IRONMAN Pro Series 70.3 Western Australia Start List

Thursday 28 November 2024
Nearly 80 of the top professional triathletes from around the world are preparing to line up in Busselton, Australia, for the penultimate race of the 2024 IRONMAN Pro Series™ at the IRONMAN 70.3® Western Australia Asia-Pacific Championship triathlon on Sunday 1 December, marking one of the largest professional start lists in the event’s 20-year history. 
 
The race signals the 18th stop of the IRONMAN Pro Series and with just two races left on the calendar, points earned at the IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia triathlon will be vitally important to athletes chasing top spots in the series. The performance-based triathlon competition has been contested throughout the year, with professional triathletes racing to earn points which accrue towards the title of IRONMAN Pro Series Champion, and in turn the lion’s share of a USD $1.7 million end-of-year bonus prize purse. IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia race winners will earn 2,500 points towards the IRONMAN Pro Series standings, with every second an athlete finishes behind the race winner equating to a point earned or lost. 
 
Highlighting its prestige in the region and on the global circuit, the event has been designated as the IRONMAN 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship and will offer professional triathletes a total prize purse of USD $75,000 and four qualifying slots per gender to the 2025 VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Marbella, Spain, on November 8-9. 
 
With a stellar line up of professionals and a stunning coastal backdrop, the event can be witnessed live in person and will be broadcast across multiple platforms for viewers around the world for free including?proseries.ironman.com, Outside TV, DAZN, iQIYI and L'Equipe in France, and YouTube among others.  
 
In the women’s professional race, five out of the current top 10 in the IRONMAN Pro Series standings are set to line up in Busselton, and nine out of the top 20.  
 
The highest ranked of those athletes is Maja Stage Nielsen (DNK), sitting at number three in the IRONMAN Pro Series after four top 10 placings. Having completed five out of five scoring races, Stage Nielsen can’t catch the two athletes above her in the standings – Jackie Hering (USA) and Kat Matthews (GBR) – but should her IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia result improve on her lowest scoring IRONMAN 70.3 race, she could further cement her third place beyond the reach of those athletes below her. 
 
The four women who sit below Stage Nielsen in the IRONMAN Pro Series who are also racing the IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia triathlon are Lotte Wilms (NLD), Daniela Bleymehl (DEU), Hannah Berry (NZL), and Els Visser (NLD), sixth, seventh, eighth, and 10th respectively. None of the four have completed their full complement of scoring races, so picking up significant points in Busselton will move them higher in the series with just one race to go. 
 
Australia-based Dutch athlete Wilms has finished second, third and eighth in her three counting IRONMAN races so far and is yet to add any IRONMAN 70.3 scores. Having finished third the last two times she raced in Busselton at the IRONMAN® Western Australia triathlon, Wilms will be hoping her familiarity of the course will once again result in a podium placing – this time over the middle distance. 
 
Like Wilms, Berry only has three IRONMAN scores counting towards her overall IRONMAN Pro Series standing of eighth. Still to add two IRONMAN 70.3 scores, the 2024 IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Champion will need big results at both the IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia triathlon and on home soil two weeks later at the 2024 VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon in Taupo. Berry is a six-time IRONMAN 70.3 champion. 
 
German triathlete Bleymehl will be making the trip from Europe to Western Australia in the hopes of adding another IRONMAN 70.3 score to elevate her up the IRONMAN Pro Series standings, while Visser – currently in 10th can add a third IRONMAN 70.3 score to her total having only raced two full distance IRONMAN Pro Series events. Over the past two years, Western Australia has become a home away from home for Visser during the Southern Hemisphere summer, and the Busselton course is one where the Dutch athlete has enjoyed success having finished second at IRONMAN Western Australia in 2022 and fourth last December.  
 
A further four athletes lining up for the women’s professional race in Busselton sit inside the IRONMAN Pro Series top 20, with Kylie Simpson (AUS), Penny Slater (AUS), Rebecca Clarke (NZL), and Giorgia Priarone (ITA) all hoping for a strong result to improve their position in the standings.  
 
Meanwhile, middle distance specialists Grace Thek (AUS) and Anna Bergsten (SWE) might not be in the running for end-of-year IRONMAN Pro Series prize money but could have a big impact on the IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia race. Thek finished second at the IRONMAN 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun triathlon in September, while Bergsten finished second at the Qatar Airways IRONMAN 70.3 Melbourne triathlon last weekend. 
 
The men’s professional race features four of the top 10 in the IRONMAN Pro Series standings. Gregory Barnaby (ITA), Kristian Høgenhaug (DNK), Robert Kallin (SWE), and Paul Schuster (DEU), who sit fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth in the standings respectively, with just a couple of hundred points separating these athletes. 
 
Barnaby, currently fifth in the standings, has performed consistently all season, including an impressive sixth place finish at the 2024 VinFast IRONMAN World Championship triathlon in Kona which saw him jump 10 places in the standings, as well as two other podium finishes. A win or a strong result for Barnaby in Busselton could shoot the Italian to the top of the IRONMAN Pro Series leaderboard and put him in very strong contention for the overall win. 
 
Like Barnaby, Høgenhaug still has one IRONMAN 70.3 race to add to his overall score, and a strong result in Busselton could nudge him into the top three in the standings. Kallin and Schuster have both completed their full complement of IRONMAN Pro Series races so will be looking to swap out a lower scoring IRONMAN 70.3 with a strong result at IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia. 
 
The Busselton bike course is known for being flat and fast and with Høgenhaug and Kallin being two of the strongest riders in triathlon, they, along with Australian professional cyclist and triathlete Cameron Wurf, will likely have a huge part to play in the dynamics of the race and will aim to put a big gap between themselves and the strong runners as they head into T2. 
 
Wurf and Western Australia duo Matt Burton and Nick Thompson will hope to put on a show in front of their home crowd. Wurf and Thompson sit 19th and 20th in the IRONMAN Pro Series, so will be out to add more points to their totals in Busselton. 
 
Other athletes to keep an eye on the men’s race include Mathias Petersen (DNK), currently 11th in the IRONMAN Pro Series standings, Olympians stepping up to middle distance racing in the shape of Jake Birtwhistle (AUS), already an IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon champion, and Jamie Riddle (ZAF), along with recent IRONMAN 70.3 champions Jarrod Osborne (AUS), Ben Hamilton (NZL), and Sam Osborne (NZL). American Marc Dubrick, known for his strong swim, will likely also feature. 
 
World-renowned as one of the fastest and flattest courses on the circuit, the IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia triathlon will see athletes take on a 1.9km ROKA swim course in beautiful waters of Geographe Bay and under the iconic Busselton Jetty, tackle a fast and flat one-lap 90km FulGaz bike course along the coastline and through the spectacular Tuart Forest, and finish their race with a two-lap, 21.1km HOKA run course along the Busselton Foreshore.  
 
The completely sold-out event will feature both IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 racing, with over 3,500 registered age-group participants?competing in either the IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia?Asia-Pacific Championship triathlon or the IRONMAN Western Australia triathlon alongside the professionals, looking to earn?age-group qualifying slots to the 2025 VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon on November 8-9 and the 2025 VinFast IRONMAN World Championship triathlons in Nice, France on September 14, and Kona, Hawai`i on October 11.  
 
Below are the professional start lists (subject to change): 
 
FEMALE PRO LIST 
Bib Number 
First Name 
Last Name 
Country Represented 
F1 
Maja  
Stage Nielsen 
DNK (Denmark) 
F
Lotte 
Wilms 
NLD (Netherlands) 
F
Daniela  
Bleymehl 
DEU (Germany) 
F
Hannah 
Berry 
NZL (New Zealand) 
F
Els 
Visser 
NLD (Netherlands) 
F
Kylie 
Simpson 
AUS( Australia) 
F
Penny 
Slater 
AUS (Australia) 
F
Rebecca 
Clarke 
NZL (New Zealand) 
F
Giorgia 
Priarone 
ITA (Italy) 
F1
Grace 
Thek 
AUS (Australia) 
F1
Marta 
Sanchez 
ESP (Spain) 
F1
Anna 
Bergsten 
SWE (Sweden) 
F1
Daniela 
Kleiser 
DEU (Germany) 
F1
Regan 
Hollioake 
AUS (Australia) 
F1
Grace 
Alexander 
USA (United States) 
F17 
Marta 
Lagownik 
POL (Poland) 
F18 
Valerie 
Barthelemy 
BEL (Belgium) 
F19 
Fiona 
Moriarty 
IRL (Ireland) 
F20 
Chloe 
Hartnett 
AUS (Australia) 
F21 
Luisa 
Iogna Prat 
ITA (Italy) 
F22 
Chloe 
Lane 
AUS (Australia) 
F24 
Teresa 
Adam 
NZL (New Zealand) 
F25 
Danyella 
Eberle 
AUS (Australia) 
F26 
Dimity-Lee 
Duke 
AUS (Australia) 
F27 
Melanie 
Baumann 
CHE (Switzerland) 
F28 
Katie 
Remond 
AUS (Australia) 
F29 
Paige 
Cranage 
AUS (Australia) 
F30 
Franziska 
Hofmann 
DEU (Germany) 
F31 
Kathryn 
Krosch 
AUS (Australia) 
F32 
Charlotte 
McShane 
AUS (Australia) 
F33 
Richelle 
Hill 
AUS (Australia) 
 
MALE PRO LIST 
Bib Number 
First Name 
Last Name 
Country Represented 
M1 
Gregory 
Barnaby 
ITA (Italy) 
M2 
Kristian 
Høgenhaug 
DNK (Denmark) 
M3 
Robert 
Kallin 
SWE (Sweden) 
M4 
Paul 
Schuster 
DEU (Germany) 
M5 
Mathias  
Petersen 
DNK (Denmark) 
M6 
Arnaud 
Guilloux 
FRA (France) 
M7 
Cameron 
Wurf 
AUS (Australia) 
M8 
Nick 
Thompson 
AUS (Australia) 
M9 
Mike 
Phillips  
NZL (New Zealand) 
M10 
Ben 
Hamiton 
NZL (New Zealand) 
M11 
Anthony 
Costes 
FRA (France) 
M1
Thomas 
Davis 
GBR (United Kingdom) 
M1
Marc 
Dubrick 
USA (United States) 
M15  
Matt 
Burton 
AUS (Australia) 
M1
Mitchell 
Kibby 
AUS (Australia) 
M17 
Sam 
Osborne 
NZL (New Zealand) 
M18 
Tim 
Van Berkel 
AUS (Australia) 
M19 
Jake 
Birtwhistle 
AUS (Australia) 
M20 
James 
Farrington-Scott 
GBR (United Kingdom) 
M2
Kurt 
McDonald 
AUS (Australia) 
M2
Jarrod 
Osborne 
AUS (Australia) 
M2
Caleb  
Noble 
AUS (Australia) 
M2
Dieter 
Comhair 
BEL (Belgium) 
M2
Levi 
Hauwert 
AUS (Australia) 
M2
Calvin 
Amos 
AUS (Australia) 
M27 
Connor 
Weaver 
USA (United States) 
M28 
Joel 
Woolridge 
AUS (Australia) 
M29 
Harry 
Sinclair 
AUS (Australia) 
M30 
Pello 
Osoro Gutierrez 
ESP (Spain) 
M3
Michael 
Boult 
AUS (Australia) 
M33 
Jonathan 
Sammut 
AUS (Australia) 
M34 
Charlie 
Quin 
AUS (Australia) 
M35 
Oliver 
Terry 
AUS (Australia) 
M36 
Samuel 
Doggett 
AUS (Australia) 
M37 
Cameron 
Main 
GBR (United Kingdom) 
M38 
Fraser 
Walsh 
AUS (Australia) 
M40 
Kyle 
Tremayne 
AUS (Australia) 
M41 
Cameron 
Wilson 
AUS (Australia) 
M42 
Dean 
Cane 
AUS (Australia) 
M43 
Reece 
Harris 
AUS (Australia) 
M44 
Jamie 
Riddle 
ZAF (South Africa) 
M45 
Kenji  
Nener 
JPN (Japan) 
M46 
Kurt 
Wesley 
AUS (Australia) 
M47 
Reuben 
Dyer 
AUS (Australia) 
 
For more information on the IRONMAN Pro Series visit here 
 
For more information on the 2024 IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia Asia-Pacific Championship triathlon visit?http://www.ironman.com/im703-western-australia. To learn more about the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 brands and series of events, please visit?www.ironman.com.
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