IRONMAN has announced adjustments to the slot allocations for the 2020 Vega IRONMAN World Championship, based on qualifying events that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The IRONMAN World Championship qualifying window for the 2020 Vega IRONMAN World Championship has now been officially extended from August 23, 2020 to August 30, 2020.
The 2020 Vega IRONMAN World Championship is scheduled to take place in Kailua-Kona, Hawai`i on Saturday, October 10, 2020.
IRONMAN’s latest release on slot allocation for Kona 2020 aims to be reassuring, with an extension of the qualifying period and the recognition that, where applicable, slots for affected events will roll into 2021. The situation is expected to be fluid, as the extent of race cancellations evolves in the coming months.
With the 2020 IRONMAN World Championship slot allocation change, the 2020 editions of IRONMAN Canada – Penticton (August 30), IRONMAN Kazakhstan (August 23) and IRONMAN Vichy (August 23), will now offer 60 qualification slots each to the 2020 IRONMAN World Championship in addition to the qualification slots they offer for the 2021 IRONMAN World Championship.
IRONMAN races that have been postponed from an earlier date in the 2020 season and are rescheduled to take place on or before August 30, 2020 will remain in the 2020 IRONMAN World Championship qualifying season. Events that have been postponed to take place after August 30, 2020 will move to the 2021 IRONMAN World Championship qualifying season.
Additionally, the Legacy Program has been allocated additional slots for 2020, providing ‘every eligible waitlisted Legacy athlete the ability to race in the 2020 IRONMAN World Championship.’
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