Welcome to Ironman Rankings 2009

This website will provide a ranking system for the Ironman Series. Only Ironman races will be included, no ironman 70.3 or non WTC iron distance races. It will provide an interesting account of who are the most consistently performing ironman athletes.

Point Allocation

The year will begin with Ironman Florida 2008 and will end at the 2009 Hawaii Ironman World Championships. Bonus points will be allocated for 2008 Hawaii Ironman top 20 finishers to kick off the table. Bonus points will be allocated with 1st gaining 20 points down to 20th receiving 1.
Points will be allocated to other ironman races as follows.

1st 60 points
2nd 30 points
3rd 20 points
4th 15 points
5th through to 10th 10 down to 5 points

However, athletes will have to finish within 10% of the 2nd place getter to gain any points.

Points will be allocated for the 2009 Hawaii Ironman World Championships as follows.

1st 150 points
2nd 100 points
3rd 75 points
4th 60 points
5th 50 points
6th 45 points
7th 40 points
8th 35 points
9th 30 points
10th 25 points
11th through to 20th 24 down to 15 points

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Ironman China Preview

Ironman China is heating up to be a great race. In the men all eyes will be on Rasmus Henning as he attempts his first iron distance race. The Dane has been very successful over the shorter distance but will be making a big step up as he faces competion from Jozsef Major (winner of Ironman Arizona 2008 April version), Tim Marr who placed 3rd in China last year, the racing machine Petr Vabrousek, and Byung Hoon Park. 
The women's race will be a batle between several previous Ironman winners. Hillary Biscay, Edith Niederfiniger, Mariska Kramer-Postma, Charlotte Paul and Tereza Macel will all be looking to add Ironman China to their tropy cabinets, and will also face a challenge from American Kim Loeffler who will be determined to gain her first ironman victory.
My picks for the win will be Tim Marr and Charlotte Paul.

1 Byung Hoon PARK

2 Donna PHELAN

3 Timothy MARR

4 Tereza MACEL

5 Mathieu OHALLORAN

6 Kim LOEFFLER

7 Petr VABROUSEK

8 Charlotte PAUL

9 Rasmus HENNING

10 Hillary BISCAY

11 Justin GRANGER

12 Edith NIEDERFRINIGER

13 Patrick EVOE

14 Jocelyn Sui-Yee WONG

15 Chris WATERHOUSE

16 Monika STADLMANN

17 Jens THÖNNES

18 Yvette GRICE

19 Jozsef MAJOR

20 Mariska KRAMER-POSTMA

21 Keegan WILLIAMS

22 Kelly LILJEBLAD

23 Kjell SCHIOEBERG

24 Manuel HUERTA

25 Markus STRINI

26 Patrick WALLIMANN

27 Paul AMBROSE

28 Paul MATTHEWS

29 Scott DEFILIPPIS

30 Shigenobu IKEGATA

31 Zach RUBLE

 

Posted by Iron Ed at 6:58 PM