Who is Solveig Løvseth? (And Why You Should Care)
Solveig Lovseth of Norway competes during the Qatar Airways IRONMAN Hamburg European Championship. Photo: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images for IRONMAN
We’re usually pretty quick to forget who came in third–do you remember that Chelsea Sodaro was third at the Nice World Championships last year? But the third-place finisher at IRONMAN Hamburg earlier this month is a name you shouldn’t forget: Solveig Løvseth.
After competing at the Olympic Games last year, the 25-year-old Norwegian switched her focus to long distance racing. Only a month after Paris, she picked up a podium at the 70.3 European Championships, just a few minutes behind Caroline Pohle and Kat Matthews. She followed that up with a 13th at the 70.3 World Championships. But even before her world championship result, Løvseth displayed her potential as a world-class contender and, after setting the fastest IRONMAN debut in Hamburg, if you don’t know who Solveig Løvseth is, you need to.
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And if Løvseth races IMLP and is successful, she’ll be right up there in the fight for the IM Pro Series win: she has her 70.3 2500 points, Hamburg and is already Q for both Kona and Marbella.
Løvseth will be in the top table conversation come October, for sure.
The force is strong with this one ……
Posted on 10th June, Sarah Bonner - 20-20 foresight.
If i remember, didn’t she out bike everyone at Indian wells on a road bike?
She is truly one of the few uberbikers now, and really has been since her entry to Ironmans. Even when she has a severe mechanical, she rides with some of the best of the rest. Even that ride in Kona all alone, mostly without a motor escort, was on par with Taylor and Lucy’s rides. And of course we know after the fact that her ride netted a winning run afterwards, so presumably did it with less effort. It really is her weapon, that and her ability to run well afterwards. If she ever gets her swim up to the lead group, well gonna be really hard to beat her anywhere.
thats unlikely given she comes from swimming and has not really made much progress over the last few years in the swim.
No she was on a TT with a disc. I got a picture of her pre race somewhere. And fun fact, she only had the fastest female bike split by 14 seconds
as one of my athletes at the time basically biked the same time winning the overall AG amateur race.
ETA - Felt IA disc with rear disc and front 60ish mm wheel, giro aerohead helmet.
ok guess it was another racer
I thought she said in a podcast that she reduced swim training to work on the bike and run. But she also admitted she couldn’t swim as fast as the other kids back in the day so I might be mistaken.
I am talking about her ITU swims over many years, not 25, just to clarify.
I agree. Loevseth had plenty of time in the Norge programme to improve her swim for SC: clearly her limiting factor for any draft legal success. I understand @monty ‘s obsession with triathletes ‘getting their swim up so they can be lead pack’ but that’s not Loevseth’s route to further LC success.
Loevseth poses a significant threat to Knibb and LCB right now. At full distance she has shown, on rolling terrain, she can ride as well as them (was two minutes faster than LCB in Kona (ack 60 sec PT stop)). At T2 a month ago, she was in the box seat ftw, and all the drama ahead was two athletes trying to run 26 miles at a pace neither had ever managed (FD), before reality bit. Who of those three has the best swim-run? Loevseth does, and that is her winning card, with an eye on those behind.