Race Conditions
All accounts from Wales have highlighted the “epic conditions”. The data tells the same story: While the swim was still pretty normal, the rain and wind on the bike made conditions extremely hard, a bike adjustment of -33:36 is the slowest ever in Wales, Combined with a tough run the overall adjustment of -43:11 is the second slowest ever in an Ironman-branded race .. the only slower race was in Wales 2014 when the swim and run were even harder than this year.
Even with the crazy slow bike conditions, Cam Wurf came very close to breaking the bike course record – he was just 36 seconds slower than Markus Thomschke in 2015.
Male Race Results
Australian cyclist-turned-traithlete Cameron Wurf continues his “Ironman education”: After his second place in Sweden (and securing a Kona slot) he won his first Ironman race. He built a large lead on the bike with the fastest bike split by more almost twelve minutes, then also had a solid 3:11 run. Philip Graves was able to close the gap with a strong 3:11 run, he finished second just over two minutes back. Third place went to Christian Kramer with a solid day in all three legs.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Swim | Bike | Run | Time | Diff to exp. | Prize Money | KPR Points |
| 1 | Cameron Wurf | AUS | 00:48:22 | 04:57:50 | 03:11:00 | 09:07:03 | -13:01 | US$ 8,000 | 2000 |
| 2 | Philip Graves | GBR | 00:48:16 | 05:09:45 | 03:03:30 | 09:09:33 | -29:55 | US$ 4,000 | 1600 |
| 3 | Christian Kramer | GER | 00:48:11 | 05:13:47 | 03:05:33 | 09:14:26 | -05:35 | US$ 3,000 | 1280 |
| 4 | Andrej Vistica | CRO | 00:54:33 | 05:21:59 | 02:51:38 | 09:17:41 | -06:02 | US$ 2,500 | 960 |
| 5 | Matthew Leeman | GBR | 00:48:10 | 05:27:09 | 03:08:12 | 09:30:14 | n/a | US$ 1,500 | 720 |
| 6 | Antony Costes | FRA | 00:48:14 | 05:27:10 | 03:10:15 | 09:32:03 | -48:58 | US$ 1,000 | 540 |
| 7 | Fabian Rahn | GER | 01:00:36 | 05:25:31 | 02:59:02 | 09:33:46 | 09:44 | 405 | |
| 8 | Christopher Baird | USA | 00:58:22 | 05:38:15 | 03:00:38 | 09:48:00 | 31:47 | 305 | |
| 9 | Xavier Torrades | ESP | 00:48:24 | 05:42:28 | 03:07:31 | 09:48:36 | -08:55 | 230 | |
| 10 | Joris Buyl | BEL | 00:49:14 | 05:23:51 | 03:26:05 | 09:50:01 | n/a | 170 | |
| 11 | Pavel Simko | SVK | 00:48:20 | 05:37:05 | 03:19:34 | 09:53:25 | -01:01 | 120 | |
| 12 | Jesse Vondracek | USA | 00:53:15 | 05:36:59 | 03:22:37 | 10:03:34 | 07:36 | 85 | |
| 13 | Hannes Cool | BEL | 00:51:30 | 05:33:14 | 03:34:13 | 10:09:58 | 18:01 | 60 | |
| 14 | Mike Schifferle | SUI | 00:58:30 | 05:44:34 | 03:24:37 | 10:22:23 | 26:07 | 40 | |
| 15 | Matthias Knossalla | GER | 01:00:28 | 05:24:11 | 04:19:27 | 10:54:53 | 1:08:36 | 30 | |
| Markus Thomschke | GER | 00:50:14 | 05:17:21 | DNF | |||||
| Romain Guillaume | FRA | 00:48:17 | 05:20:22 | DNF | |||||
| Harry Wiltshire | GBR | 00:48:08 | 05:25:21 | DNF | |||||
| Chris McDonald | AUS | 00:50:44 | 05:24:13 | DNF | |||||
| Domenico Passuello | ITA | 00:54:25 | 05:30:34 | DNF | |||||
| Scott Cooper | CAN | 01:02:36 | 05:59:07 | DNF | |||||
| Daniil Sapunov | UKR | 01:07:51 | 05:57:55 | DNF | |||||
| Sebastian Guhr | GER | 01:03:26 | DNF |
Female Race Results
As expected Lucy Gossage was able to win her seventh Ironman, but she had to put in more than ten hours of hard work. Parys Edwards had great first Ironman race to finish second, third place went to Kate Comber.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Swim | Bike | Run | Time | Diff to exp. | Prize Money | KPR Points |
| 1 | Lucy Gossage | GBR | 01:00:01 | 05:46:01 | 03:16:20 | 10:11:20 | 04:42 | US$ 8,000 | 2000 |
| 2 | Parys Edwards | GBR | 01:00:06 | 05:59:27 | 03:24:55 | 10:35:16 | n/a | US$ 4,000 | 1600 |
| 3 | Kate Comber | GBR | 00:53:01 | 06:05:24 | 03:35:29 | 10:44:02 | -03:23 | US$ 3,000 | 1280 |
| Rachel Hallam | GBR | 00:58:04 | DNF |
Really interesting report. Do you have the breakdown of adjustments for each discipline for 2014 and 2017 please?
Here they are:
2014: -43:48(O) -03:26(S) -26:33(B) -07:01(R)
2017: -43:11(O) 00:51(S) -33:36(B) -04:38(R)
(The numbers don’t exactly “add up” as they are average time differences from different athletes.)
Just out of interest Thorsten how does the analysis take into account the exceptionally high number of DNFs on the bike? Does the adjustment look at all athletes or just the pro field?
http://www.coachcox.co.uk/2017/09/11/ironman-wales-2017-age-group-results-kona-qualification/
DNFs are not considered at all when calculating the adjustments .. hard to tell if a course was fast or slow based off an incomplete race. In addition, my data is based on the Pro athletes only (Russell does a great job of covering the AG data) – mainly because it’ll be very tricky to “match” the results for an athlete from different races to calculate if they went faster or slower. I have my hands pretty much full with “just” the Pro data! 🙂
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