Ironman Hamburg

Ironman Hamburg
venue	Hamburg Germany
First run	2017
organizer	World Triathlon Corporation
Records
distance	3.86 km 180.2 km 42.195 km
track record	Men: 8:00:36 h, 2017 James Cunnama   Women: 9:07:49 h, 2017 Daniela Sämmler
Website	Official website

The Ironman Hamburg is since 2017 in Hamburg on the Ironman as distance (km 3.86 swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) discharged Triathlon - sporting event .

organization

Ironman Hamburg is operated by Ironman Germany GmbH , which is part of the Wanda Group as a subsidiary of the World Triathlon Corporation . Since taking over Lagardère Unlimited Events Germany GmbH in 2016, she has also been running the Hamburg Triathlon , which has been held since 2002, and the Cyclassics Hamburg, which has been held since 1996 . Ironman Hamburg is the second triathlon run by this company over this distance in Germany , alongside Ironman Germany in Frankfurt am Main, which has been held since 2002 .

View of the Hamburg Rathausmarkt , where the triathlon finishes

In 2017, the cycle route led four times over the Köhlbrand Bridge over the Port of Hamburg

Amateurs have the opportunity to qualify for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii , for which 40 qualification places are available. Professional triathletes fighting for the US $ 80,000 prize money in Hamburg can qualify for the US $ 650,000 competition in Hawaii via the Kona Pro Ranking System (KPR). In Hamburg, the winner and winner 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 , Cairns and Port Elizabeth each receive 4,000, and in the other Ironman races either 1,000 or 2,000 points.

The race took place for the first time on August 13, 2017 - the same day as the Challenge Regensburg . About 2500 athletes started.

At the second event in July 2018, the race had to be started with a 6 km run instead of swimming because the blue-green algae concentration in the water of the Alster was too high and the swimming distance could not be carried out. The times of this year are therefore not international and can be compared with other races, but the participants were still able to qualify for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships) and the results were rated as the German championship on the long distance.

The discharge in 2020, which was scheduled for 21 June, had to because of the coronavirus - pandemic be postponed and a new deadline of 6 September prospect was made.

Route

After male and female professionals have started their races in separate starting groups, the amateurs have a rolling start. The participants, each in groups of around half a dozen athletes, receive the start clearance at the same time, the individual competition time is measured by means of transponders and timing mats that have to be overrun. The advantage of this measure is that the participants are equalized at an early stage and thus the formation of groups on the bike course is reduced. The disadvantage is that the order in the ranking cannot be inferred from the order in which they crossed the finish line.

The first edition went over the following routes:

• The 3.8 km long swimming distance led after the start on Jungfernstieg in an M-shape through the Inner and Outer Alster , with a short shore leave in the middle.

• The 180 km bike course ran over two laps and led through HafenCity and the southern metropolitan region of Hamburg. The Köhlbrand Bridge was crossed four times.

• The final 42.2 kilometer marathon runs over four laps along the Inner and Outer Alster with the goal of Rathausmarkt .

Winners list

Men	Women
Date / year First place Second place third place 0June 6, 2021 28th July 2019 Kristian Hogenhaug Ruedi Wild Paul Schuster July 29, 2018 * Bart Aernouts Joe Skipper James Cunnama 13 Aug 2017 James Cunnama (SR) Horst Reichel Markus Fachbach   German championship on the long-distance triathlon	year First place Second place third place 2021 2019 Susie Cheetham Sarah Piampiano Julia Gajer 2018 Sarah Crowley Katharina Grohmann Maja Stage Nielsen 2017 Daniela Sämmler (SR) Eva Wutti Julia Ertmer

^*Run as a duathlon (running, cycling, running)

Web links

• Official website of the Ironman Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Daniel Eilers: Ironman comes to Hamburg In: tri-mag.de September 15, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Distribution of points and prize money for professional triathletes In: ironman.com
3. ↑ Professional Athlete Qualification & Validation . In: ironman.com .
4. ↑ Blue- green algae: No swimming in the Alster at the Ironman (July 27, 2018)
5. ↑ BJÖRN STEINMETZ: "NOTHING CHANGES IN THE KONA SLOTS AND THE GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS" (July 27, 2018)
6. ↑ Ironman Hamburg is postponed. In: ndr.de . April 6, 2020, accessed April 7, 2020 . 
7. ↑ TRIATHLON COMEBACK: WTS RACE AND IRONMAN HAMBURG ON ONE WEEKEND (May 13, 2020)
8. ↑ Achim Leoni: Mega Events: What the Ironman Hamburg brings . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . 16th September 2016.