This was our sneak peek of the 2024 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship– you can click on this link for a complete report on how Jelle Geens diminished Hayden Wilde for a well-known triumph in New Zealand on Sunday.
Undoubtedly nobody anticipated the all-German guys’s podium of Rico Bogen, Frederic Funk and Jan Stratmann in this race in 2015 however it highlights that anything can occur, specifically this season when the 70.3 Worlds comes right at the very end of a jam-packed schedule.
Taupo in New Zealand lastly gets to host the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships early on Sunday (December 15, however later on today in the UK/US/Europe), 4 years after it was initially prepared– which wound up being ideal in the middle of the worldwide COVID pandemic.
The middle and long-distance triathlon landscape has actually altered much ever since, specifically this season when the T100 and the IRONMAN Pro Series– of which this is the choosing race– have actually taken centre phase.
Include the Olympics and not surprising that there are a reasonable couple of huge names– such as Norwegian duo Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden, who have actually won 3 of the last 4 runnings– who have actually swerved today’s race. Click on this link for a more comprehensive take a look at who’s missing out on.
There’s included intrigue in the shape of home preferred Hayden Wilde after a season which saw him win an Olympic silver medal after that impressive fight with Alex Yee in Paris.
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How to see, begin times and live tracking
The guys’s race occurs on Sunday December 15, beginning at 07:00 regional time. That represents 18:00 in the UK, 13:00 Eastern Time and 10:00 on the West Coast of the United States– all of those are today (Saturday December 14).
The livestream for the race is ingrained listed below so you do not need to leave this page.
And protection will be likewise relayed totally free throughout numerous platforms for international audiences consisting of proseries.ironman.com, DAZN, YouTube, Sky Sport Now in New Zealand, Outside television solely for the U.S. and Canada, L’Équipe Live in France, iQIYI in China and beIN Sports for the Middle East, North Africa and Asia-Pacific areas.
The ever trusted IRONMAN Tracker is the ideal information addition to the live protection too, whether for the professional races or following pals or household in the age-group occasions.
Pro Men
We’ve seen brief course stars step up in design to middle range just recently and there’s every opportunity that’s going to be highlighted in Taupo.
For in spite of being number # 527 in the PTO rankings and with simply one (person) middle-distance race to his name in the last 4 years– a win at 70.3 Melbourne in 2023 which certified him for this– Hayden Wilde is perhaps the male to beat.
He’s heated up in excellent design with triumphes near to home and this has actually long been a huge target.
