Over 80 top professional triathletes are expected to converge in the seaside town of Les Sables d’Olonne to compete in the tenth race of the IRONMAN Pro Series™. The 2024 IRONMAN® 70.3® Les Sables D’Olonne Vendée triathlon will offer professionals a maximum of 2,500 points towards IRONMAN Pro Series standings, a $50,000 event total pro prize purse, and the final three PRO qualifying slots for each gender to the 2024 VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon taking place in Taupo, New Zealand.?
The race, which is taking place on Saturday 29 June, a day earlier than originally planned, to accommodate the snap presidential elections in France on the Sunday, will be broadcast for free across multiple platforms for global viewers including?proseries.ironman.com, Outside TV, DAZN and L'Equipein France, and YouTube among others.??
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Among those to watch, and making their IRONMAN Pro Series debut, will be 2023 VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion, Rico Bogen (DEU), who will be wearing bib number one, and if he finishes the race will validate his start at the 2024 VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship race in Taupo, New Zealand. He will be up against 2022 VinFast IRONMAN® World Champion, Gustav Iden (NOR), who willreturn to race in the IRONMAN Pro Series in an attempt to validate his place for the 2024 VinFastIRONMAN World Championship® triathlon in Kailua-Kona, after also completing IRONMAN 70.3 Warsaw earlier in the year.
Home favourite, Clément Mignon, will also return to the IRONMAN Pro Series following a third place position at Memorial Hermann IRONMAN North American Championship Texas. Fellow countryman, Arnaud Guilloux who currently sits just inside the top 20 of the IRONMAN Pro Series, will also be looking to build on his current position, following his fourth place finish at Cairns Airport IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Cairns over the weekend.
Nicholas Quenet (ZAF) who finished in the top five at both the IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder and Intermountain Health IRONMAN 70.3 North American Championship St. George races, and Nicolas Mann (DEU), who won the Zafiro IRONMAN 70.3 Alcudia-Mallorca race will also be putting up a fight in order to clinch maximum points and climb up in the standings.
In the women’s professional field, last year’s IRONMAN 70.3 Les Sables D’Olonne-Vendée runner-up Emilie Morier (FRA) will wear bib number one as she makes her IRONMAN Pro Series debut, alongside fellow French athletes Justine Mathieux and Marjolaine Pierre.
Maja Stage Nielsen, who came second at the IRONMAN European Championship Hamburg race and currently sits in seventh place in the standings is also expected to toe the line, alongside a strong British contingent made up of Kate Curran, Ruth Astle, Nikki Bartlett, Rebecca Anderbury, and Rachel Brown.
The race will also welcome approximately 3,000 registered age-group participants looking to earn age group qualifying slots to the 2024 VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship race on Dec. 14 and 15 in Taupo, New Zealand.??
Athletes will take on a one-loop 1.9k (1.2-mile) sea swim in the Vendée Globe canal, famous for theVendée Globe yacht race. They will then traverse through the breathtaking French countryside on a one-loop 90km (56 mile) bike course, which takes athletes to the east of the city and into the Olonne forest. Finally, a two loop run course of 21.1 km (13.1-mile) will see athletes run on the promenade along the Tanchet Lake and cross the finish line in the centre of town, not forgetting a 200m sandy run on the “Grande Plage” beach!??
IRONMAN 70.3 Les Sables D’Olonne Vendée is the fastest selling IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon in Europe, and as announced earlier this week, will transition for a full-distance IRONMAN triathlon next year.
The full professional start lists are below (subject to change):
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S START LIST
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MEN’S PROFESSIONAL START LIST
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For more information on the IRONMAN Pro Series visit here.??
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