August 2021

Ironman Copenhagen 2021 – Analyzing Results

August 22, 2021

Course Conditions

This year was another super-quick race in Copenhagen – the Top 7 finished under 8 hours, the second highest number of sub-8s behind Tulsa 2021. There were a good number of course records as well: Winner Cam Wurf posted a new overall record (beating the old record by Patrik Nilsson by more than three minutes) and also a new bike course record (his 4:02 broke the 2016 record by Andy Raelert by more than ten minutes). Cam also set a new fastest time for Australia and the continent of Oceania. Before that, there was also a new swim course record by Lukasz Wojt, erasing the 2011 mark by Stephen Bayliss. The last new record from Copenhagen I’m aware of: Henrik Goesch set a new fastest time for Finland, improving Pauli Kiuru’s time from Roth 1991.

Kona Qualifying

IM Copenhagen offered two Kona Pro slots, these go to:

Lionel Sanders
and
Henrik Goesch.

Race winner Cam Wurf was already qualified (he won IM Italy in September 2019). With the current qualifying rules, these were the last male Kona Pro qualifiers for the February race. The last qualifying race for the female Pros is IM Hamburg next week. The full list of qualifiers can be found here.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Cameron Wurf	AUS	00:49:07	04:02:18	02:49:36	07:46:05	-09:14	US$ 15,000
2	Lionel Sanders	CAN	00:49:03	04:12:10	02:43:49	07:49:23	-16:09	US$ 9,000
3	Henrik Goesch	FIN	00:46:17	04:15:09	02:46:11	07:52:09	n/a	US$ 7,000
4	Clemente Alonso McKernan	ESP	00:46:12	04:14:53	02:49:19	07:55:08	-11:50	US$ 5,000
5	Mathias Lyngsoe Petersen	DEN	00:46:15	04:14:44	02:50:21	07:55:37	-08:20	US$ 4,000
6	David Plese	SLO	00:49:07	04:11:56	02:52:10	07:58:04	-04:22	US$ 3,000
7	Jesper Svensson	SWE	00:45:55	04:13:31	02:56:07	07:59:38	-01:31	US$ 2,500
8	Jaroslav Kovacic	SLO	00:47:06	04:13:52	02:58:55	08:04:33	05:15	US$ 2,000
9	Yvan Jarrige	FRA	00:47:04	04:14:33	03:01:00	08:06:35	-58:59	US$ 1,500
10	Tomas Renc	CZE	00:49:03	04:28:03	02:45:33	08:07:00	-01:14	US$ 1,000
11	Kristian Hindkjaer	DEN	00:49:00	04:12:12	03:02:05	08:07:54	-10:51
12	Dominik Sowieja	GER	00:49:47	04:26:54	02:47:15	08:08:37	n/a
13	Sebastian Najmowicz	POL	00:47:10	04:28:59	02:50:17	08:10:49	-05:56
14	Andrej Vistica	CRO	00:52:58	04:23:43	02:50:37	08:11:39	-05:10
15	Lukasz Wojt	GER	00:43:56	04:14:31	03:09:37	08:12:25	04:40
16	Strahinja Trakic	SRB	00:47:37	04:28:25	02:55:06	08:15:38	n/a
17	Sebastian Norberg	SWE	00:55:10	04:24:35	02:50:46	08:15:45	-04:52
18	Jens Petersen-Bach	DEN	00:52:51	04:23:29	02:54:47	08:16:23	07:26
19	Mikkel Hojborg Olsen	DEN	00:49:15	04:26:09	02:57:36	08:17:11	-05:35
20	Nicholas Ward Munoz	GBR	00:55:00	04:26:00	02:55:33	08:21:44	-08:15
21	Lukasz Kalaszczynski	POL	00:56:43	04:35:34	02:45:09	08:22:18	n/a
22	Morgan Bjoerkqvist	SWE	00:56:42	04:23:09	03:00:14	08:24:37	-08:45
23	Philipp Koutny	SUI	00:49:04	04:12:13	03:20:48	08:26:25	28:59
24	Markus Thomschke	GER	00:49:11	04:26:48	03:09:23	08:30:10	19:51
25	Stephan Benedikt	AUT	00:52:57	04:27:35	03:08:30	08:34:42	-10:00
26	Philipp Fahrenholz	GER	00:55:13	04:25:49	03:17:38	08:43:04	-14:14
27	Hubert Hammerl	AUT	00:52:53	04:38:12	03:19:38	08:57:22	-07:44
28	Yann Rocheteau	FRA	00:55:14	04:56:56	03:20:20	09:17:35	-11:57
29	David Rother	GER	01:05:20	04:39:43	03:30:15	09:20:39	n/a
30	Oliver Gonzalez Miranda	MEX	00:52:54	05:14:05	03:08:34	09:21:09	17:55
31	Joachim Krauth	GER	00:56:44	04:36:50	03:46:34	09:26:00	n/a
	Giulio Molinari	ITA	00:47:04	04:13:55		DNF
	Igor Amorelli	BRA	00:47:09	04:14:18		DNF
	Mattia Ceccarelli	ITA	00:45:53	04:23:44		DNF
	Elliot Smales	GBR	00:46:17	04:49:21		DNF

Ironman Germany 2021 – Analyzing Results

August 15, 2021

Course Conditions

Compared to last year’s heatwave (with all-time record temperatures for Frankfurt), this year was mild – but with 30°C it was still quite warm for Germany. This lead to faster conditions that last year (by roughly 14 minutes, 4 on the bike and 10 on the run), even if the slightly longer bike course (small changes because of construction – numbers quoted before the race were between 182.6k and 184k) and the heat still led to “slow” conditions for Frankfurt. No course records were broken – maybe Patrik could have sped up a bit in the last k by not celebrating quite as much – in the end he was just 33 seconds over the run course record still held by Jan Frodeno. Still, it was only the second time we’ve seen a sub-2:40 marathon in Frankfurt.

Kona Slots

As the European Championships, there were three Kona Pro slots available. These will go to:

Patrik Nilsson,
David McNamee,
and
Pieter Heemeryck.

Second place finisher Kristian Høgenhaug was already qualified with his 4th place in Lanzarote. You can find all Kona qualifiers here.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Patrik Nilsson	SWE	00:49:34	04:25:08	02:39:39	07:59:20	-10:19	US$ 25,000
2	Kristian Hogenhaug	DEN	00:50:00	04:16:09	02:48:46	08:00:17	-20:57	US$ 15,000
3	David McNamee	GBR	00:49:50	04:25:03	02:42:58	08:02:28	-16:40	US$ 9,000
4	Pieter Heemeryck	BEL	00:49:44	04:25:13	02:47:28	08:07:10	-1:47:50	US$ 7,500
5	Franz Loeschke	GER	00:49:44	04:25:10	02:47:09	08:07:31	-04:17	US$ 5,500
6	Maurice Clavel	GER	00:49:36	04:25:03	02:49:54	08:09:40	-19:12	US$ 4,000
7	Paul Schuster	GER	00:49:36	04:25:13	02:51:26	08:11:22	-16:52	US$ 3,000
8	Milosz Sowinski	POL	00:51:36	04:32:43	02:48:11	08:17:51	n/a	US$ 2,500
9	Ivan Tutukin	KAZ	00:50:02	04:40:52	02:43:44	08:20:03	02:26	US$ 2,000
10	Dylan Magnien	FRA	00:49:40	04:40:44	02:47:23	08:23:44	n/a	US$ 1,500
11	David Plese	SLO	00:54:00	04:36:59	02:48:50	08:25:41	-01:27
12	Marcus Herbst	GER	00:51:32	04:33:03	02:58:30	08:28:11	-04:09
13	Maximilian Hammerle	AUT	01:00:56	04:32:38	02:48:53	08:28:42	-08:23
14	Victor Arroyo Bugallo	ESP	01:00:50	04:37:29	02:48:06	08:31:55	-05:16
15	Fabian Guenther	GER	00:54:01	04:37:21	02:58:00	08:34:48	n/a
16	Brent McMahon	CAN	00:49:36	04:25:16	03:15:55	08:35:32	14:56
17	Kyle Buckingham	ZAF	00:50:04	04:44:23	02:55:26	08:35:33	02:56
18	Tobias Drachler	GER	00:51:30	04:39:31	03:01:28	08:37:51	06:00
19	Thomas Davis	GBR	00:49:48	04:44:09	02:58:43	08:38:41	-02:21
20	Michael Kalb	GER	00:53:56	04:37:34	03:03:09	08:40:13	-08:48
21	Andreas Jung	GER	00:51:29	04:37:12	03:06:55	08:40:23	12:31
22	Quentin Kurc-Bocau	FRA	00:58:44	04:39:37	03:06:00	08:52:12	-01:13
23	Philipp Mock	GER	01:00:44	04:32:44	03:16:26	08:56:42	07:25
24	Marc Unger	GER	00:58:15	04:41:56	03:10:38	08:56:42	-07:00
25	Fabian Rahn	GER	01:00:57	04:55:25	02:57:24	08:59:52	13:50
26	Claude Lucas	LUX	00:59:45	04:43:26	03:12:11	09:01:23	n/a
27	Lucas Amirault	FRA	00:59:15	04:50:24	03:14:53	09:10:56	10:34
28	Maciej Chmura	POL	00:53:40	04:52:32	03:48:16	09:41:38	18:42
	Casper Stornes	NOR	00:49:38	04:24:46		DNF
	Philipp Koutny	SUI	00:51:38	04:39:20		DNF
	Chris Fischer	DEN	01:00:26	04:46:23		DNF
	Robert Wilkowiecki	POL	00:49:43	05:10:23		DNF
	Benjamin Dicke	GER	01:21:08	05:50:02		DNF
	Gregor Schreiner	GER	00:49:39			DNF
	Hannes Wolpert	GER	00:52:29			DNF
	Christian Altstadt	GER	00:59:02			DNF

IM Finland 2021 – Analyzing Results

August 14, 2021

Course Conditions

This was the first edition of IM Finland. With an adjustment of 11:15 the course was about as quick as IM New Zealand and a little bit slower than the “old home” of the European Championships in Frankfurt. The bike leg create most of the quickness, and there was quite a bit of rain on the run creating at least not very pleasant conditions. After crossing the finish line, all three podium finishers quickly changed into dry and warmer clothing.

Kona Qualifying

As the European Championships, IM Finland offered 3 Kona slots for the female Pros. These go to:

Laura Philipp
Jocelyn McCauley
Imogen Simmonds

All three were happy to secure their slots and are already looking forward to race Kona in October.

The full list of Kona qualifiers can be found here.

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Laura Philipp	GER	00:53:46	04:48:11	02:52:44	08:38:28	-03:36	US$ 25,000
2	Jocelyn McCauley	USA	00:53:39	04:48:20	03:13:00	08:59:25	-03:37	US$ 15,000
3	Imogen Simmonds	SUI	00:53:40	04:48:15	03:16:00	09:02:51	00:56	US$ 9,000
4	Tiina Pohjalainen	FIN	01:02:58	04:55:16	03:13:19	09:15:41	n/a	US$ 7,500
5	Heini Hartikainen	FIN	01:02:15	04:50:15	03:20:23	09:17:22	-19:23	US$ 5,500
6	Svenja Thoes	GER	00:58:36	05:04:04	03:10:23	09:17:43	06:08	US$ 4,000
7	Katharina Grohmann	GER	01:07:35	04:54:18	03:18:21	09:24:44	-10:50	US$ 3,000
8	Tara Grosvenor	GBR	00:58:34	05:17:22	03:09:34	09:29:36	-02:45	US$ 2,500
9	Verena Walter	GER	01:01:01	04:57:17	03:31:37	09:35:07	-03:28	US$ 2,000
10	Alena Sinay	SVK	01:00:54	05:03:43	03:27:55	09:36:54	-29:40	US$ 1,500
11	Lenny Ramsey	NED	01:07:37	05:07:53	03:18:33	09:39:16	09:09
12	Fiona Moriarty	IRL	01:04:11	05:02:27	03:28:29	09:39:40	01:50
13	Manon Genet	FRA	00:54:27	04:56:46	04:00:18	09:55:45	33:37
14	Vanessa Pereira	POR	01:05:33	05:26:24	03:21:36	10:00:02	-04:20

The Collins Cup 2021 (Aug 28th) – Team List

August 24, 2021

The first edition of the Collins Cup will be held on August 28th in Samorin. The Collins Cup will be a team event, in 12 matches one athlete from each of the three teams will race each other. The winner of each match scores 3 points, 2nd place 2 points and 1 point for 3rd, plus some bonus points for being far ahead. The winner of the Collins Cup will be the team that scores the most points in each of the matches.

Course details have not been announced yet, for now I have listed athletes with their course-neutral “70.3 Ratings”. But the distances are expected to be 2k swim, 80k bike and 18k run, so the times will be considerably faster than below. I plan to update the expected times closer to the race.

Updates:

August 24th: The US had some last minutes changes, Heather Jackson has been replaced by Jocelyn McCauley and Chris Leiferman by Andrew Starykowicz.

Male Race Participants

#	Name	Nat	Team	70.3 Rating	Swim	Bike	T2	Run
1	Gustav Iden	NOR	Europe	03:44:55	00:24:14	02:08:06	02:35:50	01:09:01
2	Jan Frodeno	GER	Europe	03:47:25	00:23:14	02:10:03	02:36:47	01:11:16
3	Lionel Sanders	CAN	Internationals	03:47:10	00:26:10	02:06:16	02:35:56	01:12:23
4	Sam Long	USA	USA	03:51:11	00:26:55	02:06:29	02:36:55	01:14:06
5	Rudy Von Berg	USA	USA	03:50:00	00:23:54	02:09:28	02:36:52	01:14:34
6	Sam Appleton	AUS	Internationals	03:51:54	00:23:41	02:09:02	02:36:12	01:16:36
7	Sebastian Kienle	GER	Europe	03:52:48	00:25:59	02:09:56	02:39:26	01:14:15
8	Daniel Baekkegard	DEN	Europe	03:52:49	00:23:20	02:13:06	02:39:56	01:14:05
9	Matt Hanson	USA	USA	03:53:09	00:25:32	02:12:30	02:41:32	01:12:29
10	Kyle Smith	NZL	Internationals	03:53:02	00:23:19	02:10:30	02:37:19	01:16:42
11	Patrick Lange	GER	Europe	03:53:42	00:24:03	02:13:58	02:41:30	01:12:32
12	~~Chris Leiferman~~	~~USA~~	~~USA~~	~~03:56:50~~	~~00:26:18~~	~~02:11:08~~	~~02:40:56~~	~~01:14:17~~
13	Braden Currie	NZL	Internationals	03:54:35	00:23:53	02:13:31	02:40:55	01:14:23
14	Ben Kanute	USA	USA	03:55:30	00:23:34	02:10:43	02:37:47	01:17:44
15	Jackson Laundry	CAN	Internationals	03:54:27	00:25:16	02:12:08	02:40:54	01:14:44
	Andrew Starykowicz	USA	USA	03:54:48	00:24:56	02:06:35	02:35:01	01:20:48
16	Max Neumann	AUS	Internationals	03:56:47	00:23:35	02:13:56	02:41:01	01:16:44
17	Justin Metzler	USA	USA	03:58:13	00:24:32	02:14:18	02:42:21	01:17:05
18	Joe Skipper	GBR	Europe	04:03:30	00:26:48	02:12:28	02:42:47	01:22:53

Female Race Participants

#	Name	Nat	Team	70.3 Rating	Swim	Bike	T2	Run
1	Daniela Ryf	SUI	Europe	04:11:59	00:25:55	02:21:02	02:50:27	01:22:18
2	Lucy Charles-Barclay	GBR	Europe	04:18:02	00:24:19	02:25:41	02:53:29	01:22:50
3	Holly Lawrence	GBR	Europe	04:15:30	00:25:15	02:24:42	02:53:27	01:22:57
4	Anne Haug	GER	Europe	04:17:14	00:27:29	02:29:05	03:00:04	01:17:26
5	Paula Findlay	CAN	Internationals	04:18:04	00:25:49	02:25:09	02:54:28	01:23:12
6	Taylor Knibb	USA	USA	04:17:40	00:25:24	02:23:55	02:54:03	01:23:37
7	Chelsea Sodaro	USA	USA	04:18:54	00:27:01	02:27:01	02:57:33	01:22:28
8	Jeanni Metzler	ZAF	Internationals	04:20:15	00:26:09	02:28:22	02:58:01	01:22:22
9	Emma Pallant-Browne	GBR	Europe	04:20:05	00:27:25	02:27:48	02:58:43	01:22:03
10	Skye Moench	USA	USA	04:19:54	00:27:47	02:25:21	02:56:38	01:24:32
11	Teresa Adam	NZL	Internationals	04:22:44	00:25:47	02:21:04	02:50:21	01:31:50
12	Ellie Salthouse	AUS	Internationals	04:23:16	00:26:16	02:28:13	02:57:59	01:24:38
13	Jackie Hering	USA	USA	04:22:12	00:27:32	02:30:01	03:01:03	01:22:28
14	Katrina Matthews	GBR	Europe	04:23:54	00:27:52	02:29:26	03:00:49	01:23:23
15	~~Heather Jackson~~	~~USA~~	~~USA~~	~~04:23:42~~	~~00:29:02~~	~~02:26:34~~	~~02:59:06~~	~~01:25:44~~
16	Sarah Crowley	AUS	Internationals	04:24:21	00:26:58	02:28:48	02:59:16	01:25:39
17	Carrie Lester	AUS	Internationals	04:27:04	00:26:56	02:28:45	02:59:11	01:28:12
	Jocelyn McCauley (KQ)	USA	USA	04:31:22	00:27:16	02:28:01	02:58:47	01:31:48
18	Katie Zaferes	USA	USA	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated

70.3 World Championships 2021 (Sept 17th & 18th) – Entry List

August 20, 2021

Note: The tables below show the athletes who have qualified, it is unlikely that all of them will actually race in St. George.

Prize Money

70.3 World Championship has a total prize purse of 350.000 US$, paying 15 deep.

Male Race Participants

Name	Nation
Bart Aernouts	BEL
Josh Amberger	AUS
Igor Amorelli	BRA
Marty Andrie	USA
Florian Angert	GER
Sam Appleton	AUS
Filipe Azevedo	POR
Daniel Baekkegard	DEN
Gregory Barnaby	ITA
Kristian Blummenfelt	NOR
Adam Bowden	GBR
Alistair Brownlee	GBR
Collin Chartier	USA
Nicholas Chase	USA
Maurice Clavel	GER
Antony Costes	FRA
Braden Currie	NZL
Robbie Deckard	USA
Andreas Dreitz	GER
Magnus Elbaek Ditlev	DEN
Nils Frommhold	GER
Frederic Funk	GER
Joe Gambles	AUS
Javier Gomez	ESP
George Goodwin	GBR
Matt Hanson	USA
Marcus Herbst	GER
Gustav Iden	NOR
Yvan Jarrige	FRA
Robert Kallin	SWE
Ben Kanute	USA
Sebastian Kienle	GER
Eric Lagerstrom	USA
Jackson Laundry	CAN
Yohan Le Berre	FRA
Chris Leiferman	USA
Emmanuel Lejeune	BEL
Sam Long	USA
Dylan Magnien	FRA
Kevin Maurel	FRA
Steven McKenna	AUS
Mauricio Mendez Cruz	MEX
Justin Metzler	USA
Clement Mignon	FRA
Miki Moerck Taagholt	DEN
Max Neumann	AUS
Mika Noodt	GER
Alexander Polizzi	AUS
Michael Raelert	GER
Ivan Rana	ESP
Tim Rea	AUS
Tim Reed	AUS
Taylor Reid	CAN
Tomas Andres Rodriguez Hernandez	MEX
Aaron Royle	AUS
Paul Ruttmann	AUT
Lionel Sanders	CAN
Francisco Serrano	MEX
Elliot Smales	GBR
Brennen Smith	CAN
Kyle Smith	NZL
Thomas Steger	AUT
Jan Stratmann	GER
Rasmus Svenningsson	SWE
James Teagle	GBR
Fernando Toldi	BRA
Martin Ulloa	CHI
Tim Van Berkel	AUS
Marten Van Riel	BEL
Rudy Von Berg	USA
Bradley Weiss	ZAF
Michael Weiss	AUT
Jason West	USA
Hayden Wilde	NZL
Cameron Wurf	AUS

Female Race Participants

Name	Nation
Grace Alexander	USA
Nikki Bartlett	GBR
Lisa Becharas	USA
Anna-Lena Best Pohl	GER
Romina Biagioli	ARG
Daniela Bleymehl	GER
Elizabeth Bravo	ECU
Mirinda Carfrae	AUS
Lucy Charles-Barclay	GBR
Haley Chura	USA
Luiza Cravo	BRA
Sarah Crowley	AUS
Alissa Doehla	USA
Flora Duffy	BMU
Paula Findlay	CAN
Jenny Fletcher	CAN
Ashleigh Gentle	AUS
Kimberly Goodell	USA
Susana Guillen	VEN
Lucy Hall	GBR
Claire Hann	GBR
Jackie Hering	USA
Lisa Huetthaler	AUT
Julie Iemmolo	FRA
Tamara Jewett	CAN
Meredith Kessler	USA
Taylor Knibb	USA
Katharina Krueger	GER
Kinsey Laine	USA
Chloe Lane	AUS
Holly Lawrence	GBR
India Lee	GBR
Carrie Lester	AUS
Danielle Lewis	USA
Diane Luethi	SUI
Justine Mathieux	FRA
Katrina Matthews	GBR
Jocelyn McCauley	USA
Rachel Mensch	USA
Jeanni Metzler	ZAF
Simone Mitchell	GBR
Skye Moench	USA
Kimberley Morrison	GBR
Anna Noguera	ESP
Lisa Norden	SWE
Pamella Oliveira	BRA
Emma Pallant-Browne	GBR
Maddy Pesch	USA
Sarah Piampiano	USA
Anne Reischmann	GER
Daniela Ryf	SUI
Ellie Salthouse	AUS
Felicity Sheedy-Ryan	AUS
Imogen Simmonds	SUI
Penny Slater	AUS
Lesley Smith	USA
Chelsea Sodaro	USA
Maja Stage Nielsen	DEN
Caroline Steffen	SUI
Jodie Stimpson	GBR
Sara Svensk	SWE
Line Thams	DEN
Grace Thek	AUS
Svenja Thoes	GER
Alexandra Tondeur	BEL
Els Visser	NED
Amelia Watkinson	NZL
Sophie Watts	USA
Hannah Wells	NZL
Amanda Wendorff	USA
Kelsey Withrow	USA