IRONMAN 70.3 Tasmania: Open times, preview and follow live
A chain of world class athletes will kick off their seasons at IRONMAN 70.3 Tasmania this weekend, as Hobart hosts one in all the toughest middle distance races in Oceania.
With just a few gargantuan names such as residence city hero Cameron Litter living to open, the racing is lumber to be fast and livid, particularly with two slots to poke the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Taupo this December on the line.
In our preview fragment below, yow will uncover your complete records you’d like on open times, follow live and a stout preview of the expert women and men folks’s fields.
Open times and follow
The racing this weekend takes space onSunday February 4. On Sunday, the elite men will accept things underway, with the gun going off at 06:25 local time. This corresponds to 19:25 within the UK, 20:25 in Central Europe and 11:25 Pacific on Saturday February 3.
The elite women folks will open one minute after the elite men in Australia, with their poke kicking off at 06:26 local time. This corresponds to 19:26 within the UK, 20:26 in Central Europe and 11:26 on the West Fly on Saturday.
Sadly, there shall be no live slump of the motion in Tasmania. On the other hand, your complete motion may per chance well additionally be adopted live by the usage of the IRONMAN Athlete Tracker App, this capability that that you just can follow your current athletes or chums in real time.
Elite Men
Within the lads’s poke, Kiwi Braden Currie is the pause seeded athlete, with the 37-year-dilapidated opening up his season in Tasmania after opting no longer to inch for a third straight uncover on the Tauranga Half of ultimate month.
Currie shall be joined by a total host of different athletes from Oceania, most particularly Australian trio Wurf, Cut Thompson and Mitchell Kibby, who will all hope to steal the tape in Hobart.
For Wurf, this poke provides a bizarre opportunity to position on a present in front of a residence crowd, with an advanced bike course giving the Group Ineos Grenadier a gargantuan opportunity to accept to the front of the poke.
Whereas defending champion Jake Birtwhistle is totally centered on the Olympics and won’t be taking to the open line on Sunday, Wurf will hope he can protect the poke uncover amongst the Tassie boys for the second straight season.
Within the discontinuance, Spanish Olympic silver medalist Javier Gomez will line-up hoping it’s third time lucky Down Under, after the triathlon memoir turned into a DNF and a DSQ at his final two races middle distance races in Taupo and Tauranga.
Elite Ladies folks
Within the women folks’s field, defending champion Ellie Salthouse is no longer on the open listing however there’ll accrued be masses of quality, with 2022 IRONMAN World Champion Chelsea Sodaro lining up.
Sodaro, who turned into second in Tauranga two weeks ago, has been practising in New Zealand alongside Gomez and coach Dr Dan Plews over the last few weeks and may per chance simply hope to salvage a uncover prior to heading support residence.
The PTO World #11, who has been announced as one in all the participants within the T100 Triathlon World Tour, will poke proficient Australian trio Grace Thek, Penny Slater and Sarah Crowley for the uncover on Sunday.
Prize Money: What’s on the line?
The prize purse on offer this weekend is $20,000 – with the winners gathering a $3,500 portion of that total.
Moreover to cash, there shall be a total of two qualifying slots for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship, with one for the women folks and one for the lads in Taupo this year.
The total funds shall be paid 5-deep, as follows:
- $3,500
- $2,500
- $1,750
- $1,250
- $1,000
