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Ironman Sweden 2025 – Analyzing Results

2023 IM SwedenCourse Conditions

Once again, conditions in Sweden were very quick, especially on the bike. An adjustment of 27:24 is mainly a result of the fast bike course with a 25:04 adjustment this year. Compared to earlier years, this race was still a bit quicker than the course rating of 20:06.

Both Katrine and Marlene were quicker than last year’s course record set by Marlene, the new mark by Katrine is almost twelve minutes quicker. Marlene was a few seconds quicker than Katrine on the bike, she set a new bike course record by two and a half minutes over Corinne Abraham’s time from 2018(!). Hannah Munday missed the 2013 swim course record set by Jodie Swallow by just 19 seconds. 

Kona Qualifying

IM Sweden offered one Pro slot, this will be offered to

  • Marlene de Boer

In addition, Chelsea Sodaro validated her AQ slot. Winner Katrine Graesboell was already qualified. You can find all qualifiers here. Since Sweden was the last (female) qualifying race, I will also post the list of qualifiers in my “always up-to-date Kona startlist“.

Female Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to exp. Prize Money PTO Points
1 Katrine Graesboell Christensen DEN 00:55:48 (8) 04:31:59 (2) 02:56:06 (1) 08:27:49 -15:57 US$ 15,000 85.24
2 Marlene De Boer NED 00:51:21 (3) 04:31:55 (1) 03:05:52 (2) 08:33:02 -09:12 US$ 9,000 80.87
3 Chelsea Sodaro USA 00:48:53 (2) 04:40:44 (4) 03:11:23 (5) 08:45:42 28:52 US$ 7,000 74.14
4 Katharina Wolff GER 00:55:39 (6) 04:42:08 (5) 03:14:18 (7) 08:56:13 01:01 US$ 5,000 68.34
5 Lisa Gerss GER 00:55:43 (7) 04:50:28 (9) 03:07:53 (3) 08:58:04 04:49 US$ 4,000 65.70
6 Johanna Ahrens GER 00:53:43 (4) 04:43:58 (6) 03:20:58 (9) 09:02:28 -10:02 US$ 3,000 62.35
7 Heleen Moes NED 00:55:50 (9) 04:48:18 (8) 03:18:46 (8) 09:07:38 -07:54 US$ 2,500 58.87
8 Joeanna Nielsen DEN 00:55:36 (5) 04:51:22 (10) 03:22:01 (10) 09:12:40 xx:-53:31 US$ 2,000 55.58
9 Hannah Munday GBR 00:48:49 (1) 04:55:15 (11) 03:25:59 (14) 09:15:00 n/a US$ 1,500 53.35
10 Marie Ingerhed SWE 01:07:14 (16) 04:43:58 (6) 03:25:05 (12) 09:21:25 n/a US$ 1,000 49.81
11 Nicole Pelin SWE 01:01:31 (15) 05:05:09 (15) 03:13:11 (6) 09:24:18 -11:20   47.61
12 Camilla Elofsson SWE 01:11:00 (17) 04:56:31 (12) 03:11:10 (4) 09:25:12 n/a   46.18
13 Megan Tuncer USA 00:57:11 (11) 05:03:26 (14) 03:24:19 (11) 09:30:17 n/a   43.41
14 Caitlin Alexander USA 01:01:09 (13) 05:02:09 (13) 03:25:21 (13) 09:35:42 02:59   40.59
15 Helena Herrero Gomez ESP 01:01:12 (14) 05:17:53 (16) 03:26:57 (15) 09:52:47 -14:23   34.48
16 Baiba Medne LAT 00:59:16 (12) 05:27:56 (17) 03:28:59 (16) 10:00:33 n/a   33.68
  Nikki Bartlett GBR 00:55:53 (10) 04:37:56 (3)   DNF      

Ironman Sweden 2025 (Aug 16th) – Seedings

2023 IM SwedenPrevious Winners

Year Male Winner Time Female Winner Time
2012 Jan Raphael (GER) 08:04:01 Asa Lundstroem (SWE) 09:13:27
2013 Pedro Gomes (POR) 08:19:30 Jodie Cunnama (GBR) 08:54:01
2014 Horst Reichel (GER) 08:13:01 Leanda Cave (GBR) 08:56:50
2015 Patrik Nilsson (SWE) 08:08:05 Astrid Stienen (GER) 09:12:27
2016     Kristin Liepold (GER) 09:14:39
2017 Clemente Alonso McKernan (ESP) 08:07:48    
2018     Corinne Abraham (GBR) 08:45:06
2019 Boris Stein (GER) 07:49:14    
2022 Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 07:38:47    
2023     Lisa Norden (SWE) 08:47:02
2024     Marlene De Boer (NED) 08:39:31

Last Race’s TOP 3

Female Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Marlene De Boer NED 00:52:36 04:42:10 03:00:58 08:39:31
2 Katrine Graesboell Christensen DEN 00:58:22 04:39:47 02:59:43 08:41:27
3 Henrike Gueber GER 00:58:30 04:35:42 03:04:42 08:42:39

Course Records

Leg Gender Record Athlete Date
Total overall 07:38:47 Alistair Brownlee 2022-08-20
Swim overall 00:43:50 Alexander Berggren 2019-08-17
Bike overall 04:03:08 Boris Stein 2019-08-17
Run overall 02:40:46 Alistair Brownlee 2022-08-20
Total female 08:39:31 Marlene De Boer 2024-08-17
Swim female 00:48:30 Jodie Cunnama 2013-08-17
Bike female 04:34:32 Corinne Abraham 2018-08-18
Run female 02:55:09 Kristin Liepold 2016-08-20

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Sweden is 19:26.

Race Adjustments for IM Sweden

Year Adjustment Swim Adj. Bike Adj. Run Adj. # of Finishers Rating Swim Rating Bike Rating Run Rating
2012 32:30 00:38 22:49 09:03 29 32:30 00:38 22:49 09:03
2013 15:19 00:13 08:13 06:53 30 23:54 00:26 15:31 07:58
2014 15:08 00:10 08:28 06:31 24 of 27 20:59 00:21 13:10 07:29
2015 03:15 -02:44 03:11 02:48 19 of 21 16:33 -00:26 10:40 06:19
2016 25:15 -00:02 16:51 08:26 5 18:17 -00:21 11:55 06:44
2017 13:11 01:32 11:34 00:05 16 of 21 17:26 -00:02 11:51 05:38
2018 15:04 01:04 15:25 -01:24 10 of 12 17:06 00:07 12:21 04:38
2019 31:04 04:12 23:01 03:51 26 of 37 18:51 00:37 13:41 04:33
2022 23:08 02:01 21:18 -00:10 40 of 51 19:19 00:47 14:31 04:02
2023 17:54 -01:38 17:02 02:30 14 of 19 19:11 00:32 14:46 03:53
2024 21:59 02:16 18:47 00:56 11 of 13 19:26 00:41 15:08 03:37

Kona slots and Prize Money

IM Sweden has 1 Pro Kona slot. It has a total prize purse of 50.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

Female 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 4 Chelsea Sodaro (AQ) USA 08:23:47 08:43:31 00:51:16 04:37:41 05:33:58 02:49:49 75% +10% -15% (6)
2 5 Nikki Bartlett GBR 08:39:57 09:02:44 00:56:14 04:40:06 05:41:20 02:58:37 66% +21% -13% (16)
3 1 Marlene De Boer NED 08:43:48 09:13:45 00:53:56 04:43:39 05:42:35 03:01:13 79% +21% -0% (6)
4 7 Jocelyn McCauley (KQ) USA 08:44:42 09:03:08 00:52:15 04:36:47 05:34:02 03:10:40 60% +10% -31% (28)
5 3 Sara Svensk (KQ) SWE 08:46:30 09:12:42 00:58:27 04:39:16 05:42:43 03:03:47 43% +5% -52% (15)
6 2 Katrine Graesboell Christensen (KQ) DEN 08:47:05 09:09:33 01:00:41 04:43:31 05:49:11 02:57:54 100% +0% -0% (9)
7 8 Katharina Wolff GER 08:59:57 09:22:25 00:57:13 04:50:30 05:52:43 03:07:14 49% +34% -17% (11)
8 12 Lisa Gerss GER 09:03:05 09:37:33 00:58:18 04:58:22 06:01:40 03:01:25 n/a (1 IM Pro race)
9 9 Caterina Mariani SUI 09:14:49 09:50:01 01:10:20 04:48:52 06:04:13 03:10:36 n/a (1 IM Pro race)
10 6 Johanna Ahrens GER 09:15:39 09:45:50 00:55:41 04:52:42 05:53:23 03:22:16 73% +27% -0% (6)
11 10 Heleen Moes NED 09:23:08 09:55:04 01:06:07 04:57:26 06:08:33 03:14:35 51% +0% -49% (5)
12 15 Franzi Hofmann GER 09:41:03 10:31:55 00:54:34 05:03:06 06:02:40 03:38:23 25% +0% -75% (3)
13 14 Caitlin Alexander USA 09:42:13 10:14:02 01:02:37 05:16:05 06:23:42 03:18:31 60% +0% -40% (4)
14 20 Nicole Pelin SWE 09:45:26 10:22:36 01:11:49 05:18:21 06:35:09 03:10:17 n/a (1 IM Pro race)
15 22 Helena Herrero Gomez ESP 10:15:17 10:56:33 01:02:20 05:34:26 06:41:47 03:33:30 46% +0% -54% (14)
16 16 Joeanna Nielsen DEN 11:12:35 11:55:16 01:06:30 05:24:14 06:35:44 04:36:51 n/a (1 IM Pro race)
  11 Megan Tuncer USA n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)
  13 Hannah Munday GBR n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)
  17 Marie Ingerhed SWE n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)
  18 Camilla Elofsson SWE n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (1 IM Pro race)
  21 Baiba Medne LAT n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)

Winning Odds

Female Race Participants

  • Chelsea Sodaro: 56% (1-1)
  • Marlene De Boer: 22% (4-1)
  • Nikki Bartlett: 11% (8-1)
  • Katrine Graesboell Christensen: 6% (15-1)
  • Jocelyn McCauley: 2% (39-1)
  • Sara Svensk: 2% (52-1)

Ironman Sweden 2024 – Analyzing Results

2023 IM SwedenCourse Conditions

The course in Kalmar has always been fast, this year was no exception. The swim and bike were a little bit quicker than typical, the run maybe a bit slower. Overall, the adjustment of 21:59 was close to the course rating of 19:26. There were no new course records in the individual disciplines, but the top three women were under the 2018 course record from Corinne Abraham. The new mark by winner Marlene De Boer is five and a half minutes quicker.

Nice Qualifying

IM Sweden only had one Nice slot on offer – the last one for the 2024 qualifying season. This slot will be offered to

  • Henrike Gueber

The full list of qualifiers can be found here.

Female Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to exp. Prize Money PTO Points
1 Marlene De Boer NED 00:52:36 (2) 04:42:10 (5) 03:00:58 (2) 08:39:31 -15:28 US$ 15,000 73.80
2 Katrine Graesboell Christensen DEN 00:58:22 (4) 04:39:47 (3) 02:59:43 (1) 08:41:27 -10:39 US$ 9,000 70.57
3 Henrike Gueber GER 00:58:30 (9) 04:35:42 (1) 03:04:42 (3) 08:42:39 -15:50 US$ 7,000 67.80
4 Julia Skala GER 00:58:25 (6) 04:48:20 (7) 03:09:45 (4) 09:00:32 06:15 US$ 5,000 59.46
5 Line Borsinski DEN 00:58:22 (4) 04:47:57 (6) 03:14:04 (7) 09:04:38 -23:01 US$ 4,000 56.04
6 Laura Kessler SUI 01:08:47 (12) 04:41:54 (4) 03:14:02 (6) 09:10:49 n/a US$ 3,000 52.08
7 Chino Iwabuchi JPN 00:58:29 (8) 04:55:47 (9) 03:13:29 (5) 09:12:34 -32:59 US$ 2,500 49.79
8 Jenny Nae SWE 00:58:26 (7) 05:06:22 (10) 03:23:31 (8) 09:32:35 -00:50 US$ 2,000 41.32
9 Kristin Liepold GER 01:13:08 (13) 04:52:42 (8) 03:28:59 (9) 09:39:54 28:04 US$ 1,500 37.37
10 Jenny Nilsson SWE 00:59:24 (10) 05:14:01 (11) 03:54:48 (11) 10:13:37 18:49 US$ 1,000 34.58
11 Annika Timm GER 01:05:56 (11) 05:14:36 (12) 03:51:14 (10) 10:16:20 -05:20   33.38
  Mikaela Holmberg SWE 00:58:18 (3) 04:36:04 (2)   DNF      
  Franzi Reng GER 00:51:54 (1)     DNF      

Ironman Sweden 2024 (WPRO-only, Aug 17th) – Seedings

2023 IM SwedenPrevious Winners

Year Male Winner Time Female Winner Time
2012 Jan Raphael (GER) 08:04:01 Asa Lundstroem (SWE) 09:13:27
2013 Pedro Gomes (POR) 08:19:30 Jodie Cunnama (GBR) 08:54:01
2014 Horst Reichel (GER) 08:13:01 Leanda Cave (GBR) 08:56:50
2015 Patrik Nilsson (SWE) 08:08:05 Astrid Stienen (GER) 09:12:27
2016     Kristin Liepold (GER) 09:14:39
2017 Clemente Alonso McKernan (ESP) 08:07:48    
2018     Corinne Abraham (GBR) 08:45:06
2019 Boris Stein (GER) 07:49:14    
2022 Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 07:38:47    
2023     Lisa Norden (SWE) 08:47:02

Last Race’s TOP 3

Female Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Lisa Norden SWE 00:56:11 04:36:40 03:10:41 08:47:02
2 Justine Mathieux FRA 00:56:57 04:45:20 03:08:18 08:54:20
3 Susie Cheetham GBR 00:57:00 04:46:40 03:08:55 08:56:16

Male Race Results (2022)

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Alistair Brownlee GBR 00:44:38 04:09:53 02:40:46 07:38:47
2 Pieter Heemeryck BEL 00:44:53 04:09:49 02:47:45 07:46:38
3 Franz Loeschke GER 00:47:35 04:11:07 02:47:03 07:49:17

Course Records

Leg Gender Record Athlete Date
Total overall 07:38:47 Alistair Brownlee 2022-08-20
Swim overall 00:43:50 Alexander Berggren 2019-08-17
Bike overall 04:03:08 Boris Stein 2019-08-17
Run overall 02:40:46 Alistair Brownlee 2022-08-20
Total female 08:45:06 Corinne Abraham 2018-08-18
Swim female 00:48:30 Jodie Cunnama 2013-08-17
Bike female 04:34:32 Corinne Abraham 2018-08-18
Run female 02:55:09 Kristin Liepold 2016-08-20

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Sweden is 19:11.

Race Adjustments for IM Sweden

Year Adjustment Swim Adj. Bike Adj. Run Adj. # of Finishers Rating Swim Rating Bike Rating Run Rating
2012 32:30 00:41 22:49 09:03 29 32:30 00:38 22:49 09:03
2013 15:19 00:20 08:13 06:53 30 23:54 00:26 15:31 07:58
2014 15:08 -00:15 08:28 06:31 24 of 27 20:59 00:21 13:10 07:29
2015 03:15 -02:44 03:11 02:48 19 of 21 16:33 -00:26 10:40 06:19
2016 25:15 -00:39 16:51 08:26 5 18:17 -00:21 11:55 06:44
2017 13:11 01:51 11:34 00:05 16 of 21 17:26 -00:02 11:51 05:38
2018 15:04 01:49 15:25 -01:24 10 of 12 17:06 00:07 12:21 04:38
2019 31:04 04:41 23:01 03:51 26 of 37 18:51 00:37 13:41 04:33
2022 23:08 02:49 21:18 -00:10 40 of 51 19:19 00:47 14:31 04:02
2023 17:54 -01:21 17:02 02:30 14 of 19 19:11 00:32 14:46 03:53

Nice slots and Prize Money

IM Sweden has 1 Pro Nice slot. It has a total prize purse of 50.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

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 8 Katrine Graesboell
Christensen (NQ)		 DEN 08:54:16 09:18:52 01:02:28 04:49:50 05:57:18 02:56:58 100% +0% -0% (6)
2 3 Susie Cheetham (NQ) GBR 08:55:34 09:15:56 00:55:20 04:47:41 05:48:01 03:07:33 95% +0% -5% (19)
3 2 Marlene De Boer (NQ) NED 08:58:09 09:21:41 00:54:44 04:49:40 05:49:24 03:08:45 100% +0% -0% (4)
4 12 Barbara Riveros CHI 08:58:39 09:26:16 00:52:27 04:53:11 05:50:38 03:08:01 4% +33% -63% (3)
5 4 Henrike Gueber GER 08:59:48 09:31:01 01:04:22 04:45:27 05:54:49 03:04:59 55% +0% -45% (4)
6 5 Julia Skala GER 09:00:00 09:27:29 01:02:17 04:55:15 06:02:32 02:57:28 100% +0% -0% (2)
7 19 Alexandra Tondeur BEL 09:10:14 09:46:19 00:58:37 05:00:20 06:03:58 03:06:16 20% +1% -79% (16)
8 6 Kristin Liepold GER 09:11:16 09:41:12 01:06:59 04:57:55 06:09:53 03:01:23 57% +11% -32% (35)
9 9 Renee Kiley AUS 09:18:01 09:42:31 00:56:46 04:47:26 05:49:12 03:28:49 55% +10% -34% (19)
10 21 Line Borsinski DEN 09:31:31 09:55:44 01:03:07 04:58:27 06:06:34 03:24:57 63% +0% -37% (5)
11 7 Jenny Nae SWE 09:37:06 10:02:42 01:04:18 05:14:57 06:24:15 03:12:51 100% +0% -0% (9)
12 10 Chino Iwabuchi JPN 09:41:15 10:14:08 01:03:16 05:10:33 06:18:48 03:22:27 78% +22% -0% (4)
13 11 Franzi Reng GER 09:42:47 10:25:40 00:54:52 05:04:17 06:04:09 03:38:38 41% +0% -59% (2)
14 15 Melanie Baumann SUI 09:50:37 10:21:54 01:15:41 05:06:09 06:26:51 03:23:46 37% +21% -42% (11)
15 14 Olivia Dietzel USA 09:51:55 10:34:10 01:08:50 05:25:56 06:39:47 03:12:08 70% +14% -16% (8)
16 20 Jenny Nilsson SWE 09:53:28 10:25:59 01:07:01 05:15:25 06:27:26 03:26:02 66% +34% -0% (4)
17 17 Annika Timm GER 10:26:41 10:53:14 01:10:05 05:15:23 06:30:28 03:56:13 17% +0% -83% (5)
  16 Laura Kessler SUI n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)
  22 Mikaela Holmberg SWE n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (1 IM Pro race)

Winning Odds

Female Race Participants

  • Susie Cheetham: 35% (2-1)
  • Katrine Graesboell Christensen: 23% (3-1)
  • Julia Skala: 15% (5-1)
  • Marlene De Boer: 10% (9-1)
  • Barbara Riveros: 7% (14-1)
  • Henrike Gueber: 6% (15-1)

Ironman Sweden 2023 – Analyzing Results

2023 IM SwedenKona Qualifying

IM Sweden offered two female Kona Pro slots, these will go to 

  • Justine Mathieux
    and
  • Susie Cheetham

You can find the full list of qualifiers here.

Female Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to exp. Prize Money
1 Lisa Norden SWE 00:56:11 (1) 04:36:40 (1) 03:10:41 (8) 08:47:02 03:19 US$ 15,000
2 Justine Mathieux FRA 00:56:57 (2) 04:45:20 (4) 03:08:18 (4) 08:54:20 -08:25 US$ 9,000
3 Susie Cheetham GBR 00:57:00 (4) 04:46:40 (6) 03:08:55 (5) 08:56:16 -00:42 US$ 7,000
4 Laura Zimmermann GER 01:05:07 (7) 04:42:14 (2) 03:06:40 (3) 08:58:39 -07:32 US$ 5,000
5 Henrike Gueber GER 01:06:09 (10) 04:44:18 (3) 03:04:35 (2) 08:59:09 n/a US$ 4,000
6 Julia Skala GER 01:06:09 (10) 04:55:11 (10) 02:59:38 (1) 09:05:11 n/a US$ 3,000
7 Katharina Grohmann GER 01:06:19 (16) 04:48:21 (7) 03:09:18 (6) 09:07:42 -09:42 US$ 2,500
8 Laura Armstrong NZL 01:03:09 (6) 05:01:55 (12) 03:10:09 (7) 09:19:47 -27:10 US$ 2,000
9 Jenny Nae SWE 01:06:11 (13) 05:12:41 (15) 03:15:33 (10) 09:39:03 01:57 US$ 1,500
10 Chino Iwabuchi JPN 01:06:03 (8) 05:06:17 (14) 03:22:22 (11) 09:39:45 -18:09 US$ 1,000
11 Jamie Albert SUI 01:12:16 (19) 05:26:54 (18) 03:11:15 (9) 09:54:27 08:26  
12 Carolina Sandhofer AUT 01:06:12 (14) 05:20:00 (16) 03:29:31 (12) 10:01:36 n/a  
13 Maja Indermühle SUI 01:06:06 (9) 04:59:16 (11) 03:54:06 (14) 10:04:19 n/a  
14 Mirella Karlsson SWE 01:06:32 (17) 05:23:39 (17) 03:44:41 (13) 10:24:25 15:34  
  Michelle Vesterby DEN 00:56:57 (2) 04:50:45 (8)   DNF    
  Ewa Komander POL 01:02:10 (5) 04:45:56 (5)   DNF    
  Heini Hartikainen FIN 01:06:10 (12) 04:55:03 (9)   DNF    
  Camille Deligny FRA 01:06:14 (15) 05:01:55 (12)   DNF    
  Simone Mitchell GBR 01:09:27 (18)     DNF    
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