IM Copenhagen

Race Conditions

As is typical for Copenhagen, the bike course was pretty fast (adjustment of 15:59), also leading to quick overall times – Michelle Vesterby just missed going sub-9. With a course rating of 20:11 Copenhagen continues to be one of the quickest courses on the calendar.

Female Race Results

Michelle Vesterby was leading the race from wire to wire: She posted the fastest swim and bike legs, having a lead of nearly 15 minutes in T2. As Kona is already on the horizon, she probably didn’t push all that hard on the run, still winning by eight minutes. Second place went to Corinne Abraham who also had a good, sub-5 bike ride. She posted the fastest marathon of the day but couldn’t challenge Michelle for the leading position. After loosing her 2016 season with injuries she suffered from being attacked during one of her training runs, Sofie Goos had a satisfying third place finish.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Michelle Vesterby	DEN	00:53:02	04:48:02	03:15:05	09:00:19	-05:05	US$ 15,000	2000
2	Corinne Abraham	GBR	01:00:21	04:53:20	03:09:51	09:08:06	02:26	US$ 7,500	1600
3	Sofie Goos	BEL	01:00:15	05:00:41	03:11:14	09:17:17	00:14	US$ 5,000	1280
4	Camilla Lindholm Borg	SWE	01:07:02	04:58:06	03:11:37	09:22:46	-04:44	US$ 3,250	960
5	Alyssa Godesky	USA	01:01:13	05:11:00	03:14:47	09:33:20	-15:00	US$ 2,750	720
6	Pia Nielsen Englyst	DEN	01:01:12	05:12:46	03:19:36	09:38:37	-28:24	US$ 2,000	540
7	Julia Montgomery	SWE	01:07:57	05:30:58	03:38:50	10:24:04	08:05	US$ 1,500	405
	Jeanne Collonge	FRA	01:00:25	05:14:27		DNF

Update Aug 17th: Pamela Tastets has written on Instagram that she won’t be racing.

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2010	Tim Van Berkel (AUS)	08:07:39	Rebekah Keat (AUS)	08:54:36
2011	Tim Van Berkel (AUS)	08:11:15	Rebekah Keat (AUS)	08:52:42
2012	Aaron Farlow (AUS)	08:20:09	Camilla Pedersen (DEN)	09:12:27
2013	Jens Petersen-Bach (DEN)	08:12:41	Eva Wutti (AUT)	08:37:36
2014	Henrik Hyldelund (DEN)	08:03:39	Daniela Ryf (SUI)	08:53:33
2015	Guilherme Manocchio (BRA)	08:14:56	Michelle Vesterby (DEN)	08:59:49
2016	Patrik Nilsson (SWE)	07:49:18

Last Year’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Patrik Nilsson	SWE	00:47:53	04:14:15	02:43:14	07:49:18
2	Will Clarke	GBR	00:47:46	04:24:33	02:43:16	07:59:31
3	Fabio Carvalho	BRA	00:47:51	04:14:50	02:59:35	08:07:10

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	07:49:18	Patrik Nilsson	2016-08-21
Swim	overall	00:45:22	Stephen Bayliss	2011-08-01
Bike	overall	04:13:57	Andreas Raelert	2016-08-21
Run	overall	02:38:58	Mads Vittrup	2011-08-01
Total	female	08:37:36	Eva Wutti	2013-08-18
Swim	female	00:48:29	Ann Lønnberg	2011-08-01
Bike	female	04:39:58	Eva Wutti	2013-08-18
Run	female	03:00:51	Eva Wutti	2013-08-18

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Copenhagen is 20:53.

Race Adjustments for IM Copenhagen

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2010	32:51	01:36	09:50	10:46	24	32:51	01:36	09:50	10:46
2011	27:13	03:10	12:54	06:04	28	30:02	02:23	11:22	08:25
2012	17:57	02:36	12:46	03:30	19	26:00	02:27	11:50	06:47
2013	27:32	01:24	17:07	05:30	30	26:23	02:12	13:09	06:28
2014	15:53	01:54	10:06	01:43	27 of 35	24:17	02:08	12:32	05:31
2015	14:04	01:27	15:23	01:47	26 of 30	22:35	02:01	13:01	04:53
2016	10:41	01:26	20:10	-00:48	21 of 28	20:53	01:56	14:02	04:05

KPR points and Prize Money

IM Copenhagen is a P-2000 race. It is a WPRO-only race and has a total prize purse of 40.000 US$.

Female Race Participants

The strength of the field is 11% of a typical Kona field.

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Exp. Swim	Exp. Bike	Exp. T2	Exp. Run	Consistency	Overall
1	1	Michelle Vesterby	DEN	08:57:47	09:20:44	00:50:30	04:51:49	05:47:19	03:10:28	84% +2% -14% (21)	17
2	4	Corinne Abraham	GBR	09:00:00	09:21:14	00:56:55	04:55:35	05:57:30	03:02:30	93% +7% -0% (12)	18
3	2	Sofie Goos	BEL	09:03:02	09:32:52	00:55:24	04:54:41	05:55:05	03:07:57	68% +13% -19% (25)	37
4	10	Celine Schaerer *	SUI	09:14:56	09:42:18	00:49:26	05:04:58	05:59:24	03:15:32	77% +0% -23% (10)	52
5	14	Kristin Moeller *	GER	09:15:58	09:39:38	01:00:55	05:10:02	06:15:57	03:00:01	76% +6% -18% (24)	47
6	3	Camilla Lindholm Borg	SWE	09:17:01	09:49:19	01:05:17	04:57:03	06:07:20	03:09:41	55% +18% -27% (17)	(67)
7	11	Pamela Tastets	CHI	09:19:33	09:45:45	00:55:35	05:00:49	06:01:24	03:18:09	100% +0% -0% (3)	58
8	5	Jeanne Collonge *	FRA	09:20:12	09:48:15	00:57:09	04:57:39	05:59:48	03:20:24	72% +3% -25% (12)	63
9	9	Darbi Roberts *	USA	09:23:16	09:54:59	00:52:05	05:07:23	06:04:28	03:18:48	50% +0% -50% (8)	76
10	12	Verena Walter *	GER	09:23:52	09:49:26	00:58:11	05:00:04	06:03:16	03:20:36	64% +28% -8% (8)	67
11	6	Alyssa Godesky	USA	09:40:00	10:10:40	00:58:47	05:15:49	06:19:36	03:20:24	70% +22% -8% (18)	101
12	8	Pia Nielsen Englyst	DEN	10:02:20	10:42:20	01:03:45	05:30:12	06:38:57	03:23:23	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(153)
13	7	Julia Montgomery	SWE	10:12:17	10:46:26	01:04:49	05:17:01	06:26:51	03:45:26	100% +0% -0% (2)	(154)

Note: Athletes with a ‘*’ are also registered for another race within 8 days.

Winning Odds

Female Race Participants

• Michelle Vesterby: 44% (1-1)
• Corinne Abraham: 26% (3-1)
• Sofie Goos: 21% (4-1)
• Camilla Lindholm Borg: 6% (16-1)
• Celine Schaerer: 2% (64-1)

Kona Qualifying

Michelle Vesterby, Celine Schwerer and also very likely Corinne Abraham have already qualified in July. But there are a few others that can still qualify in August with a good result in Copenhagen:

• Kristin Moeller should be okay with a fifth place finish, she has also registered for a number of other races.
• Jeanne Collonge needs at least a podium finish to improve her total.
• Pamela Tastets and Darbi Roberts will need at least a second place to have a reasonable chance for an August slot.

Updated July 26th: Added Corinne Abraham, Sofie Goos, Julia Montgomery, Darbi Roberts and Verena Walter

Female Race Participants

Name	Nation	KPR points	KPR races
Michelle Vesterby	DEN	8005	3+0 (1280/0)
Corinne Abraham	GBR	4400	3+1 (960/240)
Kristin Moeller	GER	4180	3+1 (340/435)
Jeanne Collonge	FRA	3910	3+1 (960/280)
Tine Holst	DEN	3035	3+1 (340/400)
Celine Schaerer	SUI	3000	3+1 (515/345)
Darbi Roberts	USA	2755	3+0 (215/0)
Alyssa Godesky	USA	1530	2+1
Pia Englyst	DEN	405	1+0
Camilla Lindholm Borg	SWE	400	0+1
Verena Walter	GER	340	1+0
Julia Montgomery	SWE	305	1+0
Sofie Goos	BEL	0	0+0