2025 IM Pro Series, Global Prize Purse Announced
The IRONMAN Pro Series will return in 2025, with the series set to visit seven new destinations next year.
Those seven new destination events are mostly focused in Europe, as IRONMAN made a point to offer events in a wider geographic spread in 2025.
Coming to the calendar in 2025 is the new season kickoff in Australia at IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong in March; IRONMAN South Africa; IRONMAN 70.3 Venice-Jesolo; IRONMAN 70.3 Aix-en-Provence; IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman; and IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea. The final additional destination is 2025’s season concluding IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships, to be held in Marbella, Spain.
IRONMAN CEO Scott DeRue said, “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. 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.”
Series points will be awarded in the same manner as 2024, with winners of IRONMAN events receiving 5000 points and winners of 70.3 distance races receiving 2500 points, with points for finishers thereafter decreasing by every second behind they finish. The two Championship events will award 6000 and 3000 points, respectively, to their winners. Athletes may race as many times as they wish in the Series, but only their top five points-scoring finishes count for the series.
The Pro Series will also offer a combined total prize pool of $4.2 million: $2.5 million in prize purses at races, and $1.7 million in end-of-season bonuses paid out to the top 50 athletes in the Series. Tweaks to payments for athletes finishing 11-50 were designed to increase competition outside the top 10.
Current series leader Jackie Hering said, “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.”
The full 2025 IM Pro Series is as follows:
IRONMAN will also continue to offer prize purses at non-Pro Series races. Those 40 events, which also offer IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship slots to professionals, will award an additional $1.8 million in prize money, bringing the total purse on offer through IRONMAN racing to north of $6 million.
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I like it that ST is committed to covering Ironman racing. As much as i like seeing other orgs taking a crack at it, I continue to think of IM as the leader of the pack.
I wonder if there is a typo between Hamburg 1st. June and Frankfurt 29th, usually it changes every year, so it really should be Hamburg as MEN for 2025, it would also make sense as an early race would make it easier to recover for Nice in September.
I can see several big hitters leaving T 100 (and/or not being kept anyways) such as Chevalier, B. Weiss, Kanute, Mignon and possibly Von Berg making the series more interesting. Until now, the Series has had many unexpected winners like Burton, Benito Lopez, and Foley.