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Ironman Hamburg 2024 (June 2nd) – Seedings

2023 Hamburg.Looking Back To What Occurred Last Year

With Ironman Hamburg coming up in 2024, I can’t help but to think back to the accident that happened last year and to the motorbike driver who died while following the race. If you want to refresh your memory, I refer you back to Tim Heming’s in-depth look for Triathlete Magazine and a closer look at how I experienced last year’s race.

Following the accident, Ironman has made a number of changes to make a similar accident much less likely, among them

  • reduction of the number of press motorbike on the course
  • more scrutiny and better education of motorbike drivers
  • course changes to avoid traffic going in both directions

Some of these changes were already implemented in the races immediately after IM Hamburg last year (e.g. at Ironman Frankfurt), and some more will be visible this year. For example, a new bike course was only announced four weeks before the race and is apparently not without its own challenges – see this German article by triathlon Magazine. Another issue that is making me a bit uneasy: A few of the early Ironman Pro Series events had huge Pro fields, leading to a lot of athletes in close proximity. For example, the startlist for 70.3 Oceanside had 80 men and 37 women. This potentially makes drafting again a much bigger issue, and it also creates problems for the fairness and integrity of the female Pro race when a small gap between the starts makes the fastest women overtake many Pro men already in the swim. Hopefully, this concern is unlikely to be a factor in this year’s women’s Pro European Championship as no Pro men are racing in Hamburg and the startlist only has 30 females.

I hope that the changes that have been implemented will help to create a safe and fair race in Hamburg 2024!

Previous Winners

Year Male Winner Time Female Winner Time
2017 James Cunnama (ZAF) 08:00:36 Daniela Bleymehl (GER) 09:07:49
2018 Bart Aernouts (BEL) 07:05:26 Sarah Crowley (AUS) 08:08:21
2019 Kristian Hogenhaug (DEN) 08:11:26 Susie Cheetham (GBR) 08:58:02
2021     Laura Zimmermann (GER) 08:54:30
2022     Laura Philipp (GER) 08:18:20
2023 Denis Chevrot (FRA) 07:26:20    

Last Race’s TOP 3

Male Race Results (2023)

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Denis Chevrot FRA 00:46:40 04:01:37 02:31:38 07:26:20
2 Pieter Heemeryck BEL 00:46:43 04:00:24 02:37:36 07:31:00
3 Kristian Hogenhaug DEN 00:46:46 03:57:00 02:40:01 07:31:11

Female Race Results (2022)

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time
1 Laura Philipp GER 00:54:38 04:31:14 02:45:38 08:18:20
2 Chelsea Sodaro USA 00:54:38 04:35:09 03:00:20 08:36:41
3 Manon Genet FRA 00:54:40 04:47:52 03:02:43 08:52:01

Course Records

Leg Gender Record Athlete Date
Total overall 08:00:36 James Cunnama 2017-08-13
Swim overall 00:47:38 Carlos Lopez Diaz 2017-08-13
Bike overall 04:17:29 Kristian Hogenhaug 2019-07-28
Run overall 02:40:58 James Cunnama 2017-08-13
Total female 08:18:20 Laura Philipp 2022-06-05
Swim female 00:47:45 Lauren Brandon 2021-08-29
Bike female 04:31:14 Laura Philipp 2022-06-05
Run female 02:45:38 Laura Philipp 2022-06-05

Course Rating

The Course Rating for IM Hamburg is 17:29.

Race Adjustments for IM Hamburg

Year Adjustment Swim Adj. Bike Adj. Run Adj. # of Finishers Rating Swim Rating Bike Rating Run Rating
2017 05:17 00:18 00:45 04:54 18 of 20 05:17 -00:21 00:45 04:54
2019 07:49 -02:09 09:50 00:31 21 of 35 06:33 -01:27 05:18 02:42
2021 18:21 01:12 14:51 03:31 10 of 13 10:29 -00:58 08:29 02:59
2022 23:58 00:54 17:43 05:49 10 of 12 13:52 -00:37 10:47 03:41
2023 31:57 01:28 24:22 07:19 36 of 43 17:29 -00:26 13:30 04:25

Nice slots and Prize Money

IM Hamburg has 6 Pro Nice slot(s). It has a total prize purse of 87.500 US$, paying 10 deep.

Female Race Participants

The strength of the field is 20% of a typical Kona field.

# Bib Name Nat Expected Rating ESwim EBike ET2 ERun Consistency
1 1 Katrina Matthews (KQ) GBR 08:34:04 08:50:15 00:55:02 04:42:09 05:42:11 02:51:53 78% +0% -22% (8)
2 2 Fenella Langridge (KQ) GBR 08:45:09 09:04:33 00:50:56 04:42:15 05:38:12 03:06:57 71% +8% -21% (9)
3 4 Maja Stage Nielsen (KQ) DEN 08:49:33 09:08:49 00:54:56 04:46:08 05:46:04 03:03:29 80% +11% -8% (17)
4 3 Daniela Bleymehl GER 08:52:21 09:21:17 00:58:42 04:37:41 05:41:23 03:10:58 26% +4% -70% (22)
5 9 Els Visser (KQ) NED 08:54:22 09:11:52 00:58:11 04:43:40 05:46:51 03:07:31 91% +9% -0% (15)
6 8 Laura Jansen * GER 08:56:11 09:22:29 00:59:12 04:49:56 05:54:08 03:02:03 59% +0% -41% (3)
7 7 Sara Svensk SWE 08:57:13 09:14:35 00:58:56 04:41:23 05:45:20 03:11:53 27% +14% -59% (11)
8 25 Katrine Graesboell Christensen DEN 09:01:33 09:22:57 01:03:49 04:54:45 06:03:35 02:57:58 100% +0% -0% (4)
9 20 Henrike Gueber GER 09:01:41 09:39:39 01:05:00 04:48:11 05:58:11 03:03:30 33% +0% -67% (3)
10 31 Erin Schenkels (KQ) CAN 09:02:53 09:35:52 01:00:59 04:54:28 06:00:28 03:02:25 44% +56% -0% (4)
11 21 Dimity-Lee Duke AUS 09:11:39 09:39:58 01:00:14 04:58:40 06:03:54 03:07:45 43% +1% -56% (23)
12 13 Alexandra Tondeur BEL 09:12:01 09:34:46 00:59:39 05:01:41 06:06:19 03:05:42 37% +2% -61% (14)
13 12 Carolin Lehrieder GER 09:12:34 09:57:20 00:56:08 04:45:26 05:46:34 03:26:00 13% +5% -83% (24)
14 5 Joanna Ryter SUI 09:12:56 09:37:09 01:05:43 05:03:10 06:13:52 02:59:04 69% +4% -27% (14)
15 14 Kristin Liepold GER 09:13:12 09:35:27 01:08:07 04:59:18 06:12:26 03:00:46 83% +15% -2% (34)
16 10 Elisabetta Curridori ITA 09:14:02 09:37:45 00:57:37 04:59:10 06:01:47 03:12:15 45% +0% -55% (6)
17 17 Katharina Wolff GER 09:16:06 09:51:56 00:59:10 05:01:07 06:05:17 03:10:49 35% +22% -43% (7)
18 15 Margrit Elfers * GER 09:26:36 09:55:48 01:01:22 04:50:34 05:56:56 03:29:40 38% +18% -45% (8)
19 6 Jackie Hering USA 09:27:35 09:51:33 00:56:14 05:13:21 06:14:35 03:13:00 64% +16% -20% (15)
20 22 Line Borsinski DEN 09:34:11 10:08:21 01:03:33 05:00:39 06:09:13 03:24:58 42% +0% -58% (4)
21 16 Rebecca Anderbury GBR 09:41:02 10:30:55 01:05:29 04:50:15 06:00:44 03:40:18 48% +52% -0% (2)
22 29 Cathrine Sand DEN 09:43:01 10:10:57 01:01:41 05:05:57 06:12:38 03:30:23 100% +0% -0% (4)
23 28 Hannah Arlom GER 09:46:22 10:21:14 01:02:11 05:09:06 06:16:17 03:30:05 n/a (1 IM Pro race)
24 30 Sabrina Exenberger * AUT 09:52:27 10:22:40 01:12:20 05:07:17 06:24:37 03:27:50 100% +0% -0% (2)
25 23 Fabia Maramotti ITA 10:12:53 10:49:21 00:55:04 05:03:59 06:04:02 04:08:51 n/a (1 IM Pro race)
26 27 Annika Timm GER 10:17:53 10:48:49 01:11:40 05:06:48 06:23:28 03:54:25 35% +0% -65% (4)
27 19 Maria Florencia Diaz Philippi ESP 10:18:22 10:55:09 01:11:24 05:34:16 06:50:40 03:27:42 n/a (1 IM Pro race)
  11 Julie Iemmolo FRA n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)
  18 Stephanie Wunderle GER n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)
  24 Lisa Gerss GER n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)
  26 Sabrina Roth GER n/a unrated unrated unrated unrated unrated n/a (no IM Pro race)

Note: Athletes with a ‘*’ are also registered for another race within 8 days.

Winning Odds

Female Race Participants

  • Katrina Matthews: 57% (1-1)
  • Fenella Langridge: 14% (6-1)
  • Maja Stage Nielsen: 10% (9-1)
  • Els Visser: 8% (12-1)
  • Daniela Bleymehl: 5% (18-1)
  • Erin Schenkels: 2% (62-1)
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