The final race of the Ironman 2011 season is coming up this weekend: Ironman Western Australia.
Previous Results
Western Australia is one of the quicker courses with the same course rating as IM Germany (11:54). Last year’s winners were Courtney Ogden (8:14) and Kate Bevilaqua (9:19).
Male Participants
Defending champion Courtney Ogden faces some very strong competition for his title – he has only the 8th best rating! (Still, he has the second highest odds for winning.) The favorite has to be Timo Bracht – apparently he is repeating his last season with an early qualifier to secure his spot for Kona:
Rank Name Nation Expected Time Rating Rank 1 Timo Bracht GER 08:13:08 08:24:14 7 2 Aaron Farlow AUS 08:27:14 08:38:39 28 3 Leon Griffin AUS 08:28:09 08:39:36 31 4 Maik Twelsiek GER 08:28:15 08:39:42 33 5 Luke McKenzie AUS 08:30:48 08:42:18 40 6 Clayton Fettell AUS 08:32:58 08:44:31 47 7 Mitchell Anderson AUS 08:33:41 08:45:15 54 8 Courtney Ogden AUS 08:34:32 08:46:07 59 9 Simon Billeau FRA 08:43:43 08:55:31 113 10 Jason Shortis AUS 08:46:28 08:58:19 125 11 Petr Vabrousek CZE 08:46:51 08:58:43 128 12 Guy Crawford AUS 08:50:45 09:02:42 150 13 Luke Whitmore AUS 08:54:52 09:06:55 175 14 Shinya Suganuma JPN 09:05:43 09:18:00 257 15 Chris Dmitrieff AUS 09:05:53 09:18:11 257 16 Dion Harrison GBR 09:16:32 09:29:04 345 17 James Bowstead NZL 09:24:40 09:37:23 401 18 Hirotsugu Kuwabara JAP 09:58:19 10:11:47 627
The odds for winning are as follows:
- Timo Bracht: 60%
- Courtney Ogden: 14%
- Luke McKenzie: 9%
- Mitchell Anderson: 7%
- Jason Shortis: 4%
- Maik Twelsiek: 3%
- Aaron Farlow: 2%
Female Participants
Similar story on the women’s side: The defending champ (Kate Bevilaqua, ranked 4th) faces strong competition, even if the females athletes before her are not that well known:
Rank Name Nation Expected Time Rating Rank 1 Kristin Moeller GER 09:22:07 09:34:47 22 2 Carrie Lester AUS 09:31:40 09:44:32 46 3 Michelle Mitchell AUS 09:32:42 09:45:36 48 4 Kate Bevilaqua AUS 09:45:05 09:58:16 78 5 Emi Shiono JPN 09:55:25 10:08:50 110 6 Hillary Biscay USA 10:03:19 10:16:54 145 7 Yvette Grice GBR 10:07:01 10:20:41 157 8 Elly Franks AUS 10:16:38 10:30:31 183 9 Jodie Scott AUS 10:27:01 10:41:08 207 10 Michelle Bremer NZL n/a unrated n/a
The odds for winning are as follows (again the defending champ looks better in the odds than in the ratings):
- Kristin Moeller: 35%
- Kate Bevilaqua: 22%
- Michelle Mitchell: 18%
- Carrie Lester: 16%
- Emi Shiono: 4%
- Yvette Grice: 3%
- Hillary Biscay: 2%