The athletes will race for the IRONMAN Western Australia and IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship titles, a piece of the $150,000 USD professional prize purse, and four slots per gender to the 2026 IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, Hawai`i.
More than 30 of the world’s top professional male triathletes are set to line up in Busselton on Sunday 7 December to compete for the 2025 IRONMAN Western Australia Asia-Pacific Championship title.
Three former IRONMAN Western Australia champions in the shape of Matt Burton (AUS), Max Neumann (AUS), and Denis Chevrot (FRA) will return to the race, while Aussie duo Nick Thompson (AUS) and Sam Appleton (AUS) will be determined to write their names into the event’s history books alongside a host of other challengers including New Zealand’s Mike Phillips and Sweden’s Jesper Svensson.
An international line up of professional female triathletes are putting the final touches to their preparations ahead of the 2025 IRONMAN Western Australia Asia-Pacific Championship in Busselton this Sunday, 7 December.
Great Britain’s Fenella Langridge will wear bib number one in the women’s race, returning as the defending professional IRONMAN Western Australia champion after her victory in 2023, with the professional race in 2024 being a part of IRONMAN 70.3 Western Australia. That day two years ago holds fond memories for the Brit as she claimed her first IRONMAN victory and set a new IRONMAN Western Australia course best time of 8:29:43.
Another athlete set for an emotional race is Dutchwoman Els Visser, who two days ago announced that she will be retiring from professional triathlon following the IRONMAN Western Australia Asia-Pacific Championship. The race on Sunday will be a full circle moment for Visser, who raced her first professional IRONMAN in Busselton back in 2017.
Fellow Dutchwoman Lotte Wilms will also return to Busselton this weekend and will line up as one of the favourites to take the title. After finishing third the last three times she has raced in Busselton, Wilms will be hoping 2025 is the year she makes it to the top step of the podium.
Also set to provide a challenge for the title is up-and-coming Swiss triathlete Alanis Siffert, who has a string of podium finishes to her name over the past couple of years. Meanwhile, the Australian challenge will be led by Kate Gillespie-Jones, Chloe Hartnett, and Charlotte Mcshane. Fellow Aussie Kate Bevilacqua will also line up in Busselton for the final time as the West Australian calls time on her impressive career spanning nearly 20 years and featuring three IRONMAN wins – including her home race of IRONMAN Western Australia in 2010.
- F1 Fenella Langridge GBR
- F2 Lotte Wilms NLD
- F4 Els Visser NLD
- F7 Kate Gillespie-jones AUS
- F8 Alanis Siffert CHE
- F9 Kate Curran GBR
- F10 Kate Bevilaqua AUS
- F11 Charlotte Mcshane AUS
- F14 Chloe Hartnett AUS
- F15 Anne-Sophie Pierre FRA
- F16 Laura Dennis AUS
- F17 Sophia Green GBR
- F18 Tiina Pohjalainen FIN
- F19 Hannah Munday GBR
- F20 Katie Remond AUS
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- M1 Nick Thompson AUS
- M2 Matt Burton AUS
- M3 Mike Phillips NZL
- M5 Sam Appleton AUS
- M6 Denis Chevrot FRA
- M7 Jesper Svensson SWE
- M8 Max Neumann AUS
- M9 Mitchell Kibby AUS
- M10 Nick Baldwin SYC
- M14 Tristan Price AUS
- M15 Jack Sosinski AUS
- M16 Hamish Longmuir AUS
- M17 Kristoffer Visti Graae DNK
- M18 Caleb Noble AUS
- M19 Aichlinn O'Reilly IRL
- M20 Jumpei Furuya JPN
- M21 Joel Wooldridge AUS
- M22 Ollie Turner JEY
- M23 Sam Musgrove AUS
- M24 Rostyslav Pevtsov UKR
- M25 Cameron Main GBR
- M26 Jason Christie NZL
- M27 Julien Hagen BEL
- M28 Levi Hauwert AUS
- M29 Nathan Dortmann AUS
- M30 Simon Huckestein DEU
- M31 Calvin Amos AUS
- M32 Guy Crawford NZL
- M33 Nick Bensley AUS
- M34 Stefan Zachäus LUX
- M35 Sven Wies DEU
- M36 Gustav Palm-Henriksen DNK
- M37 Luke Mathews ARE