Ironman Florida Preview

This Saturday’s Ironman Florida at Panama City Beach, features a packed pro men start list and a competitive women’s field.

Multiple Ironman race winners Chris McDonald, and Bryan Rhodes are the clear favourites. Max Longree, the 2008 Ironman Louisville champion, is also a huge threat for the title due to his ability to post the top marathon split. And so is Dirk Bockel, 8th at the Ironman World Championships.

In the women’s race, the battle should be between Nina Kraft, Kim Loeffler, Jessica Jacobs, and Natasha Van Der Merwe.

We’ve confirmed that Caitlin Snow and her husband Tim will not be racing on Saturday.

The professional start list is below:

Pro Men

1 McDonald Chris PRO MEN

2 Rhodes Bryan PRO MEN

3 Snow Tim PRO MEN

4 Wygand Richard PRO MEN

5 Velazquez Alvaro PRO MEN

6 Bagg Chris PRO MEN

7 Caiazzo Mike PRO MEN

8 Hovgaard Esben PRO MEN

9 Botelho Raymond PRO MEN

10 Frost Sean PRO MEN

11 Marques Sergio PRO MEN

12 Radcliffe Toby PRO MEN

13 Pecnik Erih PRO MEN

14 Landon Damien PRO MEN

15 Ivancic Sandi PRO MEN

16 Valera Cesar PRO MEN

17 Snilstveit Gudmund PRO MEN

18 Schifferle Mike PRO MEN

19 Dzalaj Karol PRO MEN

20 Pawlaczyk Kyle PRO MEN

21 Elosegui Eneko PRO MEN

22 Vabrousek Petr PRO MEN

23 Bretscher Daniel PRO MEN

24 DeFilippis ScoY PRO MEN

25 Passuello Domenico PRO MEN

26 Christophe Bastie PRO MEN

27 Maric Bojan PRO MEN

28 Strini Markus PRO MEN

29 Vrabel Jozef PRO MEN

30 Becker Blake PRO MEN

31 Lord Tyler PRO MEN

32 Cunnama James PRO MEN

33 Seng Brad PRO MEN

34 Ruble Zach PRO MEN

35 McDonald Alex PRO MEN

36 Macasieb Arland PRO MEN

37 McMillian Jason PRO MEN

38 Guillaume Romain PRO MEN

39 Longree Max PRO MEN

40 Piggin Olly PRO MEN

41 Sundberg Swen PRO MEN

42 Jurkiewicz Jeremy PRO MEN

43 Cigana Massimo PRO MEN

44 Fachbach Markus PRO MEN

45 Wagner Martin PRO MEN

46 Bockel Dirk PRO MEN

56 Nemcik Marek PRO MEN

Pro Women

50 Kraft Nina PRO WOMEN

51 Snow Caitlin PRO WOMEN

52 Kozulina Tamara PRO WOMEN

53 Kinnegim Irene PRO WOMEN

54 Van Der Merwe Natasha PRO WOMEN

55 Krebs Meike PRO WOMEN

57 Sullivan Danielle PRO WOMEN

58 Ottosen Karina PRO WOMEN

59 Basso Anne PRO WOMEN

60 Collonge Jeanne PRO WOMEN

61 Gordon Jacqui PRO WOMEN

62 Jacobs Jessica PRO WOMEN

63 Loeffler Kim PRO WOMEN

64 Erica Csomor PRO WOMEN