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Ironman World Championships 2023 – Analyzing Results

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Course Conditions

There are two interesting “comparison points” for this year’s IM World Champs.

First of all, the comparison to the course in Kona. Overall, the Nice course was about 27 minutes slower, mainly because of the hilly bike course which was nearly 28 minutes slower. If you apply this to Sam Laidlow’s times, he raced the equivalent of a 7:40 overall (Gustav’s win in 2022: 7:40:23) and a 4:04 bike split (his 2022 Kona course record: 4:04:35). The swim was about a minute quicker than in Kona, the run only by a few seconds – indicating that Patrick could have run a 2:33 in Kona!

The second comparison can be made to the course of IM France. Even with the lengthened bike course (estimated to be 8k longer than the 2022 and 2023 bike course), the World Championship field raced almost the same time as the June 2023 field (fastest bike in the summer: Cameron Wurf’s 4:31:51). The run course was reported to be slightly lengthened as well, still Patrick’s 2:32 blew away the old course record of 2:37 by Bart Aernouts from 2013.

Male Race Results

Rank Name Nation Swim Bike Run Time Diff to exp. Prize Money
1 Sam Laidlow FRA 00:47:50 (5) 04:31:28 (1) 02:41:46 (6) 08:06:22 -26:44 US$ 125,000
2 Patrick Lange GER 00:49:01 (13) 04:43:24 (10) 02:32:41 (1) 08:10:17 -10:04 US$ 65,000
3 Magnus Ditlev DEN 00:49:14 (19) 04:35:54 (2) 02:41:07 (5) 08:11:43 -07:30 US$ 45,000
4 Rudy Von Berg USA 00:47:50 (5) 04:37:23 (4) 02:42:44 (7) 08:12:57 -19:35 US$ 25,000
5 Leon Chevalier FRA 00:51:11 (31) 04:39:30 (5) 02:39:26 (4) 08:15:07 -21:08 US$ 20,000
6 Arthur Horseau FRA 00:53:19 (36) 04:42:19 (6) 02:37:17 (3) 08:18:36 -11:16 US$ 18,000
7 Bradley Weiss ZAF 00:47:55 (11) 04:44:23 (11) 02:43:22 (8) 08:20:54 -12:06 US$ 15,000
8 Gregory Barnaby ITA 00:47:51 (7) 04:44:23 (11) 02:44:04 (11) 08:21:15 03:05 US$ 13,000
9 Robert Wilkowiecki POL 00:47:48 (4) 04:44:36 (13) 02:43:45 (10) 08:21:23 -16:40 US$ 12,000
10 Clement Mignon FRA 00:47:59 (12) 04:43:03 (9) 02:47:55 (12) 08:24:10 -04:41 US$ 11,000
11 Matthew Marquardt USA 00:47:46 (1) 04:49:11 (17) 02:43:44 (9) 08:26:17 -03:30 US$ 8,000
12 Arnaud Guilloux FRA 00:49:57 (25) 04:42:47 (8) 02:50:39 (16) 08:28:53 -23:15 US$ 6,000
13 Benjamin Hill AUS 00:53:11 (35) 04:42:31 (7) 02:48:39 (14) 08:29:41 -32:30 US$ 5,000
14 Cameron Wurf AUS 00:51:07 (28) 04:36:03 (3) 02:58:40 (22) 08:30:42 -07:37 US$ 4,000
15 Niek Heldoorn NED 00:47:53 (8) 04:45:32 (15) 02:54:27 (17) 08:32:33 -09:42 US$ 3,000
16 Braden Currie NZL 00:47:46 (1) 04:46:37 (16) 02:58:01 (21) 08:38:50 08:38  
17 Mathias Petersen DEN 00:47:54 (10) 04:49:21 (19) 02:57:28 (20) 08:40:11 -00:20  
18 Remi Conte FRA 00:53:10 (34) 04:56:18 (24) 02:48:35 (13) 08:43:38 04:36  
19 Leonard Arnold GER 00:49:19 (24) 04:54:19 (22) 02:55:09 (19) 08:44:44 16:06  
20 Jonas Hoffmann GER 00:50:10 (26) 04:58:57 (29) 02:50:14 (15) 08:44:54 03:21  
21 Matt Hanson USA 00:53:06 (33) 05:10:01 (35) 02:36:29 (2) 08:45:55 08:55  
22 Andre Lopes BRA 00:49:08 (15) 04:56:49 (25) 02:54:39 (18) 08:46:15 00:18  
23 Ben Phillips NZL 00:49:11 (18) 04:49:59 (20) 03:03:22 (24) 08:48:00 -12:36  
24 Jan Frodeno GER 00:47:47 (3) 04:44:59 (14) 03:08:12 (26) 08:48:42 22:04  
25 Franz Loeschke GER 00:49:14 (19) 05:00:35 (31) 03:02:05 (23) 08:57:34 18:40  
26 Georg Enzenberger AUT 00:51:10 (30) 05:00:03 (30) 03:03:25 (25) 09:00:29 18:49  
27 Fernando Toldi BRA 00:49:14 (19) 04:57:10 (26) 03:15:18 (27) 09:06:54 18:56  
28 Maximilian Hammerle AUT 00:53:21 (38) 04:53:35 (21) 03:26:51 (28) 09:20:37 21:03  
29 Adam Feigh USA 00:53:21 (38) 05:03:20 (32) 03:27:35 (29) 09:32:16 27:28  
30 Joe Skipper GBR 00:53:19 (36) 04:58:50 (28) 03:42:03 (31) 09:40:13 1:05:57  
31 Tuan Chun Chang TWN 00:49:08 (15) 05:30:11 (37) 03:38:45 (30) 10:04:28 40:21  
32 Brent McMahon CAN 00:49:04 (14) 04:54:27 (23) 05:31:55 (32) 11:21:14    
  Kristian Hogenhaug DEN 00:49:18 (23) 04:49:14 (18)   DNF    
  Mike Phillips NZL 00:51:04 (27) 04:58:02 (27)   DNF    
  Pieter Heemeryck BEL 00:49:10 (17) 05:06:22 (34)   DNF    
  Kristian Grue NOR 00:53:04 (32) 05:03:41 (33)   DNF    
  Reinaldo Colucci BRA 00:49:15 (22) 05:28:47 (36)   DNF    
  Denis Chevrot FRA 00:47:53 (8)     DNF    
  Chris Leiferman USA 00:51:08 (29)     DNF    
  Nathan Dortmann FRA 01:00:30 (40)     DNF    

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