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Kat Matthews announces her 2025 calendar with her sights set on Kona

The current champion of the IRONMAN Pro Series has presented a ambitious schedule by 2025 with a clear message: to turn its two world championship runner-up positions into gold.

After deciding not to renew with the circuit T100 Triathlon World, The British will focus its efforts on six strategic tests of the franchise HOMBRE DE HIERRO.

The objective is none other than to revalidate its title in the IRONMAN Pro Series and, why not, achieve for the first time the long-awaited victory in the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona.

In addition, the city of Marbella is also presented as a key stage, since the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship will be held there.

Texas, the starting point for repeating the IRONMAN Pro Series

The first big challenge of Kat matthews will arrive on April 26th with the IRONMAN Texas, a talismanic test for the British.

He already won there in 2023 y 2024, adding essential points to become champion of the IRONMAN Pro Series.

After Texas, Matthews' second IRONMAN race of the season will be Hamburg, on June 1. This event also has the rank of IRONMAN European Championship, so it has great prestige at the international level. national and international.

Calendar  Kat matthews  2025

After the first two stops, the British woman's agenda includes three IRONMAN in total and three IRONMAN 70.3, which will allow you to meet the requirements of the Pro Series. This is the provisional breakdown:

  1. IRONMAN Texas (April 26)
  2. IRONMAN Hamburg (June 1)
  3. IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea (July 13)
  4. IRONMAN 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun (August 31)
  5. IRONMAN World Championship in Kona
  6. IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Marbella

Participation in Swansea, on July 13, will take Matthews back to compete on home soil, having already competed in the same event in 2022.

Then, the British will close the month of August in Zell am See-Kaprun (August 31), a date that appears as a “wildcard race” to add more points and fine-tune the set-up. All this before facing the two key dates: Kona y Marbella.

Preparation in Spain as an essential part of its strategy

FOR Kat matthewsSpain is your go-to place during the winter. The island of Lanzarote offers you the perfect conditions to alternate training at altitude, pleasant temperatures and routes with a certain level of demand for your body. bikeThis environment helps her maintain a stable motivation throughout the months leading up to the competition.

“I've already had to talk to myself this week… 'Calm down Kat! It's January!'” the British woman herself posted on her social media, acknowledging that his level of enthusiasm is above what would be expected in a preseason.

Aside from this desire to step on the accelerator, she is satisfied with her initial work: “A very productive first block of training, despite some occasional illnesses. And my motivation has increased, a goal that I have undoubtedly achieved at the beginning of this year.”

Kona, a rematch with the taste of a world title

El IRONMAN World Championship in Kona It is presented as a great opportunity for Kat matthews get that gold that you have been craving for the last few seasons.

She was second in Nice in 2024, after an intense battle with Laura Philipp, and had also won silver in St. George in 2021. For this reason, she will seek her particular sporting “revenge” in Hawaii to achieve that first place that has so often eluded her.

Marbella: your option to close the season

The end of the season will be written on Spanish soil, in Marbella, home of the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.

This championship will be the event that closes the year, a sort of “all or nothing” for the British rider. She has a pair of consecutive runner-up finishes in this distance – Lahti 2023 and Taupo 2024 – and is looking for that finishing touch that will allow her to climb to the top of the podium.

Will Kat Matthews repeat her IRONMAN Pro Series double?

In 2024, Kat matthews made history by winning the IRONMAN Pro Series title for the first time.

Won in IRONMAN Texas, abandoned in Hamburg and then chained triumphs in IRONMAN Vitoria plus three second places: the two world championship runner-ups and a silver in IRONMAN 70.3 Tallinn.

The countdown to Kona and Marbella has already begun, and Kat matthews is ready to compete with the best to achieve the dream of a double IRONMAN Pro Series and world championships.

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