The South Coast of Wales was the sunny setting for this weekend’s race, as the IRONMAN Pro Series™ landed in the UK for the first time ever. Harry Palmer of Great Britain retained his IRONMAN® 70.3® Swansea title, while Kat Matthews claimed her second IRONMAN Pro Series win of the season.
In the male professional race, a lead pack of five athletes formed in the swim – including Sam Dickinson (GBR), Kieran Lindars (GBR), Jannik Schaufler (DEU), Joshua Lewis (GGY) and Ollie Turner (GGY) - with each sharing the efforts at the front as they made it back to swim exit. It was Schaufler who clocked the fastest swim of the day in a time of 22:40, but Dickinson who sped through transition to be first on to the bike course. A lead pack of nine men quickly developed, with Andrew Horsfall-Turner (GBR), Kurt McDonald (AUS) and Dickinson taking turns at the front.
Leon Chevalier got rid of a two-minute forty deficit to catch the front group, while Horsfall-Turner dropped off the back of the group. Dickinson was first off the bike, showing off his Olympic form yet again as he charged through transition, followed by a pack of seven other men, including the likes of McDonald, Kristian Høgenhaug, Palmer, and Chevalier.
Palmer dropped Chevalier in the early kilometers of the run and edged his way closer to Dickinson, running alongside his compatriot for a couple of kilometers. By halfway, Palmer had managed to breakaway and remain calm and controlled right until the finish. Behind him, Dickinson ran out of gas, while Lindars ran his way from fifth to third to complete the podium.
At the finish, an elated Palmer commented: “It’s pretty surreal, I don’t feel like it’s sunk in yet, I’m just in a lot of pain right now! That was amazing, I feel like the spectators were even better than last year which I didn’t think was possible, so it was pretty epic.
“I had goosebumps. I was running and early on I thought this pace feels really good, I feel like I can win but I don’t want to get too excited and I didn’t want to allow myself to think I was going to win. So it was only really the last 100m I was like, oh you know what, I’m actually winning here! I didn't allow myself to enjoy it too much as I know the guys behind were chasing hard and they’re amazing athletes, everyone here was incredible, they pushed me to my limit.”
In the female professional race, Hannah Munday (GBR) led out of the swim, with Daisy Davies (GBR) right on her tail and an additional chase pack made up of Hanne de Vet (BEL), Jasmine Holmes (GBR), Molly Savill (GBR) and Lizzie Rayner (GBR) behind her. Matthews followed just over two minutes back. It was De Vet, however, who raced through T1 to take an early lead on the bike, but was soon joined at the front by Rayner. Matthews started to hunt down her competitors, bridging up to the leaders by 40 kilometers.
Matthews completed a solo T2, and made her way onto the HOKA Run Course with over a two minute lead on Anderbury, Reischmann and Rayner who followed her off the bike.
Despite an unfaltering and perhaps career defining run where she did not take her foot off the gas, Anderbury was not able to catch Matthews. Kleiser. however, who started the run with a ten minute deficit, ran blistering one 1:14:31 half-marathon, managing to run herself onto the final spot on the podium.
Matthews commented: “Thank you so much to every single person who cheered today for me and for everyone else, it was fantastic! It was honestly blissful until about 4k into the run and I thought goodness, the sun's pretty hot down here on the beach...I’m really proud to hopefully go into Kona this year as the leader [of the Pro Series], it will be a real confidence boost.”
Top Five Male Professional Results – IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea
| Place |
Name (Country) |
Swim |
Bike |
Run |
Total Time |
Pro Series Points (unofficial) |
Event Prize Money |
| 1 |
Harry Palmer (GBR) |
23:25 |
2:11:30 |
1:11:22 |
3:51:18 |
2,500 |
$7,500 |
| 2 |
Leon Chevalier (FRA) |
24:53 |
2:09:46 |
1:12:15 |
3:52:07 |
2,451 |
$5,000 |
| 3 |
Kieran Lindars (GBR) |
22:43 |
2:12:24 |
1:12:30 |
3:52:29 |
2,429 |
$3,750 |
| 4 |
Sam Dickinson (GBR) |
22:42 |
2:12:10 |
1:13:50 |
3:53:10 |
2,388 |
$3,000 |
| 5 |
Kristian Høgenhaug (DNK) |
23:10 |
2:11:35 |
1:13:40 |
3:53:40 |
2,358 |
$2,750 |
Top Five Female Professional Results – IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea
| Place |
Name (Country) |
Swim |
Bike |
Run |
Total Time |
Pro Series Points (unofficial) |
Event Prize Money |
| 1 |
Kat Matthews (GBR) |
26:57 |
2:26:34 |
1:21:02 |
4:20:37 |
2,500 |
$7,500 |
| 2 |
Rebecca Anderbury (GBR) |
28:48 |
2:27:06 |
1:22:00 |
4:23:54 |
2,303 |
$5,000 |
| 3 |
Daniela Kleiser (DEU) |
32:23 |
2:31:11 |
1:14:31 |
4:24:33 |
2,264 |
$3,750 |
| 4 |
Anne Reischmann (DEU) |
28:22 |
2:28:32 |
1:22:33 |
4:24:47 |
2,250 |
$3,000 |
| 5 |
Lizzie Rayner (GBR) |
24:53 |
2:31:43 |
1:25:43 |
4:28:33 |
2,024 |
$2,750 |
News and Notes
- Munday and Schaufler clocked the fastest swim spits of the day in times of 24:43 and 22:40 respectively.
- Chevalier had the fastest bike split of the day in a time of 2:09:46, as he overcame a two minute 40 second deficit to catch up with the lead pack. Matthews had the fastest female bike split with a time of 2:26:34.
- Kleiser maintained her reputation as one of the fastest runners on the circuit as she clocked a 1:14:31 half marathon, and James Teagle had the fastest run in the men’s professional field with a time of 1:09:17.
- Palmer, who is now a two-time IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea champion, beat his time from last year by over a minute. His victory is even more impressive, given he came off a fourth place finish just last week at IRONMAN 70.3 Jönköping triathlon.
- Matthews continues her dominant form, clocking her second victory of the season, and fifth professional IRONMAN 70.3 victory. Matthews took five minutes off her winning time from 2022 (4:25:09).
Full results for the 2025 IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea triathlon can be found at www.ironman.com/races/im703-swansea/results. For additional event information, please visit www.ironman.com/races/im703-swansea.
IRONMAN Pro Series Standings
The IRONMAN Pro Series™ is a year-long performance-based triathlon race series with professional triathletes being able to earn points at 18 select races in 17 locations globally. Open to approximately 1,000 eligible professional triathletes worldwide, the IRONMAN Pro Series ushers in a new era of IRONMAN racing where Every Second Matters™ with every second behind the race winner equating to a point earned or lost. For any athlete, only their top five event results count towards their overall Pro Series points and standing, of which a maximum of three IRONMAN results can be counted. How it works can be found here.
In the female standings, todays race saw a switch in places between Matthews and Reischmann, with the former now sitting atop of the Series, and Paul Schuster’s tenth place finish was enough to push him into second.
Overall IRONMAN Pro Series Standings – Top Five Male (After 12 Events)
| Rank |
Name (Country) |
Total IRONMAN Pro Series Points (Max Top 5 events) |
Total Eligible Races Scored |
Eligible IRONMAN Races Scored |
Eligible IRONMAN 70.3 Races Scored |
| 1 |
Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) |
14,312 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
| 2 |
Paul Schuster (DEU) |
13,787 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
| 3 |
Cameron Wurf (AUS) |
13,330 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
| 4 |
Casper Stornes
(NOR) |
13,067 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
| 5 |
Gustav Iden (NOR) |
12,255 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
Overall IRONMAN Pro Series Standings – Top Five Female (After 12 Events)
| Rank |
Name (Country) |
Total IRONMAN Pro Series Points (Max Top 5 events) |
Total Eligible Races Scored |
Eligible IRONMAN Races Scored |
Eligible IRONMAN 70.3 Races Scored |
| 1 |
Kat Matthews (GBR) |
12,380 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
| 2 |
Anne Reischmann (DEU) |
12,310 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
| 3 |
Jackie Hering (USA) |
9.621 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
| 4 |
Danielle Lewis (USA) |
7,318 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
| 5 |
Hannah Berry (NZL) |
7,235 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
Full IRONMAN Pro Series standings can be found at proseries.ironman.com.
Overall IRONMAN Pro Series Event Prize Money
In addition to the IRONMAN Pro Series’ $1.7M year-end bonus prize pool, there is an event pro prize purse payout of $2,450,000, distributed across IRONMAN Pro Series events. With twelve races now compete, a over one million USD has been earned by professional athletes so far – leaving just under $1.5million USD to be claimed at the remaining events.
Top Five Male Prize Money Earned (After 12 Events)
| Rank |
Name (Country) |
IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea Prize Money |
Total Prize Money |
| 1 |
Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) |
0 |
$63,500 |
| 2 |
Magnus Ditlev (DNK) |
0 |
$31,000 |
| 3 |
Casper Stornes (NOR) |
0 |
$22,500 |
| 4 |
Rudy Von Berg (USA) |
0 |
$21,000 |
| 5 |
Lionel Sanders (CAN) |
0 |
$19,500 |
Top Five Female Prize Money Earned (After 12 Events)
| Rank |
Name (Country) |
IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea |
Total Prize Money |
| 1 |
Kat Matthews (GBR) |
$7,500 |
$ 53,000 |
| 2 |
Anne Reischmann (DEU) |
$3,000 |
$ 41,500 |
| 3 |
Laura Philipp (DEU) |
0 |
$ 28,000 |
| 4 |
Jackie Hering (USA) |
0 |
$ 27,250 |
| 5 |
Marta Sanchez (ESP) |
0 |
$ 20,500 |
Next IRONMAN Pro Series Events Coming Up
Next up, the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series returns to North America and New Yorks’ Adirondack Mountains for the legendary Athletic Brewing IRONMAN Lake Placid triathlon next weekend.
For more information on the IRONMAN Pro Series, visit proseries.ironman.com.