July 2023

Ironman World Championships Nice 2023 (MPRO, Sept 10th) – Always Up-to-Date Startlist

September 8, 2023

Updates

Aug 17th: A few athletes have announced that they have qualified for Nice but will not start: Cody Beals, Justin Metzler and Jan van Berkel (who ended his career after winning IM Switzerland). I have crossed them out in the lists below.
Aug 17th: Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden have announced racing plans for the fall that do not include Nice. It is very unlikely that they will start, but I will leave them in the list for now.
Aug 18th: As reported by Tri247, Arthur Horseau was given a wildcard slot after he was late to the awards ceremony after winning IM Lanzarote.
Aug 28th: Max Neumann had to announce that he won’t be able to race Nice after losing too much time because of what was initially thought a minor bike crash.
Aug 29th: In a statement on his YouTube channel, Michael Weiss announced that he wont’t race in Nice.
Aug 1st: Oliver Martinussen announced on Instagram that he’s “down and out”.
Sep 1st: Ironman have updated their startlist and released bib numbers. One surprise for me was that with Jan van Berkel not racing, they have rolled down his slot from Cozumel 2022 to Fernando Toldi. They also haven’t given a bib to Sam Appleton, Matt Burton, Steven McKenna, and Luciano Taccone, making it very unlikely for these athlete to race on Sunday.
Sep 3rd: Jesper Svensson posted that he’s preparing for Challenge Almere, I have checked with him that he won’t race in Nice.
Sep 4th: Rasmus Svenningsson also had to withdraw, he still has some lingering effects from a recent Covid infection.
Sep 5th: Unfortunately, another athlete had to withdraw: Daniel Baekkegard has picked up a sickness in Singapore and is not yet back to full training.
Sep 6th: Andrea Salvisberg also can’t race, he’s been diagnosed with Meningitis.

To all athletes who can’t race for healthy reasons, get better soon!

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM World Championships has 3 Pro Kona slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 375.000 US$, paying 15 deep.

Male Qualifiers

This table lists the athletes who have qualified for Nice and are likely to race there. (There is a separate list for the women’s race in Kona.)

(I’m missing the birthdates for a few athletes and for some other I only have the year they were born, so if you spot any missing or wrong data, please let me know!)

Bib	Name	Nation	Age	Previous Results
M1	Jan Frodeno	GER	42	5 finishes, 3 wins (2015, 2016, 2019)
M2	Patrick Lange	GER	37	4 finishes (5 starts), 2 wins (2017, 2018)
M3	Sam Laidlow	FRA	24	2 finishes
M5	Joe Skipper	GBR	35	5 finishes
M6	Leon Chevalier	FRA	26	2 finishes
M7	Magnus Ditlev	DEN	25	1 finish
M8	Clement Mignon	FRA	24	1 finish
M9	Braden Currie	NZL	37	4 finishes (5 starts)
M10	Denis Chevrot	FRA	35	4 finishes (6 starts)
M11	Rudy Von Berg	USA	29	1 finish
M12	~~Daniel Baekkegard~~	DEN	27	2 finishes (3 starts)
M14	Pieter Heemeryck	BEL	33	1 finish (2 starts)
M15	Kristian Hogenhaug	DEN	32	2 finishes (3 starts)
M16	Bradley Weiss	ZAF	34	1 finish
M17	Matt Hanson	USA	38	4 finishes (6 starts)
M18	Mathias Petersen	DEN	28	1 finish
M19	Gregory Barnaby	ITA	32	none
M20	Chris Leiferman	USA	37	3 finishes
M21	Cameron Wurf	AUS	40	5 finishes
M22	Bart Aernouts	BEL	39	7 finishes (9 starts)
M23	Arnaud Guilloux	FRA	34	2 finishes
M25	Mike Phillips	NZL	32	2 finishes
M27	Robert Wilkowiecki	POL	29	1 finish
M28	Franz Loeschke	GER	34	0 finishes (1 start)
M29	Niek Heldoorn	NED	24	none
M30	Jonas Hoffmann	GER	26	none
M32	~~Andrea Salvisberg~~	SUI	34	none
M33	~~Rasmus Svenningsson~~	SWE	30	none
M34	Leonard Arnold	GER	28	none
M35	Brent McMahon	CAN	42	2 finishes (4 starts)
M37	Fernando Toldi	BRA	36	none
M39	Kristian Grue	NOR	28	none
M40	Adam Feigh	USA	31	1 finish
M41	Andre Lopes	BRA	31	1 finish
M42	Maximilian Hammerle	AUT	30	none
M43	Georg Enzenberger	AUT	29	none
M44	Tuan Chun Chang	TWN	28	none
M45	Reinaldo Colucci	BRA	37	3 finishes
M46	Matthew Marquardt	USA	25	none
M48	Benjamin Hill	AUS		none
M49	Arthur Horseau	FRA	30	none
M50	Remi Conte	FRA	25	none
M51	Ben Phillips	NZL		none
M52	Nathan Dortmann	FRA	32	none

70.3 World Championships 2023 (Lahti, Finland) – List of Qualifiers

July 25, 2023

Female Qualifiers (Race on Saturday, Aug 26th)

Name	Nation
Laura Addie	GBR
Grace Alexander	USA
Rebecca Anderbury	GBR
Alexia Bailly	FRA
Nikki Bartlett	GBR
Anna Bergsten	SWE
Marta Bernardi	ITA
Hannah Berry	NZL
Sarah Bishop	USA
Daniela Bleymehl	GER
Lauren Brandon	USA
Lucy Buckingham	GBR
Lucy Byram	GBR
Mirinda Carfrae	AUS
Diana Castillo Franco	COL
Rebecca Clarke	NZL
Charlene Clavel	FRA
Sarah Crowley	AUS
Kate Curran	GBR
Amy Cymerman	USA
Lydia Dant	GBR
Stephanie Demestichas	AUS
Diede Diederiks	NED
Eloise Du Luart	FRA
Paula Findlay	CAN
Gurutze Frades Larralde	ESP
Ashleigh Gentle	AUS
Lisa Gerss	GER
Kate Gillespie-Jones	AUS
Justine Guerard	FRA
Anne Haug	GER
Mollie Hebda	USA
Jackie Hering	USA
Brittany Higgins	USA
Julie Iemmolo	FRA
Laura Jansen	GER
Tamara Jewett	CAN
Samantha Kingsford	NZL
Kaidi Kivioja	EST
Daniela Kleiser	GER
Taylor Knibb	USA
Holly Lawrence	GBR
India Lee	GBR
Danielle Lewis	USA
Lottie Lucas	UAE
Katrina Matthews	GBR
Rach McBride	CAN
Jeanni Metzler	ZAF
Olivia Mitchell	GBR
Skye Moench	USA
Emilie Morier	FRA
Jade Nicole Roberts	ZAF
Magda Nieuwoudt	ZAF
Anna Noguera Raja	ESP
Pamella Oliveira	BRA
Emma Pallant-Browne	GBR
Nikita Paskiewiez	FRA
Sophie Perry	AUS
Lisa Perterer	AUT
Laura Philipp	GER
Marjolaine Pierre	FRA
Tiina Pohjalainen	FIN
Caroline Pohle	GER
Giorgia Priarone	ITA
Anne Reischmann	GER
Barbara Riveros	CHI
Daniela Ryf	SUI
Ellie Salthouse	AUS
Imogen Simmonds	SUI
Penny Slater	AUS
Maja Stage Nielsen	DEN
Bruna Stolf	BRA
Sara Svensk	SWE
Grace Thek	AUS
Ai Ueda	JPN
Natalie Van Coevorden	AUS
Amelia Watkinson	NZL
Lotte Wilms	NED

Male Qualifiers (Race on Sunday, August 27th)

Name	Nation
Bart Aernouts	BEL
Josh Amberger	AUS
Igor Amorelli	BRA
Filipe Azevedo	POR
Joseph Baghioni	FRA
Thor Bendix Madsen	DEN
Antonio Benito Lopez	ESP
Kristian Blummenfelt	NOR
Rico Bogen	GER
Alistair Brownlee	GBR
Leon Chevalier	FRA
Antony Costes	FRA
Benjamin Deal	USA
Robbie Deckard	USA
Samuel Dickinson	GBR
Marc Dubrick	USA
Magnus Elbaek Ditlev	DEN
Adriano Engelhardt	SUI
Alessandro Fabian	ITA
Trevor Foley	USA
Jan Frodeno	GER
Gonzalo Fuentes	ESP
Frederic Funk	GER
Dylan Gillespie	USA
Javier Gomez	ESP
George Goodwin	GBR
Arnaud Guilloux	FRA
Joergen Gundersen	NOR
Matt Hanson	USA
Niek Heldoorn	NED
Ben Hoffman	USA
Jonas Hoffmann	GER
Ben Kanute	USA
Youri Keulen	NED
Mitchell Kibby	AUS
Menno Koolhaas	NED
Eric Lagerstrom	USA
Jackson Laundry	CAN
Pierre Le Corre	FRA
Chris Leiferman	USA
Joshua Lewis	GBR
Franz Loeschke	GER
Sam Long	USA
Dylan Magnien	FRA
Nicolas Mann	GER
Mathis Margirier	FRA
Miguel Mattox	USA
Steven McKenna	AUS
Justin Metzler	USA
Miki Moerck Taagholt	DEN
Jordi Montraveta Moya	ESP
Jack Moody	NZL
Max Neumann	AUS
Justus Nieschlag	GER
Timothy O’Donnell	USA
Mike Phillips	NZL
Andy Potts	USA
Nicholas Quenet	ZAF
Charlie Quin	AUS
Andrea Salvisberg	SUI
Lionel Sanders	CAN
Felipe Santos	BRA
Matthew Sharpe	CAN
Jack Sosinski	AUS
Maximilian Sperl	GER
Scott Steenberg	DEN
Jan Stepinski	USA
Kacper Stepniak	POL
Ognjen Stojanovic	SRB
Jan Stratmann	GER
Luciano Taccone	ARG
James Teagle	GBR
Matt Trautman	ZAF
Martin Ulloa	CHI
Richard Varga	SVK
Bradley Weiss	ZAF
Jason West	USA
Robert Wilkowiecki	POL
Kye Wylde	AUS
Benjamin Zorgnotti	FPO

PTO US Open 2023 (Milwaukee) – Startlist

July 25, 2023

Prize Money

PTO US Open has a total prize purse of 600.000 US$, paying 30 deep.

Female Race Participants (Race on Friday, Aug 4th)

Name	Nation
Ruth Astle	GBR
Lauren Brandon	USA
Lucy Byram	GBR
Haley Chura	USA
Rebecca Clarke	NZL
Paula Findlay	CAN
Ashleigh Gentle	AUS
Jackie Hering	USA
Tamara Jewett	CAN
Daniela Kleiser	GER
Taylor Knibb	USA
Holly Lawrence	GBR
India Lee	GBR
Danielle Lewis	USA
Katrina Matthews	GBR
Jocelyn McCauley	USA
Jeanni Metzler	ZAF
Skye Moench	USA
Marjolaine Pierre	FRA
Giorgia Priarone	ITA
Anne Reischmann	GER
Jodie Robertson	USA
Ellie Salthouse	AUS
Lesley Smith	USA
Chelsea Sodaro	USA
Maja Stage Nielsen	DEN
Annamarie Strehlow	USA
Sarah True	USA

Male Race Participants (Race on Saturday, Aug 5th)

Name	Nation
Bart Aernouts	BEL
Josh Amberger	AUS
Florian Angert	GER
Daniel Baekkegard	DEN
Gregory Barnaby	ITA
Thor Bendix Madsen	DEN
Thomas Bishop	GBR
Kristian Blummenfelt	NOR
Alistair Brownlee	GBR
Braden Currie	NZL
Marc Dubrick	USA
Magnus Elbaek Ditlev	DEN
Trevor Foley	USA
Jan Frodeno	GER
Frederic Funk	GER
Kristian Hogenhaug	DEN
Ben Kanute	USA
Jackson Laundry	CAN
Chris Leiferman	USA
Sam Long	USA
Mathis Margirier	FRA
David McNamee	GBR
Clement Mignon	FRA
Miki Moerck Taagholt	DEN
Timothy O’Donnell	USA
Aaron Royle	AUS
Lionel Sanders	CAN
Marten Van Riel	BEL
Bradley Weiss	ZAF
Jason West	USA

Ironman Lake Placid 2023 – Analyzing Results

July 25, 2023

Course Conditions

I have been told that this year’s bike course was “officially short” by about 2k. This added to a bike leg that was significantly faster than what is typical for Lake Placid by about eight minutes. (So either the bike was even “more short” or the conditions were exceptionally quick – or a combination of both.) But overall, this differences isn’t large enough to completely discard this years results as course records as there have been other years that also had quite similarly quick conditions.

Overall, Joe Skipper was ten minutes quicker than the old course record by Rasmus Svenningsen. (Ben Hoffman and Matt Hanson were also under the old record.) While Joe’s new bike record of 4:19 may require a little asterisk because of the shortened bike, it was still two and a half minutes quicker than the old record. On the run, Matt Hanson was also more than two minutes quicker than the old run course record set by Brent McMahon last year.

Nice and Kona Qualifying

Lake Placid offered two slots each for the men (Nice) and women (Kona). These have been assigned to

Michael Weiss and Maximilan Hammerle
and
Alice Alberts and Jen Annett.

Joe Skipper, Ben Hoffman and Matt Hanson were already qualified, Josh Amberger and Erin Snelgrove must have declined their slots.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Joe Skipper	GBR	00:53:46 (10)	04:19:53 (1)	02:45:16 (3)	08:03:45	-00:16	US$ 15,000
2	Ben Hoffman	USA	00:51:53 (6)	04:24:51 (4)	02:44:33 (2)	08:06:05	-06:06	US$ 9,000
3	Matt Hanson	USA	00:53:41 (9)	04:30:21 (5)	02:41:14 (1)	08:09:50	00:59	US$ 7,000
4	Josh Amberger	AUS	00:49:43 (1)	04:24:30 (3)	02:54:17 (7)	08:14:57	-04:42	US$ 5,000
5	Michael Weiss	AUT	00:55:30 (14)	04:24:13 (2)	02:52:10 (5)	08:17:34	-01:28	US$ 4,000
6	Antoine Jolicoeur Desroches	CAN	00:51:39 (2)	04:37:46 (11)	02:49:59 (4)	08:24:17	-08:17	US$ 3,000
7	Jan Stepinski	USA	00:51:47 (5)	04:33:41 (6)	02:58:40 (10)	08:30:13	n/a	US$ 2,500
8	Maximilian Hammerle	AUT	00:55:32 (16)	04:35:33 (7)	02:53:57 (6)	08:31:13	01:34	US$ 2,000
9	Hunter Lussi	USA	00:53:39 (7)	04:37:41 (9)	02:54:29 (8)	08:32:25	-47:37	US$ 1,500
10	Cody Beals	CAN	00:51:44 (4)	04:36:19 (8)	03:07:22 (11)	08:39:54	23:41	US$ 1,000
11	Lukas Schnoedewind	GER	00:51:41 (3)	04:37:44 (10)	03:07:25 (12)	08:42:03	-05:22
12	Matthew Russell	USA	00:58:29 (17)	04:43:42 (13)	02:54:36 (9)	08:42:26	13:04
13	Adam Feigh	USA	00:53:48 (11)	04:41:22 (12)	03:11:20 (14)	08:52:46	20:36
14	Yannick Fischbach	USA	01:06:33 (22)	04:49:23 (14)	03:18:22 (16)	09:20:13	n/a
15	David Lacombe	CAN	01:02:18 (20)	04:59:16 (17)	03:12:28 (15)	09:20:53	-09:53
16	Simon Bernier Lalonde	CAN	00:53:50 (12)	05:18:27 (21)	03:11:12 (13)	09:29:45	n/a
17	Matthew Morabito	USA	01:05:43 (21)	04:56:31 (16)	03:18:53 (17)	09:30:31	n/a
18	Nick Cosman	CAN	00:58:32 (18)	05:06:22 (20)	03:18:59 (18)	09:30:35	-08:50
19	Jacob Osswald	USA	00:55:31 (15)	05:05:16 (18)	03:22:10 (19)	09:31:44	n/a
	Ernie Mantell	USA	00:58:50 (19)	04:53:52 (15)		DNF
	James Hayes	USA	00:53:40 (8)	05:05:44 (19)		DNF
	Andreas Dreitz	GER	00:53:50 (12)			DNF

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Alice Alberts	USA	01:00:11 (1)	05:03:40 (2)	03:06:28 (4)	09:16:00	-15:53	US$ 15,000
2	Erin Snelgrove	CAN	01:02:07 (5)	05:10:05 (5)	03:02:30 (1)	09:21:48	-37:57	US$ 9,000
3	Jen Annett	CAN	01:04:34 (9)	05:05:30 (4)	03:12:07 (5)	09:27:34	-00:09	US$ 7,000
4	Angela Naeth	CAN	01:04:52 (10)	05:00:03 (1)	03:21:39 (9)	09:32:22	-18:20	US$ 5,000
5	Ai Ueda	JPN	01:00:14 (3)	05:22:39 (8)	03:05:30 (3)	09:33:48	-10:25	US$ 4,000
6	Joanna Ryter	SUI	01:10:25 (12)	05:17:48 (7)	03:04:28 (2)	09:37:45	07:02	US$ 3,000
7	Rach McBride	CAN	01:00:11 (1)	05:11:51 (6)	03:36:02 (11)	09:53:08	01:50	US$ 2,500
8	Katie Colville	USA	01:04:19 (7)	05:38:19 (12)	03:13:18 (6)	10:04:32	08:21	US$ 2,000
9	Veronique Ranger	CAN	01:07:03 (11)	05:34:39 (11)	03:15:05 (7)	10:06:02	n/a	US$ 1,500
10	Jennie Hansen	USA	01:11:30 (13)	05:26:49 (9)	03:29:20 (10)	10:15:00	10:58	US$ 1,000
11	Amber Ferreira	USA	01:04:32 (8)	05:27:41 (10)	03:48:59 (12)	10:29:17	30:38
12	Gabrielle Suver	USA	01:12:30 (14)	05:46:50 (14)	03:20:42 (8)	10:31:54	16:56
	Jodie Robertson	USA	01:02:12 (6)	05:05:22 (3)		DNF
	Katie Morales	USA	01:00:16 (4)	05:42:01 (13)		DNF

Ironman Vitoria 2023 – Analyzing Results

July 25, 2023

Course Conditions

Compared to the 2019 race (the only other race with a female Pro category), conditions were slower by roughly four minutes. Nonetheless, winner Gurutze Frades set a new overall course record by about six minutes, improving the old mark set by Heather Jackson. This was mainly a result of her new run course record which was almost thirteen minutes quicker than Heather’s old run course record. Heather’s third course record, the bike leg, was also broken – Els Visser was two and a half minutes quicker.

Kona Qualifying

With a number of athletes already qualified, the two female Kona Pro slots go to

Fiona Moriarty
and
Carla Dahan.

You can find the full list of qualifiers here.

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Gurutze Frades Larralde	ESP	00:59:14 (8)	04:49:15 (3)	02:53:07 (1)	08:46:17	-09:09	US$ 15,000
2	Svenja Thoes	GER	00:56:35 (3)	04:51:47 (4)	03:00:23 (2)	08:53:17	-11:43	US$ 9,000
3	Els Visser	NED	00:56:36 (4)	04:41:16 (1)	03:26:39 (6)	09:08:59	13:39	US$ 7,000
4	Michelle Vesterby	DEN	00:56:32 (2)	04:44:19 (2)	03:31:38 (7)	09:17:46	13:35	US$ 5,000
5	Helene Alberdi Sololuze	ESP	00:52:40 (1)	05:08:47 (7)	03:14:24 (3)	09:21:30	n/a	US$ 4,000
6	Fiona Moriarty	IRL	00:58:58 (5)	05:02:40 (5)	03:19:40 (4)	09:26:50	-09:24	US$ 3,000
7	Carla Dahan	FRA	00:59:10 (7)	05:05:00 (6)	03:25:46 (5)	09:36:04	-08:47	US$ 2,500
8	Mirella Karlsson	SWE	01:01:45 (9)	05:41:45 (8)	04:04:12 (8)	10:56:17	55:13	US$ 2,000
	Jana Uderstadt	GER	00:59:07 (6)			DNF