IM Cairns

Course Conditions

Conditions were a bit slower than in earlier years – about three minutes on the bike and two minutes on the run. With a faster swim, the overall times were about 3 and a half minutes slower. Nonetheless, we’ve seen a few new course records. Kylie Simpson posted new bike and run records (beating the old records by Sarah Crowley from 2022 and her own marathon record from 2021), she also set a new overall course record, beating Teresa Adams’ time from 2019. On the men’s side, Braden Currie set a new run course record, improving his own time from 2018.

Nice and Kona Qualifying

As a Regional Championship, Cairns offered four slots for each gender. As there were a number of athletes already qualified, these rolled down quite a lot, there must also have been a few declines and the last female slot wasn’t filled The slots were awarded to 

• Ben Philipps (6th), Matt Burton (7th), Tuam Chun Chang (8th), Nathan Dorfmann (10th)
  for the men (Nice) and
• Kate Gillespie-Jones (5th), Laura Brown (7th), and Sarah Thomas (8th)
  for the women (Kona).

You can find the full list of qualifiers here.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Braden Currie	NZL	00:45:09 (2)	04:23:13 (4)	02:37:44 (1)	07:50:10	-11:01	US$ 25,000
2	Steven McKenna	AUS	00:45:11 (3)	04:23:12 (3)	02:48:27 (3)	08:00:59	-07:44	US$ 15,000
3	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	00:48:12 (9)	04:29:26 (5)	02:42:52 (2)	08:04:54	-11:39	US$ 9,000
4	Pete Jacobs	AUS	00:45:11 (3)	04:29:38 (7)	02:49:16 (4)	08:09:48	-1:11:40	US$ 7,500
5	Mike Phillips	NZL	00:46:52 (6)	04:21:28 (2)	03:04:44 (9)	08:17:13	08:10	US$ 5,500
6	Ben Phillips	NZL	00:48:10 (8)	04:29:26 (5)	02:57:16 (5)	08:19:01	-12:19	US$ 4,000
7	Matt Burton	AUS	00:51:09 (12)	04:19:31 (1)	03:16:47 (13)	08:33:11	10:15	US$ 3,000
8	Tuan Chun Chang	TWN	00:45:08 (1)	04:35:08 (9)	03:11:19 (11)	08:36:21	-21:59	US$ 2,500
9	Matt Kerr	NZL	00:48:13 (10)	04:47:23 (13)	02:58:15 (6)	08:39:02	10:38	US$ 2,000
10	Nathan Dortmann	FRA	00:55:28 (14)	04:40:41 (10)	03:03:12 (8)	08:45:09	n/a	US$ 1,500
11	Blake Kappler	AUS	00:48:07 (7)	04:42:43 (12)	03:15:00 (12)	08:50:46	02:53
12	Michael Tong	NZL	00:55:56 (15)	04:50:46 (14)	03:05:56 (10)	08:56:50	-32:48
13	Nick Carling	AUS	01:02:56 (17)	04:55:51 (15)	02:58:53 (7)	09:02:40	n/a
14	Jordan Bryden	CAN	00:51:48 (13)	04:41:21 (11)	03:46:43 (15)	09:25:59	24:54
15	Jason Christie	NZL	01:03:05 (18)	04:34:59 (8)	03:52:37 (16)	09:37:56	12:46
16	Paul Marchant	AUS	00:57:48 (16)	05:07:39 (17)	03:39:46 (14)	09:56:14	n/a
	Fraser Walsh	AUS	00:48:16 (11)	04:58:46 (16)		DNF
	Nick Kastelein	AUS	00:46:24 (5)			DNF

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Kylie Simpson	AUS	01:04:03 (7)	04:40:40 (1)	02:51:36 (1)	08:40:52	-32:33	US$ 25,000
2	Radka Kahlefeldt	AUS	00:51:31 (1)	04:53:21 (3)	03:09:31 (3)	08:58:48	-18:07	US$ 15,000
3	Penny Slater	AUS	00:56:36 (4)	05:01:14 (5)	03:03:03 (2)	09:05:49	-20:56	US$ 9,000
4	Sarah Crowley	AUS	00:51:34 (2)	04:52:32 (2)	03:36:03 (8)	09:24:59	22:46	US$ 7,500
5	Kate Gillespie-Jones	AUS	00:59:06 (6)	04:57:19 (4)	03:25:46 (6)	09:29:00	n/a	US$ 5,500
6	Emily Donker	AUS	00:56:15 (3)	05:13:02 (6)	03:19:29 (4)	09:34:51	-59:16	US$ 4,000
7	Laura Brown	AUS	00:59:04 (5)	05:18:23 (7)	03:23:16 (5)	09:46:29	01:10	US$ 3,000
8	Sarah Thomas	AUS	01:04:06 (8)	05:25:20 (9)	03:26:32 (7)	10:00:58	-06:21	US$ 2,500
	Shannon Sutton	AUS	01:05:12 (9)	05:24:08 (8)		DNF

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2011	Chris McCormack (AUS)	08:15:56	Rebekah Keat (AUS)	09:26:31
2012	David Dellow (AUS)	08:15:04	Carrie Lester (AUS)	09:21:00
2013	Luke McKenzie (AUS)	08:17:43	Liz Blatchford (AUS)	09:19:51
2014	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:20:15	Liz Blatchford (AUS)	09:16:58
2015	Luke McKenzie (AUS)	08:18:01	Liz Blatchford (AUS)	09:11:49
2016	Tim Van Berkel (AUS)	08:15:03	Jodie Cunnama (GBR)	09:06:18
2017	Josh Amberger (AUS)	08:02:17	Sarah Crowley (AUS)	08:58:14
2018	Braden Currie (NZL)	07:54:58	Teresa Adam (NZL)	08:53:16
2019	Braden Currie (NZL)	08:04:19	Teresa Adam (NZL)	08:48:33
2020	Max Neumann (AUS)	08:13:08	Amelia Watkinson (NZL)	09:20:38
2021	Max Neumann (AUS)	07:58:54	Kylie Simpson (AUS)	09:06:34
2022	Max Neumann (AUS)	07:52:53	Sarah Crowley (AUS)	08:59:40

Last Race’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Max Neumann	AUS	00:46:38	04:20:42	02:41:12	07:52:53
2	Braden Currie	NZL	00:46:38	04:20:08	02:44:32	07:55:09
3	Sam Appleton	AUS	00:46:31	04:20:02	02:54:44	08:05:33

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Sarah Crowley	AUS	00:53:59	04:48:10	03:12:18	08:59:40
2	Radka Kahlefeldt	AUS	00:54:01	04:53:44	03:12:32	09:05:16
3	Kylie Simpson	AUS	01:12:36	04:58:59	03:01:58	09:19:21

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	07:52:53	Max Neumann	2022-06-12
Swim	overall	00:43:28	Josh Amberger	2021-06-06
Bike	overall	04:15:13	Cameron Wurf	2017-06-11
Run	overall	02:39:59	Braden Currie	2018-06-10
Total	female	08:48:33	Teresa Adam	2019-06-09
Swim	female	00:48:39	Lauren Brandon	2018-06-10
Bike	female	04:48:10	Sarah Crowley	2022-06-12
Run	female	02:53:20	Kylie Simpson	2021-06-06

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Cairns is 05:48.

Race Adjustments for IM Cairns

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2011	06:26	01:41	03:27	01:22	16	06:26	01:37	03:27	01:22
2012	06:48	-00:44	08:46	-01:21	22	06:37	00:30	06:07	00:00
2013	02:58	-01:33	09:25	-05:07	16	05:24	-00:06	07:13	-01:42
2014	04:15	-02:18	03:45	02:45	16 of 21	05:07	-00:39	06:21	-00:36
2015	06:13	01:44	04:22	00:05	16 of 19	05:20	-00:10	05:57	-00:27
2016	-02:45	-00:11	-01:39	00:03	28 of 36	03:59	-00:19	04:42	-00:23
2017	12:13	-01:01	12:00	01:53	29 of 40	05:10	-00:31	05:44	-00:03
2018	13:54	00:22	12:52	01:17	26 of 33	06:15	-00:29	06:37	00:07
2019	01:42	00:11	02:25	-00:05	15 of 19	05:45	-00:30	06:09	00:05
2020	-01:50	00:44	02:06	-04:20	16 of 20	04:59	-00:24	05:45	-00:21
2021	09:28	02:36	04:44	02:30	28 of 32	05:24	-00:10	05:40	-00:06
2022	10:17	-00:04	10:04	00:20	19 of 24	05:48	-00:10	06:02	-00:03

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM Cairns has 4m+4f Pro Kona slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 150.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 15% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency
1	1	Braden Currie (KQ)	NZL	07:59:30	08:06:07	00:47:02	04:22:02	05:14:04	02:45:26	74% +3% -23% (17)
2	3	Steven McKenna (KQ)	AUS	08:07:00	08:18:42	00:47:56	04:27:26	05:20:23	02:46:37	61% +30% -10% (5)
3	2	Mike Phillips (KQ)	NZL	08:07:22	08:14:16	00:48:05	04:22:05	05:15:11	02:52:11	42% +44% -14% (13)
4	7	Nick Kastelein	AUS	08:10:19	08:31:21	00:48:04	04:28:20	05:21:24	02:48:55	11% +20% -68% (10)
5	4	Tim Van Berkel (KQ)	AUS	08:13:08	08:21:38	00:49:22	04:29:56	05:24:17	02:48:51	55% +21% -25% (36)
6	22	David Plese	SLO	08:16:32	08:22:30	00:50:55	04:27:45	05:23:40	02:52:52	80% +1% -19% (41)
7	6	Matt Burton	AUS	08:20:35	08:38:01	00:51:59	04:22:58	05:19:57	03:00:38	11% +19% -71% (22)
8	5	Matt Kerr	NZL	08:30:52	08:49:25	00:50:32	04:34:27	05:29:59	03:00:53	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
9	9	Ben Phillips	NZL	08:33:59	08:41:44	00:49:11	04:35:13	05:29:24	03:04:35	100% +0% -0% (5)
10	24	Fraser Walsh	AUS	08:38:08	08:53:30	00:49:33	04:40:47	05:35:20	03:02:48	39% +21% -40% (7)
11	19	Matt Lewis	AUS	08:46:20	09:00:01	00:53:09	04:43:30	05:41:39	03:04:41	100% +0% -0% (2)
12	18	Blake Kappler	AUS	08:46:30	09:04:10	00:50:39	04:39:25	05:35:04	03:11:26	74% +0% -26% (9)
13	10	Jordan Bryden	CAN	08:53:34	09:12:30	00:51:51	04:43:20	05:40:12	03:13:22	43% +52% -5% (13)
14	16	Adam Hansen	AUS	08:56:21	09:05:23	00:56:59	04:27:29	05:29:28	03:26:53	60% +0% -40% (5)
15	8	Caleb Noble	AUS	08:59:59	09:21:10	00:50:13	04:51:47	05:47:00	03:12:59	4% +73% -23% (3)
16	12	Tuan Chun Chang	TWN	09:00:35	09:20:14	00:50:55	04:49:30	05:45:25	03:15:10	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
17	17	Pete Jacobs	AUS	09:13:19	09:32:16	00:46:40	04:53:24	05:45:04	03:28:15	3% +3% -95% (32)
18	14	Jason Christie	NZL	09:28:50	09:42:43	01:07:43	04:41:52	05:54:35	03:34:15	41% +59% -0% (2)
19	23	Michael Tong	NZL	09:31:55	09:52:42	00:54:30	05:00:39	06:00:09	03:31:46	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
	11	Nick Carling	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)
	15	Nathan Dortmann	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
	20	Paul Marchant	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)
	21	Damien McMahon	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (1 IM Pro race)

Female Race Participants

The strength of the field is 6% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency
1	31	Sarah Crowley (KQ)	AUS	09:00:12	09:08:09	00:53:24	04:52:40	05:51:03	03:09:09	90% +5% -5% (19)
2	33	Kylie Simpson (KQ)	AUS	09:11:17	09:18:53	01:11:38	04:55:07	06:11:45	02:59:32	84% +16% -0% (8)
3	32	Radka Kahlefeldt (KQ)	AUS	09:14:24	09:28:11	00:54:02	05:00:55	05:59:57	03:14:27	92% +0% -8% (4)
4	35	Chloe Lane (KQ)	AUS	09:19:24	09:38:31	00:54:07	05:02:01	06:01:08	03:18:16	30% +41% -29% (6)
5	34	Penny Slater (KQ)	AUS	09:25:08	09:38:12	00:57:55	04:59:55	06:02:50	03:22:18	68% +0% -32% (4)
6	40	Laura Brown	AUS	09:44:54	10:03:22	01:01:36	05:19:37	06:26:13	03:18:41	100% +0% -0% (2)
7	37	Shannon Sutton	AUS	10:00:29	10:22:01	01:06:15	05:24:07	06:35:22	03:25:07	34% +66% -0% (6)
8	38	Sarah Thomas	AUS	10:09:08	10:19:45	01:06:53	05:32:38	06:44:30	03:24:38	83% +0% -17% (6)
9	39	Emily Donker	AUS	10:34:51	10:59:33	00:56:51	05:45:14	06:47:06	03:47:45	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
	36	Kate Gillespie-Jones	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)
	41	Laura Dennis	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	0% +0% -100% (3)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

• Braden Currie: 46% (1-1)
• Mike Phillips: 37% (2-1)
• Steven McKenna: 6% (14-1)
• Nick Kastelein: 5% (19-1)
• Tim Van Berkel: 3% (34-1)

Female Race Participants

• Sarah Crowley: 65% (1-1)
• Kylie Simpson: 19% (4-1)
• Radka Kahlefeldt: 11% (8-1)
• Chloe Lane: 5% (20-1)

Course Conditions

Conditions were pretty typical for Cairns, maybe a few minutes quicker than normal. Male winner Max Neumann posted a new overall course record, improving Braden Curries 2018 time by two minutes. Sarah Crowley improved her own bike course record from 2017.

Kona Qualifying

IM Cairns was the Asia Pacific Regional Championship and offered 3m and 3f Kona Pro slots. These will go to

• Radka Kahlefeldt, Penny Slater and Kate Bevilaqua for the women,
  and
• Max Neumann, Sam Appleton, and Henrik Goesch for the men.

Slots will be accepted at the awards ceremony. All Kona qualifiers can be found here.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Max Neumann	AUS	00:46:38	04:20:42	02:41:12	07:52:53	-07:16	US$ 25,000
2	Braden Currie	NZL	00:46:38	04:20:08	02:44:32	07:55:09	-03:03	US$ 15,000
3	Sam Appleton	AUS	00:46:31	04:20:02	02:54:44	08:05:33	-09:59	US$ 9,000
4	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	00:50:04	04:31:37	02:48:37	08:14:20	07:17	US$ 7,500
5	Henrik Goesch	FIN	00:50:10	04:31:23	02:53:42	08:19:32	-21:20	US$ 5,500
6	Ben Phillips	NZL	00:49:33	04:31:59	03:06:31	08:32:47	08:03	US$ 4,000
7	Brodie Gardner	AUS	00:56:12	04:38:05	02:59:55	08:38:43	-46:12	US$ 3,000
8	Blake Kappler	AUS	00:50:04	04:33:55	03:11:23	08:40:32	-03:32	US$ 2,500
9	Matt Burton	AUS	00:53:11	04:33:45	03:43:16	09:15:04	1:04:08	US$ 2,000
10	Pete Jacobs	AUS	00:46:40	04:56:09	03:35:33	09:23:41	40:04	US$ 1,500
11	Jason Christie	NZL	01:07:39	04:40:09	03:38:26	09:33:51	n/a
	Levi Hauwert	AUS	00:54:20	05:04:40		DNF
	Fraser Walsh	AUS	00:50:05			DNF
	Dean Cane	AUS	00:54:17			DNF
	Damien McMahon	AUS	00:55:02			DNF

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Sarah Crowley	AUS	00:53:59	04:48:10	03:12:18	08:59:40	-01:17	US$ 25,000
2	Radka Kahlefeldt	CZE	00:54:01	04:53:44	03:12:32	09:05:16	n/a	US$ 15,000
3	Kylie Simpson	AUS	01:12:36	04:58:59	03:01:58	09:19:21	09:51	US$ 9,000
4	Penny Slater	AUS	00:58:01	04:55:51	03:22:27	09:21:18	03:54	US$ 7,500
5	Kristin Liepold	GER	01:11:00	05:05:41	03:14:00	09:36:10	18:29	US$ 5,500
6	Kate Bevilaqua	AUS	00:57:49	05:12:47	03:27:10	09:44:38	-29:30	US$ 4,000
7	Shannon Sutton	AUS	01:05:36	05:24:15	03:31:49	10:07:52	-21:36	US$ 3,000
8	Emily Donker	AUS	00:56:31	05:39:06	03:46:11	10:28:10	n/a	US$ 2,500
	Chloe Lane	AUS	00:54:03			DNF

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2011	Chris McCormack (AUS)	08:15:56	Rebekah Keat (AUS)	09:26:31
2012	David Dellow (AUS)	08:15:04	Carrie Lester (AUS)	09:21:00
2013	Luke McKenzie (AUS)	08:17:43	Liz Blatchford (AUS)	09:19:51
2014	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:20:15	Liz Blatchford (AUS)	09:16:58
2015	Luke McKenzie (AUS)	08:18:01	Liz Blatchford (AUS)	09:11:49
2016	Tim Van Berkel (AUS)	08:15:03	Jodie Cunnama (GBR)	09:06:18
2017	Josh Amberger (AUS)	08:02:17	Sarah Crowley (AUS)	08:58:14
2018	Braden Currie (NZL)	07:54:58	Teresa Adam (NZL)	08:53:16
2019	Braden Currie (NZL)	08:04:19	Teresa Adam (NZL)	08:48:33
2020	Max Neumann (AUS)	08:13:08	Amelia Watkinson (NZL)	09:20:38
2021	Max Neumann (AUS)	07:58:54	Kylie Simpson (AUS)	09:06:34

Last Race’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Max Neumann	AUS	00:43:53	04:26:23	02:43:56	07:58:54
2	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	00:46:12	04:29:36	02:46:07	08:06:38
3	Josh Amberger	AUS	00:43:28	04:26:43	02:54:44	08:10:11

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Kylie Simpson	AUS	01:09:31	04:58:03	02:53:20	09:06:34
2	Amelia Watkinson	NZL	00:53:04	04:57:32	03:13:36	09:09:52
3	Chloe Lane	AUS	00:50:29	04:58:30	03:19:54	09:13:59

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	07:54:58	Braden Currie	2018-06-10
Swim	overall	00:43:28	Josh Amberger	2021-06-06
Bike	overall	04:15:13	Cameron Wurf	2017-06-11
Run	overall	02:39:59	Braden Currie	2018-06-10
Total	female	08:48:33	Teresa Adam	2019-06-09
Swim	female	00:48:39	Lauren Brandon	2018-06-10
Bike	female	04:50:00	Sarah Crowley	2017-06-11
Run	female	02:53:20	Kylie Simpson	2021-06-06

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Cairns is 05:24.

Race Adjustments for IM Cairns

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2011	06:26	01:41	03:27	01:22	16	06:26	01:37	03:27	01:22
2012	06:48	-00:44	08:46	-01:21	22	06:37	00:30	06:07	00:00
2013	02:58	-01:33	09:25	-05:07	16	05:24	-00:06	07:13	-01:42
2014	04:15	-02:18	03:45	02:45	16 of 21	05:07	-00:39	06:21	-00:36
2015	06:13	01:44	04:22	00:05	16 of 19	05:20	-00:10	05:57	-00:27
2016	-02:45	-00:11	-01:39	00:03	28 of 36	03:59	-00:19	04:42	-00:23
2017	12:13	-01:01	12:00	01:53	29 of 40	05:10	-00:31	05:44	-00:03
2018	13:54	00:22	12:52	01:17	26 of 33	06:15	-00:29	06:37	00:07
2019	01:42	00:11	02:25	-00:05	15 of 19	05:45	-00:30	06:09	00:05
2020	-01:50	00:44	02:06	-04:20	16 of 20	04:59	-00:24	05:45	-00:21
2021	09:28	02:36	04:44	02:30	28 of 32	05:24	-00:10	05:40	-00:06

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM Cairns has 3m+3f Pro Kona slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 150.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 13% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency
1	2	Braden Currie (KQ)	NZL	08:00:26	08:07:16	00:47:15	04:23:03	05:15:18	02:45:08	81% +6% -13% (14)
2	1	Max Neumann	AUS	08:03:56	08:23:59	00:45:54	04:26:55	05:17:49	02:46:07	52% +0% -48% (3)
3	3	Tim Van Berkel (KQ)	AUS	08:11:28	08:16:29	00:48:45	04:29:36	05:23:20	02:48:08	80% +1% -19% (33)
4	4	Matt Burton (KQ)	AUS	08:14:19	08:31:36	00:52:06	04:24:02	05:21:07	02:53:12	29% +17% -54% (17)
5	6	Sam Appleton	AUS	08:22:15	08:40:06	00:47:01	04:20:27	05:12:28	03:09:47	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
6	17	Henrik Goesch	FIN	08:23:30	08:55:42	00:48:23	04:32:51	05:26:14	02:57:16	41% +0% -59% (2)
7	5	Pete Jacobs	AUS	08:26:21	08:59:43	00:46:23	04:31:54	05:23:17	03:03:04	19% +20% -60% (30)
8	9	Ben Phillips	NZL	08:33:03	08:39:40	00:48:56	04:36:01	05:29:57	03:03:06	100% +0% -0% (4)
9	8	Fraser Walsh	AUS	08:37:08	08:50:46	00:49:36	04:40:21	05:34:57	03:02:11	47% +53% -0% (4)
10	16	Blake Kappler	AUS	08:48:32	08:59:21	00:51:06	04:41:22	05:37:28	03:11:04	96% +0% -4% (7)
11	12	Brodie Gardner	AUS	09:01:08	09:46:21	00:55:33	04:52:27	05:53:01	03:08:07	31% +0% -69% (2)
12	11	Levi Hauwert	AUS	09:26:53	09:48:29	00:54:32	04:56:32	05:56:05	03:30:48	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
	10	Jason Christie	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)
	14	Damien Mcmahon	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)
	15	Dean Cane	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)

Female Race Participants

The strength of the field is 5% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency
1	32	Sarah Crowley (KQ)	AUS	09:00:39	09:11:14	00:53:09	04:52:55	05:51:04	03:09:35	81% +9% -10% (16)
2	34	Kristin Liepold (KQ)	GER	09:11:45	09:28:40	01:05:35	05:01:22	06:11:57	02:59:48	64% +32% -4% (31)
3	31	Kylie Simpson (KQ)	AUS	09:13:45	09:25:46	01:10:45	05:02:15	06:18:01	02:55:44	100% +0% -0% (3)
4	33	Chloe Lane	AUS	09:18:46	09:48:36	00:52:49	04:57:58	05:55:46	03:23:00	19% +60% -22% (3)
5	35	Penny Slater	AUS	09:23:49	09:45:19	00:58:39	05:02:48	06:06:27	03:17:22	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
6	41	Laura Brown	AUS	09:59:17	10:20:35	01:00:13	05:23:27	06:28:40	03:30:37	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
7	38	Sarah Thomas	AUS	10:14:36	10:23:09	01:08:40	05:35:00	06:48:40	03:25:56	100% +0% -0% (3)
8	39	Kate Bevilaqua	AUS	10:20:08	10:25:17	00:59:04	05:21:08	06:25:11	03:54:57	59% +1% -40% (33)
9	40	Shannon Sutton	AUS	10:31:18	10:47:28	01:06:22	05:41:58	06:53:20	03:37:58	21% +79% -0% (3)
	36	Radka Kahlefeldt	CZE	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
	42	Emily Donker	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

• Braden Currie: 69% (1-1)
• Max Neumann: 20% (4-1)
• Tim Van Berkel: 7% (14-1)
• Matt Burton: 3% (28-1)

Female Race Participants

• Sarah Crowley: 47% (1-1)
• Kylie Simpson: 24% (3-1)
• Kristin Liepold: 23% (3-1)
• Chloe Lane: 5% (20-1)

Course Conditions

Compared to the last two races in 2019 and 2020, this year’s conditions in Cairns appear to be a few minutes quicker. For example the men’s podiums in 2020 and 2021 were the same athletes in the same order, but this year were quicker by 8 minutes or more.

There were a few new course records: Josh Amberger set a new swim course record, improving on Clayton Fettel’s 2011 swim split by 20 seconds. On the female side, winner Kylie Simpson ran a 2:53:20, besting Kristin Liepold’s 2019 marathon time by 44 seconds. 

Kona Slots

IM Cairns had two male and two female Kona Pro slots. These go to

• Males: Tim Van Berkel and Josh Amberger
• Females: Kylie Simpson and Chloe Lane

(Male winner Max Neumann and female second place finisher already secured their slots in previous year’s races.)

The potential rolldown is going to occur in the next few days.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Max Neumann	AUS	00:43:53	04:26:23	02:43:56	07:58:54	-04:09	US$ 15,000
2	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	00:46:12	04:29:36	02:46:07	08:06:38	-04:24	US$ 9,000
3	Josh Amberger	AUS	00:43:28	04:26:43	02:54:44	08:10:11	-08:47	US$ 7,000
4	Simon Hearn	AUS	00:46:09	04:29:37	02:50:15	08:11:20	-29:33	US$ 5,000
5	Mike Phillips	NZL	00:46:10	04:29:53	02:56:27	08:17:02	03:49	US$ 4,000
6	Levi Maxwell	AUS	00:49:45	04:38:58	02:45:55	08:19:11	-11:33	US$ 3,000
7	Tim Reed	AUS	00:46:02	04:34:11	03:00:34	08:26:08	10:12	US$ 2,500
8	Ben Phillips	NZL	00:46:12	04:38:57	03:01:48	08:32:27	11:09	US$ 2,000
9	Fraser Walsh	AUS	00:46:17	04:42:53	03:06:34	08:41:45	-26:08	US$ 1,500
10	Simon Billeau	FRA	00:51:40	04:40:12	03:07:39	08:44:47	-14:55	US$ 1,000
11	Blake Kappler	AUS	00:48:39	04:40:57	03:10:36	08:45:56	03:53
12	Leigh Anderson-Voigt	AUS	00:48:47	04:36:24	03:18:49	08:49:00	n/a
13	Damien Collins	AUS	00:58:37	04:51:06	02:56:37	08:51:29	04:12
14	Cameron Brown	NZL	00:50:11	04:38:07	03:23:53	08:58:16	31:43
15	Clint Kimmins	AUS	00:49:41	04:57:59	03:04:44	08:58:38	06:20
16	Jarrod Harvey	AUS	00:49:49	05:03:06	03:04:02	09:02:46	02:40
17	Levi Hauwert	AUS	00:52:02	04:56:18	03:27:04	09:21:20	n/a
18	Mitchell Kibby	AUS	00:49:47	05:23:23	03:06:18	09:29:57	54:44
	Lachlan Kerin	AUS	00:45:54			DNF
	David Dellow	AUS	00:45:56			DNF
	Matt Burton	AUS	00:48:42			DNF
	Scott Bayvel	ZAF	00:48:46			DNF

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Kylie Simpson	AUS	01:09:31	04:58:03	02:53:20	09:06:34	-09:15	US$ 15,000
2	Amelia Watkinson	NZL	00:53:04	04:57:32	03:13:36	09:09:52	-05:18	US$ 9,000
3	Chloe Lane	AUS	00:50:29	04:58:30	03:19:54	09:13:59	-38:48	US$ 7,000
4	Penny Slater	AUS	00:55:58	05:02:36	03:13:54	09:18:18	n/a	US$ 5,000
5	Renee Kiley	AUS	00:53:43	04:54:29	03:27:20	09:21:49	-03:44	US$ 4,000
6	Rebecca Clarke	NZL	00:48:56	05:06:35	03:36:48	09:38:57	06:03	US$ 3,000
7	Courtney Gilfillan	AUS	00:50:51	05:36:06	03:20:17	09:52:59	n/a	US$ 2,500
8	Helena Hayes	IRL	00:58:07	05:20:38	03:38:41	10:03:02	n/a	US$ 2,000
9	Sarah Thomas	AUS	01:06:33	05:35:18	03:29:13	10:16:06	n/a	US$ 1,500
10	Shannon Sutton	AUS	01:06:44	05:51:51	03:33:24	10:39:55	-1:12:08	US$ 1,000