Ironman Austria

Ironman Austria
venue	Klagenfurt Austria
First run	1998
organizer	World Triathlon Corporation
Records
distance	3.86 km 180.2 km 42.195 km
track record	Men: 7:45:58 h, 2011 Marino Vanhoenacker   Women: 8:41:17 h, 2016 Mirinda Carfrae
Website	Official website

The Ironman Austria is one since 1998 annual triathlon - sporting event on the Ironman as distance (3.86 km swim, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) in Austrian Klagenfurt in Carinthia .

organization

Start of Ironman Austria 2012

Swimming in the Wörthersee

The Dane Torbjørn Sindballe on the bike 2006

The leader Rebecca Preston on the running track along the Wörthersee (winner 2006)

With 2950 participants (2014), Ironman Austria was one of the competitions with the highest number of participants within the Ironman World Series of the World Triathlon Corporation . Amateurs can qualify for the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona with over 50 qualification places spread over the individual age groups . In 2016 only 40 Hawaiian slots were awarded in Klagenfurt due to the meanwhile increased number of qualification competitions worldwide.

Professional triathletes competing for the US $ 75,000 prize money in Klagenfurt can qualify for the US $ 650,000 competition in Hawaii via the Kona Pro Ranking System (KPR). In Klagenfurt, the winners will each receive 2000 points, and those placed will receive a correspondingly reduced number of points. For comparison: the winner in Hawaii receives 8,000 points, the winners in Frankfurt , Texas , Florianópolis , Melbourne and Port Elizabeth each receive 4,000, and in the other Ironman races either 1,000 or 2,000 points. Over half the Ironman distance, Ironman 70.3 Austria has been held in St. Pölten since 2007 and Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun since 2012 . In 2012 the total prize money in Klagenfurt was US $ 50,000. In 2013, the winner and the winner at Ironman Austria each received € 12,500 in prize money.

As early as 2005, 2000 helpers took care of the athletes along the route and a total of over 100,000 spectators were present along the route. Due to the rapid increase in the number of participants, the Ironman Austria was also included in the program on July 3, 2005 by ORF with a three-hour report.
In 2014, the entire race was broadcast live on Austrian television for the first time.

The Ironman has become an important source of income for the tourism businesses of the city of Klagenfurt, in 2004 around 40,000 overnight stays were counted. The economic benefit was estimated at around € 8.2 million in 2012. The organizational budget in 2012 was € 2.2 million.

In 2012, at the refreshment stations along the route and at the finish line, 25,000 l of water, 8,000 l of cola and 10,000 l of electrolyte drinks in 60,000 cups and 15,000 drinking bottles, 50,000 sponges to cool off and 10,000 energy bars, 10,000 energy gels, 3 t of bananas, 1, 5 tons of oranges, 2,000 portions of grilled chicken and 2,000 pieces of pizza were given out to the athletes.

The triathlon fair, changing tents u. a. together resulted in over 3,331.5 m² of built-up tent space. At the “Pasta Party” on the Friday before the race, the athletes ate approx. 2 tons of pasta and 800 heads of lettuce.

history

organizer

The initiators of Ironman Austria were Georg Hochegger, Helge Lorenz and Stefan Petschnig. Hochegger, a master goldsmith and jewelry designer with a studio in Klagenfurt, advertised in an American trade journal in the mid-1990s a gold pin that he had designed to symbolize a triathlete and was then contacted by triathlon legend Mark Allen . In 1994 in Roth , Georg Hochegger had completed his first Ironman, two years later he was talking to Mark Allen there about the modalities for licensing for Ironman competitions. Helge Lorenz, one of the first professional triathletes in Austria, was motivated by the stories of his friend Hochegger to develop a business plan, which he submitted in 1997 as a thesis in his business administration degree with a focus on marketing and organizational development at the University of Klagenfurt . The concept envisaged bringing an Ironman license to Austria within five years via previous events with initially 300 participants and 900 in the third year.
The courage behind this plan becomes clear when you consider that there was no triathlon event with more than 400 participants in Austria at that time. Third in the group was Stefan Petschnig, three-time Austrian state champion in swimming and friends with Lorenz through the joint triathlon activities at ASV Maria Saal , at that time a press officer at MilAk .

In 1997 the three of them founded Triangle Sports & Promotion GmbH and in 1998 organized their first triathlon in Klagenfurt under the name TriMania over the original Ironman distance. With the claim to pay more prize money than everyone else, the budget was ATS 2 million (€ 145,000), a quarter of which was devoured by a TV production. But instead of the planned 300 participants, only 124 were there. In the competition, a car hit the leader; due to the accident, the route had to be changed during the ongoing competition. In the absence of roadblocks, the participants were slowed down by a vintage car convoy, and the establishment of a refreshment station at the finish was simply forgotten. There was a completely different reason why the five-year plan was wasted : In the meantime, two other Austrian organizers had ambitions for an Ironman license. Nevertheless, a short time later, Hochegger received the information from Mark Allen, who was on site as an observer at the premiere, that Triangle would receive the Ironman license.

Instead of the planned 600, the first Ironman Austria came in 1999 with 50 qualification places for the Ironman Hawaii 802 starters, in 2000 there were 1138 participants, in 2001 1452 athletes, in 2002 1599, 2003 1686 and 2004 already 1891 starters. In 2005, on January 4th, the event was “fully booked” for the first time with 2200 registrations. In 2006, Ironman Austria became one of the world's most popular events under the Ironman label with 2,417 registrations.

The winner Edith Niederfriniger at the finish at the Ironman in Klagenfurt (2007)

Triangle, who was responsible for awarding the Ironman license to Frankfurt in 2001, also organized Ironman France (since 2002), Ironman South Africa (since 2004), Ironman 70.3 St. Pölten (since 2007), Ironman 70.3 South Africa (since 2008) and the Ironman 70.3 Monaco (2005 to 2009), which is no longer held today . In 2008, the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), licensor of Triangle, was bought up by an investment company and then changed its strategy to no longer have Hawaii qualifying races hosted by organizers who are independent apart from licensing, but to organize them now . After initial discussions in Hawaii in October 2009, Hochegger, Lorenz and Petschnig sold the rights to their events to the WTC in 2010.

Georg Hochegger left the company and founded the TriStar series . Stefan Petschnig, who ran for Mayor of Klagenfurt in 2009, and Helge Lorenz remained at WTC until 2012 as CEO Europe, South Africa and Middle East and Managing Director Business Development Europe & Middle East & Africa, respectively. In August 2015, the organizer's sale to the Chinese financial investor Dalian Wanda was announced.

In the context of the doping cases of Lisa Hütthaler and Bernhard Kohl that became public, the anti-doping expert Prof. Hans Holdaus from the Institute for Medical and Sports Science Consulting (IMSB) accused Triangle as the organizer of Ironman Austria, that Triangle had an "anti-doping test attitude" . Triangle rejected the allegations and made it clear that NADA had been carrying out doping tests at Ironman Austria since 2006; the top three men and women as well as six other professional and age group athletes had to undergo the tests immediately after the race. Triangle also announced that it would increase the number of controls to at least 50 in the future. Before the 2009 competition, Triangle specified that 20 athletes would be checked at the finish. This applies to the three fastest women and men, two more from the top ten and random checks in the age groups. The participation of Hannes Hempel in 2009 caused a stir , who had made a doping confession after being accepted and was then removed from the starting list by Triangle. After Hannes Hempel's revocation of the confession, he obtained an injunction to be allowed to start, Hempel finally finished ninth in 8:30:39 h and was thus outside of the rush for the prize money. One year later, Hannes Hempel received a life-long ban retroactively from 2008. In 2014, the organizer repeated the controls of age group athletes.

The three founders of Ironman Austria - Georg Hochegger, Helge Lorenz and Stefan Petschnig - were the first Europeans to be awarded the Ironman Hall of Fame for their achievements in October 2014 . Patrick Schörkmayer is the race director of Ironman Austria.

The in Graz Barbara Tesar at Ironman Austria (July 2010)

Marino Vanhoenacker - eight-time winner of Ironman Austria

In the men's category, Michael Weiss and Norbert Langbrandtner are the most successful domestic athletes with three podium positions each. In the women's category, Kate Allen (2003 and 2005) and Carinthian Eva Wutti (2015 and 2017) , who started for Austria, won twice in Klagenfurt. The Tyrolean Eva Dollinger won the 2010 Ironman Austria.

Sports history

In 2011 Belgian Marino Vanhoenacker achieved his sixth victory in a row in Klagenfurt with 7:45:58 h, the fastest time ever achieved in an Ironman race.

In 2012 , the wearing of wetsuits was banned due to the high water temperature. This prohibition applies from 24.5 ° C and for professionals this is the case from 22 ° C water temperature. This year there were peak temperatures of over 36 ° C air temperature in the race and the winner Faris Al-Sultan described the Ironman Austria as “one of the toughest races of my entire career”.

In 2013 , the starting field of Ironman Austria was enlarged and the start was divided into two waves.

In 2015 , the 2897 expected athletes (87% men and 13% women) were started here for the first time in seven waves according to age groups at the 18th edition in order to improve safety and fairness on the track. Originally, all athletes started at the Ironman Austria at the same time, which regularly led to problems with observing the slipstream, especially on the bike course. Marino Vanhoenacker won in 2015 with the third fastest time ever achieved in an Ironman race.

In 2016 the "Rolling Start" was introduced and Vanhoenacker won for the eighth time in Klagenfurt - as the first athlete after the Swiss Ronnie Schildknecht , who in 2015 won the Ironman Switzerland for the eighth time . In June 2016, the Australian Mirinda Carfrae was able to set a new course record with her winning time of 8:41:17 h and with 2:49:06 hours she also achieved the second fastest time ever achieved in an Ironman race on the marathon distance.

In 2017 the race in Klagenfurt took place on the first weekend in July. The deficiencies on the bike and running course that had occurred after a cold winter could be corrected by the road administration in 2017 before the race. The routes were adjusted a bit this year and the distance on the bike was now 180 km for the first time, the marathon was 42.1 km long and the finisher times were higher than in previous years.

A 58-year-old from Wiener Neustadt fell unconscious from his bike in Sankt Jakob im Rosental , received first aid from an emergency doctor from the race track and died after being transported to the hospital by an ambulance helicopter; acute heart failure is suspected.

In 2018 , the Ironman Austria was held for the 21st time on July 1st. The men's race was decided by Michael Weiss as the first Austrian athlete and although after swimming with the surprising Beatrice Weiß and then with Lisa Hütthaler, who had been leading for a long time , it looked like a possible Austrian double success, she was still on the running track by the German Mareen Outdated hooves .

In 2019 , as part of the 22nd edition on July 7th after 2016, the Austrian Triathlon State Championships on the long distance were held for the eighth time. For the first time, the new bike course only ran over one lap and the starting field was increased to up to 4,000 athletes.

In 2020 , Ironman Austria had to be postponed from July 5th to September 20th and finally canceled as part of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic .

Qualification times for the Ironman Hawaii

The following table shows the finisher time of the highest placed participant who still claimed a qualification place for the Ironman Hawaii. This depends on how many regularly qualified participants do not make use of their right to register for the Ironman Hawaii. In 2015, for example, only the 49th of the M45 redeemed the last slot in its age group; in the W40, the slot was passed up to seventh place. In 2016, the number of Hawaii slots was reduced from 50 to 40.

	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010		2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
M18	09:54:53	09:11:11	09:13:42		09:04:50	10:05:32	W18	12:36:21	16:31:36	10:58:29			11:25:02
M25	09:15:03	09:10:01	09:07:18		08:59:51	09:37:56	W25	09:41:24	10:08:06	10:39:57		09:47:14	10:46:11
M30	09:11:58	09:04:41	09:11:53		08:51:22	09:34:52	W30	09:50:26	09:51:49	09:32:09		09:55:16	10:28:42
M35	09:24:06	09:09:18	09:14:50		09:01:04	09:45:09	W35	09:53:28	10:04:29	09:56:29		09:24:32	10:34:28
M40	09:24:35	09:06:17	09:27:25		09:10:59	09:54:15	W40	11:04:04	09:56:18	11:43:48		10:23:02	10:41:14
M45	10:19:52	09:33:55	09:24:13		09:19:21	10:13:12	W45	10:51:15	11:02:59	10:35:42		10:12:27	11:15:06
M50	09:45:52	09:56:01	09:55:51		09:43:01	10:45:39	W45	10:51:15	11:02:59	10:35:42		10:12:27	11:15:06
M55	09:57:40	09:49:35	10:05:39		09:49:38	10:56:00	W50	11:00:45	10:34:50	10:49:40		10:44:10	11:50:45
M60	10:38:42	11:36:05	09:54:32		10:37:56	12:12:48	W60		14:18:03	12:51:24		14:32:04	14:14:33
M65	10:56:21	11:38:56	10:42:16		12:07:59	11:06:33	W65			16:21:12
M70	12:45:04	12:45:02	13:23:38		14:02:15	14:25:45
M75		14:37:51

Route

Transition from the Wörthersee to the Lendkanal

• The swimming distance of 3.8 km starts at the Klagenfurt lido and is a one-time course in the Wörthersee . The start in the Wörthersee-Ostbucht is one of the crowd pullers of the event. After the start, the route initially leads straight into the lake, until after 1500 m it bends to the left towards Strandbad Maiernigg . The last 900 m lead through the Lend Canal , where a continuous chain of spectators along the embankment is separated from the swimmers only a few meters. The swimming exit is in the bay of the Seepark Hotel.

Until 2005, the buoy had to be swam around after 800 m and the swim course was interrupted by a shore leave, since 2006 the swim course has existed in its current form.

In 2012, for the first time in the history of Ironman Austria, wearing wetsuits was prohibited. According to the current regulations - deviating from the normal ÖRTV / ITU regulations - the wearing of wetsuits is prohibited for amateurs at a water temperature of 24.5 ° C and for professionals at a water temperature of over 22 ° C.

Dense spectator trellis near the turning point at the Minimundus

• The 180 km long bike distance consisted of three laps of 60 km each until 2005. Since 2006 there has been an additional loop to the Faaker See and the bike course consisted only of two laps over 1680 meters in altitude. According to the organizers' calculations, the extension meant that more than 60,000 laps were avoided. The number of approved starters has since increased by around 36% compared to 2005. Since 2017, the athletes have made additional kilometers on the loop to the Wörthersee Stadium in the first lap. On the ascent from St. Egyden to Rupertiberg , the participants were greeted by a dense spectator trellis and there were other nests of atmosphere in Egg on Lake Faak and at the turning point on Minimundus .

In 2019, the organizer changed the bike route and relocated it to a single circuit along the Wörthersee and through the central Carinthian area with St. Veit and Feldkirchen . Since 2019, the athletes have started from the transition area at the Klagenfurt Seeparkhotel or the Alpen-Adria-Universität via Hallegg, Lendorf and the Zollfeld towards Sankt Veit. The blocked S37 is used. From St. Veit it goes via Liebenfels to Feldkirchen, where you then turn off towards Oberglan . In a small additional loop, the route then leads via Tigring to Moosburg , Krumpendorf and back to the Seepark Hotel, from where the previous part of the bike route continues. The "old" route - the cycle route along the Wörther and Faaker lakes - will be completely retained as the second section.

• The running route over the marathon distance also runs over a course to be completed twice. The route runs very flat from the transition zone along the north bank of the Wörthersee to the first turning point in Krumpendorf . Then the route leads through the Europapark and along the Lend Canal to the second turning point around the Lindwurmbrunnen , from where it goes back to the Lend Canal towards the finish and the second round. An additional loop has been run on both laps in Krumpendorf since 2017. The goal is on the Metnitz beach.

Course records

Course records in Klagenfurt

Marino Vanhoenacker	7:45:58 h	(2011; world record of the Ironman series until 2016)
Mirinda Carfrae	8:41:17 h	(2016)

Disciplinary records in Klagenfurt

Swim:			To go biking:			To run:
Bart Colpaert	42:54 min	(2013)	Marino Vanhoenacker	4:11:47 h	(2015)	Viktor Semtsev	2:39:57 h	(2016)
Simone Brändli	45:51 min	(2014)	Mirinda Carfrae	4:47:38 h	(2016)	Mirinda Carfrae	2:49:06 h	(2016)

Winners list

Men

Women

N ° Date / year First place Second place third place 23 04th July 2021 23 Sep 20 2020 canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 22nd 07th July 2019 Daniel Lund Bækkegård Stenn Goetstouwers David Pleše 21st 01st July 2018 Michael Weiss Ivan Tutukin Andy Potts 20th 02nd July 2017 Jan Frodeno Eneko Llanos Viktor Semtsev 19th June 26, 2016 Marino Vanhoenacker -8- Viktor Semtsev Alessandro Degasperi 18th June 28, 2015 Marino Vanhoenacker -7- Michael Weiss Iván Raña 17th June 29, 2014 Iván Raña Christian Kramer David Pleše 16 30th of June 2013 Andreas Raelert Maik Twelsiek David Pleše 15th 0July 1, 2012 Faris Al-Sultan Daniel Fontana Pedro Gomes 14th 0July 3, 2011 Marino Vanhoenacker -6- (SR) Michael Weiss Albert Marko 13 04th July 2010 Marino Vanhoenacker -5- Dennis Devriendt Michael Weiss 12 0July 5, 2009 Marino Vanhoenacker -4- James Cunnama Stephen Bayliss 11 July 13, 2008 Marino Vanhoenacker -3- Stephen Bayliss Hannes Hempel 10 0July 8, 2007 Marino Vanhoenacker -2- Norbert Langbrandtner Maximilian Longrée 9 July 16, 2006 Marino Vanhoenacker Hector Llanos Eneko Llanos 8th 0July 5, 2005 Raynard Tissink Norbert Langbrandtner Werner Leitner 7th 04th July 2004 Viktor Syemtsev -3- Raynard Tissink Olaf Sabatschus 6th 0July 6, 2003 Viktor Syemtsev -2- Bruno von Flüe Tibor Lehmann 5 0July 7, 2002 Viktor Semtsev Norbert Langbrandtner Olaf Sabatschus 4th 0July 1, 2001 Jürgen Zäck -2- Rainer Müller-Hörner Petr Vabroušek 3 July 23, 2000 Jürgen Zäck Tim DeBoom Rainer Müller-Hörner 2 July 12, 1999 Peter Reid Olaf Sabatschus Stefan Holzner 1 July 19, 1998 Stefan Holzner Attila Fazekas Jason Shortis   Austrian Triathlon State Championship on the long distance (ÖTRV)

year First place Second place third place 2021 2020 2019 Daniela Ryf Bianca Steurer Heini Hartikainen 2018 Mareen hooves Lisa Hütthaler Emma Pallant 2017 Eva Wutti -2- Corinne Abraham Michelle Vesterby 2016 Mirinda Carfrae (SR) Michaela Herlbauer Elisabeth Gruber 2015 Eva Wutti Lisa Hütthaler Sarah Piampiano 2014 Linsey Corbin -2- Simone Brändli Lisa Hütthaler 2013 Erika Csomor -2- Åsa Lundström Eimear Mullan 2012 Linsey Corbin Erika Csomor Michaela Rudolf 2011 Mary Beth Ellis Erika Csomor Diana Riesler 2010 Eva Maria Dollinger Karina Ottosen Beate Goertz 2009 Bella Bayliss Sonja Tajsich Lucie Zelenková 2008 Sandra Wallenhorst Bella Comerford Edith Niederfriniger 2007 Edith Niederfriniger Veronika Hauke Rebecca Preston 2006 Rebecca Preston Lori Bowden Veronika Hauke 2005 Kate Allen -2- Edith Niederfriniger Veronika Hauke 2004 Erika Csomor Andrea Brede Jessica Draskau-Petersson 2003 Kate Allen Edith Niederfriniger Wendy Ingraham 2002 Lori Bowden -2- Kate Allen Imke Schiersch 2001 Lori Bowden Wendy Ingraham Ariane Gutknecht 2000 Wendy Ingraham -3- Tamara Kozulina Lori-Lynn Leach 1999 Wendy Ingraham -2- Beth Zinkand Beth Thomson 1998 Wendy Ingraham Katja Mayer Raeleigh Tennant

(SR: course record)

Web links

• Official website of Ironman Austria

Individual evidence

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5. ↑ Ironman winners received 12,500 euros and will be back in 2014 . In: Small newspaper . July, 1st 2013.
6. ↑ Stefan Leitner: IRONMAN Austria 2014 almost ten hours live on ORF . In: trinews.at . 4th June 2014.
7. ^ Results booklet Ironman Europe 2004 . In: Ironman Europe . July 21, 1994.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Arno Wohlfahrter: The Gavia principle: Management needs SPORT needs management . novum pro, 2010, ISBN 978-3-99003-251-0 , p. 145-152 .
9. ↑ ^{a b} CV of Helge Lorenz . In: LinkedIn .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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22. ↑ Ironman organizers defend themselves against accusations of the "anti-doping test attitude" . In: triangle.cc . December 2008.
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27. ↑ IRONMAN Hall of Fame Inductees (September 23, 2014)
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30. ↑ Wave start at IRONMAN Austria (February 5, 2015)
31. ↑ Carfrae runs to the track record in Klagenfurt (June 26, 2016)
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33. ↑ Weiss fulfills a dream with Klagenfurt victory (July 1, 2018)
34. ↑ Mareen Hufe wins Ironman Austria (July 1st, 2018)
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46. ^ Raelert and Csomor Shine in Klagenfurt (June 30, 2013)