IM Switzerland

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.

Update July 24th: Removed a few athletes who have withdrawn (Andi Böcherer, Ruedi Wild, Andreas Giglmayr, Mitchell Kibby, and Barbara Riveros)

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 Beranek (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

Last Year’s TOP 3

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Nick Kastelein	AUS	00:48:18	04:31:13	02:50:24	08:13:28
2	Ruedi Wild	SUI	00:48:43	04:38:52	02:49:21	08:20:37
3	Jan van Berkel	SUI	00:48:45	04:36:42	02:58:01	08:26:51

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Celine Schaerer	SUI	00:51:45	05:11:00	03:15:36	09:23:02
2	Tine Holst	DEN	01:05:52	05:11:05	03:16:50	09:37:44
3	Martina Kunz	SUI	01:02:05	05:09:58	03:23:40	09:40:08

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	08:12:40	Ronnie Schildknecht	2010-07-25
Swim	overall	00:45:29	Benjamin Sanson	2005-07-15
Bike	overall	04:23:58	Stefan Riesen	2006-07-02
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	Kristin Moeller	2014-07-27

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Switzerland is 05:46.

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	01:11	03:25	-09:12	42	-06:34	01:11	03:25	-09:12
2006	13:38	01:59	06:01	02:44	35	03:32	01:35	04:43	-03:14
2007	19:39	-00:21	12:47	01:55	35	08:54	00:56	07:24	-01:31
2008	12:22	00:12	03:08	02:39	30 of 40	09:46	00:45	06:20	-00:29
2009	16:32	-00:11	08:33	04:06	37	11:07	00:34	06:47	00:26
2010	08:54	-00:32	06:45	03:19	30 of 38	10:45	00:23	06:47	00:55
2011	10:56	-01:55	02:05	06:03	20	10:47	00:03	06:06	01:39
2012	08:20	-02:34	03:50	01:39	31	10:28	-00:16	05:49	01:39
2013	-08:16	-04:44	03:28	-06:20	38	08:23	-00:46	05:34	00:46
2014	-02:13	-03:17	06:06	-01:38	28 of 36	07:20	-01:01	05:37	00:32
2015	-03:55	-02:25	01:59	-04:06	24 of 38	06:18	-01:09	05:17	00:06
2016	02:18	-03:20	06:56	-01:03	30 of 46	05:58	-01:20	05:25	00:01
2017	03:15	-00:10	05:34	00:33	22 of 27	05:46	-01:14	05:26	00:03

KPR points and Prize Money

IM Switzerland is a P-2000 race. It has a total prize purse of 40.000 US$, paying 6 deep.

Male Race Participants

The strength of the field is 14% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency	Overall
1	32	Andi Boecherer	GER	08:04:17	08:17:30	00:48:14	04:18:58	05:12:12	02:52:05	34% +26% -41% (16)	(8)
2	38	Mike Phillips	NZL	08:16:42	08:32:25	00:50:31	04:27:18	05:22:50	02:53:52	45% +23% -32% (4)	60
3	1	Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI	08:17:49	08:27:27	00:53:30	04:29:45	05:28:16	02:49:33	67% +0% -33% (35)	34
4	4	Ruedi Wild	SUI	08:18:13	08:23:16	00:49:30	04:34:58	05:29:28	02:48:45	82% +10% -8% (7)	21
5	2	Jan van Berkel	SUI	08:21:17	08:27:58	00:49:37	04:32:31	05:27:08	02:54:09	58% +27% -14% (18)	36
6	3	Cameron Wurf	AUS	08:22:25	08:27:35	00:51:35	04:17:06	05:13:41	03:08:44	69% +24% -7% (13)	35
7	5	Andreas Giglmayr	AUT	08:25:04	08:53:54	00:48:25	04:25:57	05:19:21	03:05:43	10% +0% -90% (3)	(133)
8	30	David Plese	SLO	08:25:11	08:29:22	00:54:00	04:33:46	05:32:46	02:52:25	84% +5% -11% (26)	44
9	8	Johann Ackermann *	GER	08:27:40	08:38:32	00:49:16	04:28:12	05:22:28	03:05:12	80% +0% -20% (11)	83
10	37	Jeremy Jurkiewicz	FRA	08:28:04	08:34:58	00:49:22	04:37:01	05:31:23	02:56:41	89% +0% -11% (16)	65
11	28	Miquel Blanchart Tinto *	ESP	08:30:39	08:35:19	00:50:27	04:44:34	05:40:01	02:50:38	89% +2% -9% (20)	68
12	7	Samuel Huerzeler	SUI	08:33:20	08:48:33	00:53:56	04:36:51	05:35:47	02:57:33	71% +29% -0% (12)	106
13	40	Philipp Koutny	SUI	08:34:22	08:46:18	00:51:59	04:34:31	05:31:29	03:02:53	64% +0% -36% (9)	98
14	27	Daniil Sapunov	UKR	08:37:13	08:50:03	00:49:24	04:42:10	05:36:34	03:00:39	73% +6% -21% (11)	112
15	10	Trevor Delsaut	FRA	08:37:31	08:48:56	00:53:27	04:42:20	05:40:46	02:56:45	25% +13% -61% (30)	107
16	36	Sven Riederer	SUI	08:46:22	09:10:53	00:50:22	04:33:30	05:28:52	03:17:30	41% +0% -59% (2)	(193)
17	31	Karl-Johan Danielsson	SWE	08:46:39	09:01:03	00:52:33	04:35:04	05:32:37	03:14:02	48% +16% -36% (17)	159
18	35	Daniel Niederreiter	AUT	08:47:12	08:54:50	00:53:09	04:42:14	05:40:23	03:06:49	64% +0% -36% (17)	136
19	14	Felipe Santos	BRA	08:48:53	09:06:12	00:49:02	04:49:57	05:43:59	03:04:54	38% +62% -0% (2)	(175)
20	24	Simon Schwarz	GER	08:52:17	09:11:34	00:54:54	04:47:26	05:47:20	03:04:57	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(194)
21	39	Mitchell Kibby	AUS	08:56:14	09:15:40	00:49:48	04:56:10	05:50:58	03:05:16	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(203)
22	26	Balazs Csoke	HUN	08:56:25	09:05:10	00:49:04	04:53:33	05:47:37	03:08:48	41% +6% -53% (30)	172
23	23	Julian Mutterer	GER	08:56:50	09:07:57	00:53:20	04:52:34	05:50:54	03:05:56	47% +0% -53% (4)	181
24	25	Alexander Chikin	RUS	08:57:40	09:10:35	00:56:20	04:42:59	05:44:20	03:13:20	100% +0% -0% (2)	(191)
25	6	Mike Schifferle	SUI	08:59:05	09:19:47	01:01:14	04:45:57	05:52:10	03:06:55	78% +6% -16% (74)	207
26	19	Julian Beuchert	GER	08:59:32	09:19:05	00:50:44	04:50:27	05:46:11	03:13:21	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(206)
27	11	Urs Mueller	SUI	09:01:11	09:21:38	00:53:59	04:41:31	05:40:30	03:20:41	38% +16% -45% (8)	218
28	33	Bekim Christensen	DEN	09:13:41	09:26:06	01:03:06	04:45:43	05:53:49	03:19:52	25% +24% -51% (6)	233
29	18	Marco Iseli	SUI	09:15:04	09:29:20	00:56:28	04:55:30	05:56:58	03:18:06	75% +25% -0% (4)	(240)
30	41	Oliver Gonzalez Miranda	MEX	09:20:54	09:31:01	00:52:19	05:12:45	06:10:04	03:10:50	100% +0% -0% (7)	242
31	17	Freddy Lampret	ZAF	09:32:30	10:03:05	00:55:32	04:55:48	05:56:20	03:36:10	31% +6% -64% (15)	278
32	16	Lukas Polan	CZE	09:37:44	09:53:51	01:03:08	05:08:45	06:16:53	03:20:51	50% +13% -36% (17)	273
33	13	Cyril Pochon	FRA	10:16:08	10:32:08	00:57:13	05:15:35	06:17:49	03:58:19	78% +0% -22% (3)	(292)
34	34	Marek Nemcik *	SVK	11:10:47	11:59:59	01:13:48	05:30:37	06:49:24	04:21:23	35% +20% -45% (47)	302
	12	Daniel Besse	SUI	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	15	Anthony Cadario	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	20	Romain Garcin	FRA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	0% +0% -100% (2)	(n/a)
	21	Jean-Claude Besse	SUI	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	22	Davide Rossetti	ITA	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 13% of a typical Kona field.

#	Bib	Name	Nat	Expected	Rating	ESwim	EBike	ET2	ERun	Consistency	Overall
1	70	Kaisa Sali	FIN	09:00:32	09:04:32	00:57:49	04:56:07	05:58:56	03:01:36	100% +0% -0% (7)	2
2	52	Annabel Luxford	AUS	09:18:41	09:30:55	00:52:38	04:58:51	05:56:29	03:22:12	66% +0% -34% (8)	38
3	64	Lisa Roberts	USA	09:21:01	09:25:49	01:04:56	05:09:12	06:19:07	03:01:54	83% +3% -15% (23)	29
4	63	Sara Svensk *	SWE	09:21:21	09:33:21	00:59:03	05:02:36	06:06:40	03:14:41	47% +30% -23% (4)	41
5	69	Elisabeth Gruber	AUT	09:26:58	09:42:31	01:01:53	05:13:07	06:20:00	03:06:58	74% +3% -23% (11)	56
6	9	Nikki Bartlett	GBR	09:30:38	09:37:37	01:01:33	05:05:20	06:11:53	03:18:45	78% +0% -22% (5)	48
7	65	Melanie Burke	NZL	09:33:00	09:41:20	01:04:22	05:07:54	06:17:16	03:15:44	63% +32% -4% (13)	55
8	53	Martina Kunz	SUI	09:38:09	09:54:21	01:03:11	05:08:57	06:17:07	03:21:02	70% +0% -30% (4)	81
9	68	Jenny Schulz	GER	09:42:51	10:05:17	01:03:25	05:25:47	06:34:12	03:08:39	12% +77% -11% (3)	(101)
10	71	Pamela Tastets	CHI	09:42:51	09:53:22	00:58:38	05:14:34	06:18:13	03:24:38	100% +0% -0% (4)	78
11	55	Skye Moench	USA	09:46:19	10:05:07	00:58:58	05:11:28	06:15:26	03:30:53	21% +48% -32% (3)	100
12	57	Corina Hengartner	SUI	09:47:17	10:02:58	01:03:20	05:16:12	06:24:31	03:22:46	51% +24% -26% (8)	95
13	54	Regula Rohrbach	SUI	09:50:27	09:59:42	00:59:53	05:05:23	06:10:16	03:40:11	60% +7% -33% (13)	88
14	58	Lina-Kristin Schink	GER	09:56:24	10:21:18	01:11:31	05:19:50	06:36:21	03:20:03	46% +15% -39% (11)	127
15	56	Anne Basso	FRA	10:02:48	10:21:00	00:58:43	05:24:49	06:28:32	03:34:16	48% +4% -48% (20)	126
16	61	Carla Van Rooijen	NED	10:10:22	10:27:36	01:16:16	05:23:38	06:44:55	03:25:27	63% +9% -27% (9)	136
	59	Nina Derron	SUI	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	60	Karen Schultheiss	SUI	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	62	Irene Coletto	ITA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (no IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	66	Federica De Nicola	ITA	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	n/a (1 IM Pro race)	(n/a)
	67	Barbara Riveros	CHI	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

• Andi Boecherer: 53% (1-1)
• Ronnie Schildknecht: 11% (8-1)
• Ruedi Wild: 11% (8-1)
• Cameron Wurf: 8% (11-1)
• Mike Phillips: 8% (12-1)
• Jan van Berkel: 7% (13-1)

Female Race Participants

• Kaisa Sali: 77% (1-1)
• Lisa Roberts: 9% (10-1)
• Annabel Luxford: 6% (15-1)
• Sara Svensk: 3% (30-1)

Kona Qualifying

There is a couple of athletes on the start lists that are already safe for Kona: Cameron Wurf, Ruedi Wild, Kaisa Sali, and Lisa Roberts. At least some of them will still toe the line in Zürich.

A number of other athletes look for points to secure their slot, here is what they’ll need to get above the projected cutoffs:

• Just finish: Annabel Luxford
• 7th or better: Melanie Burke
• 6th or better: Mike Phillips, Jan van Berkel, Philipp Koutny
• 4th or better: Jeremy Jurkiewicz, Ronnie Schildknecht, Sara Svensk
• 2nd or better: David Plese, Miguel Blanchard
• Win: Johann Ackermann, Sven Riederer

The final slot allocation will be getting close with the last few races, with the results above the athletes at least have a chance (even if not a guarantee) for a slot. For more details, check my blog post analyzing July qualifying.

Update June 21st:

• Added Nikki Bartlett, Anne Basso, Nina Derron, Martina Kunz, Lisa Roberts, Regula Rohrbach (WPRO), Trevor Delsaut, Julian Mutterer, Davide Rossetti, Ronnie Schildknecht, Simon Schwarz and Cameron Wurf (MPRO)

Male Race Participants

Name	Nation	KPR points	KPR races
Cameron Wurf	AUS	5335	3+0 (880/0)
Jan van Berkel	SUI	3390	3+0 (340/0)
Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI	3005	2+2 (235/180)
Johann Ackermann	GER	1185	1+2 (685/220)
Trevor Delsaut	FRA	990	2+2 (120/50)
Samuel Huerzeler	SUI	890	3+0 (120/0)
Freddy Lampret	ZAF	636	2+2 (85/2)
Urs Mueller	SUI	575	2+0
Cyril Pochon	FRA	335	1+2 (305/10)
Julian Mutterer	GER	285	0+2 (0/65)
Felipe Santos	BRA	225	0+2 (0/45)
Mike Schifferle	SUI	155	3+0 (30/0)
Julian Beuchert	GER	85	1+0
Daniel Besse	SUI	45	0+1
Jean-Claude Besse	SUI	30	0+1
Simon Schwarz	GER	30	0+1
Anthony Cadario	FRA	12	0+2 (0/5)
Lukas Polan	CZE	7	0+2 (0/2)
Romain Garcin	FRA	0	0+0
Davide Rossetti	ITA	0	0+0
Marco Iseli	SUI

Female Race Participants

Name	Nation	KPR points	KPR races
Annabel Luxford	AUS	5215	1+1
Lisa Roberts	USA	4000	2+0
Sara Svensk	SWE	3495	1+2 (2090/320)
Nikki Bartlett	GBR	1900	1+2 (1280/220)
Martina Kunz	SUI	1790	2+1
Celine Schaerer	SUI	980	1+1
Nina Derron	SUI	930	0+2 (0/180)
Anne Basso	FRA	545	1+2 (60/140)
Corina Hengartner	SUI	540	2+1
Karen Schultheiss	SUI	380	0+2 (0/100)
Lina-Kristin Schink	GER	295	0+2 (0/75)
Regula Rohrbach	SUI	135	0+1
Carla Van Rooijen	NED	100	0+2 (0/45)
Irene Coletto	ITA	45	0+1

Kona Qualifying

There are a few athletes looking for a Kona slot:

• Cemaron Wurf is already safe, his summer racing plans are pretty flexible for now.
• Jan van Berkel is already pretty close, to improve his score he needs a 7th or better.
• Ronnie Schildknecht has four races in his total, so he’ll need a fourth place or better .. but he’s probably more focused in winning his home race for the tenth(!) time.
• Annabel Luxford has enough points but needs an Ironman finish.
• Lisa Roberts (also racing IM France) just needs a few more points, a seventh place should be enough for her.
• Sara Svensk is on a number of entry lists, she’ll need a podium for a slot.

Race Conditions

Conditions in Zürich were very similar to previous years, all legs were pretty close to the course ratings. Some athletes posted quick times in the individual legs (Celine was just 22 seconds off her swim course record, Cameron within five minutes off the bike course record) and overall records (Nick ended up just 48 seconds slower than Ronnie in 2010, the second fastest time ever in Zürich), but no new records were set this year.

Male Race Results

Nick Kastelein had a great race in Zürich: He posted the second fastest times on the swim, bike an run, resulting in the second fastest time ever at IM Zürich and convincing win. Cameron Wurf seemed to be intent to close the small gap to him after the swim, but never managed to catch up to him. He still had a lead of one minutes into T2 and then quickly built that to seven minutes at the finish. Second place went to Ruedi Wild who had the fastest marathon of the day. Jan Van Berkel ran a smart race: He was in close proximity to 9-time-winner Ronnie Schildknecht for most of the bike, and secured third place with a solid sub-3 marathon when Ronnie had to DNF with a strained muscle. With Samuel Huerzeler another Swiss finished in fourth, while Daniel Fontana climbed from 8th in T2 into fifth at the finish, securing a Kona slot. Daniil Sapunov in sixth and Cameron Wurf in seventh place missed the second place they would have needed for a Kona slot.

Photo by Ingo Kutsche Sports-Media Agency, used with permission

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Nick Kastelein	AUS	00:48:18	04:31:13	02:50:24	08:13:28	-04:57	US$ 8,000	2000
2	Ruedi Wild	SUI	00:48:43	04:38:52	02:49:21	08:20:37	-06:23	US$ 4,000	1600
3	Jan Van Berkel	SUI	00:48:45	04:36:42	02:58:01	08:26:51	-08:03	US$ 3,000	1280
4	Samuel Huerzeler	SUI	00:54:03	04:33:52	02:59:43	08:31:37	-19:28	US$ 2,500	960
5	Daniel Fontana	ITA	00:48:41	04:42:04	03:01:32	08:36:06	04:46	US$ 1,500	720
6	Daniil Sapunov	UKR	00:48:38	04:41:58	03:03:09	08:37:49	-02:38	US$ 1,000	540
7	Cameron Wurf	AUS	00:52:01	04:28:06	03:19:41	08:43:57	07:05		405
8	Anton Blokhin	UKR	00:51:54	04:38:50	03:11:42	08:46:12	01:01		305
9	Alexander Chikin	RUS	00:55:46	04:44:14	03:18:53	09:03:36	n/a		230
10	Mike Schifferle	SUI	00:59:31	04:49:09	03:12:25	09:07:17	05:31		170
11	Alexander Polizzi	AUS	00:48:16	04:50:04	03:47:25	09:30:21	n/a		120
12	Allister Caird	AUS	00:57:04	04:52:19	03:39:30	09:33:17	23:10		85
13	Lubos Truhlar	CZE	01:06:24	04:58:58	03:28:24	09:39:26	n/a		60
14	Sebastian Pedraza	ITA	01:02:44	05:02:38	03:31:42	09:41:46	-09:14		40
15	John Manuel Galindo Rooney	ESP	00:52:00	05:06:27	03:50:33	09:53:50	26:01		30
	Ronnie Schildknecht	SUI	00:53:49	04:31:18		DNF
	Urs Mueller	SUI	00:51:52	04:47:33		DNF
	Gergely Nagy	HUN	00:55:47	05:00:53		DNF
	Harry Wiltshire	GBR	00:48:20	05:47:23		DNF
	Lukas Polan	CZE	01:04:59	06:09:23		DNF

Female Race Results

Celine Schwerer won IM Switzerland, leading from wire to wire: She was leading after the swim by five minutes, then had a good bike ride leading by almost eight minutes in T2, then also had the best run to win by almost fifteen minutes in the end. She won her first Ironman and also secured a July Kona slot.

Photo by Ingo Kutsche Sports-Media Agency, used with permission

Tine Holst also have needed a win for a Kona slot and fought hard until the end, but only managed to run herself into second place. Third place went to Martina Kurz in her first Professional Ironman race.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to exp.	Prize Money	KPR Points
1	Celine Schaerer	SUI	00:51:45	05:11:00	03:15:36	09:23:02	-12:13	US$ 8,000	2000
2	Tine Holst	DEN	01:05:52	05:11:05	03:16:50	09:37:44	-07:16	US$ 4,000	1600
3	Martina Kunz	SUI	01:02:05	05:09:58	03:23:40	09:40:08	n/a	US$ 3,000	1280
4	Regula Rohrbach	SUI	01:00:20	05:10:01	03:39:31	09:54:18	04:28	US$ 2,500	960
5	Laurel Wassner	USA	00:57:29	05:29:32	03:24:27	09:56:16	15:01	US$ 1,500	720
6	Anna Michelle Derron	SUI	00:57:31	05:24:35	03:39:11	10:05:17	n/a	US$ 1,000	540
7	Shiao-yu Li	TWN	01:01:26	05:23:25	03:45:09	10:15:02	16:18		405