COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – 100 forty feminine and male skilled triathletes will return to Good, France, on Sept. 12-13, for the 2026 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.
Who to Watch
Two-time Olympic medalist Taylor Knibb leads the star-studded begin checklist. A 3-time IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion and 2025 runner-up who has reached the rostrum at each IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship she has contested since 2021, Knibb is about to race in Good for the primary time.
Kat Mathew (GBR), who positioned runner-up to Knibb in each 2023 and 2024, and Solveig Løvseth (NOR), who received the 2025 IRONMAN World Championship, are set to be prime contenders headed into the weekend.
Different U.S. girls on the beginning checklist embrace 2024 Paris Olympian Kirsten Kasper, and Jackie Hering, the highest-standing U.S. lady within the IRONMAN Professional Collection rankings.
The U.S. males’s begin checklist options 2024 Paris Olympic silver medalists Morgan Pearson and Seth Rider, together with 15-time IRONMAN 70.3 winner Sam Lengthy. The sector additionally features a sturdy contingent of different Olympic veterans, with fellow Paris Olympians Vincent Luis (FRA), Hayden Wilde (NZL) and Sam Dickinson (GBR).
Main the sphere are 2024 and 2025 defending champion Jelle Geens (BEL) and 2025 runner-up Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR).
Notable absences embrace 2025 IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR) and Trevor Foley (USA) who’re each centered on getting ready for the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona in October.
See the complete begin checklist right here.
The world’s greatest will tackle a course that showcases the wonder and problem of the Côte d’Azur.
Athletes will start with a 1.2-mile swim within the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea earlier than tackling a demanding 56-mile bike course by way of the Alpes-Maritimes, together with the long-lasting Col de Vence. The race concludes with a 13.1-mile run alongside Good’s famed Promenade des Anglais, the place athletes will probably be met by the vitality of cheering crowds.
Good has hosted a number of IRONMAN World Championship occasions, together with the 2019 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship; 2023 Males’s IRONMAN World Championship and the 2024 Ladies’s IRONMAN World Championship.
Ladies’s race: Saturday, Sept. 12 | 2 a.m. ET / 11 p.m. PT (Friday, Sept. 11)
Males’s race: Sunday, Sept. 13 | 2 a.m. ET / 11 p.m. PT (Saturday, Sept. 12)
Dwell race day protection of each the ladies’s and males’s races will probably be broadcast globally on YouTube, DAZN, and the Ironman web site. Additional regional reside broadcast and spotlight protection out there by way of ESPN inside Disney+, SuperSport, Exterior TV and extra.
