Race Conditions
The main features of the IM France course are a salty swim, a hard, mountainous bike course and a fast, flat run course. Conditions were typical, this year’s race adjustment of 1:45 is in line with the course rating of 3:36.
Even though the bike was slower than normal (-7:56 adjustment vs. bike rating of -2:44), Tine Deckers stormed to a new bike course record – her 5:03:03 improved Christel Robin’s bike leg from 2009 by 19 seconds.
Male Race Results
Even with the harder conditions on the bike course, all of the Top5 finishers ran sub-2:50. Victor Del Corral had the best run and won the race by 35 seconds – he ran down overtaking James Cunnama who was leading for a good part of the marathon. Stefan Schmid bounced back quickly from his DNF in Brasil a week ago to claim third place. Frederik Van Lierde had a slower than normal swim and bike after breaking his collar-bone a mere six weeks ago, but he still ran a 2:48 marathon to finish fourth.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Swim | Bike | Run | Time | Diff to expected | Prize Money |
| 1 | Victor Del Corral | ESP | 00:54:16 | 04:48:04 | 02:42:28 | 08:30:00 | -03:39 | US$ 14000 |
| 2 | James Cunnama | ZAF | 00:50:10 | 04:47:13 | 02:47:54 | 08:30:35 | -01:57 | US$ 7000 |
| 3 | Stefan Schmid | GER | 00:51:01 | 04:49:53 | 02:45:51 | 08:33:18 | -02:22 | US$ 4500 |
| 4 | Frederik Van Lierde | BEL | 00:50:06 | 04:51:43 | 02:48:09 | 08:35:36 | 14:48 | US$ 3000 |
| 5 | Andrej Vistica | CRO | 00:54:13 | 04:55:17 | 02:44:07 | 08:39:19 | 00:16 | US$ 2500 |
| 6 | Miquel Blanchart Tinto | ESP | 00:50:02 | 04:53:23 | 02:50:56 | 08:39:41 | 03:53 | US$ 2000 |
| 7 | Gwenael Ouilleres | FRA | 00:50:08 | 04:50:28 | 02:54:45 | 08:40:51 | -08:10 | US$ 1500 |
| 8 | Christian Brader | GER | 00:52:57 | 05:02:41 | 02:49:48 | 08:51:15 | -01:08 | US$ 1250 |
| 9 | Cedric Lassonde | FRA | 00:52:57 | 04:56:20 | 02:56:55 | 08:52:41 | -11:29 | US$ 1000 |
| 10 | Wouter Monchy | BEL | 00:50:13 | 05:00:40 | 02:58:35 | 08:55:56 | -29:28 | US$ 750 |
| 11 | Olivier Marceau | SUI | 00:52:58 | 05:00:13 | 03:03:46 | 09:02:39 | 01:03 | |
| 12 | Seppe Odeyn | BEL | 01:04:48 | 05:04:24 | 02:49:51 | 09:05:28 | n/a | |
| 13 | Felix Haupt | GER | 00:53:03 | 05:02:54 | 03:02:49 | 09:05:44 | n/a | |
| 14 | Rafael Wyss | SUI | 00:59:15 | 05:02:46 | 03:00:10 | 09:08:34 | 00:42 | |
| 15 | Pierre-Yves Facomprez | FRA | 01:01:04 | 05:08:24 | 02:58:40 | 09:15:28 | -27:31 | |
| 16 | Ivan Jezko | SVK | 00:59:33 | 05:08:50 | 03:01:24 | 09:17:29 | -22:54 | |
| 17 | Jerome Joussemet | FRA | 00:53:58 | 05:26:02 | 02:55:23 | 09:21:50 | n/a | |
| 18 | Antony Costes | FRA | 00:50:04 | 04:53:38 | 03:41:10 | 09:30:49 | 39:09 | |
| 19 | Matt Shanks | USA | 00:57:44 | 05:22:39 | 03:23:42 | 09:50:49 | 18:03 | |
| 20 | Simon Billeau | FRA | 00:54:50 | 04:56:18 | 04:02:13 | 09:59:28 | 1:05:25 | |
| 21 | Martin Charles | FRA | 00:52:15 | 05:24:44 | 03:39:43 | 10:03:30 | n/a | |
| 22 | Ludovic Le Guellec | FRA | 01:03:32 | 05:41:05 | 03:12:09 | 10:05:29 | 00:28 | |
| 23 | Santiago Abad de Agueda | ESP | 01:02:13 | 05:31:51 | 03:48:04 | 10:28:52 | n/a | |
| 24 | Alain Djouad-Guibert | MOR | 01:04:08 | 05:35:58 | 04:03:22 | 10:55:55 | n/a | |
| 25 | Marek Nemcik | SVK | 01:14:50 | 06:29:02 | 04:15:31 | 12:14:08 | 21:01 | |
| 26 | Yu Shinozaki | JPN | 00:54:45 | 05:30:02 | 06:35:28 | 13:07:17 | 1:16:02 | |
| Bertrand Billard | FRA | 00:50:09 | 04:44:53 | DNF | ||||
| Robin Pasteur | FRA | 00:47:41 | 04:55:40 | DNF | ||||
| Herve Banti | MCO | 00:50:10 | 04:53:26 | DNF | ||||
| Kevin Rundstadler | FRA | 00:47:45 | 05:10:31 | DNF | ||||
| Remmert Wielinga | NED | 01:06:44 | 04:51:47 | DNF | ||||
| Julien Marcq | FRA | 00:54:10 | 05:16:10 | DNF | ||||
| Guillaume Jeannin | FRA | 00:51:41 | DNF | |||||
| Jeremy Morel | FRA | 00:54:47 | DNF |
Female Race Results
Leanda Cave was leading the race after the swim, but Tine Deckers quickly took the lead on the bike, set a new bike course record and managed to run a solid 3:13 marathon to win her fifth IM France title. Second place went to Iron-rookie Emma Balham who had a solid overall race with the second fastest bike (even though she was 16 minutes slower than Tine!) and the second fastest marathon. Leanda Cave had a flat on the bike and lost time, she still finished third. Towards the end she was almost caught by Leslie DiMichele Miller who had the fastest run split of the day.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Swim | Bike | Run | Time | Diff to expected | Prize Money |
| 1 | Tine Deckers | BEL | 00:57:36 | 05:05:03 | 03:13:29 | 09:22:04 | -05:20 | US$ 14000 |
| 2 | Emma Bilham | SUI | 00:53:17 | 05:21:30 | 03:07:19 | 09:28:55 | n/a | US$ 7000 |
| 3 | Leanda Cave | GBR | 00:51:53 | 05:32:51 | 03:13:48 | 09:45:06 | 25:40 | US$ 4500 |
| 4 | Leslie DiMichele Miller | USA | 00:57:38 | 05:35:17 | 03:05:42 | 09:45:38 | -11:27 | US$ 3000 |
| 5 | Stephanie Reymond | FRA | 01:05:12 | 05:26:57 | 03:09:19 | 09:49:53 | -15:54 | US$ 2500 |
| 6 | Kate Comber | GBR | 00:51:55 | 05:33:14 | 03:20:26 | 09:52:29 | 00:22 | US$ 2000 |
| 7 | Karen Thibodeau | CAN | 00:53:18 | 05:41:24 | 03:12:22 | 09:54:05 | 04:06 | US$ 1500 |
| 8 | Corina Hengartner | SUI | 01:01:39 | 05:23:07 | 03:28:42 | 10:00:05 | -07:08 | US$ 1250 |
| 9 | Petra Krejcova | CZE | 01:01:23 | 05:45:45 | 03:09:43 | 10:04:33 | n/a | US$ 1000 |
| 10 | Tineke Van den Berg | NED | 01:03:07 | 05:26:20 | 03:35:15 | 10:12:27 | 11:40 | US$ 750 |
| Caroline Livesey | GBR | 01:00:50 | 05:25:26 | DNF | ||||
| Natascha Badmann | SUI | 01:06:02 | 05:28:27 | DNF | ||||
| Maggie Rusch | USA | 01:05:00 | 05:46:13 | DNF |