Race Conditions
This year’s IM Wisconsin was pretty quick – mainly because of a faster than usual run (8:36 compared to new run course rating of -0:10). Not surprisingly there were a number of new course records: Andrew Starykowicz posted a new bike course record (4:24:08, improving on Konstantin Bachor’s 4:31 from 2014), Patrick McKeon’s 2:43:09 was a new run course record (improving on a 2:50 by Daniel Bretscher from 2014), and Luke McKenzie posted a new overall course record (the only record was also from Daniel Bretscher’s 2014 win).
Male Race Results
Not surprisingly it was Andrew Starykowicz who dominated most of the race: With a new bike course record he stormed to the front and built an eight-minute lead by T2. But then Luke McKenzie’s superior run speed was the deciding factor, with a 2:49 Luke won by eleven minutes over TJ Tollakson who was third in T2 and ran just under eight hours. Patrick McKeon had the fastest run of the day with a 2:43, he was also able to overtake Andy who finished in fourth place.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Swim | Bike | Run | Time | Diff to exp. | Prize Money | KPR Points |
| 1 | Luke McKenzie | AUS | 00:49:44 | 04:31:47 | 02:49:00 | 08:17:19 | -15:05 | US$ 15,000 | 2000 |
| 2 | TJ Tollakson | USA | 00:49:36 | 04:33:31 | 02:58:45 | 08:28:17 | -02:59 | US$ 7,500 | 1600 |
| 3 | Patrick Mckeon | USA | 00:55:04 | 04:43:57 | 02:43:09 | 08:28:36 | -09:19 | US$ 5,000 | 1280 |
| 4 | Andrew Starykowicz | USA | 00:49:40 | 04:24:08 | 03:11:55 | 08:32:27 | -18:37 | US$ 3,250 | 960 |
| 5 | Stefan Schmid | GER | 00:54:53 | 04:43:20 | 02:48:45 | 08:34:22 | 00:03 | US$ 2,750 | 720 |
| 6 | Justin Daerr | USA | 00:54:52 | 04:43:55 | 02:57:04 | 08:42:02 | 00:52 | US$ 2,000 | 540 |
| 7 | Leon Griffin | AUS | 00:49:41 | 04:51:48 | 02:59:37 | 08:48:21 | 12:26 | US$ 1,500 | 405 |
| 8 | Sam Long | USA | 00:56:03 | 04:48:58 | 03:04:20 | 08:54:57 | 03:14 | US$ 1,250 | 305 |
| 9 | Scott Defilippis | USA | 00:55:39 | 05:04:08 | 02:53:06 | 09:00:44 | -08:17 | US$ 1,000 | 230 |
| 10 | Thomas Gerlach | USA | 00:54:56 | 04:52:09 | 03:07:57 | 09:02:50 | 14:16 | US$ 750 | 170 |
| 11 | Ryan Rau | USA | 01:01:39 | 05:03:21 | 03:00:17 | 09:11:58 | -09:35 | 120 | |
| 12 | Blake Becker | USA | 01:00:34 | 05:00:42 | 03:12:34 | 09:20:28 | -28:26 | 85 | |
| 13 | Colin Laughery | USA | 00:59:14 | 05:04:56 | 03:12:41 | 09:24:56 | 16:43 | 60 | |
| 14 | Patrick Brady | USA | 01:03:23 | 04:57:01 | 04:22:08 | 10:29:26 | 1:11:35 | 40 | |
| Matthew Russell | USA | 00:55:01 | 04:52:28 | DNF | |||||
| Paul Matthews | AUS | 00:49:31 | 05:03:46 | DNF | |||||
| Christian Brader | GER | 00:56:05 | 05:07:37 | DNF | |||||
| Gergely Nagy | HUN | 00:55:36 | 05:08:55 | DNF | |||||
| Jarrod Shoemaker | USA | 00:49:30 | 05:41:06 | DNF | |||||
| Barrett Brandon | USA | 00:49:28 | DNF |