The preview of the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship

October 26, 2022Updated on January 3, 2024

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The preview of the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship — IM/ image of the cycling segment in St. George

This weekend is held in St. George Utah, a new edition of the IRONMAN World Championship 70.3 with many of the great triathletes on the starting list.

For this edition the championship will be played on two separate days, on Friday 28 the women's event and on Saturday 29 the men's event.

In the test there will be more than 6.000 triathletes in groups old fighting for the title in its category.

In the female category, the main favorite is the British Lucy Charles, who arrives at the test after having achieved second place in Kona and who will seek to revalidate his title won last year.

But there will also be high-level triathletes like Flora Duffy, Holly Lawrence, Taylor Knibb, Emma Pallant, Nikki Bartlett o paula findlaand among others.

In the men's event, a duel is expected between the two great favorites, the Norwegians Gustav Iden y Kristian Blummenfelt.

Iden arrives at this event with the IRONMAN world title won a few weeks ago, while Blummenfelt returns to St. George to be crowned world champion again.

Surely we will see a spectacular duel between these two giants.

It will also be necessary to take into account triathletes of the stature of Sam long , Magnus ditlev Ben Kanute, Miki Taagholt, Jackson Laundry o Eric Lagerstrom among others.

As for the Spaniards, this year we will only have the presence of Jordi Montraveta who will be our only representative in the test.

See IRONMAN 70.3 2022 World Championship start list

The IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship will distribute a prize pool of 350.000 dollars where 50.000 will be pocketed by the winners in each event.