Originally published at: 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series Standings Update - Slowtwitch News
It seems hard to believe that we’re over a third of the way through the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series calendar, and yet after seven races in under two months, that’s exactly where we find ourselves. Some familiar faces have come to the head of the points table thus far, while others look to make their full-distance debuts next month. We’ll take a look at the points tables, as well as how athletes might be able to climb up the leaderboard over the critical next two months of the season.
Top 20 Standings Through IRONMAN 70.3 Aix-en-Provence
The respective leaders are Marta Sanchez and Kristian Blummenfelt. Sanchez moved into the lead following her fourth place this past weekend at Aix-en-Provence, backing up her strong second place finish at the first full distance race of the Series, IRONMAN South Africa. Blummenfelt, for his part, jumped into the lead with his second race victory of the year this past weekend. Him moving into first also shows how critical every second is; had he not gone on his blistering half marathon run in Oceanside after his unfortunate flat tire to limit his losses in a 15th place finish, he’d be behind Jonas Schomburg in the standings.
As a reminder: the top five results for an athlete will count, with a maximum of three IRONMAN races counting towards a point total. IRONMAN victories are worth 5,000 points, whereas 70.3 wins will net you 2,500 points. The full distance world title will get you 6,000 points, and 70.3 is worth 3,000 points. Points are deducted for every second behind the winner you finish.
Without further adieu, the women’s top 20:
| Name | Points | IRONMAN Scores | IRONMAN 70.3 Scores |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marta Sanchez | 7,030 | 1 | 1 |
| Anne Reischmann | 6,833 | 1 | 1 |
| Lisa Perterer | 6,064 | 1 | 1 |
| Chloe Lane | 5,913 | 2 | 1 |
| Laura Jansen | 5,557 | 1 | 1 |
| Maja Stage Nielsen | 5,358 | 1 | 1 |
| Kat Matthews | 5,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Paula Findlay | 5,000 | 0 | 2 |
| Tamara Jewett | 4,991 | 1 | 1 |
| Charlene Clavel | 4,973 | 1 | 1 |
| Alice Alberts | 4,923 | 1 | 1 |
| Sara Svensk | 4,862 | 1 | 1 |
| Danielle Lewis | 4,726 | 0 | 2 |
| Jackie Hering | 4,621 | 0 | 2 |
| Katrine Græsbøll Christensen | 4,579 | 1 | 0 |
| Henrike Güber | 4,424 | 1 | 1 |
| Taylor Knibb | 4,419 | 1 | 0 |
| Lena Meißner | 4,389 | 0 | 2 |
| Lisa Becharas | 3,985 | 0 | 2 |
| Stephanie Clutterbuck | 3,672 | 1 | 1 |
And now for the men:
| Name | Points | IRONMAN Scores | IRONMAN 70.3 Scores |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristian Blummenfelt | 9,312 | 1 | 2 |
| Jonas Schomburg | 9,203 | 1 | 2 |
| Leon Chevalier | 8,353 | 2 | 1 |
| Casper Stornes | 8,298 | 1 | 2 |
| Gustav Iden | 7,729 | 1 | 2 |
| Ben Hamilton | 7,513 | 1 | 2 |
| Cameron Wurf | 7,304 | 1 | 2 |
| Mattia Ceccarelli | 7,180 | 1 | 2 |
| Cameron Main | 7,150 | 0 | 3 |
| Rudy Von Berg | 6,913 | 1 | 1 |
| Jake Birtwhistle | 6,863 | 0 | 3 |
| Magnus Ditlev | 6,625 | 1 | 1 |
| Dominik Sowieja | 6,496 | 1 | 2 |
| Kacper Stepniak | 6,027 | 1 | 1 |
| Jonas Hoffman | 5,724 | 1 | 1 |
| Paul Schuster | 5,714 | 1 | 1 |
| Ben Kanute | 5,473 | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Hanson | 5,406 | 1 | 1 |
| William Mennesson | 5,186 | 1 | 2 |
| Lionel Sanders | 5,000 | 0 | 2 |
What Will the Rest of the Qualification Cycle Look Like?
There are two ways to approach the pivotal next few months of the season. On the one hand, athletes could take the Kat Matthews 2024 approach and race a lot, maximizing points, and then still look to perform well at the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships. On the other is the more traditional season-build, which would see athletes put more emphasis on getting fresh for the September through November stretch, when prestige is maximized (along with dollars) at the world championship events.
As shown by last season’s men’s champion Gregory Barnaby, though, solid top 10 performances at worlds, along with strong performances throughout the rest of the year, can provide enough points to get close. I’d expect again that it will take athletes who race both World Championship events to do well in order to wind up earning the Pro Series title and bonus money.
That, then, should favor both Matthews and possibly Findlay on the women’s side, given the current points scoring; Matthews has one total score to her name, with Findlay adding two 70.3 wins but no IRONMAN races as of yet. Matthews is on the start list at Hamburg, along with Jackie Hering, defending IRONMAN World Champion Laura Philipp (who is yet to score in 2025), Anne Reischmann and more. Findlay has mentioned that she would be looking to try her hand at a full distance event in 2025, but has yet to appear on a start list.
Rolling through the men’s lists, and Blummenfelt will likely need to, at a minimum, replace his result from Oceanside with another 70.3, along with having good performances at the two world championship races in order to hold onto his lead. It appears that he may repeat his 2024 schedule with a race in Frankfurt, although that seems riskier this season given that the men will race Nice in September, rather than Kona in October. But being all-in on the Pro Series may mean needing to take three full distance scores to have any chance at the $200,000 awarded to the points champion. In a similar boat? Magnus Ditlev, who also suffered with tire trouble in St. George.
I also would not count out Lionel Sanders from a top 10 at the end of the series. Having maximized his 70.3 scoring so far with two wins to start out the year, Sanders has both his world championship entries locked up. Despite his IRONMAN Texas withdrawal video saying that he wouldn’t focus on the Pro Series, his selected single IRONMAN of the year leading up to Nice (Lake Placid) is…a Pro Series race. Factor in Nice and 70.3 Worlds and Sanders will have his five scores.
The next race in the 2025 Pro Series is IRONMAN Hamburg, a women’s only event, on June 1st, followed by IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder the following weekend.