Thorsten

Update (Sep 4th): Mirjam Weerd said on Twitter that she won’t be able to race because an injury has kept her from riding the bike. Also David Naesvik said he will race Challenge Weymouth on the same weekend.

Update (Sep 7th): The latest startlist contains the cancellations from Dejan Patrcevic and  Markus Hoermann. Instead, Michi and Daniel Herlbauer and Louis Rundquist have been added to the field.

You can submit your podium picks for Challenge Almere at IM Predictions for a chance to win some nice prizes.

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2013	Bart Colpaert (BEL)	08:34:50	Susan Blatt (GER)	09:24:40
2014	Markus Fachbach (GER)	08:28:25	Heleen Bij De Vaate (NED)	09:16:26

The Almere Triathlon is the oldest long-distance race in Europe – the first edition was in 1983! It has been a Challenge race since 2013.

Last Year’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Markus Fachbach	GER	00:46:56	04:41:45	02:54:28	08:28:25
2	Dirk Wijnalda	NED	00:54:54	04:45:59	02:47:54	08:33:09
3	Chris Fischer	DEN	00:50:12	04:42:43	02:56:19	08:34:05

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Heleen Bij De Vaate	NED	01:01:24	04:59:22	03:10:59	09:16:26
2	Tineke Van den Berg	NED	01:01:13	05:01:23	03:17:28	09:26:04
3	Victoria Gill	GBR	01:01:12	05:15:29	03:20:41	09:42:53

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	08:28:25	Markus Fachbach	2014-09-13
Swim	overall	00:44:25	Bart Colpaert	2014-09-13
Bike	overall	04:41:45	Markus Fachbach	2014-09-13
Run	overall	02:47:54	Dirk Wijnalda	2014-09-13
Total	female	09:16:26	Heleen Bij De Vaate	2014-09-13
Swim	female	00:51:37	Hillary Biscay	2013-09-14
Bike	female	04:59:22	Heleen Bij De Vaate	2014-09-13
Run	female	03:10:59	Heleen Bij De Vaate	2014-09-13

Course Rating

The Course Rating for Challenge Almere is 06:18.

Race Adjustments for Challenge Almere

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Athletes	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2013	05:20	00:19	01:43	03:49	16	05:20	00:19	01:43	03:49
2014	07:16	02:43	04:54	00:36	22	06:18	01:31	03:18	02:12

Male Race Participants

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Exp. Swim	Exp. Bike	Exp. Run	Overall
1	1	Markus Fachbach	GER	08:31:13	08:39:05	00:48:07	04:39:08	02:58:58	45
2	39	Mark Oude Bennink	NED	08:40:45	08:58:47	00:46:23	04:46:19	03:03:03	119
3	2	Dirk Wijnalda	NED	08:43:35	09:05:45	00:56:07	04:49:36	02:52:52	150
4	6	Erik-Simon Strijk	NED	08:46:15	08:59:20	00:51:52	04:45:09	03:04:15	(122)
5	5	Gerrit Schellens	BEL	08:46:34	08:48:26	00:52:13	04:58:15	02:51:06	85
6	4	Roeland Smits	NED	08:46:49	08:56:46	00:51:41	04:48:13	03:01:55	(112)
7	7	David Naesvik	SWE	08:50:29	09:04:22	00:52:57	04:42:13	03:10:19	144
8	8	Dejan Patrcevic	CRO	08:51:41	08:54:56	00:51:26	04:55:24	02:59:52	108
9	15	Jens Groenbek	DEN	08:53:46	09:01:37	00:52:01	04:48:10	03:08:35	(130)
10	11	Thijs Koelen	NED	08:54:42	09:10:56	00:51:32	04:49:21	03:08:48	171
11	14	AJ Baucco	USA	08:58:13	09:10:18	00:51:10	04:50:19	03:11:44	167
12	9	Remy Vasseur	NED	08:58:42	09:12:43	00:52:16	04:55:34	03:05:52	181
13	3	Jens Kaiser	GER	08:58:54	09:17:45	00:56:06	04:46:45	03:11:03	(204)
14	10	Thomas Naasz	NED	09:12:54	09:25:00	00:54:12	04:59:10	03:14:33	236
15	19	Stefan Eichheimer	GER	09:21:02	09:39:04	00:57:05	04:58:48	03:20:08	(292)
16	17	Jacob Veenstra	NED	09:28:41	09:49:53	00:53:21	05:04:54	03:25:26	(331)
17	16	Eddy Lamers	NED	09:43:40	10:05:25	00:50:36	04:53:10	03:54:53	(385)
18	31	Blaz Brecko	SLO	09:53:49	10:12:55	00:00:00	00:00:00	00:00:00	(404)
19	12	Diederik Scheltinga	NED	11:08:13	11:43:33	00:50:40	05:21:59	04:50:34	(479)
	20	Marijn De Jonge	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	21	Attila Szabo	HUN	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	22	Dirk Baelus	BEL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	23	Dominic Rohan-Gates	GBR	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	25	Juanma Cardenas	ESP	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	26	Markus Hoermann	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	27	Olivier Godart	LUX	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	28	Peter Res	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	29	Tjardo Visser	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	30	Tjerk Tjallema	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	32	Guido Kwakkel	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	33	Henk-Jan Dolsma	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	34	Ben Van Oeveren	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	35	Bob Martens	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	36	Maarten Peters	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	37	Marco Glastra	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	38	Ricardo Scholten	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)

Female Race Participants

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Exp. Swim	Exp. Bike	Exp. Run	Overall
1	51	Mirjam Weerd	NED	09:34:39	09:41:33	00:52:56	05:08:38	03:28:05	(50)
2	52	Beate Goertz	GER	09:42:55	09:53:31	01:03:06	05:08:50	03:25:59	79
3	55	Brooke Brown	CAN	09:53:53	10:07:17	01:02:34	05:21:36	03:24:43	(111)
4	54	Lena Holmgren	SWE	09:55:11	10:13:53	01:05:48	05:26:10	03:18:14	(122)
5	53	Kathrin Walther	GER	09:56:06	10:26:46	00:57:57	05:17:16	03:35:53	157
6	56	Irene Kinnegim	NED	09:58:16	10:13:40	01:07:04	05:22:53	03:23:18	119
7	57	Celia Kuch	GER	10:01:45	10:18:14	01:01:37	05:22:16	03:32:53	131
8	60	Kristin Lie	NOR	10:02:16	10:13:41	01:10:35	05:16:47	03:29:54	120
9	59	Carla Van Rooijen	NED	10:02:36	10:19:51	01:10:13	05:25:17	03:22:07	136
10	65	Lina-Kristin Schink	GER	10:06:46	10:16:58	01:08:28	05:25:14	03:28:04	129
11	61	Julia Bohn	GER	10:08:00	10:21:27	01:00:11	05:32:13	03:30:36	142
	58	Grada Boschker	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	62	Nina Bakker	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	64	Camille Deligny	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	66	Linda Van Bemmel	NED	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

On the male side, last year’s winner Markus Fachbach is back to defend his title. He faces a large contingent of Dutch athletes such asMark Oude-Benning, Dirk Wijnalda (2nd last year), Roeland Smits and Erik-Simon Strijk. Also strong runner Gerrit Schellens from Belgium, David Naesvik from Sweden and US athlete AJ Baucco make picking the podium tricky.

• Markus Fachbach: 62% (1-1)
• Mark Oude Bennink: 14% (6-1)
• Dirk Wijnalda: 9% (10-1)
• Roeland Smits: 4% (24-1)
• Erik-Simon Strijk: 4% (25-1)
• Gerrit Schellens: 3% (30-1)
• David Naesvik: 3% (36-1)

Female Race Participants

Last year’s female winner, Heleen Bij de Vaate has retired but Mirjam Weerd looks to continue the Dutch streak of winners. (Mirjam has announced she won’t race.) The other main contenders to receive a beer shower are Germans Beate Görtz and Kathrin Walter, Canadian Brooke Brawn, Swede Lena Holmgren, Norwegian Kristin Lie and more Dutch athletes lead by Irene Kinnegim and Carla Van Rooijen.

• Mirjam Weerd: 42% (1-1)
• Beate Goertz: 24% (3-1)
• Kathrin Walther: 11% (8-1)
• Brooke Brown: 4% (23-1)
• Irene Kinnegim: 4% (24-1)
• Carla Van Rooijen: 4% (25-1)
• Lena Holmgren: 3% (32-1)
• Kristin Lie: 2% (41-1)

Update October 8th: Terenzo Bozzone announced on his blog that he will be traveling to Kona, but only to “to watch the race and help out with some sponsor stuff.”

Update October: 3rd: Mel Hauschildt has been forced to withdraw an MRI confirmed a stress fracture of her sacrum. More details can be found on this post by firstoffthebike.

Update September 29th: Victor Del Corral announced on his Facebook page that he has a stress fracture of is calcaneus and has said ‘bye bye’ to Kona 2015. 

Update September 17th: Corinne Abraham will also not be able to start in Kona after a string of problems including a September operation for an abscess and full-on antibiotics (details on her blog). 

Update September 16th: Pete Jacobs announced on his blog that he won’t be able to start in Kona.

Update September 4th: Ironman has announced both the names of the Pro athletes and their bib numbers. I have updated the post accordingly. I assume this also means that there will be no more roll down, any slots opening up by athletes not being able to race won’t be filled.

Update September 1st: Laurel Wassner accepted a roll-down slot from Sonja Tajsich.

After all Kona slots have been accepted, here is the preliminary start list for Kona 2015. There can still be some changes to the list – some athletes may get injured and decide not to start after all. There may be a few day in early September for a slot to roll down, but not closer to the race – that slot will just be gone then. I will update this list if any slots are declined or athletes announce that they won’t start.

I provide a lot more details on the race and the participants in my free “Kona Rating Report” which you can already order at https://gum.co/Kona2015.

Male Race Participants

Bib	Name	Nation	Age
1	Sebastian Kienle	GER	31
2	Jan Frodeno	GER	34
3	Frederik Van Lierde	BEL	36
4	Ben Hoffman	USA	32
5	Andy Potts	USA	38
6	Nils Frommhold	GER	29
7	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	31
8	Bart Aernouts	BEL	31
9	Lionel Sanders	CAN	27
10	Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI	36
11	Pete Jacobs	AUS	33
12	Matt Hanson	USA	30
14	Marino Vanhoenacker	BEL	39
15	Jeff Symonds	CAN	30
16	Cyril Viennot	FRA	33
17	Tim Don	GBR	37
18	Brent McMahon	CAN	35
19	Matt Trautman	ZAF	30
20	Bas Diederen	NED	35
21	Timothy O’Donnell	USA	35
22	Romain Guillaume	FRA	30
23	Cameron Brown	NZL	43
24	Ivan Rana	ESP	36
25	Guilherme Manocchio	BRA	33
26	Joe Skipper	GBR	27
27	Michael Weiss	AUT	34
28	Eneko Llanos	ESP	38
29	Tyler Butterfield	BMU	32
30	Clemente Alonso McKernan	ESP	37
31	Callum Millward	NZL	32
32	Brad Kahlefeldt	AUS	36
33	David McNamee	GBR	27
34	Andi Boecherer	GER	32
35	Andreas Raelert	GER	39
36	Luke McKenzie	AUS	34
37	Boris Stein	GER	30
38	Dylan McNeice	NZL	30
39	Fredrik Croneborg	SWE	34
40	Igor Amorelli	BRA	31
41	Denis Chevrot	FRA	27
42	Jordan Rapp	USA	35
43	Christian Kramer	GER	32
44	Paul Ambrose	AUS	31
45	Pedro Gomes	POR	31
46	Terenzo Bozzone	NZL	30
47	Viktor Zyemtsev	USA	42
48	Kyle Buckingham	ZAF	31
49	Jan Van Berkel	SUI	27
50	Maik Twelsiek	GER	34
51	Victor Del Corral	ESP	35
52	Fraser Cartmell	GBR	33
53	Daniel Bretscher	USA	31
54	Miquel Blanchart Tinto	ESP	31
55	Luke Bell	AUS	36
56	Matt Chrabot	USA	32
57	Jeremy Jurkiewicz	FRA	27
58	Justin Daerr	USA	34

Female Race Participants

Bib	Name	Nation	Age
101	Mirinda Carfrae	AUS	34
102	Daniela Ryf	SUI	28
103	Jodie Swallow	GBR	34
104	Caroline Steffen	SUI	37
105	Rachel Joyce	GBR	37
106	Julia Gajer	GER	33
107	Mary Beth Ellis	USA	38
108	Gina Crawford	NZL	34
109	Meredith Kessler	USA	37
110	Leanda Cave	GBR	37
111	Melissa Hauschildt	AUS	32
112	Angela Naeth	CAN	33
113	Ariane Monticeli	BRA
114	Elizabeth Lyles	USA	37
115	Liz Blatchford	AUS	35
116	Heather Wurtele	CAN	36
117	Lucy Gossage	GBR	35
118	Camilla Pedersen	DEN	32
119	Eva Wutti	AUT	26
120	Diana Riesler	GER	31
121	Susie Cheetham	GBR	29
122	Michelle Vesterby	DEN	32
123	Amanda Stevens	USA	38
124	Beth Gerdes	USA	35
125	Heather Jackson	USA	31
126	Britta Martin	NZL	37
127	Ruth Brennan-Morrey	USA	40
128	Mareen Hufe	GER	37
129	Haley Chura	USA	30
130	Annabel Luxford	AUS	33
131	Kelly Williamson	USA	37
132	Dede Griesbauer	USA	45
133	Astrid Stienen	GER	36
134	Dimity-Lee Duke	AUS
135	Corinne Abraham	GBR	37
136	Tine Deckers	BEL	37
137	Asa Lundstroem	SWE	31
138	Shiao-yu Li	TWN	38
139	Sarah Piampiano	USA	35
140	Caitlin Snow	USA	33
141	Sofie Goos	BEL	35
142	Laurel Wassner	USA

Race Conditions

Similar to the results there were for Challenge Vichy in 2013, the course was pretty quick (adjustment of 16:12, comparable to Western Australia or Sweden and faster than IM Germany. Both the bike and the run were relatively fast.

Male Race Results

Bertrand Billard was leading the race for most of the day, but eventually he had to settle for second as Mauro Bartsch (coached by TBB’s Jo Spindler) took the win with a 2:52:34 marathon. Only Chris Brader had a faster run, he finished in third.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected	Prize Money
1	Mauro Baertsch	SUI	00:54:34	04:31:24	02:52:34	08:23:49	-20:46	US$ 5000
2	Bertrand Billard	FRA	00:51:16	04:31:19	02:59:56	08:27:39	-23:51	US$ 2750
3	Christian Brader	GER	00:57:45	04:36:30	02:52:07	08:31:12	-08:41	US$ 1750
4	Patrick Jaberg	SUI	00:54:27	04:34:50	02:58:46	08:34:02	-10:51	US$ 1250
5	Mike Schifferle	SUI	01:01:03	04:33:40	02:58:02	08:40:16	-05:32	US$ 1000
6	Ivan Risti	ITA	00:51:12	04:43:29	03:03:33	08:49:35	-00:47	US$ 750
7	Andrey Lyatskiy	RUS	00:51:19	04:51:10	03:03:16	08:51:05	07:01
8	Guillaume Jeannin	FRA	00:52:25	04:45:52	03:27:12	09:10:38	n/a
9	Oliver Gonzalez	MEX	00:54:31	05:11:16	03:14:52	09:26:37	07:12
10	Christopher Sweet	USA	01:02:33	05:02:18	03:30:22	09:40:27	n/a
11	Maksim Kalinin	RUS	01:18:05	05:29:46	03:39:38	10:35:03	21:51
12	Ludovic Le Guellec	FRA	01:06:13	05:18:09	04:10:00	10:41:25	55:53
	Anthony Pannier	FRA	00:51:09	04:36:17		DNF
	Marc Duelsen	GER	00:54:32	04:39:56		DNF
	Pascal Ramali	GER	01:04:23	04:33:48		DNF
	Steve Rosinski	USA	00:59:59	04:50:21		DNF
	AJ Baucco	USA	00:53:01			DNF
	Nicolas Hemet	FRA	00:54:38			DNF
	Michael Ruenz	GER	00:59:57			DNF
	Gilian Oriet	SUI	01:02:29			DNF

Female Race Results

For a long time it looked as if Natascha Badmann could win another IM – but muscular problems caught up with her on the run and she had to settle for third. Gurutze Frades had the best run of the day and won the race. Veteran Tine Holst finished second and took her first IM podium.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected	Prize Money
1	Gurutze Frades Larralde	ESP	01:03:09	05:10:51	03:05:46	09:25:27	-24:46	US$ 5000
2	Tine Holst	DEN	01:04:25	05:04:46	03:15:51	09:30:59	-15:29	US$ 2750
3	Natascha Badmann	SUI	01:03:28	04:56:20	03:25:16	09:32:33	20:10	US$ 1750
4	Alyssa Godesky	USA	01:03:11	05:17:08	03:25:28	09:52:15	-10:47	US$ 1250
5	Michelle Vella Wood	MLT	01:03:31	05:55:20	05:47:13	12:54:04	n/a	US$ 1000
	Anna Rovira Garrido	ESP	01:13:41	05:37:19		DNF
	Nicole Woysch	GER	01:00:26			DNF

Update (Aug 26th): I have added Natascha Badmann and Nicole Woysch to the female start list, while Corinne Abraham said she is definitely not racing in Vichy and unlikely to race before Kona.

Update (Aug 28th): Unfortunately, Dirk Bockel had to withdraw from the race.

Ironman Vichy is held on a similar course as Challenge Vichy in previous years and is organized by the same company (that was bought by WTC). The race struggled to field a decent Pro field in the last few years and it was shortened to a half IM because of extreme weather conditions – therefore I don’t have reliable data from the earlier editions. However, it could be a fast race, especially on the bike.

KPR points and Prize Money

IM Vichy is a P-2000 race. It has a total prize purse of 25.000 US$.

Male Race Participants

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Exp. Swim	Exp. Bike	Exp. Run	Overall
1	1	Dirk Bockel	LUX	08:24:25	08:21:49	00:47:11	04:32:48	02:59:25	(7)
2	5	Marc Duelsen	GER	08:39:27	08:40:27	00:52:33	04:40:35	03:01:19	52
3	6	Michael Ruenz	GER	08:46:44	08:57:41	00:53:08	04:50:18	02:58:18	117
4	22	Pascal Ramali	GER	08:47:57	08:58:33	00:58:56	04:38:52	03:05:08	(120)
5	9	Mauro Baertsch	SUI	08:54:06	09:10:33	00:54:17	04:52:35	03:02:15	170
6	3	Christian Brader	GER	08:55:33	08:55:13	00:56:40	04:54:18	02:59:35	108
7	14	Mike Schifferle	SUI	09:00:42	09:01:24	01:00:28	04:50:22	03:04:51	128
8	25	Andrey Lyatskiy	RUS	09:01:29	09:00:00	00:49:08	04:55:33	03:11:49	125
9	8	Patrick Jaberg	SUI	09:02:53	09:05:43	00:53:51	04:53:03	03:10:59	148
10	7	AJ Baucco	USA	09:04:35	09:04:51	00:52:34	04:53:15	03:13:46	145
11	11	Nicolas Hemet	FRA	09:07:09	09:08:52	00:56:17	04:50:41	03:15:11	162
12	2	Bertrand Billard	FRA	09:08:05	09:23:17	00:48:27	04:42:33	03:32:05	(227)
13	10	Ivan Risti	ITA	09:11:10	09:17:14	00:48:18	05:02:57	03:14:55	(200)
14	28	Jim Lubinski	USA	09:18:20	09:30:30	01:01:35	05:02:49	03:08:56	254
15	15	Steve Rosinski	USA	09:36:05	09:47:40	00:57:13	05:04:09	03:29:43	(321)
16	27	Oliver Gonzalez	MEX	09:42:11	09:53:53	00:50:25	05:35:20	03:11:26	(348)
17	17	Emanuele Ciotti	ITA	09:45:23	09:57:09	00:54:15	05:11:04	03:35:04	(353)
18	26	Anthony Pannier	FRA	09:49:29	09:57:21	00:49:05	04:51:15	04:04:09	(353)
19	16	Ludovic Le Guellec	FRA	09:55:12	10:10:49	01:01:40	05:23:00	03:25:31	397
20	13	Gilian Oriet	SUI	10:07:47	10:20:00	00:59:20	05:06:41	03:56:46	(424)
21	20	Maksim Kalinin	RUS	10:36:07	10:38:34	01:13:28	05:32:57	03:44:42	456
22	19	Michal Jalovecky	CZE	10:40:34	10:52:18	01:01:36	05:58:45	03:35:13	(466)
	12	Guillaume Jeannin	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	18	Christopher Sweet	USA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	24	Frederic Schaffner	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)

Female Race Participants

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Exp. Swim	Exp. Bike	Exp. Run	Overall
1	41	Corinne Abraham	GBR	09:24:06	09:23:37	00:59:37	05:09:00	03:10:30	17
1	40	Natascha Badmann	SUI	09:33:14	09:29:33	01:01:42	05:05:12	03:21:20	25
2	43	Tine Holst	DEN	10:06:24	10:09:37	01:05:42	05:23:19	03:32:22	112
3	44	Maria Lemeseva	RUS	10:10:34	10:20:07	01:08:55	05:31:08	03:25:31	137
4	42	Gurutze Frades Larralde	ESP	10:11:02	10:13:14	01:03:20	05:42:56	03:19:46	(117)
5	45	Alyssa Godesky	USA	10:19:27	10:27:01	01:02:56	05:36:19	03:35:12	157
6	48	Nicole Woysch	GER	10:24:05	10:41:26	00:58:50	05:31:04	03:49:12	(165)
7	47	Anna Rovira Garrido	ESP	10:28:54	10:41:43	01:11:01	05:33:34	03:39:20	(166)
	46	Michelle Vella Wood	MLT	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

Dirk Bockel is returning to IM racing after a long injury break. If he is anywhere close to his previous form, he is the clear favorite to win this race and start his quest to qualify for Kona 2016: With Dirk Bockel not starting, the race is pretty open:

• Dirk Bockel: 60% (1-1)
• Marc Duelsen: 16% (5-1)
• Michael Ruenz: 8% (11-1)
• Mauro Baertsch: 8% (11-1)
• Christian Brader: 3% (36-1)
• Mike Schifferle: 2% (52-1)
• Andrey Lyatskiy: 2% (65-1)

Female Race Participants

Corinne has been on virtually all July and August IM start list, but as she is qualified for Kona without additional racing, she won’t be racing in Vichy. In her absence, Natascha Badmann is the clear favorite:

• Natascha Badmann: 73% (1-1)
• Tine Holst: 11% (8-1)
• Maria Lemeseva: 6% (17-1)
• Gurutze Frades Larralde: 5% (18-1)
• Alyssa Godesky: 4% (27-1)

Race Conditions

Copenhagen was again a pretty quick course, especially on the bike. As usual, we saw some quick times even if they were not close to the course record times from one or two years ago.

Male Race Results

Henrik Hyledlund was intent on defending his title from last year, however Guilherme Manocchio’s race best 2:54 marathon proved too strong for Henrik who had to be content with the second place. Third place went to Andreas Niedrig – at 47 years of age he must be one of the oldest podium finishers in an IM!

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected	Prize Money
1	Guilherme Manocchio	BRA	00:48:16	04:26:43	02:54:15	08:14:56	-19:41	US$ 10000
2	Henrik Hyldelund	DEN	00:48:13	04:27:07	03:02:31	08:21:51	-05:57	US$ 5000
3	Andreas Niedrig	GER	00:47:02	04:21:47	03:14:03	08:27:37	-34:51	US$ 3250
4	Mike Schifferle	SUI	00:57:49	04:30:37	02:52:50	08:27:57	-21:12	US$ 2500
5	Jan Raphael	GER	00:48:20	04:35:09	03:04:03	08:31:50	07:40	US$ 1750
6	Mike Aigroz	SUI	00:48:17	04:35:16	03:13:11	08:40:35	09:26	US$ 1250
7	Pontus Lindberg	SWE	00:50:23	04:41:07	03:11:45	08:47:20	11:32	US$ 750
8	Wouter Monchy	BEL	00:50:20	04:42:41	03:14:57	08:53:03	-40:35	US$ 500
9	Dejan Patrcevic	CRO	00:50:53	04:42:12	03:15:05	08:53:42	16:00
10	Kasper Ougaard	DEN	00:58:14	04:43:16	03:08:10	08:55:47	-25:49
11	Michael Louys	BEL	01:00:23	04:46:36	03:05:40	08:57:57	-22:37
12	Harri Sokk	EST	00:56:50	04:33:47	03:40:30	09:16:50	12:19
13	Vincent Depuiset	FRA	01:05:38	04:58:10	03:14:02	09:23:58	-13:25
14	Gilian Oriet	SUI	00:58:09	04:51:10	03:51:49	09:46:33	n/a
15	Gili Oriol	ESP	00:55:39	05:15:18	03:55:41	10:12:58	n/a
16	Luca Cozza	ITA	00:58:19	05:05:00	04:14:39	10:25:09	n/a
17	Alexander Wulff	DEN	01:14:07	05:19:32	04:06:47	10:48:01	-14:25
18	Mathias Nagel	GER	01:29:00	05:31:46	04:47:56	11:54:13	-1:39:25
19	Alberto Perassi	ITA	00:57:35	05:29:02	06:14:39	12:57:41	n/a
	Anders Christensen	DNK	00:55:34	04:44:32		DNF
	Jens Petersen-Bach	DEN	00:50:44			DNF

Female Race Results

Michelle Vesterby lead the race from wire to wire, winning her home IM in just under 9 hours. Sofie Goos finished a solid second with the race best 3:07 marathon, securing a Kona slot. Sonja Tajsich finished third, also getting a last minute August slot.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected	Prize Money
1	Michelle Vesterby	DEN	00:50:45	04:52:22	03:12:10	08:59:49	-10:59	US$ 10000
2	Sofie Goos	BEL	00:56:35	04:54:22	03:07:59	09:03:07	-19:37	US$ 5000
3	Sonja Tajsich	GER	00:58:17	04:52:28	03:13:23	09:08:43	-08:35	US$ 3250
4	Regula Rohrbach	SUI	00:56:26	04:53:23	03:42:47	09:38:07	08:28	US$ 2500
5	Lucie Reed	CZE	00:50:47	05:17:07	03:26:46	09:39:43	09:27	US$ 1750
6	Alyssa Godesky	USA	01:00:40	05:17:22	03:21:05	09:45:20	-25:53	US$ 1250
7	Helena Herrero Gomez	ESP	01:00:28	05:51:00	03:14:54	10:13:42	19:28	US$ 750
	Vicky Gill	GBR	01:04:01	05:09:53		DNF
	Kathrin Walther	GER	00:58:07	05:21:29		DNF