Fast and Furious Nice France 70.3 World Champs Edition

Friday 06 September 2019

The IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship returns to Europe for the first time since 2015 as more than 5,500 professional and age-group athletes from over 100 countries, regions, and territories will descend upon Nice, France on Sept. 7-8, 2019. Among them will be 115 of the world’s top triathletes who will battle for piece of the $250,000 USD total professional prize purse and the world’s most coveted IRONMAN 70.3 titles – World Champion. 

On the men’s side, two-time IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion Javier Gomez of Spain will be the man to beat. The five-time ITU short-distance World Champion and four-time ETU European Champion has set his sights on recapturing the title that Jan Frodeno of Germany stripped from him last year. Gomez, who won the race in 2014 in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec (CAN) and in 2017 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA), will be facing a star-studded field of male competitors, including Olympic Champion Alistair Brownlee (GBR), IRONMAN World Champions Sebastian Kienle and Patrick Lange of Germany, two-time Top 5 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship finisher Sam Appleton (AUS), as well as five-time IRONMAN France winner Frederik van Lierde (BEL). American Rodolphe “Rudy” von Berg is a dark horse who could surprise after spending his adolescent years in the area of Nice and is very familiar with the landscape of the course. Notably absent will be defending champion Jan Frodeno who will be focusing on the IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawai`i this year.

MALE PRO:
1 Gomez Javier ESP
2 Brownlee Alistair GBR
3 Kienle Sebastian GER
4 Lange Patrick GER
5 Kanute Ben USA
6 Heemeryck Pieter BEL
7 Appleton Sam AUS
8 Bowden Adam GBR
9 Von Berg Rodolophe USA
11 Blummenfelt Kristian NOR
12 Van Lierde Frederik BEL
15 Wild Ruedi SUI
16 Starykowicz Andrew USA
17 Amorelli Igor BRA
18 Angert Florian GER
19 Ascenco Santiago BRA
20 Boecherer Andi GER
21 Collington Kevin USA
22 Lagerstrom Eric USA
23 Long Sam USA
24 Smales Elliot GBR
25 Aernouts Bart BEL
26 Bækkegård Daniel DEN
27 Clavel Maurice GER
28 Dreitz Andreas GER
30 Goodwin George GBR
31 Hernandez Cabrera Vicente ESP
32 Laundry Jackson CAN
34 Maciel Da Silva Paulo Roberto BRA
36 Phillips Mike NZL
37 Weiss Bradley RSA
38 Amberger Josh AUS
39 Azevedo Filipe POR
40 Bowstead Mark NZL
41 Burton Matt AUS
42 Carillo Avila Alan MEX
43 Dapena Gonzalez Pablo ESP
44 Davis Thomas GBR
45 Deckard Robbie USA
46 Guillaume Romain FRA
47 Iden Gustav NOR
48 Jarrige Yvan FRA
49 Kalashnikov Ivan RUS
50 Kibby Mitchell AUS
51 Lopes Andre BRA
52 Mainwaring David AUS
53 Moody Jack NZL
54 Norte Banjo PHI
55 Pereda Joaquin MEX
56 Pictor Sam GBR
57 Pohl Jason CAN
58 Polizzi Alexander AUS
59 Rea Tim AUS
60 Reichel Horst GER
62 Rolli Markus GER
63 Serrano Francisco MEX
64 Sowieja Dominik GER
65 Sowinski Milosz POL
66 Viennot Cyril FRA
67 Vinuto Josino Iuri BRA

 

IRONMAN Triathlon (Photo: Fabien Boukla/Active Images for IRONMAN)


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