IRONMAN South Africa Pro Series Start List

Friday 28 March 2025
On Sunday 30 March, 70 of the world’s top professional triathletes will converge in Nelson Mandela Bay for the very first IRONMAN Pro Series™ race on the African continent. The ISUZU IRONMAN® South Africa African Championship triathlon will offer professional athletes a total prize purse of USD $175,000, with the male and female winner each enjoying a USD $28,000 pay day as well as 5,000 IRONMAN Pro Series points. 
 
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the ISUZU IRONMAN South Africa event will be the first full distance IRONMAN triathlon of the 2025 Pro Series and doubles up as the IRONMAN African Championship race, meaning athletes will also have a regional title to race for. Five qualifying slots per gender will also be available for the 2025 IRONMAN World Championship® triathlon in Nice (men’s race) and Kona (women’s race).   
 
The race will be broadcast live and for free across multiple platforms for viewers around the world including?proseries.ironman.com, Outside TV for US and Canada viewers, DAZN, iQIYI and YouTube among others.  
 
As the reigning champion of the ISUZU IRONMAN South Africa women’s professional race, Marta Sanchez (ESP) will be wearing bib number one. Sanchez enjoyed her maiden IRONMAN triathlon victory at the 2024 edition of the race, where she clocked an impressive time of 9:15:36. Setting the scene for a phenomenal race season, Sanchez went on to scoop up victories at the IRONMAN Calella-Barcelona and IRONMAN® 70.3® Asia-Pacific Championship Western Australia triathlons, as well as an impressive sixth place finish at the IRONMAN World Championship triathlon in Nice. Sanchez will no doubt be hoping her South African season opener will yet again set her up for great success in 2025.  
 
Also starting their season in South Africa will be Maja Stage Nielsen (DNK), whose strong and consistent racing in 2024 saw her finish fifth in last year’s IRONMAN Pro Series, with her best performance coming at the IRONMAN Hamburg European Championship race where she came second. Els Visser (NLD), who came seventh in the IRONMAN Pro Series last year, will also be hoping an early season victory will put her in the mix for an even higher finish this year.  
 
Locals will pin their hopes on Magda Nieuwoudt (ZAF), who will be lining up for her home race for the fourth time and hoping to improve on her previous best result of third place back in 2022. Nieuwoudt also has two IRONMAN 70.3 podiums under her belt at the IRONMAN 70.3 Mossel Bay triathlons in 2023 and 2022.  
 
Other female professional triathletes slated to race include Ruth Astle (GBR), Anne Reischmann (DEU), Anna Bergsten (SWE) who is competing in her first IRONMAN triathlon, Katrine Græsbøll Christensen (DNK), and more. 
 
In the ISUZU IRONMAN South Africa African Championship men’s race, last year’s winner Rasmus Svenningson (SWE) will return to defend his title. The Swede’s excellent bike form saw him clock a head-turning 4:14:35 bike split, resulting in a finish time of 8:03:11.  
 
Perhaps the biggest threat for the 2025 men’s title however will be IRONMAN World Championship runner-up and Danish powerhouse Magnus Ditlev. Ditlev has made no secret of the fact that his main goal for the year is to win the IRONMAN World Championship triathlon and Ditlev has also decided to throw himself all in on the IRONMAN Pro Series in 2025. With lofty ambitions for the year set, the Dane will be looking for an early season confidence booster in South Africa.  
 
2023 IRONMAN African Champion and last year’s IRONMAN World Championship fourth place finisher Leon Chevalier (FRA) will also pose a significant threat in the men’s race. With the undulating bike course suiting Chevalier’s strengths, expect the Frenchman to play a big part in the dynamics of the race.  
 
Middle-distance specialist Marten Van Riel (BEL) will try his luck again over the full distance after an unfortunate crash on the bike while leading the IRONMAN Cozumel triathlon back in November resulted in a seventh place finish. In just his second IRONMAN triathlon attempt, Van Riel will be desperate to earn one of the five slots available in South Africa to secure his place on the 2025 IRONMAN World Championship start line in Nice, France.  
 
Hoping that his home advantage will reign superior over experience will be local Olympian Jamie Riddle. Riddle, who started out at the IRONKIDS® South Africa event, will now be making his IRONMAN triathlon debut in the same city. At just 24 years of age, Riddle already has an Olympic Games on his list of bragging rights, as well as a World Triathlon African Championship title. He raced his first two IRONMAN 70.3 triathlons in Australia last year, posting a DNF in Melbourne before quickly putting his lack of experience at the distance to bed at the IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia triathlon, finishing second against a strong international field.  All eyes will be on the young South African in Nelson Mandela Bay as he looks to make his mark on the full distance, and hoping a successful debut race in his hometown will once again land him on the podium. 
 
Riddle is following in the footsteps of his father, Alec Riddle, an age-group IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion (2011) who has raced over 50 IRONMAN 70.3 triathlons, as well as competing in the IRONMAN South Africa triathlon numerous times.  
 
Also on the hunt for a victory on home soil will be Bradley Weiss (ZAF). Weiss finished seventh in the IRONMAN Pro Series last year and has raced the IRONMAN South Africa African Championship triathlon three times before, with his best position being second in 2022 and 2023.  
 
Another athlete hoping to get his 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series campaign off to a flyer is Matt Hanson (USA), who led the 2024 series for most of the year before eventually fading to finish in fifth following the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlons.  
 
Other notable starters include Mathias Lyngsø Petersen (DEN) who finished eighth in the IRONMAN Pro Series last year, and 2024 IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Champion Matt Burton (AUS), amongst others.  
 
Below are the professional start lists (subject to change): 
 
FEMALE PRO LIST  
Bib Number  
First Name  
Last Name  
Country Represented  
F1  
Marta  
Sanchez  
ESP 
F3  
Maja  
Stage Nielsen  
DNK  
F4  
Els  
Visser  
NL 
F5  
Anne  
Reischmann  
DEU  
F6  
Anna  
Bergsten  
SWE  
F7  
Katrine Græsbøll  
Christensen  
DNK  
F8  
Magda  
Nieuwoudt  
ZAF  
F9  
Jana  
Uderstadt  
DEU  
F10  
Henrike  
Güber  
DEU  
F11  
Charlène  
Clavel  
FRA 
F12  
Ruth  
Astle  
GBR  
F13  
Laura  
Jansen  
DEU 
F14  
Svenja  
Thoes  
DEU 
F15  
Nikita  
Paskiewiez  
FRA 
F16  
Johanna  
Ahrens  
DEU  
F17  
Laura  
Kessler  
CHE 
F18  
Tina  
Christmann  
DEU 
F19  
Olivia  
Dietzel  
USA  
F20  
Laura  
Addie  
GBR  
F21  
Chloe  
Lane  
AUS  
F22  
Jamie  
Besse  
CHE 
 
MALE PRO LIST  
Bib Number  
First Name  
Last Name  
Country Represented  
M1  
Rasmus  
Svenningsson  
SWE 
M2  
Magnus  
Ditlev  
DNK  
M3  
Marten  
Van Riel  
BEL 
M4  
Leon  
Chevalier  
FRA  
M5  
Bradley  
Weiss  
ZAF  
M6  
Matthew  
Hanson  
USA  
M7  
Stenn  
Goetstouwers  
BEL 
M8  
Cameron  
Wurf  
AUS 
M9  
Mike  
Phillips  
NZL  
M10  
Mathias  
Lyngsø Petersen  
DNK 
M11  
Jamie  
Riddle  
ZAF  
M12  
James  
Teagle  
GBR  
M13  
Jonas  
Hoffmann  
DEU  
M15  
Mattia  
Ceccarelli  
ITA 
M17  
Matt  
Burton  
AUS 
M18  
Joshua  
Lewis  
GGY 
M19  
Michael  
Weiss  
AUT  
M20  
Pamphiel  
Pareyn  
BEL  
M21  
Florian  
Angert  
DEU 
M22  
Nicholas  
Chase  
USA 
M23  
Jon  
Breivold  
NOR  
M24  
Cody  
Beals  
CAN  
M25  
Paulin  
Philippe  
FRA 
M26  
Erwan  
Jacobi  
FRA 
M27  
Maurice  
Clavel  
DEU 
M28  
Vincent  
Clavel  
FRA  
M29  
Timo  
Schaffeld  
DEU 
M30  
Julien  
Hagen  
FRA  
M31  
Denis  
Chevrot  
FRA  
M32  
Matthew  
Collins  
GBR  
M33  
Sven  
Wies  
DEU  
M34  
Pello  
Osoro  
ESP  
M35  
Cameron  
MacNair  
ZAF  
M36  
Andrew  
Horsfall-Turner  
GBR  
M37  
William  
Mennesson  
FRA 
M38  
Milosz  
Sowinski  
POL 
M39  
Jonas  
Schomburg  
DEU 
M40  
Niek  
Heldoorn  
NLD 
M41  
Juan Ignacio  
Villarruel Curra  
ESP 
M42  
Georg  
Enzenberger  
AUT 
M43  
Kit  
Walker  
GBR  
M44  
Mikel  
Txopitea  
PSE 
M45  
Lukas  
Schnödewind  
DEU 
M46  
Keegan  
Cooke  
ZAF  
M47  
Per  
Van Vlerken  
DEU  
M48  
Michael  
Hesse  
ZAF  
M49  
Thomas  
McManners  
FIN 
M50  
Michiel  
Stockman  
BEL 
 
For more information on the IRONMAN Pro Series visit here.??For more information on the 2025 IZUZU IRONMAN South Africa African Championship triathlon, visit www.ironman.com/races/im-south-africa. To learn more about the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 brands and series of events, please visit?www.ironman.com
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