Ironman USA

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Triathlon Ironman Lake Placid
venue Lake Placid United States
United StatesUnited States 
First run 1999
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: 8:23:12 h, 2004 Simon Lessing
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Women: 9:09:42 h, 2016 Heather Jackson
United StatesUnited States 
Website Official website

The Ironman Lake Placid is a triathlon sporting event over the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling, 42.195 km running) that has been held annually in July since 1999 in Lake Placid , USA .

organization

On August 15, 1999 the triathlon - initially under the name "Ironman USA" - was held for the first time with 1500 starting places, organized by the Canadian Graham Fraser, founder of North American Sports (NA Sports) and since 1996 organizer of Ironman Canada in Penticton .

Lake Placid - The lake the city was named after
Swimming at Ironman Lake Placid (2012)
In 2004, Simon Lessing set the current course record in Lake Placid.

As the first triathlon over the Ironman distance on the mainland of the USA, he also used this trademark and Fraser paid license fees to the WTC for this purpose , in return 80 qualification places for the Ironman Hawaii were awarded at Ironman USA in 1999 , their number was already two years later increased to one hundred. Before that, there were already 15 qualifying competitions for the Ironman Hawaii in the USA, but these did not use the Ironman trademark in the event name and, with the exception of the "Vineman Triathlon" in Santa Rosa, all had shorter distances than the Ironman Hawaii and significantly fewer qualifying places in the Offer. The maximum number in the US was previously offered by the Wildflower Triathlon in 1998 with 28 qualifying places for amateurs in the age groups and fifteen professional triathletes. Only the “Ricoh Ironman US Championship” in Los Angeles in 1983 had the “Ironman” trademark in their name on the mainland of the USA.

The competition established itself quickly, starting places were allocated so quickly that in 2001 the triathlon competitions “St. Croix Half Ironman "," Gulf Coast Triathlon "," Blackwater EagleMan Triathlon "," Buffalo Springs Lake Triathlon "and" Tupper Lake Tinman Triathlon "each have ten qualification places for the Ironman USA in Lake Placid, and even 20 places available for the" Muskoka Triathlon " were. In 2002 the number of starting places in Lake Placid was already 2,000, in 2004 it was increased to 2,200, in 2006 to 2,400, in 2008 to 2,600 and in 2010 to 3,000 athletes.

In 2008, the WTC moved into the possession of a private equity company and then changed its strategy of not only granting the right to use the brand names it protected in the United States Patent and Trademark Office via license fees to independent organizers, but since then also the organization of others To take responsibility for events in addition to the Ironman Hawaii. Accordingly, the WTC bought Graham Fraser's US shares in his company NA Sports, and the triathlon has been organized directly by the WTC since 2009.

The race enables amateurs to qualify for the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. The number of qualification places has been reduced over the years from one hundred places at the beginning of the 2000s to 72 places in 2010, 60 places in 2013 and 50 places in 2015 to 40 places in 2016. In 2015, the triathlon was also held as a purely amateur event for the first time , a qualification for professional triathletes via the Kona Pro Ranking System 2015 was not possible, nor was prize money paid out to the winners in 2015.

For 2016, another US $ 50,000 prize money was announced for female professional triathletes, while male professional triathletes will be awarded prize money at Ironman Canada in Whistler.

Course records

The Canadian Heather Fuhr was able to win here five times between 1999 and 2003 and the American Andy Potts has won this race twice so far.

The course record has been held by the Briton Simon Lessing since 2004 with 8:23:12 hours and for women, the American Heather Jackson since 2016 with 9:09:42 hours.

Winners list

Men Women
Date / year First place Second place third place
July 26, 2020
28th July 2019 United StatesUnited States Matthew Russell AustraliaAustralia Joe Gambles GermanyGermany Marc Dülsen
July 22, 2018 United StatesUnited States Ed Baker United StatesUnited States Gregory Binns United StatesUnited States Reid Foster
23rd July 2017 CanadaCanada Brent McMahon United StatesUnited States Andy Potts United StatesUnited States Justin Daerr
July 24, 2016 United StatesUnited States Ryan Giuliano United StatesUnited States Brian Duffy United StatesUnited States Matt Bender
July 26, 2015 CanadaCanada Corey Deveaux United StatesUnited States Daniel Moore United StatesUnited States David Burger
July 27, 2014 South AfricaSouth Africa Kyle Buckingham HungaryHungary Balazs Csoke United StatesUnited States Jonathan Shearon
July 28, 2013 United StatesUnited States Andy Potts -2- ItalyItaly Daniel Fontana United StatesUnited States Ian Mikelson
July 22, 2012 United StatesUnited States Andy Potts AustraliaAustralia Pete Jacobs FranceFrance Romain Guillaume
July 24, 2011 United StatesUnited States TJ Tollakson United StatesUnited States Ben Hoffman AustraliaAustralia Jason Shortis
July 25, 2010 United StatesUnited States Ben Hoffman Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Vabroušek GermanyGermany Maik Twelsiek
July 26, 2009 GermanyGermany Maik Twelsiek GermanyGermany Christian Brader AustraliaAustralia Jason Shortis
July 20, 2008 SpainSpain Francisco Pontano Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Vabroušek SwitzerlandSwitzerland Mathias Hecht
July 22, 2007 United StatesUnited States Alex Mroszczyk-McDonald CanadaCanada Pierre Lavoie United StatesUnited States Craig Howie
July 23, 2006 UkraineUkraine Viktor Zyemtsev CanadaCanada Tom Evans BelgiumBelgium Rutger Beke
July 24, 2005 United StatesUnited States Tony Delogne GermanyGermany Stefan Kramer CanadaCanada Pierre Lavoie
July 25, 2004 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Simon Lessing (SR) AustraliaAustralia Luke Bell AustraliaAustralia Courtney Ogden
July 27, 2003 EstoniaEstonia Kiril Litovchenko United StatesUnited States Chris Lieto AustraliaAustralia Jason Shortis
July 28, 2002 United StatesUnited States Ryan Bolton EstoniaEstonia Kiril Litovchenko JapanJapan Shingo Tani
July 29, 2001 United StatesUnited States Steve Larsen United StatesUnited States Ryan Bolton United StatesUnited States Cameron Widoff
July 30, 2000 United StatesUnited States Cameron Widoff United StatesUnited States Jamie Yon New ZealandNew Zealand Cameron Brown
Aug 15, 1999 GermanyGermany Thomas Hellriegel GermanyGermany Jürgen Hauber New ZealandNew Zealand Cameron Brown
year First place Second place third place
2020
2019 South AfricaSouth Africa Kirsten Schut PeruPeru Elise Portugal United StatesUnited States Elizabeth Lieberman
2018 United StatesUnited States Heather Jackson -2- CanadaCanada Jen Annett United StatesUnited States Sarah Piampiano
2017 United StatesUnited States Amy Farrell -2- United StatesUnited States Jacqui Giuliano CanadaCanada Robyn Hardage
2016 United StatesUnited States Heather Jackson (SR) South AfricaSouth Africa Annah Watkinson United StatesUnited States Alicia Kaye
2015 United StatesUnited States Amy Farrell United StatesUnited States Lori Sherlock United StatesUnited States Nicole Valentine
2014 United StatesUnited States Amber Ferreira United StatesUnited States Kim Schwabenbauer United StatesUnited States Lisa Roberts
2013 United StatesUnited States Jennie Hansen United StatesUnited States Katy Blakemore AustraliaAustralia Carrie Lester
2012 United StatesUnited States Jessie Donavan United StatesUnited States Jennie Hansen United StatesUnited States Jacqui Gordon
2011 CanadaCanada Heather Wurtele BelgiumBelgium Tine Deckers United StatesUnited States Tyler Stewart
2010 United StatesUnited States Amy Marsh United StatesUnited States Caitlin Snow AustraliaAustralia Lisa Marangon
2009 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tereza Macel United StatesUnited States Caitlin Snow CanadaCanada Samantha McGlone
2008 United StatesUnited States Caitlin Shea-Kenney United StatesUnited States Kim Loeffler United StatesUnited States Hillary Biscay
2007 AustraliaAustralia Belinda Granger United StatesUnited States Tyler Stewart HungaryHungary Erika Csomor
2006 United StatesUnited States Molly Zahr CanadaCanada Darlene Hall United StatesUnited States Leslie Myers
2005 CanadaCanada Heather Fuhr -5- United StatesUnited States Kim Loeffler United StatesUnited States Heather Gollnick
2004 AustraliaAustralia Kate Major CanadaCanada Heather Fuhr AustraliaAustralia Joanna Lawn
2003 CanadaCanada Heather Fuhr -4- United StatesUnited States Gina Kehr New ZealandNew Zealand Joanna Lawn
2002 CanadaCanada Heather Fuhr -3- AustraliaAustralia Joanna Lawn CanadaCanada Jackie Hatherly
2001 CanadaCanada Heather Fuhr -2- United StatesUnited States Joanna Pointer United StatesUnited States Laura Drake
2000 CanadaCanada Melissa Spooner United StatesUnited States Juliana Nievergelt ArgentinaArgentina Bárbara Buenahora
1999 CanadaCanada Heather Fuhr United StatesUnited States Mary Uhl AustraliaAustralia Jan Wanklyn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. General Race Information Ironman USA 1999 ( Memento from October 12, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Qualification Slots for Ironman Hawaii at Ironman USA 2001 ( Memento from March 9, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Domestic Qualifiers for Ironman Hawaii 1998 ( Memento from January 10, 1998 in the Internet Archive ) (WTC)
  4. ^ TJ Murphy: A look back at a look back - Ironmans first ten years ( English ) WTC . Retrieved January 23, 2003.
  5. Qualification Races for Ironman USA 2001 ( Memento from February 24, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  6. Dan Empfield: WTC sold to private equity firm . In: slowtwitch.com . September 8, 2008.
  7. ^ WTC Acquires North American Sports' US Race Assets . World Triathlon Corporation. January 6, 2009.
  8. Kona-Slots 2010 ( Memento from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. Ironman Lake Placid 2013 ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. Ironman Lake Placid 2015 ( Memento from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. Julia Polloreno: Ironman Announces Redistribution of Prize Purse Money for 2015 . In: triathlon.competitor.com . August 3, 2014. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. 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. Retrieved October 4, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / triathlon.competitor.com
  12. New professional rules for the IRONMAN World Championships