Ironman Kalmar goes Saturday
Sweden hosts the inaugural race.
Ironman Sweden/Kalmar, the first Ironman race to take place in Scandinavia, goes this Saturday August 18.
Athletes will swim two loops in the in Kalmar Strait, ride two fast and flat loops on Öland (106 km) and on the mainland north of Kalmar (74 km), and run three loops in downtown Kalmar and the surrounding parks and residential areas, finishing in the big square next to a cathedral from the 1600s.
Professional Start List
Ari Saukko
Åsa Lundström
Christophe Bastie
Jonas Djurback
Karl-Johan Danielsson
Teemu Lemmettylä
Paul Hawkins
Marek Nemcik
Ivan Kharin
Erik Strand
Simon Billeau
Luke Dragstra
Andrey Lyatskiy
Emi Sakai
Pontus Lindberg
Christine Grammer
Heinrich Sickl
Helene Malmkvist
Dana Wagner
Conny Dauben
Zsuzsanna Harsanyi dr.
David Näsvik
Jonas Colting