Race Conditions
This year’s IM Switzerland was pretty typical – an adjustment of 13:28 means that it was just a little bit faster than the course rating of 12:01 implies. However, there were a bit fewer pro athletes than normal – 17 as compared to the more typical 30+ athletes. In contrast, the start list for IM Germany looks pretty full, so WTC seems to succeed in steering pro athletes to fewer, better paid races.
Male Results
On the men’s side, Ronnie Schildknecht successfully defended his title:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Ronnie Schildknecht SWI 08:19:51 08:21:30 2 Clemente Alonso-McKernan ESP 08:27:56 08:38:24 3 Mathias Hecht SWI 08:30:26 08:30:02 4 Cyril Viennot FRA 08:36:02 08:28:50 5 Mike Aigroz SWI 08:38:21 08:39:17 6 Sergio Marques PRT 08:48:01 08:51:56 7 Rafael Wyss SWI 08:51:36 09:04:28 8 Mike Schifferle SWI 08:53:57 09:01:52 9 Ueli Bieler SUI 09:07:08 09:08:30 10 Daniel Muller GER 09:46:22 09:22:23 11 Damien Landon FRA 09:49:55 09:25:35 12 Marek Nemcik SVK 11:44:49 12:00:32
He had to work quite hard for it on the run, where he battled with Mathias Hecht for quite some time. Mathias came in third after being overtaken by the fastest runner, Clemente Alonso.
Female Results
With Karin Thürig, we also had another repeat winner on the female side:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Karin Thuerig SWI 09:03:26 09:09:23 2 Amy Marsh USA 09:11:36 09:19:27 3 Erika Csomor HUN 09:36:59 09:20:04 4 Regula Rohrbach SUI 09:42:18 n/a 5 Jana Candrova CZE 10:09:15 10:15:46 6 Kathrin Mannweiler GER 11:08:46 n/a 7 Megumi Shigaki JPN 11:49:02 n/a 8 Miranda Alldritt CAN 12:52:27 10:35:15
Amy Marsh came in second (again improving her rating), while Erika Csomor surprisingly raced again (just one week after her great time in Austria) and came in third.