Ironman Tallinn

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Triathlon Ironman Tallinn
venue Tallinn Estonia
EstoniaEstonia 
First run 2018
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: 8:01:18 h, 2018 Philipp Koutny
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Women: 8:55:22 h, 2019 Corinne Abraham
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Website Official website

The Ironman Tallinn is a first time in August 2018 in the capital of Estonia Tallinn over the Ironman as distance (km 3.86 swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) discharged Triathlon - sporting event .

organization

The beach in Pirita in the northeast on the Tallinn Bay

The Ironman Tallinn is part of the Ironman World Series of the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), a subsidiary of the Chinese Wanda Group .

Amateurs have the opportunity here in Tallinn 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 Estonia, the winners will each receive 2,000 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.

At the first edition of the Ironman Tallinn in August 2018, there was only one professional field of men at the start and the Swiss Philipp Koutny won the race.

The third and next edition of the race, originally planned for August 1, 2020 , had to be postponed to September 5 as the coronavirus pandemic spread .

Winners list

Men Women
Date / year First place Second place third place
07 Aug 2021
05th Sep 2020
03rd Aug 2019 NorwayNorway Mikal Iden EstoniaEstonia Rauno Pikkor RomaniaRomania Mihai Vigariu
04th Aug 2018 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Philipp Koutny (SR) GermanyGermany Marc Dülsen EstoniaEstonia Marko Albert
year First place Second place third place
2021
2020
2019 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Corinne Abraham (SR) GermanyGermany Kristin Liepold United KingdomUnited Kingdom Kimberley Morrison
2018 GreeceGreece Evgenia Boulmeti FinlandFinland Iina Lumiaho FinlandFinland Maria Kasurinen

(SR: course record)

Web links

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 TALLINN: KOUTNY WITH PREMIERE VICTORY IN FRONT OF JETS (August 4, 2018)