IM Germany

Updates:

• June 28th: Crossed out some more withdrawals after the Pro Meeting (Ivan Rana, Emilio Aguayo, Thiago Vinhal)
• June 27th: Crossed out a few non-starters (Michael Raelert, Linsey Corbin, Anja Ippach)
• June 22nd: Updated the bike and overall times since the bike course is going to be 185k again this year.
• June 17th: Angela Naeth has had surgery for her broken wrist and will need some more time for recovery.
• June 14th: Anne Haug has announced that an injury hasn’t healed in time for a start in Frankfurt. I have crossed her out and also Chris Leiferman and Johann Ackermann who are dealing with long term issues.

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2005	Normann Stadler (GER)	08:20:50	Lisa Bentley (CAN)	09:15:31
2006	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:13:40	Andrea Steinbecher (GER)	09:16:17
2007	Timo Bracht (GER)	08:09:15	Nicole Leder (GER)	09:04:11
2008	Chris McCormack (AUS)	07:59:55	Chrissie Wellington (GBR)	08:51:24
2009	Timo Bracht (GER)	07:59:15	Sandra Wallenhorst (GER)	08:58:08
2010	Andreas Raelert (GER)	08:05:15	Sandra Wallenhorst (GER)	09:04:27
2011	Faris Al-Sultan (GER)	08:13:50	Caroline Steffen (SUI)	09:12:13
2012	Marino Vanhoenacker (BEL)	08:03:31	Caroline Steffen (SUI)	08:52:33
2013	Eneko Llanos (ESP)	07:59:58	Camilla Pedersen (DEN)	08:56:01
2014	Sebastian Kienle (GER)	07:55:14	Corinne Abraham (GBR)	08:52:40
2015	Jan Frodeno (GER)	07:49:48	Daniela Ryf (SUI)	08:51:00
2016	Sebastian Kienle (GER)	07:52:43	Melissa Hauschildt (AUS)	09:01:17
2017	Sebastian Kienle (GER)	07:41:42	Sarah Crowley (AUS)	08:47:58
2018	Jan Frodeno (GER)	08:00:58	Daniela Ryf (SUI)	08:38:44

Last Race’s TOP 3

The full results analysis from last year’s race can be found here.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Jan Frodeno	GER	00:48:42	04:28:36	02:39:06	08:00:58
2	Patrik Nilsson	SWE	00:48:46	04:28:45	02:46:02	08:08:15
3	Patrick Lange	GER	00:48:43	04:29:01	02:47:15	08:09:26

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Daniela Ryf	SUI	00:53:11	04:40:55	02:58:53	08:38:44
2	Sarah True	USA	00:53:09	05:10:56	02:54:58	09:05:19
3	Sarah Crowley	AUS	00:55:35	05:05:37	03:04:36	09:11:31

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	07:49:48	Jan Frodeno	2015-07-05
Swim	overall	00:42:17	Jan Sibbersen	2004-07-12
Bike	overall	04:08:43	Jan Frodeno	2015-07-05
Run	overall	02:39:06	Jan Frodeno	2018-07-08
Total	female	08:38:44	Daniela Ryf	2018-07-08
Swim	female	00:45:04	Amanda Stevens	2012-07-08
Bike	female	04:40:55	Daniela Ryf	2018-07-08
Run	female	02:54:58	Sarah True	2018-07-08

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Germany is 14:27.

Race Adjustments for IM Germany

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2005	06:40	01:34	08:48	-03:42	21	06:40	01:34	08:48	-03:42
2006	14:02	n/a	n/a	n/a	21	10:21	01:57	10:45	-02:21
2007	27:36	02:33	17:51	07:12	35	16:06	01:57	12:46	01:23
2008	30:17	05:44	15:07	09:26	21 of 28	19:39	03:06	12:54	03:39
2009	22:49	03:51	17:29	01:29	19 of 25	20:17	03:16	13:58	03:03
2010	11:32	01:41	07:43	02:08	30	18:49	02:59	12:52	02:58
2011	10:37	02:08	07:19	01:10	41	17:39	02:52	12:03	02:44
2012	12:23	04:27	06:03	01:53	37	16:59	03:06	11:15	02:39
2013	18:02	02:53	10:59	04:10	69	17:06	03:04	11:12	02:50
2014	14:11	02:01	12:36	-00:26	39 of 56	16:49	02:57	11:23	02:29
2015	05:18	00:05	08:43	-03:30	32 of 44	15:46	02:41	11:10	01:56
2016	12:03	-01:49	09:46	04:07	44 of 61	15:27	02:17	11:03	02:08
2017	18:39	-00:26	17:32	01:33	49 of 68	15:14	02:00	11:20	01:55
2018	02:20	-02:04	01:20	03:05	25 of 34	14:27	01:56	10:17	02:15

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM Germany has 2m+2f +2u Pro Kona slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 150.000 US$, paying 10 deep. Both unassigned slots will likely go to the male Pros.

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 63% of a typical Kona field. For a description on how the race might unfold, check out this post.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency	Overall
1	3	Sebastian Kienle (AQ)	GER	07:57:37	08:10:23	00:48:27	04:17:11	05:10:38	02:46:59	78% +0% -22% (17)	4
2	2	Jan Frodeno (AQ)	GER	07:58:11	08:01:09	00:45:01	04:26:03	05:16:05	02:42:06	69% +14% -17% (10)	2
3	1	Patrick Lange (AQ)	GER	08:00:33	07:56:14	00:45:40	04:26:45	05:17:25	02:43:08	100% +0% -0% (4)	1
4	4	Joe Skipper (KQ)	GBR	08:14:09	08:19:28	00:50:06	04:31:52	05:26:58	02:47:11	67% +7% -25% (24)	14
5	8	Franz Loeschke	GER	08:19:01	08:36:57	00:46:57	04:38:22	05:30:20	02:48:41	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(69)
6	45	David Plese (KQ) *	SLO	08:19:50	08:25:15	00:50:18	04:32:38	05:27:56	02:51:54	89% +4% -7% (29)	32
7	14	Emilio Aguayo Munoz	ESP	08:20:18	08:38:32	00:47:10	04:30:51	05:23:02	02:57:16	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(76)
8	9	Ivan Rana *	ESP	08:20:59	08:32:25	00:46:23	04:41:24	05:32:47	02:48:12	66% +1% -33% (19)	54
9	51	Matthew Russell *	USA	08:21:25	08:27:52	00:52:45	04:32:24	05:30:10	02:51:15	49% +26% -25% (49)	41
10	25	Patrick Dirksmeier	GER	08:22:47	08:41:04	00:47:17	04:34:00	05:26:16	02:56:31	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(85)
11	48	Sam Proctor	GBR	08:22:57	08:41:03	00:48:24	04:39:51	05:33:15	02:49:42	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(85)
12	39	Christian Kramer	GER	08:23:25	08:33:36	00:46:46	04:33:59	05:25:45	02:57:40	63% +24% -13% (24)	56
13	27	Marc Duelsen *	GER	08:24:34	08:36:01	00:49:30	04:36:52	05:31:22	02:53:12	72% +0% -28% (13)	63
14	37	Kirill Kotshegarov	EST	08:24:55	08:37:10	00:52:11	04:34:21	05:31:32	02:53:23	46% +29% -25% (17)	(71)
15	5	Bas Diederen *	NED	08:25:19	08:35:35	00:46:37	04:36:53	05:28:30	02:56:49	51% +3% -46% (22)	62
16	11	Antony Costes *	FRA	08:25:45	08:44:19	00:46:50	04:33:09	05:24:58	03:00:47	31% +36% -33% (11)	93
17	38	Philipp Koutny	SUI	08:25:46	08:35:30	00:48:28	04:34:10	05:27:39	02:58:07	41% +25% -34% (12)	61
18	52	Paul Schuster	GER	08:29:19	08:47:55	00:47:33	04:35:07	05:27:41	03:01:38	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(105)
19	50	Michael Ruenz *	GER	08:31:42	08:51:39	00:52:53	04:42:20	05:40:13	02:51:29	39% +12% -49% (17)	117
20	56	Andrej Vistica	CRO	08:32:53	08:36:36	00:53:16	04:42:08	05:40:24	02:52:29	94% +0% -6% (18)	66
21	33	Christian Haupt	GER	08:35:28	08:54:13	00:51:11	04:40:21	05:36:32	02:58:56	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(131)
22	55	Thiago Vinhal	BRA	08:35:31	08:41:45	00:47:34	04:49:28	05:42:02	02:53:29	63% +20% -17% (18)	85
23	10	Per Van Vlerken	GER	08:36:01	08:44:12	00:47:42	04:41:03	05:33:45	03:02:16	68% +4% -28% (28)	92
24	41	Dylan McNeice	NZL	08:36:31	08:43:27	00:44:43	04:42:44	05:32:27	03:04:04	37% +30% -32% (20)	90
25	23	Trevor Delsaut *	FRA	08:37:18	08:59:34	00:50:35	04:46:35	05:42:10	02:55:08	20% +11% -69% (31)	(143)
26	58	Roman Deisenhofer	GER	08:38:26	08:56:42	00:50:14	04:38:11	05:33:25	03:05:01	35% +34% -31% (10)	(137)
27	26	Tobias Drachler	GER	08:41:02	08:59:58	00:46:58	04:44:34	05:36:32	03:04:30	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(148)
28	22	Gregory Close	USA	08:42:11	09:13:31	00:55:09	04:43:05	05:43:14	02:58:57	12% +22% -66% (13)	(190)
29	49	Fabian Rahn	GER	08:42:11	08:51:03	00:57:49	04:45:23	05:48:12	02:53:59	62% +0% -38% (5)	115
30	7	Michael Raelert	GER	08:42:29	08:50:31	00:44:49	04:48:06	05:37:55	03:04:34	86% +0% -14% (5)	114
31	16	Victor Arroyo Bugallo	ESP	08:44:28	08:59:54	00:54:54	04:50:41	05:50:36	02:53:52	42% +0% -58% (4)	147
32	17	Daniel Besse	SUI	08:48:17	09:06:36	00:46:54	04:52:11	05:44:05	03:04:12	48% +52% -0% (2)	(169)
33	42	Philipp Mock	GER	08:48:36	09:03:40	00:56:45	04:35:37	05:37:21	03:11:15	100% +0% -0% (3)	161
34	28	Jose Estrangeiro	POR	08:50:05	08:58:34	00:47:50	04:52:53	05:45:43	03:04:22	51% +0% -49% (6)	142
35	32	David Hanko *	HUN	08:50:10	09:08:10	00:47:11	04:47:28	05:39:40	03:10:30	27% +31% -41% (3)	173
36	15	Lucas Amirault	FRA	08:51:36	09:05:20	00:51:15	04:51:40	05:47:54	03:03:42	100% +0% -0% (4)	166
37	34	Kristian Hindkjaer	DEN	08:58:12	09:23:48	00:50:56	04:38:58	05:34:55	03:23:17	49% +0% -51% (2)	(215)
38	18	Jean-Claude Besse	SUI	09:03:40	09:22:25	00:51:31	05:03:10	05:59:40	03:04:00	48% +52% -0% (2)	(212)
39	35	Marcus Hultgren	SWE	09:10:27	09:28:54	00:55:21	04:55:01	05:55:23	03:15:04	20% +40% -40% (11)	224
40	59	David Jilek *	CZE	09:21:57	09:35:06	00:55:50	04:58:18	05:59:08	03:22:49	84% +9% -6% (9)	236
41	31	Sebastian Guhr	GER	09:24:45	09:44:53	01:02:42	04:51:56	05:59:38	03:25:07	37% +39% -24% (3)	(245)
42	46	Lukas Polan *	CZE	09:31:12	09:53:51	00:59:44	05:09:40	06:14:25	03:16:47	50% +13% -36% (17)	249
43	36	Peter Kotland	CZE	09:40:01	09:51:45	00:57:11	05:08:26	06:10:37	03:29:24	84% +10% -6% (28)	247
44	53	Kevin Thewes	GER	10:30:50	10:53:36	01:07:53	05:22:21	06:35:14	03:55:36	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(266)
45	43	Marek Nemcik *	SVK	11:17:33	12:01:00	01:10:05	05:38:58	06:54:03	04:23:30	39% +15% -47% (51)	269
	13	Anthony Adam	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	19	Sergio Bolado Noriega	ESP	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	20	Steeve Brugiere	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	24	Benjamin Dicke	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	29	Patrick Feil	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	30	Romain Garcin *	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	0% +0% -100% (3)	(n/a)
	44	Lukas Pietrek	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	54	Nacho Villarruel	ESP	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	57	Aljoscha Willgosch	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)

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

Female Race Participants

The strength of the field is 19% of a typical Kona field. For a description on how the race might unfold, check out this post.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency	Overall
1	117	Sarah True	USA	08:56:38	09:08:13	00:49:26	05:07:42	06:02:08	02:54:30	27% +31% -43% (3)	(8)
2	111	Linsey Corbin (KQ) *	USA	09:08:15	09:14:08	00:55:39	05:04:08	06:04:47	03:03:28	97% +3% -0% (28)	12
3	101	Daniela Bleymehl (KQ)	GER	09:08:44	09:18:31	00:54:07	04:56:14	05:55:21	03:13:23	58% +32% -11% (13)	21
4	109	Jen Annett	CAN	09:14:19	09:24:32	00:58:51	04:55:42	05:59:33	03:14:46	49% +48% -4% (10)	29
5	113	Kimberley Morrison	GBR	09:17:13	09:28:29	00:53:11	04:53:46	05:51:56	03:25:17	100% +0% -0% (3)	40
6	119	Anja Ippach *	GER	09:21:44	09:27:35	00:50:57	04:59:30	05:55:27	03:26:17	52% +3% -45% (13)	37
7	105	Skye Moench	USA	09:23:57	09:37:44	00:54:03	05:06:13	06:05:16	03:18:41	10% +75% -15% (5)	51
8	114	Lenny Ramsey	NED	09:32:56	09:45:51	01:03:16	05:22:00	06:30:16	03:02:40	57% +43% -0% (3)	63
9	108	Saleta Castro Nogueira	ESP	09:36:38	09:46:23	00:54:23	05:28:10	06:27:33	03:09:05	71% +24% -5% (18)	65
10	110	Anne Basso *	FRA	10:03:23	10:27:17	00:55:34	05:29:53	06:30:27	03:32:56	28% +2% -70% (22)	115
	103	Sarah Lewis	GBR	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	107	Amelia Watkinson	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	112	Petra Eggenschwiler	SUI	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	115	Jade Roberts	ZAF	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	116	Imogen Simmonds	SUI	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)

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

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

• Sebastian Kienle: 40% (2-1)
• Jan Frodeno: 35% (2-1)
• Patrick Lange: 22% (4-1)

Female Race Participants

• Sarah True: 41% (1-1)
• Daniela Bleymehl: 22% (4-1)
• Anne Haug: 19% (4-1)
• Linsey Corbin: 10% (10-1)
• Angela Naeth: 4% (24-1)
• Jen Annett: 2% (57-1)
• Skye Moench: 2% (59-1)

Kona Slots and Prize Money

IM Germany has 2m+2f +2u Pro Kona slots. It has a total prize purse of 150.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

Male Race Participants

Name	Nation
Johann Ackermann	GER
Anthony Adam	FRA
Emilio Aguayo Munoz	ESP
Victor Arroyo Bugallo	ESP
Daniel Besse	SUI
Jean-Claude Besse	SUI
Sergio Bolado Noriega	ESP
Steeve Brugiere	FRA
Antony Costes	FRA
Benjamin Dicke	GER
Bas Diederen	NED
Tobias Drachler	GER
Patrick Feil	GER
Romain Garcin	FRA
Sebastian Guhr	GER
David Hanko	HUN
Felix Hentschel	GER
Kristian Hindkjaer	DEN
Sebastian Kienle (AQ)	GER
Kirill Kotshegarov	EST
Philipp Koutny	SUI
Christian Kramer	GER
Patrick Lange (AQ)	GER
Chris Leiferman (KQ)	USA
Franz Loeschke	GER
Dylan McNeice	NZL
Philipp Mock	GER
Patrik Nilsson (KQ)	SWE
David Plese (KQ)	SLO
Lukas Polan	CZE
Sam Proctor	GBR
Michael Raelert	GER
Ivan Rana	ESP
Boris Stein	GER
Nacho Villarruel	ESP
Andrej Vistica	CRO
Aljoscha Willgosch	GER

Female Race Participants

Name	Nation
Jen Annett	CAN
Daniela Bleymehl (KQ)	GER
Petra Eggenschwiler	SUI
Sarah Lewis	GBR
Skye Moench	USA
Kimberley Morrison	GBR
Angela Naeth	CAN
Lenny Ramsey	NED
Jade Roberts	ZAF
Imogen Simmonds	SUI

Course Conditions

This year’s IM Germany was very slow (adjustment of 2:21 with a course rating of 14:27), it’s probably because of a bike course that was announced to be around 185k. The bike times are roughly eight minutes slower than the previous bike course rating for Frankfurt, so that seems about right (5k in eight minutes corresponds to an average speed of 37,5 km/h or a bike split of 4:48h).

Even so, we’ve seen a couple of new course records – mainly on the female side. Daniela Ryf made a huge improvement on her own course record from three years ago (8:51:00), mainly with a new bike course record (4:40:55 – beating the old course record set by Natascha Badmann in 2014 by four minutes even with the long course!). We’ve also seen new run course records by Jan Frodeno and Sarah True. Sarah also posted the fastest marathon by an IM rookie.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Jan Frodeno	GER	00:48:42	04:28:36	02:39:06	08:00:58	-07:04	US$ 30,000	4000
2	Patrik Nilsson	SWE	00:48:46	04:28:45	02:46:02	08:08:15	-00:53	US$ 15,000	3400
3	Patrick Lange	GER	00:48:43	04:29:01	02:47:15	08:09:26	09:18	US$ 8,000	2890
4	Nick Kastelein	AUS	00:48:43	04:32:44	02:52:33	08:18:45	01:27	US$ 6,500	2455
5	Josh Amberger	AUS	00:46:53	04:29:53	03:04:40	08:26:16	-02:14	US$ 5,000	2090
6	Philipp Koutny	SUI	00:52:50	04:34:33	02:59:29	08:32:13	-08:06	US$ 3,500	1670
7	Tyler Butterfield	BMU	00:49:34	04:33:30	03:02:53	08:38:58	-03:06	US$ 2,500	1335
8	Mark Bowstead	NZL	00:52:50	04:44:31	02:57:58	08:40:31	11:28	US$ 2,000	1070
9	David Berthou	FRA	00:55:35	04:49:31	02:57:37	08:48:13	-34:07	US$ 1,500	855
10	Philipp Mock	GER	01:00:48	04:35:52	03:06:04	08:48:42	-15:57	US$ 1,000	685
11	Lucas Amirault	FRA	00:55:43	04:49:47	02:59:14	08:51:14	-06:27		515
12	Damien Collins	AUS	00:56:18	04:58:03	03:00:19	09:01:03	n/a		385
13	Andrey Lyatskiy	RUS	00:55:44	04:58:38	03:06:03	09:06:51	13:25		290
14	Christian Brader	GER	01:00:30	05:02:26	03:03:59	09:12:15	27:49		215
15	Marek Nemcik	SVK	01:13:00	06:18:28	05:03:54	12:45:01	1:05:12		160
	Wouter Monchy	BEL	00:52:56	04:56:06		DNF
	Felix Hentschel	GER	00:57:44	04:53:11		DNF
	Frederic Limousin	FRA	00:56:21	05:00:01		DNF
	Andi Boecherer	GER	00:49:33			DNF
	Urs Mueller	SUI	00:55:41			DNF
	Gregory Close	USA	01:01:08			DNF

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Daniela Ryf	SUI	00:53:11	04:40:55	02:58:53	08:38:44	-08:37	US$ 30,000	4000
2	Sarah True	USA	00:53:09	05:10:56	02:54:58	09:05:19	n/a	US$ 15,000	3400
3	Sarah Crowley	AUS	00:55:35	05:05:37	03:04:36	09:11:31	-03:18	US$ 8,000	2890
4	Anne Haug	GER	00:56:28	05:08:08	03:04:32	09:14:06	n/a	US$ 6,500	2455
5	Katja Konschak	GER	00:55:28	05:28:31	03:05:52	09:36:11	-05:40	US$ 5,000	2090
6	Rachel McBride	CAN	00:55:31	05:13:32	03:26:45	09:42:11	12:44	US$ 3,500	1670
7	Skye Moench	USA	00:58:48	05:14:01	03:23:29	09:42:26	-40:52	US$ 2,500	1335
8	Bruna Mahn	BRA	01:00:51	05:24:33	03:11:32	09:43:14	-02:56	US$ 2,000	1070
9	Saleta Castro Nogueira	ESP	00:59:57	05:31:53	03:06:17	09:44:22	01:09	US$ 1,500	855
10	Marta Bernardi	ITA	01:00:59	05:26:29	03:22:12	09:55:33	25:14	US$ 1,000	685
	Dimity-Lee Duke	AUS	01:03:35	05:27:29		DNF
	Ewa Bugdol	POL	00:55:30	05:36:36		DNF
	Steph Corker	CAN	01:00:56			DNF

Kona Qualifying

As a Regional Championship, IM Germany is a P-4000 race and a lot of athletes were able to improve their positions for a Kona slot:

• Daniela Ryf, Jan Frodeno and Patrick Lange validated their AQ slots as Kona winners (and Daniela and Jan also claimed the AQ slots for Frankfurt).
• Sarah Crowley, Sarah True, Rachel McBride, Patrik Nilsson are now “safe” for a July slot.
  (Josh Amberger was already safe before Frankfurt.)
• Anne Haug and Nick Kastelein have moved up “into the bubble” – but it’s unlikely their points will be enough for a slot. At this point they are among the final points slots (Anne #26 of 28, Nick in the last men’s slot) but both have a few unvalidated athletes in front of them.
• Katja Konschak, Marta Bernardi, Bruna Mahn and Saleta Castro are “close” but will need more points. The same applies to Philip Koutny, Ty Butterfield and Mark Bowstead on the male side.

Update June 25th: I’ve crossed out a few withdrawals, most notably Laura Philipp.

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2005	Normann Stadler (GER)	08:20:50	Lisa Bentley (CAN)	09:15:31
2006	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:13:40	Andrea Steinbecher (GER)	09:16:17
2007	Timo Bracht (GER)	08:09:15	Nicole Leder (GER)	09:04:11
2008	Chris McCormack (AUS)	07:59:55	Chrissie Wellington (GBR)	08:51:24
2009	Timo Bracht (GER)	07:59:15	Sandra Wallenhorst (GER)	08:58:08
2010	Andreas Raelert (GER)	08:05:15	Sandra Wallenhorst (GER)	09:04:27
2011	Faris Al-Sultan (GER)	08:13:50	Caroline Steffen (SUI)	09:12:13
2012	Marino Vanhoenacker (BEL)	08:03:31	Caroline Steffen (SUI)	08:52:33
2013	Eneko Llanos (ESP)	07:59:58	Camilla Pedersen (DEN)	08:56:01
2014	Sebastian Kienle (GER)	07:55:14	Corinne Abraham (GBR)	08:52:40
2015	Jan Frodeno (GER)	07:49:48	Daniela Ryf (SUI)	08:51:00
2016	Sebastian Kienle (GER)	07:52:43	Melissa Hauschildt (AUS)	09:01:17
2017	Sebastian Kienle (GER)	07:41:42	Sarah Crowley (AUS)	08:47:58

Last Year’s TOP 3

For the full results from last year, please check out my post on “IM Germany 2017 – Analyzing Results“. Please note that the 2017 race had a shortened bike course and the times are therefore not eligible for course records.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Sebastian Kienle	GER	00:50:11	04:02:22	02:45:09	07:41:42
2	Andi Boecherer	GER	00:47:21	04:04:56	02:49:48	07:46:07
3	Patrik Nilsson	SWE	00:47:15	04:17:41	02:40:58	07:50:16

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Sarah Crowley	AUS	00:56:17	04:40:32	03:05:12	08:47:58
2	Lucy Charles	GBR	00:48:29	04:45:08	03:13:18	08:51:50
3	Alexandra Tondeur	BEL	00:59:25	04:49:48	03:04:47	08:59:55

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	07:49:48	Jan Frodeno	2015-07-05
Swim	overall	00:42:17	Jan Sibbersen	2004-07-12
Bike	overall	04:08:43	Jan Frodeno	2015-07-05
Run	overall	02:42:08	Will Clarke	2016-07-03
Total	female	08:51:00	Daniela Ryf	2015-07-05
Swim	female	00:45:04	Amanda Stevens	2012-07-08
Bike	female	04:44:25	Natascha Badmann	2014-07-06
Run	female	02:57:13	Kristin Moeller	2013-07-07

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Germany is 15:15.

Race Adjustments for IM Germany

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2005	06:40	01:17	07:25	-04:44	21	06:40	01:17	07:25	-04:44
2006	14:02	n/a	n/a	n/a	21	10:21	01:17	07:25	-04:44
2007	27:36	02:16	16:42	06:14	35	16:06	01:47	12:03	00:45
2008	30:17	04:53	10:36	06:21	21 of 28	19:39	02:49	11:34	02:37
2009	22:50	03:30	15:52	00:10	19 of 25	20:17	02:59	12:39	02:00
2010	11:33	01:20	05:55	00:52	30	18:50	02:39	11:18	01:47
2011	10:37	01:54	06:10	00:20	41	17:39	02:32	10:27	01:32
2012	12:24	04:20	05:29	01:27	37	17:00	02:47	09:44	01:31
2013	18:03	02:45	10:25	03:40	69	17:07	02:47	09:49	01:48
2014	14:11	02:25	14:57	01:01	39 of 56	16:49	02:44	10:23	01:42
2015	05:18	00:00	08:30	-03:44	32 of 44	15:47	02:28	10:12	01:10
2016	12:04	-01:31	11:26	05:06	44 of 61	15:28	02:06	10:19	01:31
2017	18:40	-00:05	19:31	02:42	49 of 68	15:15	01:55	11:05	01:37

KPR points and Prize Money

IM Germany is a P-4000 race. It has a total prize purse of 150.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

Race Coverage and Estimated Time Plan

The race will be broadcast live on German television (Hessen 3, their website and the critical parts on the ARD program as well) with Sebastian Kienle as the expert commentator and by Ironman on their “Ironman Now” page (a hosted show, probably with Michael Lovato, Greg Welch and Dede Griesbauer).

The following table shows the time plan for the race start and the estimated times for the first athlete in the transition zones or across the finish line. The estimates are based on the start time and my time estimates, these times can change based on how fast or slow the race ends up:

What	Est. Racetime	Est. Local Time
Male Pro Start		06:30
Female Pro Start		06:32
Age Group Start		06:40 to 07:00
First Male in T1	00:44:38	07:14
First Female in T1	00:49:50	07:21
First Male in T2	05:02:08	11:32
First Female in T2	05:36:15	12:08
Male Winner	07:47:51	14:17
Female Winner	08:34:05	15:06

Frankfurt is on Central European Summer Time, 2 hours behind UTC. Here are conversions to a few other time zones:

• +8 hours: Melbourne (AEST), race starts at 2:30 pm
• -1 hour: United Kingdom (BST), race starts at 5:30 am
• -6 hours: US East Coast (EDT), race starts at 0:30 am
• -9 hours: US West Coast (PDT), race starts at 9:30 pm on Saturday evening

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 29% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency	Overall
1	1	Jan Frodeno	GER	07:49:51	08:08:38	00:44:40	04:14:27	05:04:08	02:45:43	60% +19% -22% (9)	3
2	3	Andi Boecherer	GER	07:51:18	08:12:34	00:45:17	04:11:32	05:01:49	02:49:29	56% +43% -2% (15)	6
3	2	Patrick Lange	GER	07:51:35	07:57:26	00:45:17	04:18:03	05:08:21	02:43:14	100% +0% -0% (2)	1
4	4	Patrik Nilsson	SWE	07:54:57	08:11:15	00:45:36	04:22:06	05:12:42	02:42:15	47% +37% -16% (9)	4
5	7	Andreas Raelert	GER	08:06:12	08:35:21	00:47:14	04:21:54	05:14:08	02:52:04	18% +8% -74% (22)	(69)
6	6	Nick Kastelein	AUS	08:07:15	08:29:30	00:45:58	04:24:43	05:15:41	02:51:34	67% +0% -33% (4)	44
7	45	Joe Skipper *	GBR	08:09:19	08:25:41	00:51:12	04:23:20	05:19:32	02:49:47	62% +13% -25% (20)	28
8	8	Michael Weiss *	AUT	08:10:55	08:30:19	00:52:50	04:19:11	05:17:01	02:53:54	83% +3% -14% (21)	48
9	5	Josh Amberger	AUS	08:11:50	08:30:42	00:44:38	04:21:45	05:11:23	03:00:27	70% +19% -11% (5)	52
10	40	Cameron Wurf *	AUS	08:14:03	08:29:21	00:48:30	04:12:43	05:06:14	03:07:49	60% +31% -9% (11)	43
11	18	Tyler Butterfield	BMU	08:14:16	08:44:19	00:46:43	04:21:57	05:13:39	03:00:37	25% +22% -53% (16)	89
12	34	David Plese *	SLO	08:17:20	08:30:14	00:51:13	04:28:59	05:25:12	02:52:08	82% +6% -12% (25)	47
13	22	Marc Duelsen	GER	08:18:53	08:34:05	00:49:14	04:30:36	05:24:50	02:54:03	89% +0% -11% (11)	65
14	16	Mark Bowstead	NZL	08:19:09	08:36:26	00:46:44	04:26:18	05:18:01	03:01:08	79% +0% -21% (5)	72
15	11	Peru Alfaro	ESP	08:21:29	08:45:05	00:46:01	04:33:35	05:24:36	02:56:53	59% +0% -41% (5)	91
16	27	Philipp Koutny	SUI	08:23:10	08:47:47	00:48:36	04:26:13	05:19:48	03:03:22	56% +0% -44% (8)	102
17	17	Christian Brader	GER	08:30:44	08:46:50	00:52:38	04:37:39	05:35:18	02:55:26	80% +2% -18% (40)	98
18	20	Gregory Close	USA	08:34:17	09:02:36	00:55:13	04:34:22	05:34:34	02:59:43	20% +35% -45% (11)	163
19	28	Markus Liebelt *	GER	08:40:31	09:20:09	00:53:12	04:31:56	05:30:08	03:10:23	23% +0% -77% (3)	(213)
20	29	Andrey Lyatskiy *	RUS	08:40:44	08:55:49	00:49:15	04:44:08	05:38:24	03:02:20	94% +2% -4% (33)	137
21	37	Simon Schwarz *	GER	08:42:50	09:11:34	00:51:54	04:42:14	05:39:08	03:03:42	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(194)
22	10	Andreas Niedrig *	GER	08:45:16	09:10:05	00:46:13	04:29:44	05:20:57	03:24:19	44% +30% -26% (14)	(186)
23	19	Alexander Chikin	RUS	08:45:16	09:10:35	00:53:13	04:38:55	05:37:07	03:08:09	100% +0% -0% (2)	(190)
24	14	Lucas Amirault	FRA	08:49:16	09:10:51	00:49:49	04:41:04	05:35:53	03:13:23	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(193)
25	46	Balazs Csoke	HUN	08:49:38	09:05:10	00:46:13	04:48:32	05:39:45	03:09:53	41% +6% -53% (30)	169
26	38	Pavel Simko *	SVK	08:50:40	09:10:50	00:49:32	04:41:06	05:35:39	03:15:01	80% +0% -20% (4)	192
27	44	Mike Schifferle	SUI	08:52:53	09:14:14	00:58:29	04:41:44	05:45:13	03:07:40	83% +6% -11% (73)	199
28	32	Urs Mueller	SUI	08:52:54	09:16:04	00:51:08	04:37:01	05:33:09	03:19:45	51% +22% -27% (7)	204
29	30	Philipp Mock	GER	08:54:10	09:23:31	00:55:44	04:30:55	05:31:39	03:22:31	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(228)
30	31	Wouter Monchy	BEL	08:57:08	09:16:37	00:49:11	04:50:03	05:44:14	03:12:54	61% +24% -15% (6)	206
31	9	Frederic Limousin	FRA	09:02:07	09:27:44	00:51:42	04:46:10	05:42:52	03:19:15	90% +10% -0% (6)	235
32	23	Olivier Esser	BEL	09:08:45	09:27:53	00:52:25	04:51:53	05:49:18	03:19:27	75% +0% -25% (4)	236
33	15	David Berthou	FRA	09:11:26	09:41:45	00:52:47	04:51:59	05:49:46	03:21:40	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(261)
34	35	Lukas Polan *	CZE	09:20:09	09:54:18	01:00:11	04:58:16	06:03:27	03:16:42	41% +16% -43% (16)	274
35	21	Zsombor Deak *	ROM	09:36:17	10:00:22	00:56:59	05:10:23	06:12:22	03:23:55	71% +0% -29% (4)	280
36	39	Dominique Wymmersch Gallego	ESP	09:53:04	10:25:40	00:56:58	05:00:11	06:02:09	03:50:55	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(291)
37	25	Michal Ivanco *	SVK	09:53:47	10:16:14	01:17:48	05:04:58	06:27:46	03:26:01	100% +0% -0% (3)	287
38	26	Aleksander Kochetkov *	LTU	10:36:57	11:11:58	01:06:35	05:30:22	06:41:57	03:55:00	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(303)
39	33	Marek Nemcik *	SVK	10:56:06	11:56:30	01:10:17	05:22:56	06:38:14	04:17:52	32% +24% -44% (45)	307
	24	Felix Hentschel	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	36	Imanol Sagarzazu	ESP	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	43	Damien Collins	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)

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

Female Race Participants

The strength of the field is 29% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency	Overall
1	102	Daniela Ryf	SUI	08:34:05	08:40:07	00:49:50	04:41:25	05:36:15	02:57:50	91% +0% -9% (12)	1
2	101	Sarah Crowley	AUS	08:52:03	09:17:13	00:53:04	04:48:41	05:46:45	03:05:18	35% +65% -0% (6)	9
3	107	Eva Wutti *	AUT	09:03:32	09:21:24	00:55:50	04:59:50	06:00:40	03:02:52	90% +0% -10% (10)	19
4	124	Sara Svensk *	SWE	09:06:57	09:35:42	00:56:21	04:55:20	05:56:40	03:10:17	20% +46% -34% (3)	(44)
5	116	Mareen Hufe *	GER	09:09:25	09:26:10	00:57:08	04:51:54	05:54:03	03:15:22	84% +10% -6% (26)	30
6	105	Katja Konschak	GER	09:15:16	09:44:21	00:52:00	05:10:52	06:07:52	03:07:24	45% +25% -30% (22)	60
7	119	Rachel McBride	CAN	09:15:51	09:37:42	00:51:03	04:53:16	05:49:20	03:26:31	100% +0% -0% (4)	51
8	113	Dimity-Lee Duke	AUS	09:19:01	09:38:53	00:57:13	04:59:30	06:01:43	03:17:18	70% +7% -23% (16)	53
9	109	Marta Bernardi	ITA	09:19:23	09:44:25	00:55:59	05:07:27	06:08:26	03:10:57	100% +0% -0% (2)	(61)
10	123	Celine Schaerer *	SUI	09:22:06	09:37:12	00:49:30	05:08:45	06:03:14	03:18:52	80% +0% -20% (11)	48
11	118	Bruna Mahn	BRA	09:22:40	09:54:36	00:54:59	05:10:09	06:10:08	03:12:32	30% +70% -0% (5)	83
12	111	Saleta Castro Nogueira	ESP	09:25:04	09:45:45	00:53:36	05:15:46	06:14:23	03:10:41	66% +28% -5% (17)	63
13	110	Ewa Bugdol	POL	09:27:51	09:53:26	00:52:22	05:11:38	06:09:00	03:18:51	56% +0% -44% (4)	(78)
14	114	Katharina Grohmann	GER	09:30:49	09:49:51	01:08:09	05:04:26	06:17:35	03:13:14	81% +19% -0% (18)	74
15	120	Skye Moench	USA	09:48:19	10:38:25	00:57:51	05:07:15	06:10:06	03:38:13	39% +0% -61% (2)	(144)
16	112	Steph Corker *	CAN	09:53:10	10:20:18	00:55:13	05:24:02	06:24:14	03:28:56	70% +30% -0% (4)	123
17	117	Kristin Lie	NOR	10:01:30	10:26:29	01:08:48	05:13:39	06:27:26	03:34:04	93% +1% -6% (16)	132
18	115	Helena Herrero Gomez *	ESP	10:07:34	10:39:45	00:58:12	05:38:27	06:41:39	03:25:55	34% +0% -66% (11)	145
	103	Laura Philipp *	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	104	Anne Haug	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	106	Sarah True	USA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)

Note: Athletes with a ‘*’ are also registered for another race within 8 days. Most of them are on the start list as a backup for Austria, but at least Eva Wutti is considered to do a “double IM” in Klagenfurt and Frankfurt to secure enough KPR points for a July slot.

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

This year’s IM Frankfurt will be a big “German showdown”. It’s hard to pick a front-runner as everyone has a lot going for them: Andi has always been racing well in Frankfurt (a number of close second places when Sebi Kienle was winning the race), Frodo holds the course record and Patrick is the current Kona champion. But all of them have “little question marks” as well: Andi has been injured and was forced to skip Kona, Frodo had a bad race in Kona, and Patrick didn’t do too well in Frankfurt last year when he was still dealing with the aftermath of an injury.

• Andi Boecherer: 32% (2-1)
• Jan Frodeno: 30% (2-1)
• Patrick Lange: 28% (3-1)
• Patrik Nilsson: 10% (9-1)

Female Race Participants

The situation is much more clear on the female side: Even though Sarah Crowley won the race last year, Daniela has been pretty much unbeatable on the Ironman distance. Her only “bad race” was a DNF in Frankfurt 2o16 …

• Daniela Ryf: 67% (1-1)
• Sarah Crowley: 21% (4-1)
• Eva Wutti: 6% (17-1)
• Mareen Hufe: 3% (35-1)
• Sara Svensk: 2% (60-1)

Kona Qualifying

IM Germany is the last of the Regional Championships, and a lot of athletes are looking for a good result and a large number of KPR points to secure their Kona slots. As there are Automatic Qualifier slots for the winners, everyone in the field has a chance to get a Kona slot in Frankfurt, but most of them are probably calculating with a more realistic result.

Male Athletes

Here’s what athletes in the male field are looking for in order to get a Kona slot:

• Just finish: Jan Frodeno, Patrick Lange, Patrik Nilsson
• 12th (385): Michael Weiss
• 6th (1.670): Joe Skipper (but likely to race Roth)
• 5th (2.090): Tyler Butterfield, Philip Koutny
• 4th (2.455): David Plese, Andi Boecherer, Mark Bowstead
• 3rd (2.890): Marc Duelsen, Nick Kastelein, Balazs Csoke

Female Athletes

Here’s what the females are looking for in order to get a Kona slot:

• Just finish: Daniela Ryf, Sarah Crowley
• 8th (1.070): Sara Svensk
• 7th (1.335): Rachel McBride, Sarah True, Laura Philipp
• 5th (2.090): Marta Bernardi
• 4th (2.455): Dimity-Lee Duke, Bruna Mahn, Saleta Castro, Anne Haug, Katharina Grohmann
• 3rd (2.890): Katja Koschak, Eva Wutti (but probably also racing IM Austria)

Male Race Participants

Name	Nation	KPR points	KPR races
Patrick Lange	GER	9140	1+2 (8000/500)
Josh Amberger	AUS	4380	2+1
Patrik Nilsson	SWE	3825	1+0
Tyler Butterfield	BMU	1830	1+1
Jan Frodeno	GER	1735	1+2 (235/750)
Philipp Koutny	SUI	1730	3+1 (170/400)
David Plese	SLO	1530	2+2 (385/35)
Andi Boecherer	GER	1390	0+2 (0/640)
Mark Bowstead	NZL	1280	1+0
Marc Duelsen	GER	1050	1+1
Nick Kastelein	AUS	885	0+2 (0/345)
Gregory Close	USA	720	1+0
Zsombor Deak	ROM	705	1+2 (540/25)
Urs Mueller	SUI	575	2+0
Peru Alfaro	ESP	515	1+0
Christian Brader	GER	250	1+1
Andrey Lyatskiy	RUS	235	2+1
Alexander Chikin	RUS	170	1+1
Felix Hentschel	GER	149	0+2 (0/9)
Markus Liebelt	GER	135	0+1
Pavel Simko	SVK	135	1+1
Lucas Amirault	FRA	124	1+2 (85/9)
Philipp Mock	GER	100	0+2 (0/35)
David Berthou	FRA	50	0+1
Marek Nemcik	SVK	50	3+1 (2/5)
Simon Schwarz	GER	30	0+1
Olivier Esser	BEL	8	1+0
Lukas Polan	CZE	6	0+2 (0/1)
Dominique Wymmersch Gallego	ESP	2	0+1
Clemente Alonso McKernan	ESP	0	0+0
Aleksander Kochetkov	LTU	0	0+0
Wouter Monchy	BEL	0	0+0
Andreas Niedrig	GER	0	0+0
Andreas Raelert	GER	0	0+0
Imanol Sagarzazu	ESP	0	0+0

Female Race Participants

Name	Nation	KPR points	KPR races
Daniela Ryf	SUI	12085	1+2 (8000/1085)
Sarah Crowley	AUS	6480	1+0
Mareen Hufe	GER	4775	3+0 (540/0)
Rachel McBride	CAN	3795	2+2 (405/435)
Jodie Robertson	USA	3580	1+1
Sarah True	USA	3270	0+2 (0/1085)
Laura Philipp	GER	3180	0+2 (0/750)
Dimity-Lee Duke	AUS	2660	2+2 (340/320)
Bruna Mahn	BRA	2655	2+2 (540/400)
Saleta Castro Nogueira	ESP	2485	3+1 (385/180)
Sara Svensk	SWE	2410	1+1
Anne Haug	GER	2025	0+2 (0/750)
Katharina Grohmann	GER	2020	2+1
Angela Naeth	CAN	1425	0+2 (0/640)
Eva Wutti	AUT	1165	0+2 (0/540)
Celine Schaerer	SUI	980	1+1
Ewa Bugdol	POL	945	2+0
Skye Moench	USA	590	1+2 (170/180)
Steph Corker	CAN	165	1+1
Helena Herrero Gomez	ESP	120	1+0
Kristin Lie	NOR	0	0+0