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IRONMAN Pro Series Standings – Showing Points ‘Lost’

Rank Name (Country) Total Points Total Races Scored IM Races Scored 70.3 Races Scored Points Lost
1 Anne Reischmann (DEU) 10,060 3 2 1 2,440
2 Kat Matthews (GBR) 9,880 2 2 0 120
3 Jackie Hering (USA) 9,621 3 1 2 379
4 Danielle Lewis (USA) 7,318 4 2 2 7,682
5 Hannah Berry (AUS) 7,235 2 1 1 265
6 Marta Sanchez (ESP) 7,030 2 1 1 470
7 Solveig Løvseth (DEN) 6,945 2 1 1 555
9 Lotte Wilms (AUS) 6,648 2 1 1 852

Inspired by IRONMAN Pro Series Heads Down Under for Another Exciting Day in Cairns - Slowtwitch News

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Assuming Matthews wins this thing, the battle between Herring and Lovseth for 2nd will make for good headlines coming out of Lake Placid. (Assuming they both do well)

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Ironically (?) the scattered glass in Hamburg did Hering a massive favour. Forced to travel to Cairns she netted 5000 points, likely 1000 more than she’d have got in Germany.
Edit: And Marquardt was ‘only’ there (Cairns) because of his ‘fail’ at Texas (and Blummenfelt making ‘every second count’).

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Yes, and I listened to her interview with Jack Kelly. Sounds like Ironman helped her out with hotel, etc because the flats were from sabotage

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We’re somewhat starting to see it now, but I suspect on the women’s side next year that we’ll see people who are going for a Pro Series podium (Hard to beat Matthews if she goes for it) will pick races to avoid the big guns - Phillip, Matthews, Knibb. I’d add LCB to the list but she’s not typically showing up at Pro series IMs.

Stay away from Texas, Hamburg and start picking more strategically - South Africa, Cairns, etc. if Knibb shows up at a 70.3, don’t bother.

On the men’s side it’s competitive enough that Cairns is probably the only weaker field. If you can lose 8 mins on a cramp and still win, then get your points there.

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Hering initially planned to race IMSA but twisted ankle and didn’t have the running to feel competitive in time for South Africa or Texas.

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I think the difficulty is that if you bet on that, everyone else is likely looking to do the same. You almost need to do what Herring did. Get your name on all the races and pull out ASAP if it’s not going to happen.

Kind of a crappy externality of the pro series. Maybe IM could do a -1000pts penalty for not completing a race based on the judgement of an impartial panel if you strategically DNF sorta thing.

But still, I totally agree this result in Cairns is epic silver lining and I have a hard time thinking it will be that “easy” next year.

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I think the trick though will be that they’ll likely reshuffle some of the races anyway. There will be a few that stay on (Oceanside, Texas) and some others that they shuffle. Though they need at least one Oceana IM and probably a 70.3 during the time period so my guess is that Cairns will probably stick around.

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IRONMAN MPro Series Standings after Frankfurt – Showing Points ‘Lost’

Standing Deficit order Name Total points Deficit from ‘perfect’
1 1 Kristian Blummenfelt 14,312 688
7 2 Rudy Von Berg 11,070 1,430
8 3 Magnus Ditlev 10,640 1,860
3 4 Casper Stornes 13,067 1,933
10 5 Jonas Hoffmann 10,126 2,374
11 6 Kacper Stepniak 9,878 2,622
13 7 Matt Hanson 9,774 2,726
4 8 Gustav Iden 12,255 2,745
14 9 Matthew Marquardt 9,675 2,825
5 10 Paul Schuster 11,774 3,226
6 11 Ben Hamilton 11,072 3,928
2 12 Cameron Wurf 13,330 4,170
9 13 Dominik Sowieja 10,235 4,765
12 14 Ben Kanute 9,789 5,211

Will we see any of those with losses at their 70.3(s) on the Swansea start list (yet to be published)? Zell-am-See is only a fortnight before Nice.
I think every athlete (bar Hamilton ) on the list above has a Nice slot but several (4?) haven’t qualified for Marbella. Of course the table will update when IMLP is raced.

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Start list for Ironman 70.3 Swansea on 13th July - the next IM Pro Series race - is out (and early chance to claim a slot for Nice):

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Matthews here for 2500 points (was winner here in ?2022).
Reischmann for valuable points too, maybe to stay top of the IM Pro Series Standings.
Bartlett the week after Roth !! (winner here last year and hence bib #1.
Kleiser for the slowest swim and fastest run bonuses.
De Vet will hope she can mobilise her Challenge Champs win form and forget T100 SF (her #20 was the first ever (#20) in a T100, I think: “I’ve started so I’ll finish.”)
Rayner podiums in Valencia and Aix, and third here last year.
McDonald back from her T100 exploits (and engagement), #2 last year here - NB awaits a wild card for T100 London. [Edit = DNS]
Davies - two out of 3 podiums this year including #2 in the Challenge Champs; found the Col de Vence a bit 'ard last Sunday.

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Stand outs: Ditlev, Chevalier, Dickinson, Lindars, Wurf(?), Schuster
Besides the low numbers I also see:
Teagle, Davis T, Lewis, and AHT to lead out the swim.

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Absolutely hilarious to see Harry Palmer on the poster, but I guess he earned it by winning last year. I’m sure Leon and his training partners are having a good laugh about it.

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Yes, wearing bib #M1. Worth bearing in mind he was #8 in Taupo in a very competitive field. And will finish a country mile ahead of ‘Leon’.

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I have massive respect for Harry Palmer, but Leon Chevalier will wipe the floor with him.

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Out of this list, Hoffmann, Marquardt, Schuster, Wurf and Sowieja have not qualified and Marquardt strikes me as only having 1 70.3 result and would need to go to spend several weeks in Europe in order to be able to race Zell Am See and Nice. I guess it would make sense to take the gamble if he gets a good result at Placid.

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Greetings
As I said: “I think every athlete (bar Hamilton ) on the list above has a Nice slot but several (4?) haven’t qualified for Marbella.” As you say it’s actually 5.
Of those Schuster, Wurf and Sowieja have 2 70.3s already.
I suggest that given Marquardt travelled to Cairns to race he will ensure 5 (3+2) scores. I think he will do as you suggest. If IMLP goes OK he will travel over to Nice, do his recces and get comfortable with the descents, drive up to Zell-am-See and score his second 70.3 and then has 12 days before Nice.
I guess Hoffmann is likely to do the same, and he is high enough in the list to make this worthwhile.

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Hopefully he’s healthy enough to start.

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Leon somehow doesn’t shine at the middle distances. Wouldn’t bet the farm on him beating Harry. Think he finished something like 25th in Nice 70.3 over the weekend

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Harry’s Worlds performance puts him well in front of Leon in my book over 70.3.

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Ditlev is a DNS for Swansea, as is Viain.
But Hoegenhaug has been added to the list as #M5. I presume after his Frankfurt excellence, this and Zell-am-See can be his two 70.3 scores towards the IM Pro Series.
I note that both Palmer and Dickinson raced in Sweden today (#4 and #2 respectively).
Will Bartlett line up after her serious wobble in the last few miles in Roth?

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After his superb race in Roth (which underlines his potential for top 5 in Nice), Schomburg really ought, from a professional PoV, to race IMLP (maybe this is already the plan). He had to DNF Frankfurt with the fragile cockpit fail: a score there would’ve been his necessary second IM.
He has starts in IMWC Nice and in Marbella, and two decent scores already (IMSA and Aix).

He has only ‘lost’ 651 points on max and getting within 10 minutes of the winner at IMLP would set him up for a top 3 finish in the IM Pro Series (I estimate). This would mean a final standings payout of maybe $80,000 more than the $5.5k he’ll get without IMLP.