IRONMAN Announces The Second Season of The IRONMAN Pro Series in 2025 with Seven New Host Venues Featured in The 18 Event Schedule

September 18, 2024

– The 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series will consist of six IRONMAN and eight IRONMAN 70.3 triathlons around the world in addition to the women’s and men’s VinFast IRONMAN World Championship and the VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlons

– Over $6 million USD in competition-based prize money on offer for professionals throughout 2025 race season inclusive of $1.7 million USD year-end IRONMAN Pro Series bonus prize pool

– Building on the success of the inaugural season, the IRONMAN Pro Series points scoring system will remain the same for 2025 with an athlete’s top five race performances of the year counting towards their final ranking, of which a maximum of three IRONMAN event results can be counted

TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 18, 2024) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – IRONMAN is excited to announce the continuation of the IRONMAN Pro Series™ in 2025, building on the success of its inaugural year. The performance-based world series will continue to showcase and reward the world’s top professional triathletes as they vie for points and event prize money towards the title of IRONMAN Pro Series champion and their share of $1.7 million USD in year-end bonus pool payouts. In its first year (to date), the IRONMAN Pro Series has seen a global audience of over five million live stream views.

The 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series will be contested over 18 events and 17 race locations, including a combination of six IRONMAN^® and eight IRONMAN^® 70.3^® triathlons from around the globe as well as the VinFast IRONMAN World Championship^® women’s and men’s races and VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon.

The 2025 schedule will see seven new race venues added to the calendar, including the IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong triathlon in Australia, which will kick off the season in March, followed by the first IRONMAN Pro Series race in South Africa with the ISUZU IRONMAN South Africa African Championship race. In addition to the VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon in Marbella, there are three other IRONMAN 70.3 triathlons in Europe added to the schedule with the IRONMAN 70.3 Venice-Jesolo and IRONMAN 70.3 Aix-en-Provence races, both taking place in May, and the IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea triathlon, the first IRONMAN Pro Series race to take place on UK soil, happening in July. The series will also take a new stop in Maryland with the IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman triathlon in June.

All IRONMAN Pro Series races will be broadcast for free across multiple platforms for viewers around the world. Viewers in the United States and Canada can watch the coverage unfold exclusively on Outside TV, and international audiences can tune in across multiple platforms, including proseries.ironman.com, DAZN, and L’Equipe in France. On-demand playback will also be available through Outside+.

Athletes and fans can also look forward to the return of some of the favorite races from this year, including the Athletic Brewing IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside, Cairns Airport IRONMAN Cairns, and IRONMAN Hamburg European Championship and Mainova IRONMAN Frankfurt European Championship triathlons, with all races to be broadcast live and free to a global audience.

“The feedback from athletes, fans, partners, and the wider triathlon community to the inaugural season of the IRONMAN Pro Series has been overwhelmingly positive and we are excited to continue with the series in 2025,” said Scott DeRue, CEO of The IRONMAN Group. “The 2025 schedule has seven new host cities and has been designed to provide athletes with racing opportunities that are more evenly distributed geographically throughout the year. With the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series locked in, we hope that athletes can look forward to their next year of racing with excitement and begin planning their 2025 race schedule.”

Professional athlete Jackie Hering (USA), who is currently atop of the IRONMAN Pro Series leaderboard, commented: “I’m super excited to hear that it is going to continue in 2025. The [IRONMAN] Pro Series I think offers us pros a real clarity on races to choose and how to design our season, if the series is something we are going after. For me, at this point it will load me full of motivation and excitement to know exactly what races I’m going to target for next year.”

All 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series races will be open to the approximately 1,000 eligible professional triathletes worldwide, pitting the world’s best against talented rookies throughout the year. The deep pro fields that have been a feature of the 2024 IRONMAN Pro Series have made for fast and unpredictable racing and gives all professional athletes an opportunity to shine with the world watching on.

While professional athletes can choose any combination of designated races in the series, only the top five race performances of the year will count towards an athlete’s final ranking, of which a maximum of three IRONMAN event results can be counted. At each of the 18 designated IRONMAN Pro Series events, professional athletes will earn points based on their finish times to count towards a final series ranking.

A first placed finish earns maximum points – 5,000 points for an IRONMAN triathlon and 2,500 points for an IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon, while winning the VinFast IRONMAN World Championship triathlon will earn 6,000 points and the VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon will earn 3,000 points. Every Second Matters™ in the IRONMAN Pro Series, with every second between the race winner and other finishers equating to a point won or lost. In 2024, this points-based system has led to some of the fastest, closest and most dynamic racing consistently witnessed on IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 race courses.

The end-of-year IRONMAN Pro Series bonus prize pool will continue to pay out $1.7 million USD, with an additional $2.5 million in event prize money to be earned at individual races. The top 10 ranked athletes in each gender at the end of the IRONMAN Pro Series will earn the same as in 2024, sharing $1.3 million USD of the bonus prize pool with the top placed male and female taking home $200,000 USD each. The distribution of the remaining $400,000 bonus prize pool for athletes finishing 11th to 50th in the standings has been adjusted and weighted according to ranking to encourage year-long competition and further reward more professionals who finish higher in the rankings. For example, athletes who finish 11th through to 15th will receive $8,000, while athletes finishing 41st through to 50th will receive $3,000. This tiered distribution of the IRONMAN Pro Series bonus pool money will continue to reward fast and tight racing while encouraging competitiveness outside of the top ten ranked athletes throughout the year.

An additional 40 events outside of the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series will also offer IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 professional racing that includes world championship qualifying opportunities, as well as over $1.8 million USD in additional pro prize money to create a total of over USD $6 million USD in competition-based money on offer for professionals.

All races in the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series are currently open for age-group registrations and interest in these events is incredibly strong, with age-group athletes able to race on the same course as professionals taking on the IRONMAN Pro Series. Those signing up to age-group races alongside the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series between now and October 6, 2024, will receive an IRONMAN Pro Series bucket hat as a gift.

For more information on the IRONMAN Pro Series visit here.

To learn more about the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 brands and series of events, please visit www.ironman.com. Media inquiries may be directed to press@ironman.com.

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About IRONMAN Pro Series

The IRONMAN Pro Series™ is a year-long performance-based world series that showcases and rewards top professional triathletes as they vie for points and event prize money, on their way to claiming the title of IRONMAN Pro Series champion and a lion’s share of the lucrative $1.7 million USD year-end bonus prize pool. Along the way, athletes will battle for the prize money offered at each individual IRONMAN Pro Series triathlon, equating to over $2.5 million USD, as well as coveted world championship qualifying slots. Open to approximately 1,000 eligible professional triathletes worldwide, the IRONMAN Pro Series ushers in a new era of IRONMAN racing where Every Second Matters – every second behind the race winner equates to a point earned or lost. Incorporating iconic distances, challenging courses, and stunning destinations, every IRONMAN Pro Series race will be broadcast live and free to a global audience. In 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series will be contested over 18 events and 17 race locations around the globe, including a combination of six IRONMAN^® and eight IRONMAN^® 70.3^® triathlons, as well as the VinFast IRONMAN World Championship^® women’s and men’s races and VinFast IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon. An additional 40 events outside of the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series will also offer IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 professional racing fields with world championship qualifying opportunities, and over $1.8 million USD in prize money., This creates a total professional prize purse of over $6 million USD in 2025. For more information, visit proseries.ironman.com.

About The IRONMAN Group

The IRONMAN Group operates a global portfolio of events that includes the IRONMAN^® Triathlon Series, the IRONMAN^® 70.3^® Triathlon Series, 5150™ Triathlon Series, the Rock ‘n’ Roll^® Running Series, IRONKIDS^®, World Triathlon Championship Series, premier running events including the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon™ and City2Surf^®, UTMB^® World Series trail-running events including the Canyons Endurance Runs™ by UTMB^®, Tarawera Ultra-Trail™ by UTMB^® and Ultra-Trail Australia™ by UTMB^®, Epic Series™ mountain bike races including the Absa Cape Epic^®, road cycling events, and other multisport races. The IRONMAN Group is the largest operator of mass participation sports in the world, providing participants the benefits of endurance sports through the company’s vast offerings. Catering to the full athlete experience, the company portfolio also includes FulGaz^® virtual cycling, the most realistic indoor riding experience connected fitness application aimed at preparing athletes for real-world events. Since the inception of the iconic IRONMAN^® brand and its first event in 1978, athletes have proven that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE^® by crossing finish lines around the world. Beginning as a single race, The IRONMAN Group has grown to become a global sensation with hundreds of events across 55+ countries. The IRONMAN Group is owned by Advance, a private, family-owned business, and Orkila Capital, a growth equity firm focused on building great brands. For more information, visit www.ironman.com/about-ironman-group.

About Advance 

Advance is a private, family-held business that owns and invests in companies across media, entertainment, technology, communications, education and other promising growth sectors. Our mission is to build the value of our companies over the long-term by fostering growth and innovation. Advance’s portfolio includes Condé Nast, Advance Local, Stage Entertainment, The IRONMAN Group, American City Business Journals, Leaders Group, Turnitin, and Pop. Together these operating companies employ more than 14,000 people in 29 countries. Advance is also among the largest shareholders in Charter Communications, Warner Bros. Discovery and Reddit. For more information visit www.advance.com.