Race

For the longest time, TriLounge was publishing start lists for the Professional Ironman-distance races. In late May however, the owner Kevin Koresky decided to shut down the site. I’m very sorry that Kevin is no longer able to provide this great service which I was using quite a lot in the last years. I hope to be able to pick up some of the slack and will publish the start lists here on trirating.com as soon as I have found them – starting with the list for Coeur d’Alene (this post) and – in the next day or so – the lists for IM Austria, IM France and Challenge Atlantic City. (Of course, I will continue to post my longer „Predictions“ posts closer to the race with additional information on the race and participants.)

Male Race Participants

Bib	Name	Nation	Age
1	Ben Hoffman	USA	30
2	Andy Potts	USA	37
3	Victor Zyemtsev	USA	41
4	Matthew Russell	USA	31
5	Maik Twelsiek	GER
6	Pedro Gomes	POR	30
7	Nathan Birdsall	USA
8	Rick Floyd	USA
9	Derek Garcia	USA
10	Thomas Gerlach	USA	33
11	Christopher Bagg	USA
12	Matt Hanson	USA
13	Brent Mcburney	USA
14	Dantley Young	USA
15	Patrick Wheeler	USA

Female Race Participants

Bib	Name	Nation	Age
26	Heather Wurtele	CAN	34
27	Kelly Williamson	USA
28	Stephanie Jones	USA
29	Cathleen Knutson	USA
30	Kara Lapoint	USA
31	Lindsay Ludlow	USA
32	Olesya Prystayko	UKR
33	Jessica Smith	USA
34	Jennie Hansen	USA	29
35	Ali Black	USA

Race Conditions

From a time-based perspective, Cairns continues to be a relatively average course: With an adjustment of 5:41 for 2014 the rating hardly changed (now: 5:25). As usual, a slow swim (-2:52, almost as slow as the Kona swim) was followed by a quicker bike and an average run. 

Male Race Results

Cameron Brown became the oldest male winner of an Ironman race by battling down Tim Van Berkel on the run. It appears that Cam and Tim also secured a Kona slot. Peter Robertson was with them at the start of the run, but even his good 2:58 marathon wasn’t a match for Cam’s 2:44.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected
1	Cameron Brown	NZL	00:55:16	04:36:20	02:44:54	08:20:15	-03:08
2	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	00:52:11	04:39:35	02:48:15	08:23:23	-10:27
3	Peter Robertson	AUS	00:50:34	04:41:13	02:58:08	08:33:26	-01:22
4	Matt Burton	AUS	00:55:18	04:36:13	02:59:41	08:35:19	-17:18
5	Jarmo Hast	FIN	00:53:15	04:43:07	03:00:58	08:41:24	-05:47
6	Courtney Ogden	AUS	00:52:14	04:39:59	03:11:22	08:47:48	06:30
7	Luke Martin	AUS	00:55:23	04:50:32	03:01:18	08:50:58	n/a
8	Carl Read	NZL	00:55:20	04:58:39	02:59:18	08:57:29	05:15
9	Brodie Madgwick	NZL	00:55:12	05:21:57	03:06:29	09:28:43	00:46
	Jimmy Johnsen	DEN	00:55:20			DNF
	Jason Shortis	AUS	00:58:40	04:53:29		DNF
	Casey Munro	AUS	00:50:30	05:01:05		DNF

Female Race Results

Liz Blatchford started her title-defense (and Kona validation) with a fantastic swim, but lost some time on the bike (apparently also getting a penalty). Melanie Burke posted the fastest bike split and continued to run well, but she couldn’t match Lizzie’s race best 3:06 run. Asa Lundstrom snatched up the last place on the podium and valuable KPR points to secure a Kona slot.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected
1	Liz Blatchford	GBR	00:52:47	05:13:09	03:06:57	09:16:58	05:42
2	Melanie Burke	NZL	01:06:23	05:00:37	03:12:00	09:22:53	-25:11
3	Asa Lundstroem	SWE	01:04:41	05:08:06	03:09:03	09:25:56	-10:40
4	Wendy Mcalpine	AUS	01:01:10	05:15:28	03:29:19	09:51:03	n/a
5	Katy Duffield	AUS	01:01:14	05:25:13	03:22:21	09:52:47	n/a
6	Hillary Biscay	USA	00:56:40	05:19:17	03:42:36	10:03:25	-00:39
7	Larisa Marsh	NZL	01:03:55	05:22:33	03:34:25	10:04:52	03:46
	Keiko Tanaka	JPN	00:57:38	05:42:02		DNF
	Rebecca Hoschke	AUS	01:03:48	05:18:51		DNF

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Previous Winners

Year	Male Winner	Time	Female Winner	Time
2011	Chris McCormack (AUS)	08:15:56	Rebekah Keat (AUS)	09:26:31
2012	David Dellow (AUS)	08:15:04	Carrie Lester (AUS)	09:21:00
2013	Luke McKenzie (AUS)	08:17:43	Liz Blatchford (GBR)	09:19:51

Last Year’s TOP 3

The 2013 race in Cairns was won by two athletes that went on to play a big role in Kona: Luke McKenzie (2nd) and Liz Blatchford (3rd). Also, Tim Van Berkel had the best 2013 run performance.

Male Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Luke McKenzie	AUS	00:49:47	04:21:52	03:01:32	08:17:43
2	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	00:52:25	04:40:57	02:44:24	08:22:16
3	Chris McCormack	AUS	00:49:55	04:43:38	02:54:52	08:32:50

Female Race Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Liz Blatchford	GBR	00:54:13	05:10:23	03:09:38	09:19:51
2	Gina Crawford	NZL	00:55:43	05:08:26	03:13:09	09:23:14
3	Stephanie Jones	USA	01:06:41	05:04:09	03:15:17	09:31:46

Course Records

Leg	Gender	Record	Athlete	Date
Total	overall	08:15:04	David Dellow	2012-06-02
Swim	overall	00:43:48	Clayton Fettell	2011-06-05
Bike	overall	04:21:52	Luke McKenzie	2013-06-01
Run	overall	02:44:24	Tim Van Berkel	2013-06-01
Total	female	09:19:51	Liz Blatchford	2013-06-01
Swim	female	00:52:56	Belinda Granger	2011-06-05
Bike	female	05:00:37	Belinda Harper	2012-06-02
Run	female	03:09:38	Liz Blatchford	2013-06-01

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Cairns is 05:20.

Race Adjustments for IM Cairns

Year	Adjustment	Swim Adj.	Bike Adj.	Run Adj.	# of Athletes	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating
2011	03:41	01:10	04:05	01:52	12	03:41	01:10	04:05	01:52
2012	08:59	-01:16	06:54	-00:03	20	06:20	-00:03	05:30	00:54
2013	03:19	-02:08	07:31	-03:16	14	05:20	-00:45	06:10	-00:29

KPR points and Prize Money

IM Cairns has 2000 KPR points for the winner. It has a total prize purse of 75k$.

Male Race Participants

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating	Rank
1	1	Cameron Brown	NZL	08:23:38	08:28:39	00:49:23	04:41:20	02:53:37	17
2	2	Tim Van Berkel	AUS	08:34:01	08:39:08	00:50:15	04:43:55	02:59:30	41
3	3	Peter Robertson	AUS	08:35:04	08:40:12	00:44:50	04:39:32	02:58:51	(46)
4	10	Courtney Ogden	AUS	08:41:39	08:46:51	00:50:53	04:51:14	03:00:31	64
5	4	Jimmy Johnsen	DEN	08:42:24	08:47:36	00:50:15	04:52:57	02:58:41	67
6	6	Casey Munro	AUS	08:43:27	08:48:40	00:44:42	04:43:58	03:03:14	(72)
7	8	Jarmo Hast	FIN	08:47:25	08:52:40	00:50:08	04:53:33	03:02:29	95
8	5	Jason Shortis	AUS	08:47:57	08:53:13	00:53:59	04:50:52	03:00:39	99
9	11	Mitchell Anderson	AUS	08:50:18	08:55:35	00:53:01	04:39:02	03:19:29	(111)
10	15	Carl Read	NZL	08:52:35	08:57:53	00:53:11	04:59:25	03:02:06	123
11	7	Matt Burton	AUS	08:52:44	08:58:02	00:54:55	04:41:51	03:09:23	(125)
12	9	Todd Israel	AUS	08:56:10	09:01:30	00:50:25	04:56:32	03:10:45	145
13	14	Bryan Rhodes	NZL	09:17:18	09:22:51	00:48:51	05:02:29	03:27:08	219
14	13	Brodie Madgwick	NZL	09:28:16	09:33:56	00:52:54	05:03:57	03:19:03	(264)
	12	Luke Martin	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)

Female Race Participants

There is one name absent from this list: I had anticipated Annabel Luxford to give her IM debut (she had announced it on her website). She recently had a bit of a crash and that might have contributed to her racing the shorter 70.3 on the same weekend. I’m not aware of any new IM plans for her.

Rank	Bib	Name	Nation	Expected Time	Rating	Swim Rating	Bike Rating	Run Rating	Rank
1	16	Liz Blatchford	GBR	09:11:38	09:17:08	00:50:34	05:11:06	03:08:13	6
2	17	Asa Lundstroem	SWE	09:36:48	09:42:33	00:59:57	05:14:43	03:20:04	45
3	18	Rebecca Hoschke	AUS	09:40:45	09:46:32	01:01:34	05:17:38	03:17:48	59
4	22	Melanie Burke	NZL	09:48:08	09:53:59	01:06:09	05:21:09	03:21:42	75
5	19	Keiko Tanaka	JPN	09:56:27	10:02:23	00:55:15	05:25:26	03:30:16	96
6	24	Larisa Marsh	NZL	10:01:29	10:07:28	01:00:26	05:22:14	03:26:52	(100)
7	21	Hillary Biscay	USA	10:04:24	10:10:25	00:52:18	05:36:07	03:36:39	105
	20	Katy Duffield	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	23	Hannah Lawrence	NZL	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)
	25	Wendy Mcalpine	AUS	n/a	unrated	unrated	unrated	unrated	(n/a)

Winning Odds

Male Race Participants

All the participants are based in Australia or New Zealand. Tim Van Berkel has had a great race here last year – I’m sure he’d love to be one step higher on the podium this year. Cameron Brown might be close to the end of his career, but another solid result in Cairns would put him in a great position for a Kona slot. Courtney Ogden (and also Jason Shortis) are two more experienced athletes that may pul one more great performance out of their hats. Peter Robertson is still struggling to figure out IM racing, while Jimmy Johnsen is hopefully back to racing healthy after some injury woes after his great 2013 season.

• Tim Van Berkel: 38% (2-1)
• Cameron Brown: 37% (2-1)
• Courtney Ogden: 13% (7-1)
• Peter Robertson: 5% (20-1)
• Jimmy Johnsen: 3% (38-1)
• Jarmo Hast: 2% (40-1)

Female Race Participants

The field is also dominated by athletes from „down under“. Liz Blatchford won the race last year and is back to defend her title (while her main goal is probably to validate her Kona slot). „Kona“ is also the goal for the next two contenders: The athlete with the longest trip is Asa Lundstrom who just needs a few more points but loves to race IMs (she already has points from Lake Tahoe, Arizona and Melbourne). Rebecca Hoschke has still a chance for a Kona slot, but probably needs a win to get close to the cutoff as she already has five races in her total points. Veteran racer Hillary Biscay is also on the start list but probably won’t be in the mix once the field settles on the bike.

• Liz Blatchford: 56% (1-1)
• Asa Lundstroem: 23% (3-1)
• Rebecca Hoschke: 13% (6-1)
• Melanie Burke: 3% (28-1)
• Hillary Biscay: 2% (43-1)

The “Athlete Tracker” had one of those days, and weird data was showing up all over the place. At the time that I’m writing the post, there is no data for IM Brasil. Therefore, the results and analysis have to be taken with a bit of caution – they are based off some preliminary data that I had to clean up a bit before it was at least usable. There may be some changes in the final data and results.

Race Conditions

Once again, conditions were very quick – Igor Amorelli was only six minutes off the course record, and Sara Gross was more than nine minutes quicker than the old record. Conditions must have been very good, the quick bike was followed by a quick run as well, leading to an adjustment of 26:45 and a new course rating of 18:58.

Male Race Results

Igor Amorelli and Santiago Ascenso battled with each other for most of the run until Igor managed to pull away.

Marcel Zamora was eating a bit into their lead, but never challenged to close the gap. Behind these three, the trio of Harry Wiltshire, Petr Vabrousek and AJ Baucco were probably quite happy to be in the money:

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected
1	Igor Amorelli	BRA	00:47:38	04:26:06	02:52:07	08:07:54	-14:02
2	Santiago Ascenco	BRA	00:51:08	04:20:44	02:55:43	08:11:46	-09:34
3	Marcel Zamora	ESP	00:50:49	04:26:41	02:53:22	08:16:16	-01:23
4	Harry Wiltshire	GBR	00:47:50	04:44:53	02:58:17	08:32:34	-20:04
5	Petr Vabrousek	CZE	00:55:31	04:34:24	02:57:23	08:33:16	00:28
6	AJ Baucco	USA		04:37:46	02:58:21	08:34:06	-07:29
7	Guilherme Manocchio	BRA				08:37:37	06:09
8	Felipe De Oliveira Manente	BRA	00:52:08	04:37:29	03:05:51	08:42:00	-47:26
9	Luiz Francisco Ferreira	BRA	00:47:08	04:47:03	03:08:28	08:45:37	-00:10
10	Raphael Galvao Menezes dos santos	BRA	00:51:09	04:49:20	03:05:31	08:50:59	n/a
11	Frank Silvestrin	BRA	00:50:08	04:41:17	03:15:18	08:52:42	08:58
12	James Brown	GBR	01:02:00	04:43:00	03:05:18	08:55:36	-05:51
13	Edmilson Pereira	BRA	00:50:08	05:06:19	03:10:09	09:12:04	n/a
14	Anderson Agenor Santos	BRA	00:55:18	04:46:19	03:15:48	09:14:12	n/a
15	Timothy Marr	USA	00:50:56	04:40:13	03:40:25	09:17:30	40:47
16	Christian Carletto	ARG	00:55:04	04:51:21	03:21:00	09:23:10	03:24
17	Roberto Rivera	CHL	00:54:40	04:56:25	03:26:48	09:34:08	n/a
18	Juraci Moreira Jr.	BRA	00:50:12	04:40:00	03:56:58	09:34:16	n/a
19	Marcio Roniak	BRA	01:08:39	05:02:02	03:38:40	09:56:10	-20:03
20	Richard Wygand	BRA	01:07:26	05:08:48	03:30:05	09:56:56	-14:40
21	Mario De Elias	ARG	00:51:11	04:40:09	04:44:04	10:20:20	1:51:08
22	Ezequiel Morales	ARG	00:55:56			DNF
23	Luan Ortiz Silva	BRA	00:52:57			DNF
24	Raul Furtado	BRA	00:55:24			DNF
25	Alexandre Aguiar Moura	BRA	01:07:58	05:19:36		DNF
26	Santiago Rodriguez	URU	01:16:49	05:31:28		DNF
27	Keegan Williams	NZL	00:52:30	04:37:18		DNF

Female Race Results

After her 18th place at IM Texas just a week ago, Sara Gross delivered a shocker: Winning IM Brasil with a sub-9 finish.

She was followed by Sofie Goos and Ariane Monticelli. Super-runners Lisa Roberts (Ribes) and Jessie Donavan didn’t manage to make up enough time. Lucie Reed was totally frustrated after the race: She reported being swallowed by a large bike pack after leading the race until the 150km mark – and then being slapped with a ten minute drafting penalty.

Rank	Name	Nation	Swim	Bike	Run	Time	Diff to expected
1	Sara Gross	CAN	00:55:41	04:49:42	03:06:12	08:56:35	-30:38
2	Sofie Goos	BEL	00:56:41	04:49:24	03:09:41	09:00:21	-13:13
3	Ariane Monticeli	BRA	00:59:28	04:55:21	03:02:53	09:02:44	-29:56
4	Vanessa Gianinni	BRA	00:55:14	04:49:47	03:15:53	09:06:12	-26:12
5	Lisa Roberts	USA	01:01:46	04:50:13	03:09:19	09:07:42	-06:37
6	Jessie Donavan	USA	01:03:43	04:46:38	03:19:11	09:14:40	05:53
7	Mariana Andrade	BRA	00:59:43	04:46:59	03:23:25	09:14:50	-41:43
8	Lucie Reed	CZE	00:51:04	04:55:59	03:18:28	09:20:15	01:00
9	Ana Lidia Borba	BRA	00:55:26	04:50:07	03:34:40	09:24:45	-36:45
10	Heidi Sessner	GER	00:58:25	04:59:21	03:28:56	09:32:34	-03:36
11	Jacqui Gordon	USA	00:59:24	05:04:31	03:44:34	09:53:33	08:57
12	Fernanda Garcia	BRA	00:55:15	05:23:42	03:46:24	10:14:32	-27:59
13	Federica Frontini	URU	01:07:23	05:13:59	03:50:56	10:18:59	04:51

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