Calendar for next year:
(Yellow highlights are the full distance races.)
Press release:
And with more colour:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOgYdjbCD86/
(Yellow highlights are the full distance races.)
Press release:
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Wait wait wait, a championship series can be posted BEFORE the middle of the season?!?! WTF is this, that is unacceptable.
How dare they rob us of the drama and excitement of unexpected shifting of dates, moving locations and cancellations of courses that never had local approval. This is bush league posting it a full 6 months before the first race. Shame on you Ironman, do better.
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Nice calendar, see you in Lake Placid!
After finishing the 2025 season on 9th November in Marbella, I can see a squadron of athletes spend 4-6 weeks in Australasia and tick off IMNZ and Geelong early on.
That opens the choices up for a mid season IM and a spare 70.3, and a really good build to Nice (12/13th September), and then a month to Kona.
Roth is on 5th July.
I am tempted by Zell am see as I can drive to it but Iām not really into the bike course.
Noticed that Cairns is not on the list.
Maybe the Geelong/NZ combo will bring a bigger international crowd down under
The flagship races remain, namely LP, German ones and Oceanside!
I do like that Boise and Happy Valley are on that list to give those races some hope of prestige.
I am surprised they didnāt make Coeur Dāalene their NA Champs or part of the pro series though.
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I mean Boise 70.3 in the pro series. No comment.
When does the full pro calendar tend to be released?
Amazing that they donāt have at least one Canadian race, Tremblant 70.3 would have been a great option.
There are only 2 Canadian 70.3 options and MT has great attendance so not a lot of value to them making it a pro race. It is a beautiful and challenging course and would certainly be worthy. Iām wondering if it will be the top option to be the WC course when it returns to NA.
Yes I understand that but I think there would be value to the large number of participants and spectators to have a top quality pro contingent there. Itās such a great race and venue.
Well it has a one loop bike course so that meets one key requirement. Not so sure about the safety aspects of two way bike traffic allowing safe emergency vehicle access for a race with 2500 athletes - is the risk anymore than the ānormalā one in June?
On 11th and 12th September 2027 thereād need to be some serious global warming effect to have any assurance of air temperatures above 10 degrees C (50F) at the swim exit which might be a show stopper. Or shift the dates to mid August (bang in the holiday season there). I think Lahti dates (?20 August and NB IMWC(M) Nice only weeks later) were the latest theyāve ever staged the 70.3WC which IRONMAN would want kept towards the end of the season, either a month before or a month after IMWC. Could MT accommodation etc resources cope with 5000 athletes plus double that number of supporters over a weekend?
De Rue touches on the Series next year (Oman āvisionā/tourist impact, wider IRONMAN stuff, 2029 70.3WC, new USA IMs, Ottawa, IMās broadcastās āreach, globally, millionsā, under 30s and demo profile, aquabike, UTMB and other stuff). He is very excited, no, I mean incredibly excited.
I just hope Oman wasnāt sold Taupo levels of tourism. If thereās a place like āHawaiiā in terms of appeal where people want to go, is places like New Zealand or Fiji or Tahiti. I could see some triathletes flocking there.
For some reason, thereās no interest in Oman other than perhaps some sunlight starved northern Europeans in winter.
And here are the other pro events on the 2026 calendar - just published.
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Kanute first out of the blocks with his proposed race schedule, campaigning the IM Pro Series (no sign of T100s, probably wouldnāt get an invite anyway).
Actually goinā forin in September.
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Looks like a smart move.
A look back and forward from Jonathan Turner at tri247
comparing the IRONMAN Pro Series and the T100 Triathlon World Tour