41 04:18:17 05:15:58 02:42:13 19% +25% -56% (14) 40
3 3 Will Clarke GBR 08:02:20 08:32:21 00:49:43 04:21:35 05:16:18 02:46:02 20% +32% -48% (8) 59
4 8 Joe Skipper GBR 08:03:11 08:25:45 00:53:17 04:14:50 05:13:07 02:50:04 63% +8% -29% (23) 32
5 7 Michael Weiss (KQ) AUT 08:04:39 08:23:08 00:55:43 04:09:46 05:10:29 02:54:10 91% +2% -7% (25) 25
6 9 Jan van Berkel SUI 08:07:01 08:25:40 00:49:53 04:21:36 05:16:30 02:50:31 78% +10% -12% (19) 31
7 40 Andrew Starykowicz (KQ) USA 08:07:36 08:30:08 00:49:54 04:02:50 04:57:43 03:09:53 10% +51% -38% (12) 50
8 12 Clemente Alonso
McKernan (KQ)		 ESP 08:09:16 08:22:18 00:49:52 04:21:52 05:16:43 02:52:33 56% +3% -41% (18) 23
9 4 Matthew Russell USA 08:10:10 08:29:32 00:55:22 04:15:43 05:16:06 02:54:04 43% +29% -28% (48) 48
10 11 David Plese SLO 08:11:58 08:26:56 00:54:10 04:18:13 05:17:23 02:54:35 88% +4% -8% (28) 34
11 6 Kyle Buckingham ZAF 08:14:16 08:27:33 00:50:49 04:20:46 05:16:36 02:57:40 66% +6% -28% (18) 38
12 31 Philipp Koutny ? SUI 08:17:22 08:35:30 00:51:44 04:21:41 05:18:24 02:58:58 41% +25% -34% (12) 65
13 19 Gergo Badar HUN 08:18:37 08:46:18 00:53:42 04:31:42 05:30:24 02:48:13 n/a (1 IM Pro race) (102)
14 28 Nicholas Granet FRA 08:19:27 08:58:59 00:49:57 04:26:47 05:21:45 02:57:42 24% +76% -0% (2) (148)
15 17 Jonathan Shearon ? USA 08:24:09 08:45:57 00:55:43 04:22:04 05:22:46 03:01:23 68% +14% -19% (23) 101
16 18 Trevor Delsaut FRA 08:26:30 08:54:13 00:53:45 04:30:16 05:29:01 02:57:29 24% +13% -63% (30) 134
17 16 Pedro Gomes ? POR 08:28:51 08:55:50 00:53:37 04:32:31 05:31:08 02:57:43 45% +0% -55% (34) 140
18 38 Alexander Schilling GER 08:29:08 08:47:47 00:49:38 04:29:17 05:23:55 03:05:13 100% +0% -0% (3) (108)
19 39 Raul Tejada GTM 08:32:06 08:56:45 00:54:18 04:33:38 05:32:57 02:59:09 100% +0% -0% (2) (143)
20 20 Reece Barclay GBR 08:32:48 08:56:08 00:49:30 04:35:22 05:29:51 03:02:57 74% +0% -26% (3) (143)
21 29 David Hanko HUN 08:33:21 09:02:21 00:50:19 04:34:40 05:29:59 03:03:22 47% +53% -0% (2) (160)
22 25 Clay Emge USA 08:33:50 09:17:00 00:56:08 04:35:41 05:36:49 02:57:01 31% +0% -69% (3) (203)
23 23 Gregory Close ? USA 08:34:01 09:13:31 00:58:52 04:28:04 05:31:55 03:02:06 12% +22% -66% (13) (192)
24 35 Sebastian Najmowicz POL 08:34:44 08:57:46 00:50:19 04:32:09 05:27:28 03:07:16 n/a (1 IM Pro race) (146)
25 30 Allan Hovda NOR 08:44:14 09:11:55 00:59:39 04:32:38 05:37:17 03:06:57 69% +31% -0% (7) 185
26 21 Blake Becker USA 08:45:13 09:11:59 00:58:46 04:34:19 05:38:05 03:07:08 1% +61% -38% (23) 187
27 32 Colin Laughery USA 08:47:47 09:21:47 00:56:39 04:34:14 05:35:53 03:11:54 59% +22% -19% (10) (216)
28 34 Urs Mueller SUI 08:49:13 09:10:52 00:54:13 04:34:24 05:33:36 03:15:37 66% +9% -25% (11) 183
29 15 Balazs Csoke HUN 08:49:44 09:11:20 00:49:30 04:42:49 05:37:19 03:12:25 56% +5% -39% (32) 184
30 36 Ohad Sinai ISR 09:32:01 10:00:19 01:03:02 04:50:37 05:58:39 03:33:22 49% +51% -0% (3) 258
14 Mauricio Mendez Cruz MEX n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (1 IM Pro race) (n/a)
22 Alexander Berggren ? SWE n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)
24 Pete Dyson ? GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (1 IM Pro race) (n/a)
26 Martin Fredriksson ? SWE n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)
27 Pablo Gomez COL n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)
33 Yorlliry Moreno VEN n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)
37 Sam Proctor GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)

Female Race Participants

The strength of the field is 19% of a typical Kona field.

# Bib Name Nat Expected Rating ESwim EBike ET2 ERun Consistency Overall
1 45 Daniela Ryf (AQ) SUI 08:28:42 08:35:25 00:54:43 04:29:51 05:29:34 02:59:08 76% +18% -6% (14) 1
2 46 Jocelyn McCauley (KQ) USA 08:58:45 09:21:47 00:55:16 04:47:38 05:47:53 03:10:52 23% +39% -38% (12) 21
3 49 Lesley Smith USA 09:01:40 09:22:28 00:57:54 04:55:37 05:58:31 03:03:09 62% +0% -38% (3) 23
4 51 Kirsty Jahn CAN 09:03:50 09:32:19 00:59:10 04:50:49 05:54:59 03:08:51 43% +21% -37% (6) 44
5 48 Kimberley Morrison GBR 09:07:49 09:31:28 00:56:04 04:39:39 05:40:43 03:27:06 100% +0% -0% (2) 43
6 54 Dimity-Lee Duke AUS 09:20:30 09:36:29 01:01:22 04:54:40 06:01:02 03:19:28 74% +6% -20% (17) 47
7 47 Jennie Hansen USA 09:25:17 09:46:16 01:05:28 04:59:59 06:10:27 03:14:50 77% +0% -23% (14) 60
8 53 Natasha Van der Merwe USA 09:35:16 10:05:47 01:04:59 04:59:49 06:09:49 03:25:27 38% +49% -13% (13) 91
9 58 Jessica Jones USA 09:39:11 10:04:36 00:58:22 05:06:12 06:09:34 03:29:37 100% +0% -0% (2) (89)
10 60 Ashley Paulson ? USA 09:43:37 10:08:31 01:14:54 05:12:04 06:31:58 03:11:39 82% +11% -8% (10) 94
11 61 Caroline St-Pierre CAN 09:49:43 10:10:21 00:59:12 05:20:07 06:24:19 03:25:24 88% +0% -12% (6) 98
12 56 Anne Basso FRA 09:52:25 10:21:04 00:59:12 05:11:53 06:16:05 03:36:20 36% +3% -61% (21) 114
13 55 Palmira Alvarez MEX 09:59:37 10:24:16 01:10:40 05:07:12 06:22:52 03:36:45 89% +11% -0% (7) 117
50 Jeanni Seymour ZAF n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)
52 Sarah Lewis GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)
57 Hilary Fenton USA n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)
59 Sarah Karpinski USA n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race) (n/a)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

  • Matt Hanson: 40% (1-1)
  • Patrik Nilsson: 11% (8-1)
  • Joe Skipper: 11% (8-1)
  • Michael Weiss: 8% (11-1)
  • Jan van Berkel: 8% (11-1)
  • Andrew Starykowicz: 7% (13-1)
  • Will Clarke: 7% (14-1)
  • Matthew Russell: 6% (15-1)

Female Race Participants

  • Daniela Ryf: 81% (1-1)
  • Jocelyn McCauley: 8% (12-1)
  • Lesley Smith: 5% (20-1)
  • Kirsty Jahn: 4% (26-1)
  • Kimberley Morrison: 2% (39-1)

Ironman Lanzarote (May 25th) – Entry List

IMLanzaLogoUpdates:

  • May 1st: Added Nina Derron, Dede Griesbauer, Tessa Kortekaas, Helena Kotopulu, Asa Lundstroem, Antonina Reznikov, Maja Stage Nielsen (WPRO) and Jon Ander Uribarri, Victor Arroyo Bugallo, Raul Barbero Martinez, Morten Brammer Olesen, Anders Christensen, Bekim Christensen, Marco Corti, Marc Duelsen, Eneko Elosegui, Romain Garcin, Philip Graves, Patrick Jaberg, Christian Kramer, Andreas Raelert, Yann Rocheteau, Stefan Schmid, Hans Christian Tungesvik, Bert Verbeke, Andrej Vistica (MPRO)

Kona Slots and Prize Money

IM Lanzarote has 1m+1f Pro Kona slots. It has a total prize purse of 25.000 US$, paying 6 deep.

Male Race Participants

Name Nation
Johann Ackermann GER
Emilio Aguayo Munoz ESP
Jon Ander Uribarri ESP
Victor Arroyo Bugallo ESP
Raul Barbero Martinez ESP
Reece Barclay GBR
Miquel Blanchart Tinto ESP
Morten Brammer Olesen DEN
Vicenc Castella Serra ESP
Anders Christensen DEN
Bekim Christensen DEN
Marco Corti ITA
Alessandro Degasperi ITA
Marc Duelsen GER
Eneko Elosegui ESP
Romain Garcin FRA
Philip Graves GBR
Marcus Hultgren SWE
Patrick Jaberg SUI
Christian Kramer GER
Andrey Lyatskiy RUS
Santiago Martinez Torres ESP
Johannes Moldan GER
Seppe Odeyn BEL
Andreas Raelert GER
Ivan Rana ESP
Yann Rocheteau FRA
Gustavo Rodriguez Iglesias ESP
Stefan Schmid GER
Hans Christian Tungesvik NOR
Timothy Van Houtem BEL
Frederik Van Lierde BEL
Bert Verbeke BEL
Andrej Vistica CRO

Female Race Participants

Name Nation
Nikki Bartlett GBR
Nina Derron SUI
Dede Griesbauer USA
Tessa Kortekaas NED
Helena Kotopulu CZE
Asa Lundstroem SWE
Rachel McBride CAN
Angela Naeth CAN
Lenny Ramsey NED
Antonina Reznikov ISR
Maja Stage Nielsen DEN

Ironman South Africa 2019 – Analyzing Results

IMSA_LogoCourse Conditions

This year’s race in Port Elizabeth started with a shortened swim, apparently the conditions were unsafe on parts of the course, especially for the weaker agegroupers. (Ironman South Africa is a normally single large loop swim.) I wasn’t on site so I can’t have an informed opinion on whether it would have been possible to have a full swim at least for the Pros. It’ll be interesting to hear comments from the leading swimmers on that. The official swim distance was 1.6k, and the times seem very slow for that – probably a result of the hard conditions. Even if the swim were half the normal distance, the times would still be slow. (Josh swam just under 25 minutes so that would have been 50 minutes – he was seeded to swim under 48 minutes in Port Elizabeth.)

Even though the bike course has changed significantly to previous years, the times were comparable to earlier years. The run was very fast, it was roughly five minutes quicker than in earlier years. This might be influenced by the shortened swim, but in all likelihood the course was a bit short. We’ll have to wait a bit for GPS tracks to be posted in the next few days. (It seems that the run was about 1k short, corresponding to roughly 4 minutes of run time.)

Of course the shortened swim invalidates all time comparisons to other years or races. Nonetheless I have calculated how the athletes times stacked up to what could have been expected from them, resulting in the “Diff to expected” columns and the coloring of the numbers (green=faster than expected, red = slower than expected). The background colors show the fastest athletes in each of the legs.

Male Race Results

Once again, Josh Amberger was leading after the swim, but with the shortened course he only had 30 seconds on the field and was quickly caught by a large group. Andreas Dreitz needed the first of two bike loops to bridge up to the lead group, but once he did the group got smaller and smaller. In the final 20k of the bike Ben Hoffman built a gap of 90 seconds to a small group of four athletes.

Once on the run, Ben was extending his lead bit by bit – in the end he ran a 2:39 marathon and won by almost six minutes over Nils Frommhold who was the best runner of the chase group. Third and fourth place went to Michael Weiss and Eneko Llanos who caught most of the chase group with solid marathons. As they were already qualified, the next two spots were also Kona qualifying places, these went to Maurice Clavel and Andreas Dreitz. Josh Amberger ran a solid sub-3 marathon but that was only good enough for seventh place, just short of a Kona slot.

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to exp. Prize Money
1 Ben Hoffman USA 00:26:03 04:24:24 02:39:17 07:34:19 -13:02 US$ 30,000
2 Nils Frommhold GER 00:25:48 04:26:23 02:43:43 07:40:12 -07:07 US$ 15,000
3 Michael Weiss AUT 00:30:05 04:24:18 02:43:41 07:42:35 -03:06 US$ 8,000
4 Eneko Llanos ESP 00:25:56 04:28:24 02:45:57 07:44:59 -14:23 US$ 6,500
5 Maurice Clavel GER 00:25:54 04:26:26 02:49:03 07:45:29 -07:14 US$ 5,000
6 Andreas Dreitz GER 00:26:20 04:25:23 02:49:01 07:45:38 -06:36 US$ 3,500
7 Josh Amberger AUS 00:24:59 04:27:00 02:56:00 07:52:19 -09:50 US$ 2,500
8 Matt Trautman ZAF 00:27:17 04:33:56 02:49:00 07:54:22 -05:17 US$ 2,000
9 Bart Aernouts BEL 00:28:36 04:37:28 02:46:01 07:56:20 15:11 US$ 1,500
10 Giulio Molinari ITA 00:25:42 04:29:12 03:02:22 08:02:13 00:18 US$ 1,000
11 David McNamee GBR 00:26:00 04:52:13 02:41:24 08:04:47 18:26
12 Samuel Huerzeler SUI 00:28:32 04:43:12 02:51:52 08:08:50 03:30
13 Gustavo Rodriguez Iglesias ESP 00:28:30 04:35:19 03:01:31 08:10:52 02:59
14 Sebastian Norberg SWE 00:30:09 04:42:38 02:53:40 08:11:00 -08:55
15 James Cunnama ZAF 00:28:16 04:36:56 03:03:05 08:12:26 25:14
16 Karl-Johan Danielsson SWE 00:26:54 04:43:46 03:04:35 08:20:04 -09:53
17 Reece Barclay GBR 00:25:51 04:55:46 02:53:49 08:20:29 08:37
18 Victor Arroyo Bugallo ESP 00:30:07 04:52:54 02:52:34 08:20:45 06:51
19 Paul Ruttmann AUT 00:29:37 04:46:25 03:14:15 08:35:27 n/a
20 Vinicius Canhedo BRA 00:29:38 04:57:38 03:08:18 08:41:16 02:43
21 Gerhard De Bruin ZAF 00:30:20 05:10:08 03:01:46 08:47:44 00:34
22 Eneko Elosegui ESP 00:31:04 05:09:04 03:08:24 08:55:23 01:20
Tim Van Berkel AUS 00:25:53 04:44:48 DNF
Tim Don GBR 00:25:32 DNF
Kyle Buckingham ZAF 00:25:41 DNF
Patrik Nilsson SWE 00:25:56 DNF
Alessandro Degasperi ITA 00:26:07 DNF
Markus Thomschke GER 00:28:28 DNF

Female Race Results

When Lucy Charles-Barclay exited the swim, she was in the lead, but Lauren Brandon had been able to stay on her feet. They stayed in the lead for the first half of the bike, until German Anja Ippach had closed her four minute gap after the swim. Anja continued to ride strong in the second half of the bike and started the run with a three minute lead over Lucy and Lauren. By then the rest of the field was more than fifteen minutes back. Once on the run it was obvious that Lucy was the strongest runner of the three leading ladies, and towards the end of the first of four run loops she was able to take the lead. By then Gurutze Frades and Annah Watkinson were starting to close the gap to the front, in the end they were able to run fantastic 2:52 and 2:55 marathons and stormed onto the podium, also snagging the two available Kona slots on the female side. Lauren Brandon was able to post a new run PR, but that was only good for fourth, while Anja Ippach struggled towards the end and fell back into fifth place.

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to exp. Prize Money
1 Lucy Charles-Barclay GBR 00:25:20 05:05:46 02:59:32 08:35:31 03:20 US$ 30,000
2 Gurutze Frades Larralde ESP 00:32:59 05:10:07 02:52:40 08:40:47 -17:33 US$ 15,000
3 Annah Watkinson ZAF 00:30:44 05:12:17 02:55:02 08:43:18 -21:13 US$ 8,000
4 Lauren Brandon USA 00:25:28 05:05:41 03:17:54 08:53:35 -10:05 US$ 6,500
5 Anja Ippach GER 00:29:39 04:58:09 03:24:38 08:57:10 06:20 US$ 5,000
6 Tessa Kortekaas NED 00:34:08 05:18:54 03:11:52 09:10:01 n/a US$ 3,500
7 Antonina Reznikov ISR 00:39:35 05:22:09 03:11:23 09:19:25 -20:07 US$ 2,500
8 Federica De Nicola ITA 00:32:58 05:23:42 03:20:22 09:23:10 15:29 US$ 2,000
9 Ashley Paulson USA 00:40:09 05:31:39 03:06:48 09:24:11 05:35 US$ 1,500
10 Mareen Hufe GER 00:32:56 05:17:11 03:31:59 09:27:54 45:29 US$ 1,000
Angela Lindberg GER 00:36:59 06:14:54 DNF
Natalie Seymour GBR 00:32:07 DNF

Kona Qualifying

The following athletes were able to validate their Automatic Qualifier slots by finishing IM South Africa:

  • Lucy Charles-Barclay
  • Bart Aernouts
  • David McNamee

As Michael Weiss and Eneko Llanos were already qualified before the race, these athletes received a Kona slot (pending official results and acceptance at Monday’s award ceremony):

  • Gurutze Frades
  • Annah Watkinson
  • Ben Hoffman
  • Nils Frommhold
  • Maurice Clavel
  • Andreas Dreitz
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