Ironman Cairns
 Ironman Cairns
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Cairns Australia
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| First run | 2012 |
| organizer | World Triathlon Corporation |
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| distance |
 3.86 km
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| track record | Men: 7:54:58 h, 2018 Braden Currie Women: 8:48:34 h, 2019 Teresa Adam
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| Website | Official website |
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The Ironman Cairns (also Cairns Airport Ironman Cairns ) is an annual triathlon sports event in June over the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) in Cairns on the Cape York Peninsula on the tropical northeast coast of Australia. The Ironman Asia-Pacific Championships have been held here since 2016 .
organization
Cairns lies between the two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef on earth, and the Daintree National Park .
In 2011 the first edition of the race was organized by USM Events as a licensee of the Challenge series under the name Challenge Cairns . Despite an existing three-year contract with the Challenge series that explicitly precludes sale, USM Events was taken over by the American organizer World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) in February 2012 . Since the Challenge series saw an alignment as a licensee of the WTC as untenable, they withdrew the Challenge label from the event, for which 1,300 registrations were already available at the time, and the WTC carried the race in Queensland for the first time on June 3, 2012 under the Name "Ironman Cairns". The Ironman Cairns is the highlight of a week-long festival in Cairns, which also includes a triathlon over the Olympic distance, mountain bike races, a fun run and a children's triathlon.
Amateurs can at Ironman Cairns over forty distributed to each age group qualifying slots for the under the name Ironman World Championship , a protected trademark of the WTC in Kailua-Kona aligned Ironman Hawaii qualify. Professional triathletes competing for the $ 100,000 prize money in Cairns can qualify for the $ 650,000 competition in Hawaii using the Kona Pro Ranking System (KPR). In Cairns, the winner and the winner will each receive 2000 points, and those placed will receive a correspondingly reduced number of points.
For comparison: The winner in Hawaii receives 6,000 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.
In 2016 the Ironman Asia-Pacific Championships were held here for the first time . From its first edition in 2012 to 2015, these championships were determined as part of the Ironman Melbourne . The event originally planned for June 7, 2020 was canceled in March due to the spread of the coronavirus and postponed to an as yet unknown date.
Course records
The course record is held by New Zealander Braden Currie with his winning time from 2018 with 7:54:58 h. In 2014 New Zealander Cameron Brown became the oldest male winner of an Ironman race in 8:20 hours just two weeks before his 42nd birthday.
For women, the 2017 course record was set by the Australian Sarah Crowley with 8:58:13 h. In 2019, New Zealander Teresa Adam was able to repeat her victory from the previous year and improve the record to 8:43:84 h.
Routing
- The swim course over 3.8 km leads over a counterclockwise lap in the South Pacific with start and finish at Williams Promenade in Palm Cove , a tourist settlement about 27 km north of Cairns, interrupted by a shore leave halfway through the route. Since the event takes place in the largely rain-free Australian winter, the water temperature is typically 24 ° C with an average maximum daily temperature of 26 ° C. The competition takes place towards the end of the jellyfish season. If wetsuits are not permitted due to a water temperature of over 26 ° C, the use of jellyfish protection suits or similar is recommended.
- The start takes place as a land start, with male and female professionals starting their race in separate starting groups. A rolling start has been taking place for the amateurs since 2015. The participants, who are divided into four starting blocks according to the expected swimming times, are given the starting clearance at the same time in groups of half a dozen athletes, the individual competition time is measured using transponders and timing mats that have to be overrun. The advantage of this measure is that the participants are equalized early on, thus avoiding the formation of a crowd on the bike course. The disadvantage is that the order in the ranking cannot be inferred from the order in which they crossed the finish line.
- The bike course leads with several turning points on a hilly and winding route on the Captain Cook Highway between the tropical rainforest and the Pacific coast. First the athletes drive north to the turning point in Port Douglas , then on the same route back to the second turning point approx. 6 km south of Wangetti to pass the turning point in Port Douglas for the second time. The route then leads (without turning again) past the second turning point and Cairns Airport to Fogarty Park in Cairns, where the second transition area is located. Driving in the slipstream is not permitted, the minimum distance at the Ironman Cairns is twelve meters (seven bike lengths) and overtaking maneuvers must be completed in 25 seconds.
- The flat running route extends over three laps with three turning points each on the Cairns promenade, the finish line is at the second transition area. Because of the proximity to the equator, the finish line for a large part of the athletes is after sunset, so the participants are given glow sticks at the refreshment stands. The finish will be closed 17 hours after the last athlete has started.
Winners list
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In June 2011 the long distance race was held under the name “Challenge Cairns” as part of the Challenge racing series.
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ USM Events CEO Geoff Meyer . In: firstoffthebike.com . February 16, 2012.
- ^ WTC Acquires Australia's USM Events . In: triathlete.com . February 15, 2012.
- ↑ Tim Bradley: Andrew Messick: The giant acquisition . In: triathlonmag.com.au . May 16, 2012.
- ↑ January Saegert: Challenge Cairns, an ironman . In: tri-mag.de . March 12, 2012.
- ↑ Dan Empfield: Felix Walchhofer on Cairns . In: slowtwitch.com . March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Challenge-Family terminates contract with Australian organizer . In: Team Challenge GmbH . March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Piva: Ironman Cairns race to replace Challenge Cairns with € 100k prize purse ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Cairns Post from March 14, 2012
- ^ Agreement between the Non-Profit-Organizations International Triathlon Union (ITU) and USA Triathlon (USAT) and the For-Profit-Organization World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) ( Memento from September 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) May 15, 1998
- ↑ a b Distribution of points and prize money for professional triathletes ( memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Professional Athlete Qualification & Validation . In: ironman.com .
- ↑ Coronavirus: Internationally canceled triathlon events (March 13, 2020)
- ^ Brown sets record, Blatchford repeats at Ironman Cairns . In: ironman.com . June 8, 2014.
- ↑ Palm Cove General Info ( Memento from February 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Participant information Ironman Cairns 2015