IM Lanzarote

Update May 21: Added a few DNFs after updated data was available in the Athlete Tracker.

Race Conditions

The conditions for this year’s race were typical for IM Lanzarote: Nothing special for the swim and run (almost no adjustments) but a very slow bike (adjustment of -19:11) and a slow race overall (adjustment of -23:51), even for the “slow standard” of Lanzarote.

Still, there were two new course records: Lucy Charles posted new swim and bike course records. She improved her own swim course record from last year by five seconds, and also Tara Norton’s bike course record (5:26:23 from 2010) to 5:23:29.

Male Race Results

Romain Guillaume quickly took the lead after the swim, after 90k he was joined by his BMC Etixx teammate Bart Aernouts. Bart stepped up his bike performance and posted the best split. When his teammate struggled on the run, he took control of the race and won by nine minutes.

Photo: A focused Bart at the start of the run. (Credit: Ingo Kutsche, used with permission)

Second place went to Alessandro Degasperi who lost some time on the bike but then posted the fastest run split. Defending champion Jesse Thomas couldn’t make up any time to the leader on the run, but a solid overall race saw him finish in third.  Fourth place went to the relatively unknown Peru Alfaro who had taken a two and a half year break from Ironman racing, Romain Guillaume struggled on the run but held on to fifth place.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Bart Aernouts	BEL	00:50:34	04:48:23	02:48:28	08:34:13	-12:03	US$ 5,000	2000
2	Alessandro Degasperi	ITA	00:50:33	04:59:18	02:47:39	08:43:22	-09:53	US$ 2,750	1600
3	Jesse Thomas	USA	00:50:34	04:55:54	02:55:25	08:49:02	03:01	US$ 1,750	1280
4	Peru Alfaro	ESP	00:47:03	05:02:28	02:55:29	08:52:31	-04:10	US$ 1,250	960
5	Romain Guillaume	FRA	00:48:29	04:50:54	03:11:16	08:57:01	-06:21	US$ 1,000	720
6	Samuel Huerzeler	SUI	00:52:08	05:05:06	02:53:53	08:59:07	-25:35	US$ 750	540
7	Timothy Van Houtem	BEL	00:57:11	04:59:53	02:55:58	09:01:13	n/a		405
8	Cedric Lassonde	FRA	00:53:29	05:08:09	03:05:18	09:14:49	-12:12		305
9	Guillaume Lecallier	FRA	00:55:38	05:07:06	03:06:06	09:15:45	n/a		230
10	Trevor Delsaut	FRA	00:50:32	05:09:17	03:11:52	09:19:16	11:01		170
11	Nicholas Ward Munoz	GBR	00:53:32	05:21:48	03:00:34	09:23:44	05:52		120
12	Andrey Lyatskiy	RUS	00:52:14	05:24:33	03:00:05	09:24:17	-00:29		85
13	Karl-Johan Danielsson	SWE	00:50:29	05:19:35	03:12:56	09:29:50	11:30		60
14	Philipp Mock	GER	00:57:02	05:01:56	03:23:38	09:32:13	n/a		40
15	Xavier Torrades	ESP	00:50:31	05:27:44	03:10:20	09:35:10	04:56		30
16	Mike Schifferle	SUI	00:59:28	05:18:17	03:14:09	09:43:24	14:44		20
17	Georgy Kaurov	RUS	00:46:58	05:30:14	03:35:38	09:59:07	09:06		15
18	Marcus Hultgren	SWE	00:55:50	05:22:56	03:45:42	10:13:20	25:26		10
19	Mads Bang Jensen	DEN	00:55:31	05:32:38	03:47:50	10:23:56	n/a		8
20	Dominique Wymmersch Gallego	ESP	00:58:11	05:33:54	03:51:45	10:35:19	n/a		5
21	Youri Severin	NED	00:49:03	05:27:58	04:17:04	10:42:00	1:06:09		3
22	Ivan Tejero Vazquez	ESP	00:50:34	05:33:05	04:18:00	10:50:07	26:37		3
23	Stephen Bayliss	GBR	00:47:04	05:14:17	04:44:39	10:52:57	1:20:48		3
	Konstantin Bachor	GER	00:50:28	05:11:19		DNF
	Frederic Schaffner	FRA	00:55:36	05:48:57		DNF
	Carlos Lopez Diaz	ESP	00:46:58			DNF
	Malte Bruns	GER	00:52:09			DNF
	Cyril Viennot	FRA	00:52:16			DNF
	Daniel Herlbauer	AUT	00:53:31			DNF
	Gergely Nagy	HUN	00:53:42			DNF
	Erik Holmberg	SWE	00:53:45			DNF
	Victor Del Corral	ESP	00:55:37			DNF
	Victor Rodriguez	ESP	00:55:41			DNF
	Stephen Donnelly	IRL	00:55:42			DNF
	Josep Vinolas	ESP	00:55:43			DNF
	Alain Djouad-Guibert	MOR	01:04:49			DNF

Female Race Results

The female race was dominated by super swimmer Lucy Charles. It wasn’t a surprise she was leading after the swim (posting a new swim course record), but then she continued to extend her lead on the bike – also posting a new bike course record. Her lead in T2 was close to 20 minutes, leaving just a little bit of hope for the chasers. However, she was able to have a solid run as well and won the race with a comfortable margin of nine minutes.

Photo: Lucy on one of the picturesque spots of the Lanzarote bike course. (Credit: Ingo Kutsche, used with permission)

The only athlete able to take a serious chunk out of Lucy’s lead was Corinne Abraham who posted the fastest marathon to finish second. In T2 Lucy Gossage seemed to be in the best position to challenge Lucy for the win, but she had indicated before the race she hadn’t done her usual training and it showed a bit with a 3:13 run, she was still able to finish third – giving Great Britain a podium sweep. Solid bike rides allowed Jeanne Collonge to finish in fourth place and Saleta Castro in fifth.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Lucy Charles	GBR	00:47:06	05:23:29	03:18:34	09:35:39	-34:58	US$ 5,000	2000
2	Corinne Abraham	GBR	00:57:13	05:37:17	03:03:53	09:44:29	-04:41	US$ 2,750	1600
3	Lucy Gossage	GBR	01:00:40	05:29:44	03:13:05	09:50:22	08:23	US$ 1,750	1280
4	Jeanne Collonge	FRA	00:58:12	05:31:42	03:26:31	10:04:46	-05:57	US$ 1,250	960
5	Saleta Castro Nogueira	ESP	00:55:40	05:47:28	03:21:01	10:11:45	-09:45	US$ 1,000	720
6	Kate Comber	GBR	00:52:25	05:52:13	03:29:23	10:22:34	-00:24	US$ 750	540
7	Pia Englyst	DEN	01:05:07	06:11:04	03:26:46	10:52:15	n/a		405
8	Kelly Fillnow	USA	01:06:28	06:11:41	03:28:43	10:56:27	36:25		305
9	Lina-Kristin Schink	GER	01:10:25	06:19:00	03:28:52	11:07:33	28:53		230
10	Patricia Bueno Perez	ESP	01:00:58	06:37:27	03:48:59	11:38:08	n/a		170
11	Annabel Diawuoh	GER	01:24:41	06:46:18	04:06:23	12:24:59	n/a		120
	Tine Holst	DEN	01:03:05	05:37:25		DNF
	Alexandra Tondeur	BEL	00:57:55			DNF
	Camille Deligny	FRA	01:00:12			DNF

Kona Qualifying Implications

Here’s the notable changes in Kona Qualifying on the male side (projected July cutoff 3.500 points):

• Safe for a July slot: Bart Aernouts (5.825)
• On the Bubble (might be enough, but maybe not): Jesse Thomas (3.420)
• Close (but more points needed): Romain Guillaume (2.390), Alessandro Degasperi (2.050)

On the female side (projected cutoff 4.300 points):

• Safe for a July slot: Lucy Gossage (4.725, but she indicated she’s not interested in racing Kona this year)
• Close (but more points needed): Jeanne Collonge (3.910)

Lucy Charles (2.115) and Corinne Abraham (2.675) haven’t scored many points before, they still need a lot of points to be able to qualify.

Update May 17th: Unfortunately, Diana Riesler won’t be racing.

Update May 18th: Natascha Schmitt has posted on Facebook that she is forced to withdraw: Her bike was seriously damaged on the flight to Lanzarote and is unsafe to ride.

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2005	Ain-Alar Juhanson (EST)	08:55:38	Virginia Berasategui (ESP)	10:09:40
2006	Ain-Alar Juhanson (EST)	08:54:14	Karin Thuerig (SUI)	09:52:45
2007	Eneko Llanos (ESP)	08:49:39	Tiina Boman (FIN)	09:58:42
2008	Bert Jammaer (BEL)	08:59:40	Bella Bayliss (GBR)	10:02:30
2009	Bert Jammaer (BEL)	08:54:03	Bella Bayliss (GBR)	09:54:58
2010	Eneko Llanos (ESP)	08:37:43	Catriona Morrison (GBR)	10:03:53
2011	Timo Bracht (GER)	08:30:34	Rachel Joyce (GBR)	09:28:12
2012	Victor Del Corral (ESP)	08:44:39	Michelle Vesterby (DEN)	09:58:06
2013	Faris Al-Sultan (GER)	08:42:40	Kristin Moeller (GER)	09:37:34
2014	Romain Guillaume (FRA)	08:47:39	Lucy Gossage (GBR)	09:41:40
2015	Alessandro Degasperi (ITA)	08:56:49	Diana Riesler (GER)	09:56:03
2016	Jesse Thomas (USA)	08:42:33	Tine Holst (DEN)	10:02:35

Last Year’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Jesse Thomas	USA	00:50:55	04:58:33	02:46:56	08:42:33
2	Jan Frodeno	GER	00:46:52	04:58:18	02:50:03	08:44:38
3	David McNamee	GBR	00:47:03	05:01:39	02:51:51	08:46:36

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Tine Holst	DEN	01:01:15	05:34:25	03:19:48	10:02:35
2	Alexandra Tondeur	BEL	01:03:00	05:42:36	03:10:26	10:04:53
3	Lucy Charles	GBR	00:47:11	05:48:36	03:27:40	10:10:13

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	08:30:34	Timo Bracht	2011-05-21
Swim	overall	00:46:15	Luc Van Lierde	2006-05-20
Bike	overall	04:40:58	Maik Twelsiek	2010-05-22
Run	overall	02:44:29	Gerrit Schellens	2005-06-04
Total	female	09:28:12	Rachel Joyce	2011-05-21
Swim	female	00:47:11	Lucy Charles	2016-05-21
Bike	female	05:26:23	Tara Norton	2010-05-22
Run	female	02:58:37	Kristin Moeller	2013-05-18

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Lanzarote is – 13:00.

Race Adjustments for IM Lanzarote

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2006	-01:19	02:52	-18:58	04:12	45	-01:19	02:52	-18:58	04:12
2007	-08:07	-00:26	-09:52	-03:14	40	-04:43	01:13	-14:25	00:29
2008	-08:54	01:18	-16:06	05:20	47	-06:07	01:14	-14:59	02:06
2009	-04:47	00:27	-12:47	03:55	44	-05:47	01:03	-14:26	02:33
2010	-04:13	01:50	-08:20	01:04	34	-05:28	01:12	-13:13	02:15
2011	-06:16	03:31	-14:26	04:58	23	-05:36	01:35	-13:25	02:42
2012	-15:48	01:29	-14:57	02:11	22	-07:03	01:34	-13:38	02:38
2013	-17:46	00:41	-18:47	01:48	19 of 31	-08:24	01:28	-14:17	02:32
2014	-22:51	01:01	-17:19	-03:33	37 of 56	-10:00	01:25	-14:37	01:51
2015	-30:50	01:41	-29:50	-00:52	29 of 44	-12:05	01:26	-16:08	01:35
2016	-22:08	00:10	-19:15	00:15	34 of 41	-13:00	01:19	-16:25	01:27

KPR points and Prize Money

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

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 10% of a typical Kona field.

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Exp. Swim	Exp. Bike	Exp. Run	Consistency	Overall
1	1	Jesse Thomas	USA	08:35:12	08:22:39	00:49:49	04:52:50	02:47:32	100% +0% -0% (3)	11
2	20	Bart Aernouts	BEL	08:36:24	08:23:34	00:51:25	04:52:28	02:47:32	86% +0% -14% (10)	14
3	18	Cyril Viennot	FRA	08:40:13	08:28:57	00:49:50	04:53:43	02:51:40	79% +13% -8% (18)	27
4	3	Alessandro Degasperi	ITA	08:42:24	08:35:14	00:50:08	05:00:04	02:47:13	73% +0% -27% (9)	52
5	26	Peru Alfaro	ESP	08:48:09	08:54:00	00:44:11	04:58:52	03:00:06	47% +0% -53% (2)	(111)
6	5	Romain Guillaume	FRA	08:48:17	08:50:06	00:47:33	04:54:18	03:01:26	51% +10% -39% (28)	98
7	9	Victor Del Corral	ESP	08:49:00	08:44:51	00:54:16	04:59:28	02:50:15	42% +0% -58% (16)	83
8	16	Konstantin Bachor	GER	08:50:59	08:47:45	00:49:07	04:49:40	03:07:12	51% +5% -44% (12)	92
9	48	Mark Oude Bennink	NED	08:52:08	08:55:04	00:46:57	04:59:07	03:01:04	19% +50% -31% (9)	116
10	45	Trevor Delsaut	FRA	08:53:29	08:59:24	00:52:09	05:03:09	02:53:11	31% +6% -63% (26)	133
11	42	Carlos Lopez Diaz	ESP	08:53:42	08:58:31	00:47:03	05:01:34	03:00:04	15% +28% -56% (8)	130
12	11	Karl-Johan Danielsson	SWE	09:01:58	09:03:53	00:49:38	04:57:10	03:10:09	27% +28% -45% (13)	154
13	43	Philipp Koutny *	SUI	09:02:27	09:00:58	00:49:53	05:01:00	03:06:35	26% +0% -74% (4)	(144)
14	10	Stephen Bayliss	GBR	09:03:19	09:07:07	00:47:00	05:06:28	03:04:51	28% +2% -70% (48)	161
15	51	Daniel Herlbauer	AUT	09:08:36	09:18:27	00:51:59	05:05:37	03:06:01	41% +0% -59% (4)	(193)
16	12	Nicholas Ward Munoz	GBR	09:09:15	08:52:59	00:53:14	05:13:28	02:57:33	61% +11% -28% (17)	107
17	44	Samuel Huerzeler	SUI	09:10:30	09:06:19	00:51:54	05:12:49	03:00:48	76% +24% -0% (7)	158
18	55	Malte Bruns	GER	09:10:35	09:13:02	00:52:22	05:10:41	03:02:32	65% +0% -35% (3)	(176)
19	22	Andrey Lyatskiy	RUS	09:11:06	08:59:51	00:49:06	05:13:17	03:03:43	88% +4% -8% (28)	135
20	28	Mike Schifferle	SUI	09:13:18	09:02:54	00:58:59	05:05:50	03:03:28	85% +13% -2% (61)	150
21	40	Xavier Torrades	ESP	09:15:46	09:15:46	00:47:57	05:10:26	03:12:23	38% +0% -62% (4)	185
22	24	Cedric Lassonde	FRA	09:16:43	09:13:26	00:53:48	05:09:28	03:08:27	67% +0% -33% (9)	178
23	36	Josep Vinolas	ESP	09:19:53	09:11:49	00:54:09	05:10:19	03:10:25	55% +35% -10% (5)	173
24	41	Youri Severin	NED	09:20:40	09:18:30	00:46:52	05:10:32	03:18:16	48% +0% -52% (2)	(193)
25	50	Erik Holmberg	SWE	09:24:11	09:24:48	00:51:58	05:16:42	03:10:31	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(206)
26	14	Marcus Hultgren	SWE	09:26:31	09:32:06	00:57:00	05:14:18	03:10:13	26% +42% -32% (5)	231
27	56	Georgy Kaurov	RUS	09:29:13	09:34:54	00:49:10	05:14:50	03:20:13	37% +63% -0% (2)	(235)
28	32	Ivan Tejero Vazquez	ESP	09:57:06	10:06:45	00:48:59	05:33:26	03:29:41	12% +43% -44% (7)	(279)
29	39	Gergely Nagy	HUN	10:14:29	10:05:47	00:53:54	05:20:05	03:55:30	77% +18% -5% (7)	277
30	37	Victor Rodriguez	ESP	11:12:07	11:14:31	00:56:11	05:30:15	04:40:41	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(297)
31	34	Alain Djouad-Guibert	MOR	11:16:42	11:17:25	01:04:33	05:52:53	04:14:16	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(297)
	30	Dominique Wymmersch Gallego	ESP	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	38	Frederic Schaffner	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	0% +0% -100% (3)	(n/a)
	46	Timothy Van Houtem	BEL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	47	Stephen Donnelly	IRL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	49	Philipp Mock	GER	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	52	Mads Bang Jensen	DEN	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	53	Sven Van Luyck	BEL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	54	Guillaume Lecallier	FRA	n/a	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 14% of a typical Kona field.

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Exp. Swim	Exp. Bike	Exp. Run	Consistency	Overall
1	8	Lucy Gossage	GBR	09:29:56	09:15:55	00:57:05	05:20:44	03:07:08	94% +0% -6% (14)	8
2	17	Corinne Abraham	GBR	09:35:31	09:23:22	00:57:31	05:28:13	03:04:47	88% +12% -0% (10)	16
3	7	Diana Riesler	GER	09:40:59	09:28:46	00:56:16	05:21:27	03:18:16	48% +10% -42% (20)	25
4	4	Alexandra Tondeur	BEL	09:54:36	09:39:34	00:59:49	05:38:28	03:11:19	100% +0% -0% (4)	42
5	2	Tine Holst	DEN	09:56:44	09:49:21	01:01:34	05:32:36	03:17:33	87% +13% -0% (13)	57
6	15	Jeanne Collonge	FRA	09:57:40	09:49:51	00:58:03	05:32:12	03:22:25	63% +4% -33% (11)	59
7	35	Natascha Schmitt	GER	09:58:17	10:03:02	00:53:19	05:32:14	03:27:44	33% +23% -43% (8)	78
8	6	Lucy Charles	GBR	10:00:47	10:02:56	00:46:08	05:43:33	03:26:06	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(78)
9	19	Camille Deligny	FRA	10:01:11	09:56:35	01:00:55	05:25:06	03:30:10	100% +0% -0% (2)	(70)
10	13	Saleta Castro Nogueira	ESP	10:04:56	09:54:29	00:54:29	05:48:12	03:17:14	53% +33% -14% (12)	65
11	31	Kelly Fillnow	USA	10:04:59	09:56:58	01:03:15	05:41:55	03:14:49	87% +13% -0% (11)	70
12	25	Kate Comber	GBR	10:13:00	10:01:26	00:52:51	05:45:18	03:29:51	100% +0% -0% (4)	75
13	33	Lina-Kristin Schink	GER	10:25:47	10:15:17	01:10:29	05:46:13	03:24:05	87% +0% -13% (8)	105
14	21	Anne Jensen	DEN	10:28:20	10:29:32	01:04:38	05:40:51	03:37:51	44% +21% -35% (6)	127
	23	Patricia Bueno Perez	ESP	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	27	Annabel Diawuoh	DEU	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	29	Pia Englyst	DEN	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

With Jesse Thomas, Alessandro Degasperi and Romain Guillaume the last three winners are on the startlist. Add in Bart Aernouts, Cyril Viennot and Victor Del Corral and you have a very competitive field.

• Jesse Thomas: 58% (1-1)
• Bart Aernouts: 16% (5-1)
• Cyril Viennot: 8% (12-1)
• Alessandro Degasperi: 7% (14-1)
• Victor Del Corral: 4% (28-1)
• Romain Guillaume: 3% (29-1)

Female Race Participants

The female field also has the last three winners: Tine Holst, Diana Riesler and Lucy Gossage will be fighting for the 2017 title. (Note: Diana was on the startlist but won’t be racing this year.) Last year’s second and third place finishers, Alexandra Tondeur and Lucy Charles, would like to return to the podium as well. Corinne Abraham has been struggling with injuries and wasn’t able to contend for a Kona slot in the last seasons. The female field is even stronger and deeper than the men’s field.

• Lucy Gossage: 63% (1-1)
• Corinne Abraham: 23% (3-1)
• Diana Riesler: 12% (7-1)