Ironman Haugesund

Ironman Haugesund
venue	Haugesund Norway
First run	2018
organizer	World Triathlon Corporation
Records
distance	3.86 km 180.2 km 42.195 km
track record	Men: 8:05:40 h, 2019 Karsten Schütt   Women: h, 2018 Melanie Baumann
Website	Official website

The Ironman Haugesund is an annual triathlon - sporting event in Haugesund on the southwest coast of Norway on the Ironman as distance (3.86 km swim, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

organization

The Ironman Haugesund is part of the Ironman world series of the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), a subsidiary of the Chinese Wanda Group .
It was the 39th race in the Ironman racing series, the first Ironman event over the long distance in Norway and was held for the first time on July 1, 2018. Since 2012 there has also been the Ironman 70.3 Norway in the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running).

View of Haugesund

In Haugesund, amateurs have the opportunity to qualify for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii , for which 40 qualification places are available. Professional triathletes competing for the US $ 40,000 prize money can qualify for the US $ 650,000 competition in Hawaii via the Kona Pro Ranking System (KPR). In Haugesund, the winners will each receive 2,000 points and those who placed further 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 starting field for the first edition in July 2018 was limited to 2000 athletes.

Route

• The swim goes for a swim in Skeisvatnet , a lake at Haugesund.
• The cycle route goes over one lap first in the north and then after about 70 km again through Haugesund in the south and then back to Haugesund.
• The marathon distance is a four-time circular course.

Winners list

Men	Women
N ° Date / year First place Second place third place 2 June 30, 2019 Karsten Schütt (SR) Knut Ole Thoreplass Jens Koefoed 1 01st July 2018 Lars Petter Stormo Hans Kristian Tungesvik Juha-Matti Halons	year First place Second place third place 2019 Mikaela Holmberg Kaja Wright Bergwitz-Larsen Frida Hedman 2018 Melanie Baumann (SR) Kaja Wright Bergwitz-Larsen Helen Richards

(SR: course record)

Web links

• Official website of the Ironman Haugesund

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Distribution of points and prize money for professional triathletes In: ironman.com
2. ↑ Professional Athlete Qualification & Validation. In: ironman.com. Retrieved February 2, 2017 . 
3. ↑ IRONMAN HAUGESUND, 1st July 2018
4. ↑ Swim - Bike - Run