Ironman New Zealand

Ironman New Zealand
venue	Taupo (since 1999) Auckland (1985–1998) New Zealand
First run	1985
organizer	World Triathlon Corporation
Records
distance	3.86 km 180.2 km 42.195 km
track record	Men: 7:54:17 h, 2020 Joe Skipper   Women: 8:40:29 h, 2020 Teresa Adam
Website	Official website

The Ironman New Zealand (also Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Ironman New Zealand ) is a triathlon sporting event over the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming , 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running ) held annually since 1985 in February or March New Zealand , which was initially held in Auckland until 1998 and has since taken place in Taupo in the center of the North Island.

organization

When Ron Cumming, Marketing Director at Air New Zealand , learned that Ironman Hawaii was looking for international partners, he saw the potential economic benefit and signed a license agreement with the Hawaiian Triathlon Corporation. The original concept was to change the venue to New Zealand every year. Air New Zealand hired Paul Gleeson, experienced in hosting golf events, to organize it.

Auckland 1985-1998 Taupo since 1999

Ironman New Zealand venues on New Zealand's North Island

The Lake Taupo

In 1985 the Double Brown Ironman New Zealand was held for the first time in Mission Bay, a seaside suburb of Auckland on the North Island , later the start was moved to Saint Heliers. Outside the USA, it was the first qualifying race for a starting place at the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona , Hawaii, alongside the Japan Long Distance Triathlon on Lake Biwa .

In the early years, the competition distances at Ironman New Zealand were 2  miles (3.2 km) swimming, 100 miles (161 km) cycling and 20 miles (32.2 km) running. At the second event in 1986, Sister Madonna Buder was the oldest woman among 193 participants at the age of 55. From 1988 onwards, the distances were brought into line with those of the Ironman Hawaii with 3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.2 km running. At that time the bike course passed near Pakuranga, where Cameron Brown , who would later win this race eleven times, lived as a child.

Held in Taupo since 1999

In 1999 Air New Zealand transferred the rights to the event to the International Management Group (IMG), the world's largest sports marketer. In terms of personnel, nothing changed - Race Director Paul Gleeson was in the meantime responsible for IMG's New Zealand business. But locally: On March 6, 1999, the event took place for the first time in Taupo, 275 km south of the previous location.

At the twentieth anniversary in 2004, 1435 registrations were received, among the 1375 starters 610 were from New Zealand, the rest were spread over forty-two other nationalities, 1186 made it to the finish. At the 2009 event, 1300 athletes were at the start, of which 1275 were able to reach the finish. Around half of the participants in Ironman New Zealand regularly come from outside New Zealand, making it the most international of the events organized or licensed by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC).

The starting shot for Ironman New Zealand 2010 was given by Prime Minister John Key , who wanted to emphasize the importance for tourism. In the previous 25 years, New Zealand received more than 50,000 additional visitors as a result of the event - participants, relatives and supervisors added together. In 2009 alone, the participants in the Ironman New Zealand achieved added value of NZ $ 10 million, a quarter of which in Taupo alone. 2,000 volunteers support the event, although Taupo itself only has around 22,000 residents.

Cameron Brown , the twelve-time winner (2005 in Frankfurt / M.)

Amateurs can at Ironman New Zealand on 40 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 $ 75,000 prize money in Taupo can qualify for the $ 650,000 competition in Hawaii via the Kona Pro Ranking System (KPR). In Taupo, 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 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.

2006 shortened course

The Ironman New Zealand in 2006 could only be held without the swimming distance on a shortened course due to the weather (90 km cycling and 21 km running).

In 2012 the race originally scheduled for Saturday was postponed to Sunday and it had to be held on a shortened course as Ironman 70.3 .

This Ironman took place for the 32nd time in March 2016 and Cameron Brown achieved a new course record with his winning time of 8:07:58 h and also his twelfth victory. The New Zealander has already competed eighteen times, was able to achieve two bronze and silver medals and, with his victory in 2016, he was the first triathlete to win twelve gold medals. In 1997, the then 24-year-old completed his first Ironman in Auckland, finishing twenty-third in 9:40 hours - around an hour behind the winning Lothar Leder . The following year 1998 was - because of his attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games - the only year in which Cameron Brown has not competed at the Ironman New Zealand since then. His compatriot Joanna Lawn can already look back on seven victories.

In March 2018 the 20th edition and at the same time the "New Zealand Ultra Distance National Championships" (triathlon state championship on the long distance) took place in Taupo. New Zealander Terenzo Bozzone took his first win at his tenth start in Taupo and set a new course record with 7:59:56 h.

The last race here was on March 7th, 2020. Teresa Adam from New Zealand won after 8:40:29 h and the Briton Joe Skipper finished after 7:54:17 h - that meant course records for both.

Routing

• The swimming course is in the form of an elongated rectangle that swims clockwise and whose longest edge is 1775 m long in Lake Taupo , a crater lake with a maximum width of 40 km and a maximum length of 28 km. The swim start takes place as a water start in front of the Taupo Yacht Club, where the transition area is also located. The water temperature in Lake Taupo at this time is typically 19 ° C. Professional triathletes start around 15 minutes before the amateurs.

• The hilly cycle route extends over two laps as a turning point route in a north-east direction over Broadlands Road through the typical New Zealand green hilly landscape, in which natural forests and agricultural areas alternate, to the turning point in the small town of Reporoa.

The Ironman New Zealand is a "non-drafting race": If you fall below the minimum distance of 10 meters to the athlete in front (12 meters for professional triathletes), except when overtaking for a maximum of 20 seconds, you will be punished with a five-minute time penalty.

• The running route leads as a turning point route over three laps directly on Lake Taupo, the largest freshwater lake in the southern hemisphere , southwards, the turning point is in Wharewaka. Like the transition area, the finish is located near the yacht club.

Winners list

Ironman New Zealand in Taupo

Men

Women

N ° Date / year First place Second place third place 37 06th Mar 2021 36 07th Mar 2020 Joe Skipper (SR) Mike Phillips Braden Currie 35 02nd Mar 2019 Mike Phillips Andrew Starykowicz Braden Currie 34 03rd Mar 2018 Terenzo Bozzone Joe Skipper Cameron Brown 33 04th Mar 2017 Braden Currie Cameron Brown Cyril Viennot 32 05th Mar 2016 Cameron Brown -12- Joe Skipper Callum Millward 31 07th Mar 2015 Cameron Brown -11- Terenzo Bozzone Dylan McNeice 30th 01st Mar 2014 Marko Albert Cameron Brown Terenzo Bozzone 29 02nd Mar 2013 Bevan Docherty Marko Albert Cameron Brown 28 04th Mar 2012 1 Marino Vanhoenacker Tim Reed Cameron Brown 27 05th Mar 2011 Cameron Brown -10- Terenzo Bozzone Mathias Hecht 26th 06th Mar 2010 Cameron Brown -9- Terenzo Bozzone Kieran Doe 25th 07th Mar 2009 Cameron Brown -8- Terenzo Bozzone Dirk Bockel 24 01st Mar 2008 Cameron Brown -7- Frederik Van Lierde Kieran Doe 23 03rd Mar 2007 Cameron Brown -6- Luke Bell Torbjørn Sindballe 22nd 04th Mar 2006 1 Ain-Alar Juhanson Cameron Brown Andrew Young 21st 05th Mar 2005 Cameron Brown -5- Gordo Byrn Bryan Rhodes 20th 06th Mar 2004 Cameron Brown -4- Clas Björling Bjorn Andersson 19th 01st Mar 2003 Cameron Brown -3- Olivier Bernhard Jan Van Rooyen 18th 02nd Mar 2002 Cameron Brown -2- Jonas Colting Garrett MacFadyen 17th 03rd Mar 2001 Cameron Brown Peter Sandvang Stefan Holzner 16 04th Mar 2000 Thomas Hellriegel Cameron Brown Olivier Bernhard 15th 07th Mar 1999 Tim DeBoom Cameron Brown Andreas Low  New Zealand Ultra Distance National Championships (Long Distance Triathlon National Championship)

year First place Second place third place 2021 2020 Teresa Adam (SR) Meredith Kessler Judith Corachán 2019 Jocelyn McCauley -2- Teresa Adam Meredith Kessler 2018 Laura Siddall Teresa Adam Jocelyn McCauley 2017 Jocelyn McCauley Laura Siddall Meredith Kessler 2016 Meredith Kessler -5- Lucy Gossage Carrie Lester 2015 Meredith Kessler -4- Gina Crawford Melanie Burke 2014 Meredith Kessler -3- Gina Crawford Candice Hammond 2013 Meredith Kessler -2- Gina Crawford Candice Hammond 2012 Meredith Kessler Kate Bevilaqua Joanna Lawn 2011 Samantha Warriner Mirinda Carfrae Joanna Lawn 2010 Joanna Lawn -7- Gina Crawford Kim Loeffler 2009 Gina Ferguson Joanna Lawn Charlotte Paul 2008 Joanna Lawn -6- Kate Bevilaqua Emi Shiono 2007 Joanna Lawn -5- Heather Gollnick Kim Loeffler 2006 Joanna Lawn -4- Tyler Stewart Karyn Ballance 2005 Joanna Lawn -3- Monica Caplan Claire Murray 2004 Joanna Lawn -2- Lynley Allison Tamara Kozulina 2003 Joanna Lawn Karyn Ballance Lisa Bentley 2002 Karyn Ballance Joanna Lawn Lynley Allison 2001 Lisa Bentley -2- Karyn Ballance Lena Wahlqvist 2000 Lisa Bentley Karyn Ballance Robyn Roocke 1999 Melissa Spooner Karyn Mills Lisa Bentley

¹ Route shortened due to weather conditions

Ironman New Zealand in Auckland

Men

Women

N ° Date / year First place Second place third place 14th 15th Mar 1998 Peter Sandvang Tony O'Hagan Olivier Bernhard 13 09 Mar 1997 Lothar leather Stefan Holzner Peter Sandvang 12 03rd Mar 1996 Stefan Holzner -2- Stephen Farrel Ken Glah 11  March 1995 Stefan Holzner Ken Glah Stephen Farrell 10  March 1994 Scott Ballance Ken Glah Tony O'Hagan 9  March 1993 Ken Glah -2- Dirk Aschmoneit Péter Kropkó 8th 24 Mar 1992 Ken Glah Stefan Kolm Scott Tinley 7th 17th Mar 1991 Dirk Aschmoneit Scott Tinley Scott Molina 6th  March 1990 Pauli Kiuru Ken Glah Scott Tinley 5  March 1989 Ray Browning Matthew Brick Pauli Kiuru 4th 20 Mar 1988 Scott Tinley -2- Ray Browning John Hughes 3  March 1987 2 Ray Browning Brent Snellex John Hughes 2  March 1986 2 Scott Tinley Glenn Davies Peter Zyerveld 1 24 Mar 1985 2 Scott Molina Marc Suprenant Don Jacobs

year First place Second place third place 1998 Suzanne Nielsen Fiona McKee Heidi Alexander 1997 Jan Wanklyn -3- Lauren Alexander Fiona McKee 1996 Jan Wanklyn -2- Jenny Rose Karen Sitko 1995 Sue Clark Fiona McKee Gayle Watson 1994 Erin Baker -4- Sharlene Ryan Fiona McKee 1993 Julie Anne White Carolyn Hubbard Susan Latshaw 1992 Krista Whelan Sarah Coope Julie Anne White 1991 Jan Wanklyn Sarah Coope Terry Schneider-Egger 1990 Erin Baker -3- Jan Wanklyn Terry Schneider 1989 Fiona McKee Josie Sinclair Sue Price 1988 Nancy Harrison Christine Horrocks Susie Douglas 1987 Erin Baker -2- Linda Buchanan Sue Price 1986 Erin Baker Julie Moss Sue Price 1985 Michelle Gammie Robyn Black Beth Davis

² 2 miles (3.2 km) swim, 100 miles (161 km) bike and 20 miles (32.2 km) run

Web links

Commons : Ironman New Zealand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Ironman New Zealand

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ironman race may limit foreign athletes ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . May 17, 1985.
2. ↑ Ian Hepenstall: Ironman New Zealand: 25 years of excellence ( English ) In: ironman.com . February 18, 2009.
3. ↑ Recalling dawn of Ironman NZ ( English ) In: Howick and Pakuranga Times . February 24, 2014. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Ironman Media Guide 2010 (PDF)
5. ^ History of Ironman New Zealand
6. ^ Rob Docherty: Ironman NZ Changes Hands ( English ) In: xtri.com . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ New Owner Confirms Taupo Base for Ironman New Zealand Triathlon . World Triathlon Corporation. April 20, 2001. Archived from the original on April 26, 2001.
8. ↑ Michael Brown: Ironman turns silver . In: The New Zealand Herald . February 22, 2009.
9. ↑ Terry Maddaford: Athletics: Taupo assured of retaining ironman . In: The New Zealand Herald . April 2, 2001.
10. ^ Prime Minister to start Bonita Ironman New Zealand
11. ↑ http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/asiapac/ironman/new-zealand.aspx
12. ^ 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
13. ↑ ^{a b} Distribution of points and prize money for professional triathletes ( memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Professional Athlete Qualification & Validation . In: ironman.com .
15. ↑ IRONMAN New Zealand: Strong wind prevents regular races ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ 2006 Race Report
17. ^ Severe Weather Forecast Impacts Ironman New Zealand March 1, 2012
18. ↑ Brown looks back at Ironman NZ ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: times.co.nz on February 27, 2014  
19. ↑ Ironman New Zealand: Terenzo Bozzone wins at the tenth attempt in record time (March 3, 2018)
20. ↑ New winners and new records at Ironman New Zealand (March 7, 2020)
21. ↑ ^{a b c} 2015 Athlete Information Guide
22. ↑ Competition Rules 2015