2025 IRONMAN Pro Series Standings Update
It seems hard to believe that we’re over a third of the way through the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series calendar, and yet after seven races in under two months, that’s exactly where we find ourselves. Some familiar faces have come to the head of the points table thus far, while others look to make their full-distance debuts next month. We’ll take a look at the points tables, as well as how athletes might be able to climb up the leaderboard over the critical next two months of the season.
Top 20 Standings Through IRONMAN 70.3 Aix-en-Provence
The respective leaders are Marta Sanchez and Kristian Blummenfelt. Sanchez moved into the lead following her fourth place this past weekend at Aix-en-Provence, backing up her strong second place finish at the first full distance race of the Series, IRONMAN South Africa. Blummenfelt, for his part, jumped into the lead with his second race victory of the year this past weekend. Him moving into first also shows how critical every second is; had he not gone on his blistering half marathon run in Oceanside after his unfortunate flat tire to limit his losses in a 15th place finish, he’d be behind Jonas Schomburg in the standings.
As a reminder: the top five results for an athlete will count, with a maximum of three IRONMAN races counting towards a point total. IRONMAN victories are worth 5,000 points, whereas 70.3 wins will net you 2,500 points. The full distance world title will get you 6,000 points, and 70.3 is worth 3,000 points. Points are deducted for every second behind the winner you finish.
Without further adieu, the women’s top 20:
| Name | Points | IRONMAN Scores | IRONMAN 70.3 Scores |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marta Sanchez | 7,030 | 1 | 1 |
| Anne Reischmann | 6,833 | 1 | 1 |
| Lisa Perterer | 6,064 | 1 | 1 |
| Chloe Lane | 5,913 | 2 | 1 |
| Laura Jansen | 5,557 | 1 | 1 |
| Maja Stage Nielsen | 5,358 | 1 | 1 |
| Kat Matthews | 5,000 | 1 | 0 |
| Paula Findlay | 5,000 | 0 | 2 |
| Tamara Jewett | 4,991 | 1 | 1 |
| Charlene Clavel | 4,973 | 1 | 1 |
| Alice Alberts | 4,923 | 1 | 1 |
| Sara Svensk | 4,862 | 1 | 1 |
| Danielle Lewis | 4,726 | 0 | 2 |
| Jackie Hering | 4,621 | 0 | 2 |
| Katrine Græsbøll Christensen | 4,579 | 1 | 0 |
| Henrike Güber | 4,424 | 1 | 1 |
| Taylor Knibb | 4,419 | 1 | 0 |
| Lena Meißner | 4,389 | 0 | 2 |
| Lisa Becharas | 3,985 | 0 | 2 |
| Stephanie Clutterbuck | 3,672 | 1 | 1 |
And now for the men:
| Name | Points | IRONMAN Scores | IRONMAN 70.3 Scores |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristian Blummenfelt | 9,312 | 1 | 2 |
| Jonas Schomburg | 9,203 | 1 | 2 |
| Leon Chevalier | 8,353 | 2 | 1 |
| Casper Stornes | 8,298 | 1 | 2 |
| Gustav Iden | 7,729 | 1 | 2 |
| Ben Hamilton | 7,513 | 1 | 2 |
| Cameron Wurf | 7,304 | 1 | 2 |
| Mattia Ceccarelli | 7,180 | 1 | 2 |
| Cameron Main | 7,150 | 0 | 3 |
| Rudy Von Berg | 6,913 | 1 | 1 |
| Jake Birtwhistle | 6,863 | 0 | 3 |
| Magnus Ditlev | 6,625 | 1 | 1 |
| Dominik Sowieja | 6,496 | 1 | 2 |
| Kacper Stepniak | 6,027 | 1 | 1 |
| Jonas Hoffman | 5,724 | 1 | 1 |
| Paul Schuster | 5,714 | 1 | 1 |
| Ben Kanute | 5,473 | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Hanson | 5,406 | 1 | 1 |
| William Mennesson | 5,186 | 1 | 2 |
| Lionel Sanders | 5,000 | 0 | 2 |
What Will the Rest of the Qualification Cycle Look Like?
There are two ways to approach the pivotal next few months of the season. On the one hand, athletes could take the Kat Matthews 2024 approach and race a lot, maximizing points, and then still look to perform well at the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships. On the other is the more traditional season-build, which would see athletes put more emphasis on getting fresh for the September through November stretch, when prestige is maximized (along with dollars) at the world championship events.
As shown by last season’s men’s champion Gregory Barnaby, though, solid top 10 performances at worlds, along with strong performances throughout the rest of the year, can provide enough points to get close. I’d expect again that it will take athletes who race both World Championship events to do well in order to wind up earning the Pro Series title and bonus money.
That, then, should favor both Matthews and possibly Findlay on the women’s side, given the current points scoring; Matthews has one total score to her name, with Findlay adding two 70.3 wins but no IRONMAN races as of yet. Matthews is on the start list at Hamburg, along with Jackie Hering, defending IRONMAN World Champion Laura Philipp (who is yet to score in 2025), Anne Reischmann and more. Findlay has mentioned that she would be looking to try her hand at a full distance event in 2025, but has yet to appear on a start list.
Rolling through the men’s lists, and Blummenfelt will likely need to, at a minimum, replace his result from Oceanside with another 70.3, along with having good performances at the two world championship races in order to hold onto his lead. It appears that he may repeat his 2024 schedule with a race in Frankfurt, although that seems riskier this season given that the men will race Nice in September, rather than Kona in October. But being all-in on the Pro Series may mean needing to take three full distance scores to have any chance at the $200,000 awarded to the points champion. In a similar boat? Magnus Ditlev, who also suffered with tire trouble in St. George.
I also would not count out Lionel Sanders from a top 10 at the end of the series. Having maximized his 70.3 scoring so far with two wins to start out the year, Sanders has both his world championship entries locked up. Despite his IRONMAN Texas withdrawal video saying that he wouldn’t focus on the Pro Series, his selected single IRONMAN of the year leading up to Nice (Lake Placid) is…a Pro Series race. Factor in Nice and 70.3 Worlds and Sanders will have his five scores.
The next race in the 2025 Pro Series is IRONMAN Hamburg, a women’s only event, on June 1st, followed by IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder the following weekend.
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Looking at scores now is really pointless, apples to oranges comparisons. Barring a tragedy, Kat and Blu will win by a country mile overall, and lesser known names will fill out the other top 10 slots. Not to take away from those others, but using time as the points getter just puts those two so far ahead of everyone else.
And of course throwing Paula and Lionel’s names out there gets you clicks, but neither have a real interest in the series and what it would take to maximize their chances. And hearing that Magnus is not going to replace his abysmal result in StG, well that takes him pretty much out of any shot at winning…
Of course it is still a horse race and horses can get sick or stumble, but I wish I could put a bet on this one with some odds baby!!!
Wow the bar for being well known sure has risen. I guess winning and podiuming at World Championships is now just run of the mill.
Lionel might say he has no interest in the series, yet he’s choosing to race another Pro Series event. Combine with two good results at the two World Championship races (not out of the question), and ta da, you have five scoring races.
I also thought he had mentioned doing LP because he wanted to get the feel for a full before Nice. So that would be 4 scoring races before even the WCs.
That’s what I meant with another Pro Series race – so that’s a total of five scores.
He’s also doing Eagleman which is a series race as well which will give him 4 prior to the WCs, so he likely will have 6 giving him 1 to toss. Pretty solid place to be for not focusing on the series and not an overwhelming schedule compared to what others have this year.
Blummenfelt has ‘replaced’ his Oceanside score with the win just now. His second 70.3 score will be at Marbella, though if Frankfurt and Nice go well he may be unassailable (with the Oceanside score as his #5).
Blummenfelt has said (with Iden and Stornes) that he’ll race Frankfurt (on 29th June). This race is 11 weeks before IMWC Nice. Last year Frankfurt was post Olympics and only 8 weeks before IMWC Kona. Actually less “risky” if the time gap is the risk you assess.
Ditlev plans to race Frankfurt and he’ll just carry the poor 70.3 score forwards. He gained >2700 points on Blummenfelt in Kona last year, and he’s normally no slouch at 70.3s (see T100s last year).
I expect RvB, who is racing Frankfurt too, to be right up there by the equinox.
I expect Lange not to care after his DNS at Texas. He will either keep Blummenfelt honest in Frankfurt, or scalp him. Who would be more confident of the win if they come off the bike together?
“being all-in on the Pro Series may mean needing to take three full distance scores to have any chance”
No “may” about it. An athlete who scores only 2 IMs is giving up 42 minutes of points. To “have any chance at the $200,000” an athlete has to race 3 IMs (one is IMWC) and score two 70.3s. One of those doesn’t have to be Marbella - that’d only give up 8 minutes and many athletes will not finish within 8 minutes of the Marbella winner: only 4 women and 10 men scored >2500 points in Taupo. Barnaby would’ve won without his Taupo score and Lange was #2 without too. In fact almost none of the top 10 needed their Taupo score to maintain their Standings final position. [Deduction: Race at least two regular 70.3s before the IMWC.]
We might see Findlay who has two 2500 point 70.3 wins already, race IMLP, and then both world champs. If those went well (working assumption of losses of an average of 5 minutes per race), she’d score 18,100. Good enough for top 4 WPro (my estimate). But IMLP will be Findlay’s debut and she’s been blowing hot and cold about even that. With a KQ, again she may choose not this time (given Kona 2026 is now in clear sight). Remember she (also) has minimum five T100s to race.
Agree Sanders, if he races IMLP and two WCs is on course for top 10 ‘without trying’, in fact if they go well I reckon #7.