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Announcing the 2015 KPR Observer

The Pro qualifying for Kona 2015 is getting into its final, decisive weeks. To learn more about how the KPR works, check out the short video below on the KPR. To follow the KPR and the athletes qualifying for Kona at the end of the qualifying cycle, you purchase the KPR Observer for the reduced end-of-season price of 19$ at https://gum.co/2015KPR.


The Kona Pro Ranking (or KPR for short) is the system used to determine which Professional triathletes qualify for the Ironman World Championships in Kona.

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My 2015 KPR Observer makes understanding and following the KPR rankings easy. It consists of an Initial Information Package about the KPR and ongoing updates via EMail during the season.

Here’s a ten minute video with an overview of the KPR and the information you’ll receive in the KPR Observer:

The Initial Information Package(delivered at the time of purchase) contains:

  • a description of how the KPR works in qualifying Pros for Kona
  • base predictions of the men’s and women’s cutoff
  • graphs and descriptions of the current KPR standings

During the season, there will be at least six EMail Updates (and probably ten) about the KPR Standings, who is already in, who is close to qualifying, how many slots are still open and updated estimates of where the cutoffs will occur. (Some more details can be found in the post on “KPR Observer Preview“.)

If you want to qualify as a Pro, coach a Pro athlete, write about professional Ironman racing or are otherwise interested in the KPR, this is must-read information and will help you gain a much deeper insight into the KPR at a fraction of the time if you had to do it yourself!

You can order the 2015 KPR Observer at https://gum.co/2015KPR (or click on the picture above) for 29$.

Side Effects

In my day job as an IT consultant and programmer, one of the tricky things that we are dealing with is side effects – making a change on one side that has some unforeseen consequence at another point. Thinking through potential side effects is an important part of implementing changes. Another example of side effects is in medicine, where the intended effects of a drug have to be weighed against other, possibly adverse effects.

Side EffectsWhen discussing the inequality of Kona slots (50 for the men, 35 for the women), one also has to think of effects beyond the simple difference of slots. Most everyone comes up with the immediate consequence that women require more points than the men – in 2014 it was roughly 4.900 vs. 3.500 points that were required for a July slot, and of course that also required more racing by female Kona athletes than for the male Kona qualifiers.

However, there is another side effect of the inequality: It pushes female Pros into the bigger point races. Basically, it doesn’t make sense for most athletes that want to make it to Kona to race in a P-2000 race: Even winning two of these won’t be enough for a Kona slot. (The exception would be those athletes that already have a good chunk of points, e.g. after finishing well in Kona or from 70.3 champs. For example, Meredith Kessler raced and won Ironman Arizona in November and Ironman New Zealand in March – a strategy that only made sense because she had 2.185 points from 70.3 champs and another 1.500 from 70.3 Auckland).

You can see this push into bigger races on two sides:

  • Most P-2000 races will have a relatively small female field. For example, IM New Zealand only had seven females on the start line, even though it paid ten deep.
  • The Regional Championships will have stronger female fields. For example, Melbourne and South Africa have almost the same number of male and female starters (Melbourne: 21m/19f, South Africa: 48m/32f)

This means that neither the distribution in New Zealand nor in Melbourne should be considered the norm. Field sizes are not determined solely by the different numbers of Pros overall, but are also heavily influenced by the different roles that the races play in athlete’s plans to qualify for Kona.

In addition, I would suggest to consider the side effects that an overall reduction of Kona athletes (even with an equal slot distribution) would have: Limiting the field size to 30 male and 30 female athletes (as has been suggested) would push the required number of points to around 5.000 and also force the male athletes to race more. A lot of athletes won’t be able to race Kona to their full potential as they will still be tired from qualifying. This can’t be in everyone’s interest so a reduction in the number of slots would also require changes to the KPR system if we want to have a great Kona race. Unless we have some good suggestions on how to achieve that, I don’t like the idea of reducing slots. But I don’t like unequal slots either, and that has already been discussed for a long time without seeing any change …

Ironman South Africa 2015 (March 29th) – Predictions

LogoSAYou can submit your picks for this race on IM-Predictions.

Update March 28th: The day before the race, Linsey Corbin had to announce she won’t be able to start.

Update March 23rd: Based on the latest start list, there have been a few cancellations: Michael Weiss, Emanuele Ciotti, Will Clarke, Karol Dzalaj, Martin Jensen, Beth Shutt, Anja Beranek, Svetlana Blazevic, Amy Forshaw, Caroline Koll, Kathrin Walther.

Previous Winners

Year Male Winner Time Female Winner Time
2006 Gerrit Schellens (BEL) 08:36:06 Natascha Badmann (SUI) 09:46:38
2007 Gerrit Schellens (BEL) 08:33:05 Natascha Badmann (SUI) 09:22:01
2008 Stephen Bayliss (GBR) 08:18:23 Bella Bayliss (GBR) 09:27:48
2009 Marino Vanhoenacker (BEL) 08:17:32 Lucie Reed (CZE) 09:16:32
2010 Raynard Tissink (ZAF) 08:23:28 Sonja Tajsich (GER) 09:16:55
2011 Raynard Tissink (ZAF) 08:05:36 Chrissie Wellington (GBR) 08:33:56
2012 Clemente Alonso McKernan (ESP) 08:34:45 Natascha Badmann (SUI) 09:47:10
2013 Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI) 08:11:24 Jessie Donavan (USA) 09:10:58
2014 Nils Frommhold (GER) 08:26:07 Simone Braendli (SUI) 09:31:54

Last Year’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Nils Frommhold GER 00:48:17 04:37:12 02:55:59 08:26:07
2 Kyle Buckingham ZAF 00:49:53 04:41:03 02:57:33 08:32:39
3 Faris Al-Sultan GER 00:48:27 04:43:34 02:56:59 08:33:19

Female Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Simone Braendli SUI 00:51:00 05:26:55 03:09:08 09:31:54
2 Lucy Gossage GBR 00:59:50 05:18:47 03:09:55 09:33:07
3 Jodie Swallow GBR 00:48:34 05:21:19 03:19:40 09:33:59

Course Records

Leg Gender Record Athlete Date
Total overall 08:05:36 Raynard Tissink 2011-04-10
Swim overall 00:45:22 Anton Storm 2009-04-05
Bike overall 04:19:41 Raynard Tissink 2011-04-10
Run overall 02:45:48 Gerrit Schellens 2007-03-18
Total female 08:33:56 Chrissie Wellington 2011-04-10
Swim female 00:47:40 Lucie Reed 2009-04-05
Bike female 04:45:23 Chrissie Wellington 2011-04-10
Run female 02:52:54 Chrissie Wellington 2011-04-10

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM South Africa is 02:32.

Race Adjustments for IM South Africa

Year Adjustment Swim Adj. Bike Adj. Run Adj. # of Athletes Rating Swim Rating Bike Rating Run Rating
2006 -01:19 -05:30 -06:50 00:02 10 -01:19 -05:30 -06:50 00:02
2007 -04:20 -09:38 01:16 -01:19 20 -02:49 -07:34 -02:47 -00:38
2008 16:56 00:25 10:16 01:52 29 03:46 -04:54 01:34 00:12
2009 12:53 01:21 10:04 -01:03 24 06:03 -03:21 03:42 -00:07
2010 08:27 -00:56 07:35 01:33 28 06:31 -02:52 04:28 00:13
2011 12:08 -00:26 12:10 02:27 33 07:27 -02:27 05:45 00:35
2012 -12:53 -09:05 -09:57 02:26 23 04:33 -03:24 03:31 00:51
2013 06:17 -01:51 09:24 02:28 28 04:46 -03:12 04:15 01:03
2014 -15:21 -01:38 -12:46 -01:19 23 02:32 -03:02 02:21 00:47

KPR points and Prize Money

IM South Africa has 4000 KPR points for the winner. It has a total prize purse of 150k$. As a Regional Championship the Melbourne winners will receive an Automatic Qualifier spot for Kona 2015.

Male Race Participants

Rank Bib Name Nation Expected Time Rating Exp. Swim Exp. Bike Exp. Run Overall
1 2 Frederik Van Lierde BEL 08:18:40 08:19:33 00:49:59 04:31:12 02:52:29 3
2 40 Ivan Rana ESP 08:23:13 08:27:21 00:50:03 04:38:40 02:49:30 15
3 6 Bas Diederen NED 08:23:18 08:33:25 00:49:38 04:34:26 02:54:14 25
4 4 Michael Weiss AUT 08:23:32 08:31:05 00:56:29 04:25:37 02:56:26 18
5 33 Eneko Llanos ESP 08:24:09 08:22:10 00:50:45 04:33:39 02:54:45 5
6 5 Kyle Buckingham ZAF 08:24:39 08:38:47 00:51:32 04:30:27 02:57:40 39
7 1 Cyril Viennot FRA 08:26:37 08:33:41 00:53:01 04:35:17 02:53:19 26
8 18 James Cunnama ZAF 08:27:52 08:41:19 00:51:29 04:34:52 02:56:30 52
9 3 Bart Aernouts BEL 08:27:56 08:25:34 00:54:54 04:39:04 02:48:57 8
10 7 Matt Trautman ZAF 08:28:50 08:37:08 00:50:45 04:35:29 02:57:36 (36)
11 46 TJ Tollakson USA 08:32:31 08:40:56 00:51:37 04:33:18 03:02:35 51
12 21 Victor Del Corral ESP 08:33:47 08:34:53 00:57:51 04:40:16 02:50:40 31
13 23 Marc Duelsen GER 08:34:54 08:38:48 00:55:57 04:35:25 02:58:33 40
14 39 David Plese SLO 08:35:13 08:42:09 00:56:00 04:39:07 02:55:06 53
15 10 Konstantin Bachor GER 08:35:26 08:39:59 00:51:55 04:30:49 03:07:42 45
16 13 Fraser Cartmell GBR 08:35:38 08:45:44 00:50:50 04:34:20 03:05:27 60
17 14 Alberto Casadei ITA 08:36:02 08:46:02 00:49:54 04:41:45 02:59:22 (63)
18 30 Martin Jensen DEN 08:36:19 08:33:58 00:52:39 04:40:27 02:58:13 (28)
19 43 Boris Stein GER 08:38:57 08:37:36 00:59:01 04:37:22 02:57:35 37
20 9 Mike Aigroz SUI 08:38:59 08:47:16 00:50:43 04:38:41 03:04:36 72
21 22 Trevor Delsaut FRA 08:41:05 08:48:39 00:55:45 04:43:54 02:56:26 80
22 25 Herve Faure FRA 08:41:14 08:50:38 00:53:30 04:39:59 03:02:45 (85)
23 41 Michael Ruenz GER 08:43:41 08:56:20 00:56:15 04:46:08 02:56:18 112
24 31 Kirill Kotshegarov EST 08:45:17 08:48:27 00:55:49 04:41:14 03:03:14 79
25 50 Andrej Vistica CRO 08:45:24 08:49:18 00:56:41 04:44:02 02:59:41 83
26 8 Johann Ackermann GER 08:45:58 09:04:27 00:51:01 04:45:03 03:04:55 (144)
27 44 Swen Sundberg GER 08:49:07 08:48:40 00:55:18 04:43:26 03:05:24 81
28 34 Carlos Lopez Diaz ESP 08:53:38 09:07:11 00:50:11 04:53:59 03:04:28 (153)
29 20 Michael Davidson ZAF 08:53:50 09:06:57 00:57:52 04:49:39 03:01:19 (151)
30 11 Bertrand Billard FRA 08:54:43 09:13:31 00:51:01 04:40:45 03:17:57 (186)
31 24 Karol Dzalaj SVK 08:56:39 09:08:46 00:56:38 04:41:21 03:13:40 167
32 28 Kent Horner ZAF 08:58:10 09:20:39 00:50:15 04:44:24 03:18:31 218
33 42 Till Schramm GER 08:58:27 09:34:56 00:58:51 04:41:50 03:12:46 (273)
34 19 Karl-Johan Danielsson SWE 09:03:59 09:13:32 00:51:41 04:45:25 03:21:53 186
35 27 Hannes Cool BEL 09:04:01 09:12:51 00:54:31 04:51:57 03:12:33 (186)
36 47 Craig Twigg GBR 09:11:39 09:46:47 00:55:42 04:42:52 03:28:04 320
37 17 Greg Close USA 09:13:36 09:19:08 00:59:20 04:59:43 03:09:33 209
38 35 Jim Lubinski USA 09:15:00 09:36:41 01:05:16 05:01:36 03:03:08 282
39 49 Hendrik-Jan Verhaegen BEL 09:19:45 09:31:11 00:59:44 04:55:39 03:19:22 (258)
40 12 Gerhard De Bruin ZAF 09:42:21 09:55:22 00:59:16 05:03:51 03:34:14 (355)
41 32 Roman Krutina CZE 10:01:35 10:16:34 00:59:58 05:10:21 03:46:16 (416)
15 Emanuele Ciotti ITA n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
16 Will Clarke GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
26 Frederik Flagstad GRL n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
29 Allan Hovda NOR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
36 David Mcnamee GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
37 Johannes Moldan GER n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
45 Sylvain Sudrie FRA n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
48 Urs Mueller SWI n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)

Will Clarke has already announced that he will need some extra time to get in shape for an Ironman.

Martin Jensen hurt his leg sprinting for the finish line in Dubai, and he also won’t be able to start.

Female Race Participants

Rank Bib Name Nation Expected Time Rating Exp. Swim Exp. Bike Exp. Run Overall
1 81 Eva Wutti AUT 09:11:10 09:14:44 01:00:10 04:57:13 03:08:46 6
2 51 Jodie Swallow GBR 09:12:40 09:14:59 00:50:34 04:59:09 03:17:57 7
3 75 Diana Riesler GER 09:17:53 09:40:35 01:00:33 04:56:17 03:16:03 44
4 52 Linsey Corbin USA 09:17:55 09:20:20 01:00:26 05:06:23 03:06:07 11
5 54 Lucy Gossage GBR 09:18:41 09:25:40 01:00:44 05:04:15 03:08:41 20
6 60 Tine Deckers BEL 09:18:50 09:33:00 01:01:13 05:02:39 03:09:58 30
7 38 Camilla Pedersen DEN 09:20:16 09:24:44 00:53:50 05:04:20 03:17:07 17
8 57 Anja Beranek GER 09:20:18 09:32:43 00:55:31 05:00:15 03:19:32 (30)
9 79 Sonja Tajsich GER 09:22:25 09:30:34 01:04:40 05:04:19 03:08:25 26
10 78 Caitlin Snow USA 09:22:55 09:28:28 00:57:58 05:18:16 03:01:41 21
11 72 Britta Martin NZL 09:26:12 09:31:11 01:01:54 05:10:32 03:08:47 28
12 74 Lucie Reed CZE 09:34:11 09:41:14 00:53:01 05:14:44 03:21:26 45
13 63 Astrid Ganzow GER 09:40:46 09:45:38 01:01:41 05:07:56 03:26:09 57
14 61 Amber Ferreira USA 09:41:03 09:46:26 00:58:25 05:17:55 03:19:43 58
15 53 Beth Shutt USA 09:51:17 09:53:13 01:03:54 05:22:48 03:19:35 71
16 55 Stefanie Adam BEL 09:53:32 10:14:24 00:59:01 05:05:52 03:43:39 (119)
17 67 Jessica Meyers USA 09:53:33 09:59:15 01:03:31 05:23:45 03:21:17 89
18 80 Kathrin Walther GER 09:57:39 10:20:34 01:03:13 05:15:02 03:34:24 135
19 70 Maria Lemeseva RUS 10:00:17 10:07:46 01:11:49 05:23:21 03:20:08 104
20 65 Eleanor Haresign GBR 10:00:26 10:13:45 01:03:32 05:14:35 03:37:19 (117)
21 56 Anne Basso FRA 10:01:30 10:27:55 01:00:35 05:24:59 03:30:56 151
22 73 Nina Pekerman ISR 10:01:41 10:15:52 01:02:38 05:23:07 03:30:56 120
23 58 Svetlana Blazevic SRB 10:07:28 10:13:53 00:55:03 05:26:56 03:40:29 117
24 69 Heather Leiggi USA 10:08:20 10:18:55 01:03:18 05:29:42 03:30:20 130
25 62 Amy Forshaw GBR 10:18:15 10:28:18 01:07:25 05:35:19 03:30:31 152
26 64 Alyssa Godesky USA 10:33:15 10:42:16 01:07:09 05:36:07 03:45:00 161
27 68 Caroline Koll ZAF 10:55:27 11:07:54 01:02:50 05:55:29 03:52:08 170
28 77 Linda Scattolin ITA 11:18:34 11:38:55 01:11:19 05:48:29 04:13:46 (175)
59 Susie Cheetham GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
66 Corina Hengartner SWI n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
71 Caroline Livesey GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)
76 Riana Robertson ZAF n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated (n/a)

Linda Scattolin (together with ex-Pro Edith Niederfriniger) has been in a horrible bike crash while training and passed away.

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

Frederik Van Lierde has to be considered the favorite: He is a very solid athlete, and the only question is what shape he’ll be in this early in the year. Based on previous results, Ivan Rana is his main rival: His recent result in Kona was not what he was looking for, but even after a bad bike leg he still ran a very strong 2:44 marathon.

My expectation is that the race in South Africa will be made interesting by the local athletes that would love to win the title for their home country. Kyle Buckingham was close last year (he finished 2nd to Nils Frommhold), Matt Trautmann seems to be in great shape (he won IM Wales in 2014 and 70.3 South Africa earlier this year), and while James Cunnama has been struggling a bit in the last years, he has the potential for a great performance.

  • Frederik Van Lierde: 26% (3-1)
  • Ivan Rana: 19% (4-1)
  • Michael Weiss: 9% (11-1)
  • Kyle Buckingham: 7% (12-1)
  • James Cunnama: 6% (15-1)
  • Eneko Llanos: 6% (16-1)
  • Cyril Viennot: 5% (20-1)
  • Matt Trautman: 4% (21-1)
  • Victor Del Corral: 2% (45-1)

Female Race Participants

There are a number of female athletes with very good statistical chances that may not be on top of everybody’s list: Tine Deckers (unbeaten at IM France for years), Diana Riesler (recent winner of IM Malaysia) or Eva Wutti (fast, but often DNFs) have excellent chances to win the race on a good day.

Jodie Swallow has been  working hard to win South Africa, and as she lives and trains a lot in Stellenbosch, she will be the local favorite. Her last results have been very consistent, so this year she could finally take the top spot on the podium.

Linsey Corbin will make life hard for athletes mentioned so far – and she will want to finish better than her fourth place seeding. Lucy Gossage hasn’t had a great Kona last year, but is always very strong at the start of the season – and she was also very close to winning last year. A couple of German athletes – Sonja Tajsich Anja Beranek – are also looking for a great result in South Africa after some injury problems and missing Kona qualifying in 2014, as will Camilla Pedersen (winner of IM Germany 2013).

  • Tine Deckers: 26% (3-1)
  • Diana Riesler: 19% (4-1)
  • Eva Wutti: 16% (5-1)
  • Linsey Corbin: 14% (6-1)
  • Jodie Swallow: 10% (9-1)
  • Lucy Gossage: 5% (21-1)
  • Sonja Tajsich: 4% (26-1)
  • Anja Beranek: 3% (39-1)

Ironman to Offer Enhanced Coverage of Major Races

At the end of January Ironman has announced that they want to improve the online coverage of their major races. Here’s a more detailed look at some of the questions around this issue. (Thanks to Joe Skipper for providing additional information.)

Races to be Covered

According to the press release Ironman wants to cover the Ironman World Championships (Kona), 70.3 World Championships (this year in Zell am See, Austria) and the five regional Championships (Melbourne, South Africa, Texas, Brasil and Frankfurt).

The first race that will benefit from this enhanced coverage will be Ironman Melbourne on March 22nd. It is not clear if there will also be enhanced coverage for IM South Africa – it is also a Regional Championship but just one week after Melbourne, so there may not be enough time to learn from the „beta test“ (Ironman’s words) in Melbourne.

Improved Ironman Live

For the races indicated above, Ironman will produce “a hosted online show with extensive, in-depth coverage of the professional race“. My expectation is that this will be a similar setup to the coverage that we have seen from Kona – mainly a couple of commentators in a „studio” with live pictures from the course and some additional commentary. However, it is very good to hear that Ironman has learned from the mistake of the non-coverage of 70.3 Championships in Mont Tremblant.

GPS Tracking

The main change to the coverage will be that every Pro athlete will be required to wear a GPS tracking device on the bike and run. The GPS data will feed into a new athlete tracking platform (dubbed Ironfan). Athletes can also opt into transferring additional biometric data such as HR or power.

This data will be very interesting (can I have a live feed, please?) but I’m somewhat skeptical about the value this will bring for following the race:

  • I don’t think too many athletes will be open to provide important data to their competitors.
  • The current Athlete Tracker had major functional and stability problems. It will be a huge ask for the new platform to work better, more stable and with a much larger amount of data.
  • Ironman has not been very good in using their data. For example, they have failed to provide really useful leaderboards. I’m not very optimistic that they will do better with the GPS data: They said that they will show this data “in an intuitive, map-driven design“. While that is certainly a cool way to look at it, distance between athletes has so far been expressed in time rather than shown on a map.

GPS Devices

In order to provide the GPS data, all athletes will have to carry a device supplied by Ironman. The size of the device may be a bit of a surprise to athletes, expecting something like a timing chip. In fact, the device is only slightly smaller than an iPhone 5, about the same weight but about three times as thick:

Tracking Device

As far as I can tell, the size of the device makes sense: It is basically a complete smart phone with a GPS chip, a cell phone to transfer the data and a large battery.

To help athletes carry the device, Ironman will provide „specifically-designed pouches“. However, athletes can have their own race belt to carry the device. In addition, some athletes (for example Martin Jensen) have indicated that they are working with their clothing sponsor to integrate a carrying pocket into their race suit, similar to the pitches for radios that the cycling Pros have in their clothing.

At first, carrying the unit will be new, and there will be some grumbling from those athletes that haven’t prepared in time for them. But over time, I expect these issues to go away, especially when technology advances will make the units smaller.

For now, the GPS tracking will be limited to Pros in major races, but Andrew Messick said that they hope to „expand .. to all races and to age-group athletes in the future“.

My Assessment

In general, the introduction of GPS tracking and the enhanced race coverage has the potential to be a very good move by Ironman, one that can make following races online much more interesting and help Pros to raise their profile. It would be great to be able to follow races online at a level comparable or even better than what the ITU and Challenge have been doing.

I hope that Ironman will be able to deliver on this potential and I’m willing to give them some time to get things right. But too often, Ironman efforts have been half-hearted and ultimately disappointing. I’ll be anxiously watching for Ironman to get things right this time!

Ironman New Zealand 2015 – Analyzing Results

Race Conditions

This year the conditions in New Zealand were pretty quick across all three legs – almost no winds, and pleasant temperatures that seemed to be not too hot and not too cold. An adjustment of 7:49 is the fastest I have seen in recent years, leading to a new course rating of 4:34. The conditions probably helped, but it was amazing to see a new swim record by Dylan McNeice (44:26, improving on Brent Foster’s 44:47 from 2004) and an overall women’s record by Meredith Kessler (9:05:45, improving on her own record of 9:08:46 from last year).

Male Race Results

Cam Brown continues to amaze: He won his 11th New Zealand title, and improved his own record of being the oldest male IM winner (now at 42 years, 8 months and 15 days). He was a bit behind after the swim, but bridged up to the front and slowly pulled away. Terns was still close to him in T2, but Cam quickly put some time into Terenzo and posted the fastest bike and run to win by six minutes.

Cam_NZ

Just one week after his big win in Dubai, Terenzo had a solid day: He was in the lead for some time on the bike, then ran a 2:55 marathon to finish second. The race for third came down to the wire: Challenge Wanaka winner Dylan McNeice struggled a bit on the bike after his swim course record, but found another gear at the end of the run and chased down Alex Reithmeier, securing a New Zealand podium!

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to expected
1 Cameron Brown NZL 00:50:02 04:37:39 02:49:08 08:22:13 02:24
2 Terenzo Bozzone NZL 00:47:04 04:41:08 02:55:51 08:28:53 02:11
3 Dylan McNeice NZL 00:44:26 04:53:27 02:54:24 08:38:05 -01:11
4 Alex Reithmeier AUS 00:50:03 04:43:03 02:59:58 08:38:47 -03:44
5 Mike Schifferle SUI 00:56:36 04:38:26 03:03:07 08:46:33 -10:14
6 Carl Read NZL 00:50:41 04:51:31 03:00:02 08:47:41 00:20
7 Simon Cochrane NZL 00:49:59 04:52:25 03:03:32 08:51:11 -05:59
8 Todd Skipworth AUS 00:44:32 04:54:00 03:12:21 08:55:31 08:19
9 Chris Sanson NZL 00:56:21 04:56:00 02:56:54 08:56:06 -08:19
10 Johan Borg AUS 00:56:16 04:55:50 03:08:28 09:06:06 -05:30
11 Shanon Stallard NZL 00:56:19 05:08:49 02:56:08 09:06:25 -06:36
12 Ricky Swindale AUS 00:50:07 05:08:04 03:03:03 09:07:41 n/a
13 Graham O’Grady NZL 00:44:29 04:45:16 03:44:40 09:19:20 n/a
14 James Cotter NZL 00:47:04 05:36:44 03:52:31 10:24:30 26:42
15 James Bowstead NZL 00:50:06 04:55:42 04:43:19 10:36:12 1:11:06
Nick Baldwin SEY 00:50:06 04:52:23 DNF
Young Hwan Oh KOR 00:56:27 05:28:36 DNF
Andrew Yoder USA 00:48:00 DNF
Daiki Masuda JPN 00:56:13 DNF
Joel Jameson GBR 00:59:50 DNF

Female Race Results

There was never a doubt in the women’s race: Meredith Kessler posted the fastest times in all three legs, even closing the day a new personal best for an Ironman marathon! An impressive, dominating performance that gives her breathing room to properly build for Kona now.

MBK_NZ

Even if Gina Crawford (also only two weeks after winning Challenge Wanaka) didn’t have a good day (as indicated by red times in all legs), she was never really challenged for second place. The final spot on the podium was taken by Melanie Burke.

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to expected
1 Meredith Kessler USA 00:49:36 05:04:29 03:07:18 09:05:45 -07:38
2 Gina Crawford NZL 00:51:25 05:16:55 03:11:13 09:26:11 11:38
3 Melanie Burke NZL 01:02:46 05:12:19 03:20:29 09:41:51 00:56
4 Stephanie Jones USA 01:00:39 05:18:47 03:21:13 09:47:32 04:59
5 Jocelyn Mccauley USA 00:58:46 05:30:33 03:13:25 09:50:01 n/a
6 Erin Furness NZL 01:01:09 05:33:29 03:32:18 10:13:05 10:07
7 Conny Dauben GER 01:06:08 05:53:42 04:19:47 11:27:58 40:34

Photo Credits: Tweets by Cam Brown and Meredith Kessler

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