Almost 80 of the leading expert triathletes from worldwide are preparing to line up in Busselton, Australia, for the penultimate race of the 2024 IM Pro Series at the IM 70.3 Western Australia Asia-Pacific Championship triathlon on Sunday 1 December, marking among the biggest expert start lists in case's 20-year history.
The race indicates the 18th stop of the Ironman Pro Series and with simply 2 races left on the calendar, points made at the IM 70.3 Western Australia triathlon will be essential to professional athletes going after leading areas in the series. The performance-based triathlon competitors has actually been objected to throughout the year, with expert triathletes racing to make points which accumulate towards the title of IM Pro Series Champion, and in turn the lion's share of a USD $1.7 million end-of-year bonus offer reward handbag. Ironman 70.3 Western Australia race winners will make 2,500 points towards the IM Pro Series standings, with every 2nd a professional athlete completes behind the race winner corresponding to a point made or lost.
Highlighting its eminence in the area and on the international circuit, the occasion has actually been designated as the Ironman 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship and will use expert triathletes an overall reward handbag of USD $75,000 and 4 certifying slots per gender to the 2025 IM 70.3 World Championship in Marbella, Spain, on November 8-9.
In the ladies's expert race, 5 out of the present leading 10 in the IM Pro Series standings are set to line up in Busselton, and 9 out of the leading 20.
The greatest ranked of those professional athletes is Maja Stage Nielsen (DNK), sitting at number 3 in the IM Pro Series after 4 leading 10 placements. Having actually finished 5 out of 5 scoring races, Stage Nielsen can't capture the 2 professional athletes above her in the standings– Jackie Hering (USA) and Kat Matthews (GBR)– however must her Ironman 70.3 Western Australia result enhance on her most affordable scoring Ironman 70.3 race, she might even more seal her 3rd location beyond the reach of those professional athletes listed below her.
The 4 females who sit listed below Stage Nielsen in the IM Pro Series who are likewise racing the IM 70.3 Western Australia triathlon are Lotte Wilms (NLD), Daniela Bleymehl (DEU), Hannah Berry (NZL), and Els Visser (NLD), 6th, seventh, 8th, and 10th respectively. None of the 4 have actually finished their complete enhance of scoring races, so getting substantial points in Busselton will move them greater in the series with simply one race to go.
Australia-based Dutch professional athlete Wilms has actually completed second, 3rd and 8th in her 3 counting Ironman races up until now and is yet to include any Ironman 70.3 ratings. Having actually ended up third the last 2 times she raced in Busselton at the IM Western Australia triathlon, Wilms will be hoping her familiarity of the course will as soon as again lead to a podium putting– this time over the middle range.
Like Wilms, Berry just has 3 IM ratings counting towards her total IM Pro Series standing of 8th. Still to include 2 IM 70.3 ratings,
