Magnus Ditlev Goes All In On His World Championship Hunt
He finished third at the IRONMAN World Championship in Nice in 2023. Last year he took second in Kona. You can guess what motivates Magnus Ditlev these days – he would very much like to take the top spot on the podium at the worlds this year. That goal has driven his training and race plans for 2025. As would be expected from a man with a degree in chemical engineering, meticulous planning and preparation underly the drive to a world championship.
It’s not as though Ditlev hasn’t enjoyed lots of success in his short professional career. Since turning pro in 2019, the 27-year-old has won the other “major” on the full-distance front, Challenge Roth, three times. In 2023 and 2024 he also set world-best times of 7:24:40 and 7:23:24 at the speed-fest in Bavaria. (Yes, Kristian Blummenfelt went 7:21:11 at IRONMAN Cozumel in 2021, but that course featured a down-current swim, so it’s not generally recognized as the world-best time for the distance.) Ditlev also managed to finish fourth in the T100 standings last year, after winning T100 Miami to start the season.
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Extension tips to front wheel leading edge right on the new limit.
Wonder if that was always the case or required some reduction to get within.
That BTS is pretty traditional, I wonder if that’s just for training. Certainly the round bottle on the downtube is.
That’s what he ran at Kona
Yeah the super stack more horizontal. Any thoughts about why the BTA bottle seems like it’s low? Maybe it would be better a little higher?
It certainly tested faster that way. His aero tester leaves nothing to chance.
BTW, other big name athletes test slower with higher bottles.