Ironman France

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Triathlon Ironman France
venue Nice (since 2005)
Gérardmer (2002–2004) France
FranceFrance 
First run 2002
organizer World Triathlon Corporation
Records
distance Swimming pictogram.svg 3.86 km

Cycling (road) pictogram.svg180.2 km
Athletics pictogram.svg42.195 km

track record Men: 8:08:59 h, 2013 Frederik Van Lierde
BelgiumBelgium 
Women: 9:11:39 h, 2018 Corinne Abraham
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Website Official website

The Ironman France is a triathlon contest on the Ironman as distance. It has been held in Nice every June since 2005 and replaced the Triathlon International de Nice , which was held at the same location . Between 2002 and 2004 the Triathlon de Gérardmer was held 800 km north of Nice under the name Ironman France .

history

In 1982, Europe's first long-distance triathlon was created in Nice, which established itself as a classic with a top field and high media attention and was mentioned in the same breath as the triathlon competitions in Roth and the Ironman Hawaii . 4 km swimming in the open sea, a selective bike route through the French Maritime Alps with some 2600 meters of altitude difference over 130 km and finally a 2 × 15 km run as a turning point route to Antibes made up the "Nice distance".

Nice beach boulevard at night

Since 1994 Nice has hosted the official long-distance world championships of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) six times . Triathlon legend Mark Allen , who also won the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii six times, won ten times at the “Triathlon International de Nice” in the 1980s and 1990s. Prize money of 90,000 euros (2004, including 20,000 euros for the overall winner), up to 2,200 participants (registration record in 2000) with a spectacular mass start in the Baie des Anges in the center of Nice and which in Europe alongside Roth attracted the highest media attention French triathlon federation FFTRI. oriented competition to a point of attraction for ambitious triathletes.

The city of Nice, which each had always concluded the contract for the triathlon for four years, awarded the rights for the period from 2005 to twelve sweeps through the IMG and other eleven by FFTRI 2005 to the Austrian agency Triangle show & sports promotion GmbH , already organized the Ironman Austria and the Ironman South Africa . Triangle initially obtained the right to use the Ironman trademark through a license agreement with the trademark owner World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). The competition routes were adapted to the Ironman distance with 3.8 km swimming, 180 km on the bike and 42.2 km running. After the WTC was bought by an investment company in 2008 , it in turn bought Triangle in 2010 and has been the organizer of Ironman France since then. The race director of Ironman France since 2005 has been Yves Cordier , Mark Allen's biggest French competitor when he started in Nice and at that time the most famous active triathlete in France. Conversely, the entry fees for the participants were increased from 130 euros in 2004 to 300 euros in 2006 to 515 euros plus 6 euros fees for 2016. The number of participants halved after the takeover by Triangle, initially to 1155 registrations, the lowest level in 2006, but then rose again and has been around 2750 registrations every year since 2009.

In June 2011 Silvia Felt achieved the first victory of a German triathlete in Nice since Ines Estedt's last victory in 2002. In 2015, Boris Stein won the first German since 1982 in Nice. The last Swiss victorious in Nice was Christoph Mauch in 1999. Karin Thürig in 2002 , Timo Bracht in 2003 and Stefan Riesen in 2004 were able to win in Gérardmer - within the period in which the event was organized there under the name “Ironman France” .

In 2017 the race was moved from June to July. Ironman France was held for the 17th time in June 2018.

The 19th edition, originally planned for June 14, 2020, was canceled in April due to the spread of the coronavirus . A possible event on October 11, 2020 is in prospect.

Course records

In 2013, the course records set in the previous year were broken. Frederik van Lierde undercut his time after a strong race by more than 10 minutes. In 2014, Tine Deckers undercut the time set in the previous year for women and won with 9:12:21 h.

The following records are held on the individual sections:

Winners list

Ironman France in Nice

Men Women
Date / year First place Second place third place
Oct 11, 2020 (TBC)
June 30, 2019 South AfricaSouth Africa James Cunnama FranceFrance Kevin Rundstadler BelgiumBelgium Frederik Van Lierde
June 24, 2018 BelgiumBelgium Frederik Van Lierde -5- FranceFrance Antony Costes AustraliaAustralia Cameron Litter
23rd July 2017 BelgiumBelgium Frederik Van Lierde -4- ItalyItaly Alessandro Degasperi FranceFrance Denis Chevrot
05th June 2016 SpainSpain Victor Del Corral Morales South AfricaSouth Africa James Cunnama GermanyGermany Stefan Schmid
June 28, 2015 GermanyGermany Boris Stein SpainSpain Victor Del Corral Morales FranceFrance Romain Guillaume
June 29, 2014 BelgiumBelgium Bart Aernouts SpainSpain Victor Del Corral Morales BermudaBermuda Tyler Butterfield
June 23, 2013 BelgiumBelgium Frederik Van Lierde (SR) -3- BelgiumBelgium Bart Aernouts SpainSpain Clemente Alonso McKernan
June 24, 2012 BelgiumBelgium Frederik Van Lierde -2- United KingdomUnited Kingdom Paul Amey FranceFrance François Chabaud
June 26, 2011 BelgiumBelgium Frederik Van Lierde FranceFrance François Chabaud SpainSpain Marcel Zamora Pérez
June 27, 2010 SpainSpain Marcel Zamora Perez -5- BelgiumBelgium Frederik Van Lierde SwitzerlandSwitzerland Olivier Marceau
June 28, 2009 SpainSpain Marcel Zamora Perez -4- FranceFrance Hervé Faure FranceFrance Simon Billeau
June 22, 2008 SpainSpain Marcel Zamora Perez -3- FranceFrance Hervé Faure FranceFrance Patrick Bringer
June 24, 2007 SpainSpain Marcel Zamora Perez -2- FranceFrance Gilles Reboul FranceFrance Patrick Bringer
June 25, 2006 SpainSpain Marcel Zamora Perez FranceFrance Hervé Faure FranceFrance François Chabaud
June 19, 2005 FranceFrance Hervé Faure SpainSpain Marcel Zamora Perez FranceFrance Gilles Reboul
year First place Second place third place
2021
2019 AustraliaAustralia Carrie Lester -2- BelgiumBelgium Tine Deckers FranceFrance Manon Genet
2018 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Corinne Abraham (SR) AustraliaAustralia Carrie Lester FranceFrance Manon Genet
2017 AustraliaAustralia Carrie Lester AustraliaAustralia Annabel Luxford FranceFrance Linda Guinoiseau
2016 BelgiumBelgium Tine Deckers -5- SwitzerlandSwitzerland Emma Bilham United KingdomUnited Kingdom Leanda Cave
2015 United StatesUnited States Caitlin Snow United StatesUnited States Lisa Roberts FranceFrance Linda Guinoiseau
2014 BelgiumBelgium Tine Deckers -4- United StatesUnited States Caitlin Snow United StatesUnited States Lisa Roberts
2013 United StatesUnited States Mary Beth Ellis FranceFrance Jeanne Collonge FranceFrance Dolphins Pelletier
2012 BelgiumBelgium Tine Deckers -3- New ZealandNew Zealand Gina Crawford GermanyGermany Kristin Möller
2011 GermanyGermany Silvia Felt ItalyItaly Martina Dogana United StatesUnited States Kim Loeffler
2010 BelgiumBelgium Tine Deckers -2- HungaryHungary Erika Csomor FranceFrance Alexandra Louison
2009 BelgiumBelgium Tine Deckers FranceFrance Christel Robin ItalyItaly Martina Dogana
2008 ItalyItaly Martina Dogana GermanyGermany Katja Schumacher FranceFrance Alexandra Louison
2007 FranceFrance Alexandra Louison GermanyGermany Kathrin Pätzold GermanyGermany Tine Tretner
2006 ItalyItaly Edith Niederfriniger NetherlandsNetherlands Mariska Kramer-Postma ItalyItaly Martina Dogana
2005 NetherlandsNetherlands Mariska Kramer FranceFrance Catherine Houseaux ItalyItaly Astrid Perathoner

TBC - To Be Confirmed (not yet confirmed)
SR - course record

Ironman France in Gérardmer

In 2002, 2003 and 2004 the Triathlon de Gérardmer , organized since 1988, took place under the name Ironman France . The event in Nice has been running under this name since 2005. The Triathlon de Gérardmer continues unchanged.

Men Women
Date / year First place Second place third place
June 27, 2004 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Stefan Riesen GermanyGermany Frank Vytrisal FranceFrance Hervé Faure
June 21, 2003 GermanyGermany Timo Bracht SwitzerlandSwitzerland Stefan Riesen FranceFrance Gilles Reboul
June 22, 2002 FranceFrance François Chabaud SwitzerlandSwitzerland Stefan Riesen GermanyGermany Timo Bracht
year First place Second place third place
2004 FranceFrance Sophie Delemer CanadaCanada Marilyn MacDonald HungaryHungary Zsuzsanna Harsanyi
2003 FranceFrance Helene Salomon-Watson BelgiumBelgium Françoise Wellekens CanadaCanada Jennifer Potts
2002 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Karin Thürig United StatesUnited States Gina Kehr SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ariane Gutknecht

Triathlon International de Nice

The initiators Mark McCormack and IMG , who had noticed the media attention about the Ironman Hawaii, originally planned with Monaco as the venue for the first European long-distance triathlon, but after the death of Grace Kelly decided to hold the event with a distance of 1.5 To organize km of swimming, 100 km of bike and a final marathon in 1982 as the Triathlon de Nice .

57 athletes, including Mark Allen , Scott Tinley and his brother Jeff, Scott Molina , Axel Koenders and John Howard , jumped into the then 14 ° C Mediterranean at the premiere. From 1983 the event ran over the distances of 3 km swimming, 120 km on the bike and 32 km running under the name Triathlon Longue Distance de Nice . High prize money (75,000 US dollars in 1985, while Ironman Hawaii paid no prize money at that time) and TV reports by the American broadcaster CBS ensured that the entire world elite were at the start in Nice in the 1980s. As early as 1986, Nice received 1,166 registrations from 30 countries, the police reported 100,000 spectators along the route. In 1994 the French triathlon federation FFTRI took over . the organization by the IMG, the event was promoted from now on under the name Triathlon International de Nice .

In 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2002 the long distance world championship of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) was held as part of the Triathlon International de Nice .

The American Mark Allen was able to win this race in Nice ten times between 1982 and 1993. Paula Newby-Fraser from Zimbabwe was the most successful starter with four wins.

Men Women
Date / year First place Second place third place
26 Sep 2004 FranceFrance Julien Loy SwitzerlandSwitzerland Mike Aigroz FranceFrance Gilles Reboul
Sep 14 2003 FranceFrance Patrick Vernay FranceFrance François Chabaud SwitzerlandSwitzerland Olivier Marceau
22 Sep 2002 FranceFrance Cyrille Neveu DenmarkDenmark Torbjørn Sindballe BelgiumBelgium Rutger Beke
23 Sep 2001 FranceFrance Gilles Reboul FranceFrance Xavier Galea FranceFrance Christoph Hamard
June 18, 2000 DenmarkDenmark Peter Sandvang FranceFrance Cyrille Neveu FranceFrance François Chabaud
26 Sep 1999 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Christoph Mauch GermanyGermany Rainer Müller BelgiumBelgium Luc Van Lierde
27 Sep 1998 NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel -3- FranceFrance Jérôme Sanson GermanyGermany Olaf Rennicke
0June 8, 1997 BelgiumBelgium Luc Van Lierde -2- NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel SwitzerlandSwitzerland Jean-Christophe Guinchard
28 Sep 1996 BelgiumBelgium Luc Van Lierde FranceFrance Olivier Marceau NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel
0Oct. 1, 1995 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Simon Lessing BelgiumBelgium Luc van Lierde CanadaCanada Peter Reid
June 26, 1994 NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel -2- GermanyGermany Lothar leather FranceFrance Yves Cordier
June 13, 1993 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -10- United KingdomUnited Kingdom Simon Lessing NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel
June 14, 1992 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -9- FranceFrance Yves Cordier NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel
June 16, 1991 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -8- NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel FranceFrance Yves Cordier
June 17, 1990 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -7- United StatesUnited States Mike Pigg NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel
May 28, 1989 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -6- NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel United StatesUnited States Mike Pigg
Sep 24 1988 NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel United StatesUnited States Scott Molina United StatesUnited States Scott Tinley
Oct 25, 1987 New ZealandNew Zealand Rick wells United StatesUnited States Scott Tinley FranceFrance Hervé Niquet
0Oct. 5, 1986 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -5- United StatesUnited States Scott Molina United StatesUnited States George Hoover
Oct 13, 1985 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -4- United StatesUnited States Scott Tinley NetherlandsNetherlands Rob Barel
08 Sep 1984 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -3- United StatesUnited States Dave Scott United StatesUnited States Scott Tinley
  1983 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen -2- United StatesUnited States Dave Scott United StatesUnited States Scott Molina
Nov 20, 1982 United StatesUnited States Mark Allen United StatesUnited States Scott Molina United StatesUnited States Scott Tinley
  Long Distance World Championship of the International Triathlon Union (ITU)  
year First place Second place third place
2004 AustraliaAustralia Mirinda Carfrae New ZealandNew Zealand Fiona Docherty BelgiumBelgium Mieke Suys
2003 FranceFrance Audrey Cléau United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beth Thompson FranceFrance Isabelle Ferrer
2002 GermanyGermany Ines Estedt -3- BelgiumBelgium Kathleen Smet SpainSpain Virginia Berasategui
2001 FranceFrance Sophie Delemer -2- AustriaAustria Kate Allen FranceFrance Helene Salomon
2000 FranceFrance Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys -3- SwitzerlandSwitzerland Natascha Badmann ItalyItaly Daniela Lacarno
1999 AustraliaAustralia Joanne King BelgiumBelgium Kathleen Smet BelgiumBelgium Mieke Suys
1998 FranceFrance Sophie Delemer GermanyGermany Ute Schäfer DenmarkDenmark Gudrun Stephensen
1997 GermanyGermany Ines Estedt -2- FranceFrance Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys SpainSpain Virginia Berasategui
1996 GermanyGermany Ines Estedt NetherlandsNetherlands Christine de Wit South AfricaSouth Africa Kim Carter
1995 New ZealandNew Zealand Jenny Rose GermanyGermany Ute Schäfer GermanyGermany Ines Estedt
1994 FranceFrance Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys -2- United StatesUnited States Karen Smyers FranceFrance Lydie Reuze
1993 FranceFrance Isabelle Mouthon United StatesUnited States Susan Latshaw FranceFrance Béatrice Mouthon
1992 ZimbabweZimbabwe Paula Newby-Fraser -4- United StatesUnited States Donna Peters CanadaCanada Sylvianne Puntous
1991 ZimbabweZimbabwe Paula Newby-Fraser -3- FranceFrance Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys NetherlandsNetherlands Thea Sybesma
1990 ZimbabweZimbabwe Paula Newby-Fraser -2- United StatesUnited States Kirsten Hansen NetherlandsNetherlands Thea Sybesma
1989 ZimbabweZimbabwe Paula Newby-Fraser CanadaCanada Sylvianne Puntous CanadaCanada Patricia Puntous
1988 New ZealandNew Zealand Erin Baker -3- AustraliaAustralia Jan Wanklyn United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sarah Coope
1987 United StatesUnited States Kirsten Hansen United StatesUnited States Colleen Cannon ZimbabweZimbabwe Paula Newby-Fraser
1986 New ZealandNew Zealand Erin Baker -2- United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sarah Coope BelgiumBelgium Lieve Cappaert-Paulus
1985 New ZealandNew Zealand Erin Baker United StatesUnited States Linda Buchanan CanadaCanada Sylvianne Puntous
1984 United StatesUnited States Colleen Cannon United StatesUnited States Julie Moss United StatesUnited States Jann Girard
1983 United StatesUnited States Linda Buchanan United StatesUnited States Jann Girard United StatesUnited States Kathleen Mac Cartney
1982 United StatesUnited States Lyn Brooks United StatesUnited States Joann Dahlkoetter United StatesUnited States Sally Edwards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Triathlon Nice - Interview with Philippe Lescure ( Memento from March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: 3athlon.de. May 5, 2004
  2. Dan Empfield: WTC sold to private equity firm . In: slowtwitch.com . September 8, 2008.
  3. Elzabe Boshoff, Marietjie VanDerMerwe: The Heart of an Ironman South Africa . 2nd Edition. Meyer & Meyer , 2012, ISBN 978-1-84126-363-2 , pp. 16-17 .
  4. IRONMAN European Championship in Frankfurt 2020 canceled (April 6, 2020)