IM Switzerland

Updates:

• August 18th: Added Emma Bilham, Petra Eggenschwiler, Kristin Liepold, Joanna Ryter (WPRO),
  Igor Amorelli, Philipp Bahlke, Thomas Bosch, Kyle Buckingham, Matteo Fontana, Adrian Haller, Andreas Jung, Joachim Krauth, Arnaud Margot, Gwenael Ouilleres, Kevin Rundstadler, Paul Schuster, Jan van Berkel (MPRO),
  Melanie McQuaid and Matthew De Vroet are no longer on the latest entry list.

Kona Slots and Prize Money

IM Switzerland has 2m+2f Pro Kona 2022 slots. It has a total prize purse of 100.000 US$, paying 10 deep.

Male Race Participants

Name	Nation
Igor Amorelli	BRA
Philipp Bahlke	GER
Daniel Besse	SUI
Jean-Claude Besse	SUI
Thomas Bosch	GER
Christian Brader	GER
Kyle Buckingham	ZAF
Vinicius Canhedo	BRA
Edwin Dasselaar	NED
Matthew De Vroet	AUS
Alessandro Degasperi	ITA
Lorenzo Delco	SUI
Arne Devliegher	BEL
Benjamin Dicke	GER
Matteo Fontana	ITA
Rodrigo Romero Garcia de la Cadena	MEX
Adrian Haller	SUI
Kristian Hogenhaug	DEN
Samuel Huerzeler	SUI
Andreas Jung	GER
Philipp Koutny	SUI
Joachim Krauth	GER
Arnaud Margot	SUI
William Mennesson	FRA
Jesper Nybo Riis	DEN
Tom Oosterdijk	NED
Gwenael Ouilleres	FRA
David Plese	SLO
Ger Redmond	IRL
Kevin Rundstadler	FRA
Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI
Stefan Schumacher	GER
Paul Schuster	GER
Hans Christian Tungesvik	NOR
Jan van Berkel	SUI
Timothy Van Houtem	BEL
Thiago Vinhal	BRA
Ruedi Wild	SUI
Cameron Wurf	AUS

Female Race Participants

Name	Nation
Palmira Alvarez	MEX
Emma Bilham	SUI
Charlene Clavel	FRA
Chantal Cummings	GBR
Petra Eggenschwiler	SUI
Leanne Fanoy	NED
Kristin Liepold	GER
Melanie McQuaid	CAN
Angela Naeth	CAN
Joanna Ryter	SUI
Alexandra Tondeur	BEL

Course Conditions

The last edition of IM Switzerland on the Zürich course was slow all around: A non-wetsuit swim followed by some rain during the bike plus the “normal” slow run course didn’t allow any new course records.

Kona Qualifying

IM Switzerland has two male Kona Pro slots. These go to

• Jan van Berkel
  and
• Cyril Viennot.

Second-place finisher Sven Riederer declined his slot at the awards ceremony.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money
1	Jan van Berkel	SUI	00:51:38	04:35:14	02:46:41	08:17:04	-11:35	US$ 12,000
2	Sven Riederer	SUI	00:51:44	04:34:50	02:53:21	08:24:07	-16:29	US$ 6,000
3	Cyril Viennot	FRA	00:51:50	04:35:49	02:59:36	08:31:03	-03:25	US$ 4,000
4	Damien Collins	AUS	00:58:08	04:43:11	02:49:03	08:34:43	-31:47	US$ 2,750
5	Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI	00:55:42	04:38:17	02:59:37	08:37:53	07:47	US$ 2,000
6	Christian Kramer	GER	00:51:40	04:35:18	03:07:30	08:38:11	01:28	US$ 1,500
7	Samuel Huerzeler	SUI	00:55:40	04:42:30	02:55:55	08:39:29	-01:09	US$ 1,000
8	Kevin Portmann	FRA	00:58:12	04:43:43	03:06:02	08:52:24	n/a	US$ 750
9	Fabian Rahn	GER	01:05:37	04:48:24	02:56:48	08:55:44	06:43
10	Zsombor Deak	ROM	00:58:21	05:11:45	03:03:58	09:19:07	-27:00
11	Jan Sneberger	CZE	00:58:20	05:03:53	03:17:23	09:24:30	n/a
12	Shen-Yen Hsieh	TWN	00:51:49	05:13:01	03:56:36	10:07:55	1:00:48
13	Lukas Polan	CZE	01:09:08	05:30:53	03:35:52	10:25:17	21:35
	Ivan Rana	ESP	00:51:52	04:51:12		DNF
	Hannes Cool	BEL	00:58:15	05:13:49		DNF
	Ruedi Wild	SUI	00:51:47			DNF
	Vincent Morizot	FRA	00:58:10			DNF
	Michael Ruenz	GER	00:58:11			DNF
	Kaito Tohara	JPN	00:59:51			DNF
	Marek Nemcik	SVK	01:22:03			DNF

Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2005	Christoph Mauch (SUI)	08:21:48	Karin Thuerig (SUI)	09:10:51
2006	Stefan Riesen (SUI)	08:16:50	Rebecca Preston (AUS)	09:24:18
2007	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:24:58	Rebecca Preston (AUS)	09:20:40
2008	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:16:05	Sibylle Matter (SUI)	09:30:12
2009	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:20:00	Sibylle Matter (SUI)	09:14:35
2010	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:12:40	Karin Thuerig (SUI)	09:00:04
2011	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:19:51	Karin Thuerig (SUI)	09:03:26
2012	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:17:13	Erika Csomor (HUN)	09:20:16
2013	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:33:39	Anja Ippach (GER)	09:21:31
2014	Boris Stein (GER)	08:33:02	Daniela Ryf (SUI)	09:13:30
2015	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:21:19	Beth McKenzie (USA)	09:21:05
2016	Ronnie Schildknecht (SUI)	08:17:04	Daniela Ryf (SUI)	08:51:50
2017	Nick Kastelein (AUS)	08:13:28	Celine Schaerer (SUI)	09:23:02
2018	Jan van Berkel (SUI)	08:09:18	Kaisa Sali (FIN)	09:06:01

Last Race’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Jan van Berkel	SUI	00:50:25	04:29:50	02:45:18	08:09:18
2	David Plese	SLO	00:51:44	04:19:04	02:57:38	08:13:27
3	Cameron Wurf	AUS	00:56:11	04:14:52	02:58:58	08:14:13

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Kaisa Sali	FIN	00:57:20	04:53:59	03:08:42	09:06:01
2	Skye Moench	USA	00:57:16	04:57:11	03:15:09	09:14:36
3	Annabel Luxford	AUS	00:55:12	04:57:54	03:18:34	09:16:55

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	08:09:18	Jan van Berkel	2018-07-29
Swim	overall	00:45:29	Benjamin Sanson	2005-07-15
Bike	overall	04:14:52	Cameron Wurf	2018-07-29
Run	overall	02:41:58	Clemente Alonso McKernan	2011-07-10
Total	female	08:51:50	Daniela Ryf	2016-07-24
Swim	female	00:51:23	Celine Schaerer	2014-07-27
Bike	female	04:43:53	Karin Thuerig	2010-07-25
Run	female	03:00:27	Lisa Roberts	2018-07-29
Run	female	03:00:27	Kristin Liepold	2014-07-27

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Switzerland is 05:36.

Race Adjustments for IM Switzerland

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Finishers	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2005	-06:34	01:00	02:21	-09:54	42	-06:34	01:00	02:21	-09:54
2006	13:37	02:17	07:32	03:48	35	03:31	01:38	04:56	-03:02
2007	19:38	00:14	15:31	03:54	35	08:54	01:10	08:28	-00:43
2008	12:22	00:52	06:35	04:56	30 of 40	09:46	01:05	07:59	00:42
2009	16:32	00:16	10:40	05:36	37	11:07	00:55	08:31	01:41
2010	08:54	-00:36	06:22	03:08	30 of 38	10:45	00:40	08:10	01:55
2011	10:55	-01:24	04:38	07:42	20	10:46	00:22	07:39	02:45
2012	08:20	-01:59	06:43	03:36	31	10:28	00:05	07:32	02:51
2013	-08:16	-04:48	03:05	-06:33	38	08:23	-00:28	07:02	01:49
2014	-02:13	-03:38	04:14	-02:49	28 of 36	07:19	-00:47	06:45	01:21
2015	-03:54	-02:21	02:18	-03:52	24 of 38	06:18	-00:55	06:21	00:53
2016	02:17	-03:21	06:45	-01:06	30 of 46	05:58	-01:07	06:23	00:43
2017	03:14	-00:26	04:04	-00:23	22 of 27	05:45	-01:04	06:12	00:38
2018	03:35	-02:37	06:04	00:09	35 of 43	05:36	-01:11	06:12	00:36

Kona Slots and Prize Money

IM Switzerland has 2 Pro Kona slots. It has a total prize purse of 30.000 US$, paying 8 deep.

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 32% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency	Overall
1	2	Cameron Wurf (KQ)	AUS	08:13:48	08:21:11	00:52:30	04:15:16	05:12:47	03:01:01	81% +15% -4% (18)	18
2	1	Jan van Berkel	SUI	08:15:52	08:25:40	00:49:27	04:31:12	05:25:39	02:50:13	78% +10% -12% (19)	34
3	4	Ruedi Wild	SUI	08:17:28	08:21:14	00:49:52	04:32:50	05:27:42	02:49:46	84% +9% -7% (7)	19
4	6	David Plese (KQ)	SLO	08:18:03	08:30:18	00:52:31	04:26:28	05:24:00	02:54:03	79% +3% -18% (30)	49
5	3	Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI	08:18:47	08:32:03	00:53:32	04:30:04	05:28:36	02:50:11	62% +0% -38% (37)	54
6	8	Philipp Koutny (KQ)	SUI	08:19:20	08:28:40	00:50:21	04:28:07	05:23:28	02:55:52	34% +37% -29% (13)	44
7	7	Ivan Rana	ESP	08:20:49	08:32:25	00:49:06	04:37:05	05:31:11	02:49:38	66% +1% -33% (19)	56
8	34	Cyril Viennot	FRA	08:23:42	08:36:31	00:51:47	04:32:20	05:29:06	02:54:36	48% +4% -48% (26)	62
9	11	Andreas Giglmayr	AUT	08:25:13	08:53:54	00:48:30	04:25:58	05:19:28	03:05:45	10% +0% -90% (3)	(125)
10	5	Sven Riederer	SUI	08:25:45	08:47:59	00:49:21	04:29:49	05:24:09	03:01:36	25% +38% -37% (3)	(101)
11	41	Christian Kramer	GER	08:25:57	08:38:44	00:49:59	04:30:03	05:25:02	03:00:55	51% +20% -29% (25)	72
12	31	Antony Costes *	FRA	08:26:02	08:49:34	00:49:35	04:29:01	05:23:36	03:02:26	25% +29% -47% (12)	108
13	32	Marc Duelsen	GER	08:26:08	08:29:19	00:52:51	04:31:14	05:29:05	02:57:03	79% +0% -21% (14)	46
14	29	Giulio Molinari	ITA	08:27:30	08:30:58	00:49:34	04:29:00	05:23:33	03:03:57	84% +0% -16% (8)	51
15	38	Igor Amorelli *	BRA	08:28:48	08:38:26	00:48:40	04:29:12	05:22:53	03:05:55	49% +6% -45% (21)	70
16	13	Samuel Huerzeler *	SUI	08:29:47	08:42:41	00:53:42	04:35:20	05:34:02	02:55:45	77% +23% -0% (13)	86
17	9	Roman Deisenhofer *	GER	08:31:29	08:44:06	00:52:58	04:29:39	05:27:37	03:03:52	26% +50% -23% (11)	88
18	14	Marcus Herbst	GER	08:32:27	08:50:52	00:51:52	04:31:49	05:28:41	03:03:46	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(112)
19	30	Michael Ruenz	GER	08:34:22	08:51:39	00:56:14	04:39:19	05:40:33	02:53:49	39% +12% -49% (17)	114
20	33	Andrej Vistica *	CRO	08:34:49	08:38:36	00:56:48	04:38:03	05:39:51	02:54:58	95% +0% -5% (19)	71
21	15	Trevor Delsaut	FRA	08:37:40	09:04:58	00:53:33	04:42:20	05:40:53	02:56:47	17% +9% -74% (32)	(158)
22	37	Christian Haupt	GER	08:42:02	08:55:36	00:55:32	04:41:29	05:42:01	03:00:01	100% +0% -0% (2)	(131)
23	40	Fabian Rahn	GER	08:42:22	08:51:03	01:01:10	04:40:48	05:46:57	02:55:25	62% +0% -38% (5)	112
24	28	Kaito Tohara	JPN	08:42:29	08:53:09	00:54:19	04:46:44	05:46:02	02:56:27	38% +31% -31% (12)	122
25	10	Reece Barclay	GBR	08:42:30	08:56:08	00:49:10	04:46:43	05:40:53	03:01:37	56% +0% -44% (2)	(133)
26	39	Daniel Niederreiter	AUT	08:47:21	09:00:11	00:53:15	04:42:15	05:40:30	03:06:51	48% +0% -52% (18)	(141)
27	23	Guy Crawford	NZL	08:52:27	09:10:21	00:51:09	04:33:15	05:29:24	03:23:03	43% +25% -32% (16)	(175)
28	24	Hannes Cool *	BEL	08:55:57	09:18:04	00:53:50	04:47:22	05:46:12	03:09:45	33% +18% -49% (9)	(199)
29	26	Vicenc Castella Serra *	ESP	08:58:19	09:06:44	00:58:41	04:54:01	05:57:43	03:00:36	100% +0% -0% (3)	164
30	27	Vinicius Canhedo	BRA	09:00:09	09:12:44	00:54:22	04:48:07	05:47:29	03:12:40	11% +53% -36% (6)	181
31	25	Damien Collins	AUS	09:00:27	09:19:52	00:55:50	04:55:27	05:56:17	03:04:10	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(202)
32	20	Shen-Yen Hsieh	TWN	09:00:31	09:25:32	00:51:10	04:49:34	05:45:45	03:14:46	48% +0% -52% (2)	(211)
33	42	Till Schramm	GER	09:05:08	09:17:43	00:56:08	04:47:03	05:48:11	03:16:57	74% +12% -14% (11)	197
34	18	Vincent Morizot	FRA	09:07:16	09:26:56	00:54:48	04:41:41	05:41:28	03:25:48	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(215)
35	22	Gerhard De Bruin	ZAF	09:13:52	09:29:23	00:56:22	04:57:25	05:58:47	03:15:05	84% +16% -0% (7)	219
36	36	Zsombor Deak	ROM	09:24:51	09:48:34	00:59:23	05:08:03	06:12:26	03:12:25	42% +41% -17% (5)	(239)
37	35	Lukas Polan	CZE	09:40:43	09:59:11	01:03:16	05:10:15	06:18:31	03:22:12	40% +11% -50% (18)	244
38	16	Marek Nemcik *	SVK	11:15:26	12:08:13	01:14:09	05:32:56	06:52:05	04:23:21	35% +13% -52% (52)	257
	17	Kevin Portmann	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	19	Florian Kandutsch	AUT	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	21	Jan Sneberger	CZE	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

• Cameron Wurf: 29% (2-1)
• Jan van Berkel: 27% (3-1)
• David Plese: 14% (6-1)
• Philipp Koutny: 9% (10-1)
• Ruedi Wild: 7% (14-1)
• Ronnie Schildknecht: 5% (18-1)
• Antony Costes: 4% (26-1)
• Ivan Rana: 2% (44-1)
• Cyril Viennot: 2% (50-1)

Updates:

• June 25th: Added Antony Costes, Marc Duelsen, Giulio Molinari, Michael Ruenz, Kaito Tohara, Cyril Viennot,  Andrej Vistica

Kona Slots and Prize Money

IM Switzerland has 2 Pro Kona slots. It has a total prize purse of 30.000 US$, paying 8 deep.

Male Race Participants

Name	Nation
Reece Barclay	GBR
Vinicius Canhedo	BRA
Vicenc Castella Serra	ESP
Damien Collins	AUS
Hannes Cool	BEL
Antony Costes	FRA
Guy Crawford	NZL
Gerhard De Bruin	ZAF
Roman Deisenhofer	GER
Trevor Delsaut	FRA
Marc Duelsen	GER
Andreas Giglmayr	AUT
Marcus Herbst	GER
Shen-Yen Hsieh	TWN
Samuel Huerzeler	SUI
Florian Kandutsch	AUT
Philipp Koutny	SUI
Giulio Molinari	ITA
Vincent Morizot	FRA
Marek Nemcik	SVK
David Plese (KQ)	SLO
Kevin Portmann	FRA
Ivan Rana	ESP
Sven Riederer	SUI
Michael Ruenz	GER
Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI
Jan Sneberger	CZE
Kaito Tohara	JPN
Jan van Berkel	SUI
Cyril Viennot	FRA
Andrej Vistica	CRO
Ruedi Wild	SUI
Cameron Wurf (KQ)	AUS

Course Conditions

As usual, IM Switzerland was relatively slow (overall adjustment of 3:36 compared to a course rating of 5;37). This year, however, the conditions seemed to be conducive to a fast bike (adjustment of 9:03 with a bike course rating of 5:41).

A number of course records were set: Jan Van Berkel set a new overall course record of 8:09:18, improving Ronnie Schildknecht’s 8:12 from 2010. Cameron Wurf set a new bike course record (4:14, erasing the 2006 time by Stefan Riesen), and Lisa Roberts exactly matched the run course record by Kristin Moeller from 2014.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Jan van Berkel	SUI	00:50:25	04:29:50	02:45:18	08:09:18	-15:25	US$ 8,000	2000
2	David Plese	SLO	00:51:44	04:19:04	02:57:38	08:13:27	-12:38	US$ 4,000	1600
3	Cameron Wurf	AUS	00:56:11	04:14:52	02:58:58	08:14:13	-10:05	US$ 3,000	1280
4	Mike Phillips	NZL	00:50:30	04:29:46	02:53:26	08:17:36	-01:24	US$ 2,500	960
5	Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI	00:54:54	04:30:58	02:51:31	08:21:52	-02:15	US$ 1,500	720
6	Jeremy Jurkiewicz	FRA	00:50:28	04:29:41	03:00:06	08:24:09	-07:28	US$ 1,000	540
7	Sven Riederer	SUI	00:50:33	04:29:39	03:00:39	08:24:53	-21:09		405
8	Samuel Huerzeler	SUI	00:54:51	04:34:56	02:55:04	08:29:34	-10:22		305
9	Julian Mutterer	GER	00:54:54	04:35:14	02:56:32	08:30:37	-28:31		230
10	Miquel Blanchart Tinto	ESP	00:54:46	04:45:52	02:49:10	08:34:09	02:15		170
11	Julian Beuchert	GER	00:51:46	04:45:27	03:09:00	08:52:44	-06:21		120
12	Urs Mueller	SUI	00:54:50	04:45:40	03:10:41	08:55:30	-11:29		85
13	Marco Iseli	SUI	00:59:03	04:44:34	03:09:51	08:59:42	-20:25		60
14	Daniel Besse	SUI	00:50:28	04:51:44	03:17:39	09:04:31	n/a		40
15	Simon Schwarz	GER	00:59:11	04:45:37	03:21:10	09:10:13	18:32		30
16	Karl-Johan Danielsson	SWE	00:54:43	04:46:44	03:24:52	09:11:20	19:19		20
17	Balazs Csoke	HUN	00:50:26	04:55:20	03:24:55	09:15:44	14:16		15
18	Jean-Claude Besse	SUI	00:54:56	05:00:35	03:19:49	09:20:02	n/a		10
19	Anthony Cadario	FRA	00:59:01	05:05:21	03:17:36	09:26:19	n/a		8
20	Oliver Gonzalez Miranda	MEX	00:54:48	05:22:22	03:12:46	09:35:05	13:33		5
21	Felipe Santos	BRA	00:51:43	04:42:06	03:57:38	09:36:37	45:01		3
22	Cyril Pochon	FRA	00:54:41	05:06:56	03:51:41	09:59:23	-16:19		3
	Philipp Koutny	SUI	00:51:39	04:28:38		DNF
	Alexander Chikin	RUS	00:58:56	04:35:37		DNF
	Johann Ackermann	GER	00:50:27	04:49:29		DNF
	Bekim Christensen	DEN	01:06:02	04:41:54		DNF
	Davide Rossetti	ITA	00:59:02	04:55:40		DNF

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Kaisa Sali	FIN	00:57:20	04:53:59	03:08:42	09:06:01	05:07	US$ 8,000	2000
2	Skye Moench	USA	00:57:16	04:57:11	03:15:09	09:14:36	-40:51	US$ 4,000	1600
3	Annabel Luxford	AUS	00:55:12	04:57:54	03:18:34	09:16:55	-04:39	US$ 3,000	1280
4	Lisa Roberts	USA	01:05:11	05:12:05	03:00:27	09:23:31	01:27	US$ 2,500	960
5	Elisabeth Gruber	AUT	01:05:43	05:01:19	03:16:31	09:28:25	01:10	US$ 1,500	720
6	Nina Derron	SUI	00:59:33	05:07:29	03:20:31	09:31:50	n/a	US$ 1,000	540
7	Melanie Burke	NZL	01:15:48	05:06:04	03:11:47	09:38:51	01:22		405
8	Corina Hengartner	SUI	01:02:44	05:12:41	03:22:34	09:43:32	-09:35		305
9	Federica De Nicola	ITA	01:02:41	05:05:37	03:32:42	09:47:06	n/a		230
10	Martina Kunz	SUI	00:59:59	05:04:11	03:49:23	09:59:42	21:03		170
11	Karen Schultheiss	SUI	01:32:24	05:15:10	03:26:38	10:19:16	n/a		120
12	Irene Coletto	ITA	01:18:02	05:26:04	03:38:21	10:28:02	n/a		85
13	Carla Van Rooijen	NED	01:19:56	05:29:33	03:52:23	10:47:22	30:17		60
	Sara Svensk	SWE	00:59:32	05:09:14		DNF
	Lina-Kristin Schink	GER	01:12:28	05:17:57		DNF
	Regula Rohrbach	SUI	00:59:56			DNF

Kona Qualifying Implications

After Zürich, the following athletes are safe for a Kona slot:

• Annabel Luxford (just needed a finish)
• Jan van Berkel
• Mike Phillips
• David Please

Ronnie Schildknecht is also likely to receive a July slot, however he can still be overtaken by athletes racing in Whistler.

Before the race, Kaisa Sali, Lisa Roberts and Cameron Wurf were already safe.