I'll add some easy ones to the list.

Ironman Regensburg 2010 - 2012
Ironman St George 2010 - 2012
Ironman Lake Tahoe - 2013. One and done.
Ironman New York City - 2012. One and done.

New:
Ironman Haugesund 2018 - TBD
Ironman Ireland 2019 - TBD

I raced IM Tahoe 2015...

Ironman North Carolina 2016. Another one n done!

Yeah, I hosed that. It needs to read:

Ironman Lake Tahoe: 2013 and 2015. (2014 Canx).

Per the Ironman website 40 years article, it looks like Roth was was actually in 1988? (As an Ironman brand, not sure if it was an IM distance race at the time). They also list:

Wisconsin 2002-current
Austria (Klagenfurt) 1999-current
Switzerland (specific city?) 1997-?
Australia (specific city?) 1991-?
New Zealand (Auckland) 1985-?
Japan (specific city?) 1985-?

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Matt

Ironman Vineman 2000 & 2016
Full Vineman 1990 - 2015

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if you go to obstri.com, not only does it seem to have most (not sure if all) years for all races, it has the results as well.

I believe IM California was cancelled sometime around 2001 or 2002. Don’t remember when it started.

And I think there was a one and done IM Utah sometime around 2002.

I think Utah had 2, both with serious swim issues. Maybe the second one was only a half.

If Iron Distance and not branded IM, then your missing what for me was the best of all Silverman

Yeah, it looks like it was one and done in Provo due to the wind/water and Ironman ‘moved’ the race to CDA the following summer

I saw an article on triathlonworls.com mentioned IM California starting in 2000. They also mention Florida starting in 1999 so I’ll have to update the OP when I’m not having to type on the phone

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Matt

Yeah, I figure having all iron distance ones on there would be good. Know the years?

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Ironman New Zealand - Auckland - 1985 - 1998
Ironman New Zealand - Taupo - 1999 to current

IM California was held twice, 2000 and 2001

Ironman Texas didn't end in 2016, it's still going (unless you're counting it out due to the shortened bike course).

IM Kona was on Oahu the first couple years-not Kona.
Just saying.

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I believe Roth was Ironman Germany for about 10 yrs before the RD and WTC had a falling out.

I did Ironman U.K. (Sherbourne) in 2006. It was going for a few years before that I think, and up until the switch to Bolton.

I also did the inaugural Ironman Wales in 2011. It did feel like I was out there until 2012...

IM Florida was 1999
IM Wisconsin was earlier than 2002. Maybe 1999 as well or2000

Wisconsin did start in 2002 as I know a big group that did it that year as the first one. Correct on Florida in '99 (I did it in '01 and '02).

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"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

Let's not forget The Great Floridian, 1990-current, or at least through 2017. AFAIK, they're still planning to have it in Oct 2018.

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

Lanzarote goes back for sure as far at 1993, but it may have been 1992

• IM Maryland I thought was Chesapeakman for 15 years before it was IM brand
• IM Germany Roth 1989 to 2001 or so
• IM Frankfurt should have started din 2002 till now
• Challenge Roth, same time 2002 till now
• Ironman Florida 1999 till now, not 2002
• Ironman Austria existed as an independent IM as far back at 1993. I was at Roth at 1993 and the race director was giving out pamphlets for the new Iron distance race in Klagenfurt
• In South America you are missing IM Forteleza that started in 2016
• Iroman Australia going back to ~1990 was on Forster Tuncurry. Moved later to Port Mac. Not sure which year. Aussies can chime in
• There was Ironman Korea in the mid 200x. Chrissie Wellington's first IM win was IM Korea 2007
• Ironman South Africa goes back to the mid 200x. Triangle Promotions started that race not long after they were organizing IM France Nice, and IM Austria. Triangle was the Europe promoter equivalent of North America Sports that Graham Fraser owned back in the era when WTC/Ironman licensed events vs running their own.
• Ironman New Zealand goes back to the mid 198x. Initially it was 2 mile swim, 100 mile bike, 20 mile run as the Double Brown Ironman (or whomever the sponsor was). It was in the Auckland area from what I recall. By 1989 it was a full Ironman. This was the 'test venue' of the first every real triathlon bike when the founder of this website, Dan Empfield, but the Quintana Roo Superform under the butt of Ray Browning. Ray set the bike course record and literally came off the bike 30 minutes before anyone else (the victim was Tinley). The picture of Ray below appears to be from Kona, but this is the same machine.

http://quintanarootri.blogspot.com/2014/03/1989-story-of-science-and-seat-tubes.html


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1989: A Story of Science and Seat Tubes
If 1987 put Quintana Roo on the map, then the next two years made certain that it was there to stay. There is something of a tendency, when telling the "story" of Quintana Roo, to jump right from the wetsuit to Ray Browning riding the Superform at the 1989 Ironman New Zealand. While "technically" correct, that version does not capture the radical advancements occurring in triathlon technology.

The same year that the QR wetsuit debuted, Steve Hed was able to develop and mass produce a readily available rear disc wheel, at a price accessible to pros and age-groupers alike. 1987 also saw the introduction of the Scott DH aerobar into triathlon (whereas "real" cycling did not begin to adopt this until Greg Lemond's historic Tour de France win in 1989).

The problem with the the Scott DH aerobar, though, was that it was not very comfortable to use; the slack seat tube angle and the fixed quill-stems of the bikes of this time meant that there was very little room for adjustment. In order to achieve a good aero position, riders were bending over almost completely double, and it was not a comfortable position to be in for any extended period of time. Something needed to be done.

If we were to tell the "traditional" story of the triathlon bike, this is the part where we say "Dan noticed a common trend among triathletes- everyone was trying to move their seat forward as much as possible in order to open up their hip angle. So, he decided to build a bike 'from the bars back,' gave it to Ray Browning to ride at the 1989 IM New Zealand, and the world was changed." And this wouldn't be wrong; it just wouldn't be completely right, because there's more to the story.

In 1988, after the wetsuit but before the Superform, Dan noticed that many of the women triathletes that he was working with simply did not fit on their bikes. The 700c, slack-tube geometry did not meet their needs. So, Dan designed and built a road bike with 650c wheels specifically for women, first called the Cat 1 and then the Palomar. It was not much more than "shrinking" the geometry of a bike, but it worked. This was the start of QR bikes, again making a product to fill a specific need.

But what about the Superform? That's what QR is famous for, right? Yes, but there is more to the story. Dan wasn't the only one who noticed a universal trend of triathletes trying to get as forward as possible on their bikes. There were others who also noticed, and who were also studying the effects that a "steep" position had on the body. Others such as Ray Browning. Ray wasn't just a triathlete who happened to ride the Superform. Along with his impressive triathlon career, Ray was pursuing a post-grad degree in biomechanics at UCLA, specifically the biomechanics of cycling. He and those he was working with noticed that when their subjects were required to pedal harder and faster, the subjects would move forward on the saddle, opening up their hip angle and effectively steepening the geometry of the bike.

Studying the physiological effects of this position, Browning realized that the positive benefits of a position like this very much outweighed the negative effects in terms of biomechanical and aerobic efficiency. It now remained a matter of real-life testing. Enter Dan, with the QR Superform, offering an opportunity for Ray to test his, and Dan's, steep seat-tube hypothesis.

To say that the bike is what won Ray's race at the 1989 IM New Zealand special would be to discredit Ray as an athlete: he had won IM New Zealand in 1987, and placed 2nd in 1988. We cannot discount the months that Ray spent training on the Superform in preparing for the race. Ray was fit, he knew he was fit, and he knew that the bike certainly wouldn't hurt him. When asked to guess his time as part of a contest, he guessed 8:35, almost 20 minutes faster than the course record.

Still, it was something of a surprise when he came off the bike almost 30 minutes ahead of Scott Tinley, crushing the bike course record and the overall course record. He wasn't right about his time, though; he was off by about 30 seconds. Not too bad of a guess. Did he realize that what he had done would completely change the direction that triathlon bike design was headed? At the time, not really. As Ray saw it, the entire sport of triathlon was in a process of discovery, almost a "Wild West" of trying new technologies and training ideas. For him, the Superform was just one of the new ideas that happened to work: but, even after he stopped riding QR bikes, he made sure that whatever bike he rode had a similar steep seat-tube geometry as that original Superform.

And, the "modern" triathlon bike was born.

There was also IM Melbourne (Australia) held in 2012-2015