Bringing the IRONMAN community together virtually, the IRONMAN Virtual Club now has more than 85,000 members on the platform – with thousands completing IRONMAN Virtual Club Challenges since its recent launch.
IRONMAN is offering up age group racing via a series of VR branded events – from the inaugural IRONMAN VR1 through to the latest event, IRONMAN VR5. The IRONMAN Virtual Club also features training workouts put together by leading coaches, as well as challenges from IRONMAN’s sponsor partners – helping to broaden the activities available for club members.
In tandem with racing and training sessions for athletes, the IRONMAN VR Pro Challenge brings pro athletes together – racing head-to-head, with commentary throughout each race.
IRONMAN VR5
In total, nearly 15,000 athletes from more than 123 nations and all 50 US states registered to participate in the latest IRONMAN VR5 virtual event. Over 8,000 athletes finished across the race weekend.
IRONMAN VR5 required athletes to complete a 5 km run, 90 km ride, and 21 km run between Friday, May 1 at 14:00 ET (18:00 GMT) and Sunday, May 3 at 19:59 ET (23:59 GMT). Competitors could complete the three segments in any order and were not required to do the segments consecutively.
IRONMAN virtual racing athletes are able to compete anywhere – Indoors or outdoors.
While finisher numbers are up on the inaugural IRONMAN VR1 event, there has, however, been a week-on-week drop in participants for more recent IRONMAN Virtual Racing Series events (results as at time of writing):
- IRONMAN VR5 – 8,217 finishers (14,894 registered athletes)
- IRONMAN VR4 – 14,546 finishers (23,770 registered athletes)
- IRONMAN VR3 – 20,277 finishers (33,241 registered athletes)
- IRONMAN VR2 –16,383 finishers (23,000 registered athletes)
- IRONMAN VR1 – 6,698 finishers (11,047 registered athletes)
IRONMAN VR Pro Challenge
Taking place on May 2-3, 2020, the fifth edition of the IRONMAN VR Pro Challenge saw four professional women compete on Saturday and four professional men compete on Sunday. The pro athlete competition was on the IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder 90 km bike course utilizing IRONMAN’s Official Virtual Cycling partner ROUVY’s platform.
Judith Corachan of Spain won the women’s pro race and Joe Skipper of Great Britain took the top spot in the men’s race.
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