IM New Zealand

Kona Qualifying

IM New Zealand offered two male and two female slots for the IM World Championships. These will be offered to:

• Mike Philips and Braden Currie for the men (Nice)
  and
• Hannah Berry and Rebecca Clarke for the women (Kona).

Female winner Els Visser was already qualified.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Mike Phillips	NZL	00:48:07 (2)	04:15:41 (1)	02:47:34 (2)	07:56:04	-21:03	US$ 15,000
2	Braden Currie	NZL	00:48:01 (1)	04:18:30 (2)	02:47:48 (3)	07:59:16	-01:29	US$ 9,000
3	Jan van Berkel	SUI	00:50:29 (4)	04:32:54 (5)	02:41:59 (1)	08:10:21	-09:24	US$ 7,000
4	Sebastian Kienle	GER	00:50:32 (5)	04:27:25 (4)	02:51:05 (4)	08:14:03	11:10	US$ 5,000
5	Matt Kerr	NZL	00:50:27 (3)	04:33:04 (6)	02:58:48 (6)	08:27:57	n/a	US$ 4,000
6	Simon Cochrane	NZL	00:50:33 (6)	04:37:22 (8)	02:56:52 (5)	08:30:13	-10:25	US$ 3,000
7	Cameron Brown	NZL	00:56:11 (11)	04:39:19 (9)	03:00:31 (7)	08:42:14	03:19	US$ 2,500
8	Lucas Duross	NZL	00:55:23 (10)	04:41:52 (11)	03:08:27 (9)	08:52:04	-00:40	US$ 2,000
9	Levi Hauwert	AUS	00:54:56 (9)	04:58:01 (12)	03:05:28 (8)	09:04:43	09:08	US$ 1,500
10	Jason Christie	NZL	01:07:01 (13)	04:35:41 (7)	03:24:30 (10)	09:13:47	-24:35	US$ 1,000
11	Michael Tong	NZL	00:54:31 (8)	04:59:42 (13)	03:29:42 (11)	09:28:40	n/a
12	Matt Burton	AUS	00:50:37 (7)	04:20:14 (3)	04:45:18 (12)	10:01:42	1:42:47
	Scott Harpham	NZL	00:56:35 (12)	04:40:16 (10)		DNF

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Els Visser	NED	00:57:01 (6)	04:50:20 (1)	03:13:20 (2)	09:05:43	00:41	US$ 15,000
2	Hannah Berry	NZL	00:51:45 (2)	04:56:23 (2)	03:15:13 (3)	09:08:32	-00:39	US$ 9,000
3	Rebecca Clarke	NZL	00:50:34 (1)	04:57:33 (3)	03:16:37 (4)	09:10:10	-09:28	US$ 7,000
4	Meredith Kessler	USA	00:54:36 (3)	05:09:25 (5)	03:20:34 (5)	09:30:50	09:08	US$ 5,000
5	Ai Ueda	JPN	00:56:33 (5)	05:32:25 (7)	03:08:58 (1)	09:42:50	-00:22	US$ 4,000
6	Laura Armstrong	NZL	00:59:26 (7)	05:08:15 (4)	03:56:43 (7)	10:10:59	27:13	US$ 3,000
7	Laura Wood	NZL	00:54:37 (4)	05:27:08 (6)	03:54:28 (6)	10:22:29	n/a	US$ 2,500
8	Jenny Fletcher	CAN	01:01:36 (8)	05:41:55 (8)	04:14:53 (8)	11:06:26	37:35	US$ 2,000

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
1999	Timothy DeBoom (USA)	08:32:41	Melissa Spooner (CAN)	09:20:14
2000	Thomas Hellriegel (GER)	08:22:46	Lisa Bentley (CAN)	09:28:14
2001	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:24:28	Lisa Bentley (CAN)	09:36:17
2002	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:32:54	Karyn Ballance (NZL)	09:27:33
2003	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:22:05	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:17:56
2004	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:30:30	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:22:24
2005	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:20:15	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:30:14
2006	Ain-Alar Juhanson (EST)	03:31:05	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	04:10:32
2007	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:26:33	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:20:02
2008	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:24:49	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:16:00
2009	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:18:05	Gina Crawford (NZL)	09:18:26
2010	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:21:52	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:14:35
2011	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:31:07	Samantha Warriner (NZL)	09:28:24
2012	Marino Vanhoenacker (BEL)	03:55:03	Meredith Kessler (USA)	04:22:46
2013	Bevan Docherty (NZL)	08:15:35	Meredith Kessler (USA)	09:17:10
2014	Marko Albert (EST)	08:17:33	Meredith Kessler (USA)	09:08:46
2015	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:22:13	Meredith Kessler (USA)	09:05:45
2016	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:07:58	Meredith Kessler (USA)	08:56:08
2017	Braden Currie (NZL)	08:20:58	Jocelyn McCauley (USA)	09:09:47
2018	Terenzo Bozzone (NZL)	07:59:56	Laura Siddall (GBR)	09:00:44
2019	Mike Phillips (NZL)	08:05:08	Jocelyn McCauley (USA)	08:53:10
2020	Joe Skipper (GBR)	07:54:17	Teresa Adam (NZL)	08:40:29
2021	Braden Currie (NZL)	07:57:12	Hannah Berry (NZL)	09:01:49

Last Race’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Braden Currie	NZL	00:47:29	04:23:46	02:40:46	07:57:12
2	Mike Phillips	NZL	00:47:48	04:23:28	02:49:51	08:06:38
3	Kyle Smith	NZL	00:46:32	04:23:48	02:51:39	08:08:53

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Hannah Berry	NZL	00:53:54	04:50:40	03:10:50	09:01:49
2	Rebecca Clarke	NZL	00:48:38	05:02:08	03:17:40	09:15:38
3	Emily McNaughtan	NZL	01:01:04	05:12:22	03:17:48	09:38:42

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	07:54:17	Joe Skipper	2020-03-07
Swim	overall	00:44:26	Dylan McNeice	2015-03-07
Bike	overall	04:12:07	Andrew Starykowicz	2019-03-02
Run	overall	02:40:04	Mike Phillips	2019-03-02
Total	female	08:40:29	Teresa Adam	2020-03-07
Swim	female	00:46:30	Monica Byrn	2005-05-03
Bike	female	04:36:11	Teresa Adam	2020-03-07
Run	female	02:55:34	Kristin Liepold	2019-03-02

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM New Zealand is 08:00.

Race Adjustments for IM New Zealand

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2005	31:31	00:28	-06:29	39:28	38	31:31	-01:28	-06:29	39:28
2007	13:54	01:31	05:44	05:53	24	22:43	00:29	-00:06	22:20
2008	11:35	02:08	05:10	04:09	36	19:00	01:06	01:41	16:14
2009	10:19	00:33	06:19	03:15	38	16:50	01:00	02:52	12:58
2010	09:23	01:37	03:24	04:18	22	15:21	01:09	02:58	11:14
2011	-04:07	00:50	-01:15	-03:11	24	12:06	01:00	02:16	08:50
2013	00:00	01:14	01:05	-01:50	24	10:22	00:58	02:05	07:19
2014	05:40	01:27	01:16	02:55	31 of 41	09:47	01:02	01:59	06:46
2015	05:53	01:32	01:24	03:24	22 of 27	09:21	01:03	01:55	06:24
2016	06:05	02:21	04:25	00:15	37 of 49	09:01	01:05	02:10	05:47
2017	-04:07	-02:45	-01:21	00:13	27 of 40	07:50	00:43	01:51	05:17
2018	09:43	01:15	06:59	02:12	28 of 34	07:59	00:42	02:16	05:01
2019	04:16	00:33	00:12	04:12	25 of 28	07:42	00:38	02:07	04:58
2020	08:51	00:24	08:11	00:53	27 of 30	07:47	00:34	02:33	04:40
2021	11:05	01:10	08:31	01:53	11	08:00	00:35	02:57	04:29

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM New Zealand has 2m+2f Pro Kona slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 100.000 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	1	Braden Currie	NZL	07:59:16	08:11:11	00:46:47	04:26:34	05:18:20	02:40:56	67% +4% -29% (16)
2	2	Sebastian Kienle	GER	08:00:47	08:08:37	00:51:00	04:16:48	05:12:48	02:47:59	76% +0% -24% (22)
3	6	Jan van Berkel (KQ)	SUI	08:02:48	08:25:27	00:48:40	04:27:24	05:21:04	02:41:44	23% +36% -41% (25)
4	3	Mike Phillips	NZL	08:07:58	08:22:39	00:47:38	04:29:10	05:21:47	02:46:11	64% +14% -21% (12)
5	5	Matt Burton	AUS	08:10:35	08:25:54	00:51:24	04:24:19	05:20:42	02:49:53	15% +26% -59% (20)
6	4	Cameron Brown	NZL	08:22:14	08:44:59	00:51:46	04:35:18	05:32:04	02:50:10	55% +1% -43% (60)
7	8	Simon Cochrane	NZL	08:32:38	08:46:34	00:48:22	04:45:16	05:38:38	02:54:00	85% +8% -6% (28)
8	12	Levi Hauwert	AUS	08:41:36	09:12:49	00:53:01	04:43:49	05:41:49	02:59:47	21% +44% -35% (3)
9	10	Lucas Duross	NZL	08:53:24	09:09:45	00:55:13	04:55:58	05:56:11	02:57:13	100% +0% -0% (2)
10	9	Jason Christie	NZL	09:39:01	10:02:31	01:07:36	04:50:17	06:02:53	03:36:08	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
	7	Matt Kerr	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)
	11	Scott Harpham	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)
	14	Michael Tong	NZL	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	23	Els Visser (KQ)	NED	09:04:56	09:11:22	00:57:29	04:59:03	06:01:32	03:03:24	62% +38% -0% (9)
2	24	Meredith Kessler	USA	09:05:35	09:28:20	00:51:15	05:03:00	05:59:16	03:06:19	47% +11% -42% (37)
3	21	Hannah Berry	NZL	09:07:13	09:26:43	00:53:50	04:59:02	05:57:52	03:09:21	100% +0% -0% (2)
4	22	Rebecca Clarke	NZL	09:12:39	09:26:01	00:49:12	05:04:15	05:58:26	03:14:13	63% +31% -5% (7)
5	27	Ai Ueda	JPN	09:42:13	09:55:52	00:57:34	05:32:45	06:35:19	03:06:54	100% +0% -0% (3)
6	26	Laura Armstrong	NZL	09:45:01	10:08:46	00:57:57	05:22:23	06:25:20	03:19:41	n/a (1 IM Pro race)
7	25	Jenny Fletcher	CAN	10:28:42	10:42:56	01:00:10	05:33:24	06:38:34	03:50:08	55% +0% -45% (6)
	28	Laura Wood	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

• Braden Currie: 41% (1-1)
• Jan van Berkel: 30% (2-1)
• Sebastian Kienle: 16% (5-1)
• Mike Phillips: 8% (11-1)
• Matt Burton: 4% (22-1)

Female Race Participants

• Els Visser: 33% (2-1)
• Hannah Berry: 29% (2-1)
• Meredith Kessler: 23% (3-1)
• Rebecca Clarke: 14% (6-1)

Kona Slots

The two Kona slots went to two Ironman rookies:

• 3rd place Kyle Smith (as both Braden Currie and Mike Philips had secured their slots in 2020)
• Winner Hannah Wells

Male Race Results

Photo: Braden crossing the finish line, credit Graeme Murray

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Braden Currie	NZL	00:47:29	04:23:46	02:40:46	07:57:12	-06:33	US$ 7,500
2	Mike Phillips	NZL	00:47:48	04:23:28	02:49:51	08:06:38	-06:38	US$ 5,000
3	Kyle Smith	NZL	00:46:32	04:23:48	02:51:39	08:08:53	n/a	US$ 3,750
4	Jack Moody	NZL	00:53:35	04:35:49	02:42:14	08:18:23	n/a	US$ 3,000
5	Ben Phillips	NZL	00:47:30	04:29:47	02:56:43	08:19:59	-00:06	US$ 2,000
6	Simon Cochrane	NZL	00:47:34	04:39:07	02:52:09	08:24:39	-15:18	US$ 1,500
7	Lucas Duross	NZL	00:54:13	04:49:14	03:00:27	08:51:26	n/a	US$ 1,250

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Hannah Wells	NZL	00:53:54	04:50:40	03:10:50	09:01:49	n/a	US$ 7,500
2	Rebecca Clarke	NZL	00:48:38	05:02:08	03:17:40	09:15:38	-38:26	US$ 5,000
3	Emily McNaughtan	NZL	01:01:04	05:12:22	03:17:48	09:38:42	n/a	US$ 3,750
4	Melanie Burke	NZL	01:09:10	05:18:16	03:29:56	10:05:12	35:01	US$ 3,000

Update February 28th: After new Covid cases, New Zealand is tightening their restrictions. Unfortunately, this means that IM New Zealand can’t take place as planned on March 6th (more details on IM New Zealand’s Facebook page). I will update once a new date has been set.

Update March 3rd: A new date has been set for March 27. I have left the field as was announced for March 6th, there may be some changes in the next few days.

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
1999	Timothy DeBoom (USA)	08:32:41	Melissa Spooner (CAN)	09:20:14
2000	Thomas Hellriegel (GER)	08:22:46	Lisa Bentley (CAN)	09:28:14
2001	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:24:28	Lisa Bentley (CAN)	09:36:17
2002	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:32:54	Karyn Ballance (NZL)	09:27:33
2003	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:22:05	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:17:56
2004	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:30:30	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:22:24
2005	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:20:15	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:30:14
2006	Ain-Alar Juhanson (EST)	03:31:05	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	04:10:32
2007	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:26:33	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:20:02
2008	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:24:49	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:16:00
2009	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:18:05	Gina Crawford (NZL)	09:18:26
2010	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:21:52	Joanna Lawn (NZL)	09:14:35
2011	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:31:07	Samantha Warriner (NZL)	09:28:24
2012	Marino Vanhoenacker (BEL)	03:55:03	Meredith Kessler (USA)	04:22:46
2013	Bevan Docherty (NZL)	08:15:35	Meredith Kessler (USA)	09:17:10
2014	Marko Albert (EST)	08:17:33	Meredith Kessler (USA)	09:08:46
2015	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:22:13	Meredith Kessler (USA)	09:05:45
2016	Cameron Brown (NZL)	08:07:58	Meredith Kessler (USA)	08:56:08
2017	Braden Currie (NZL)	08:20:58	Jocelyn McCauley (USA)	09:09:47
2018	Terenzo Bozzone (NZL)	07:59:56	Laura Siddall (GBR)	09:00:44
2019	Mike Phillips (NZL)	08:05:08	Jocelyn McCauley (USA)	08:53:10
2020	Joe Skipper (GBR)	07:54:17	Teresa Adam (NZL)	08:40:29

Last Race’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Joe Skipper	GBR	00:51:58	04:13:02	02:43:06	07:54:17
2	Mike Phillips	NZL	00:47:37	04:23:04	02:45:24	08:01:27
3	Braden Currie	NZL	00:47:37	04:27:01	02:44:35	08:04:36

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Teresa Adam	NZL	00:50:25	04:36:11	03:05:18	08:40:29
2	Meredith Kessler	USA	00:52:26	04:52:41	03:04:52	08:56:03
3	Judith Corachan Vaquera	ESP	00:52:38	05:00:03	03:04:43	09:03:21

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	07:54:17	Joe Skipper	2020-03-07
Swim	overall	00:44:26	Dylan McNeice	2015-03-07
Bike	overall	04:12:07	Andrew Starykowicz	2019-03-02
Run	overall	02:40:04	Mike Phillips	2019-03-02
Total	female	08:40:29	Teresa Adam	2020-03-07
Swim	female	00:46:30	Monica Byrn	2005-05-03
Bike	female	04:36:11	Teresa Adam	2020-03-07
Run	female	02:55:34	Kristin Liepold	2019-03-02

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM New Zealand is 07:47.

Race Adjustments for IM New Zealand

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2007	13:54	02:18	05:44	05:53	24	22:43	00:29	-00:06	22:20
2008	11:35	02:17	05:10	04:09	36	19:00	01:06	01:41	16:14
2009	10:19	00:45	06:19	03:15	38	16:50	01:00	02:52	12:58
2010	09:23	01:42	03:24	04:18	22	15:21	01:09	02:58	11:14
2011	-04:07	00:18	-01:15	-03:11	24	12:06	01:00	02:16	08:50
2013	00:00	00:45	01:05	-01:50	24	10:22	00:58	02:05	07:19
2014	05:40	01:30	01:16	02:55	31 of 41	09:47	01:02	01:59	06:46
2015	05:53	01:05	01:24	03:24	22 of 27	09:21	01:03	01:55	06:24
2016	06:05	01:26	04:25	00:15	37 of 49	09:01	01:05	02:10	05:47
2017	-04:07	-03:00	-01:21	00:13	27 of 40	07:50	00:43	01:51	05:17
2018	09:43	00:34	06:59	02:12	28 of 34	07:59	00:42	02:16	05:01
2019	04:16	-00:08	00:12	04:12	25 of 28	07:42	00:38	02:07	04:58
2020	08:51	-00:12	08:11	00:53	27 of 30	07:47	00:34	02:33	04:40

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM New Zealand has 1m+1f Pro Kona slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 50.000 US$, paying 8 deep. (When the race calendar was first announced for 2021, there were also 2 “unassigned” slots, but considering the small and local character of the fields, these will no longer be awarded.)

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	Overall
1	2	Braden Currie (KQ)	NZL	08:05:07	08:13:33	00:46:43	04:31:04	05:22:47	02:42:20	66% +11% -23% (12)	4
2	1	Mike Phillips (KQ)	NZL	08:05:36	08:23:15	00:47:26	04:29:34	05:22:00	02:43:36	40% +24% -36% (10)	10
3	3	Cameron Brown	NZL	08:15:42	08:36:00	00:51:03	04:33:54	05:29:57	02:45:45	48% +2% -50% (55)	18
4	4	Ben Phillips	NZL	08:24:15	08:45:49	00:47:09	04:37:25	05:29:35	02:54:40	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(22)
5	7	Olly Shaw	NZL	08:31:59	08:53:53	00:51:20	04:44:18	05:40:38	02:51:21	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(25)
6	6	Simon Cochrane	NZL	08:37:43	08:50:18	00:48:58	04:46:12	05:40:10	02:57:33	81% +11% -8% (27)	23
	5	Kyle Smith	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	8	Jack Moody	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	9	Lucas Duross	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)

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	Overall
1	21	Rebecca Clarke	NZL	09:33:01	10:17:38	00:48:59	05:10:12	06:04:11	03:28:50	43% +0% -57% (2)	(20)
2	22	Melanie Burke	NZL	09:37:17	09:42:36	01:06:14	05:05:22	06:16:36	03:20:41	63% +8% -28% (20)	10
	20	Hannah Wells	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	23	Emily Mcnaughtan	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

• Mike Phillips: 49% (1-1)
• Braden Currie: 39% (2-1)
• Cameron Brown: 7% (13-1)

Kyle Smith is unbeaten in five races on the 70.3 distance, beating Braden Currie in the last three ones. With his swim and bike strength you can expect him to be at (or close to) the front, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens on the run.

Female Race Participants

• Melanie Burke: 46% (1-1)
• Rebecca Clarke: 34% (2-1)

As on the men’s side, an “Iron rookie” is likely to play a big role in the race: Hannah Wells has shown great performances on the half distance and is stepping up to the full in Taupo.

Kona Slots and Prize Money

IM New Zealand has 1m+1f +2u Pro Kona slots. It has a total prize purse of 50.000 US$, paying 8 deep.

Male Race Participants

Name	Nation
Cameron Brown	NZL
Simon Cochrane	NZL
Lucas Duross	NZL
Mike Phillips (KQ)	NZL
Olly Shaw	NZL
Kyle Smith	NZL

Female Race Participants

Name	Nation
Teresa Adam (KQ)	NZL
Melanie Burke	NZL
Rebecca Clarke	NZL
Emily Mcnaughtan	NZL
Hannah Wells	NZL