A documentary special highlighting the 2021 Intermountain Healthcare IRONMAN World Championship presented by Utah Sports Commission will premiere on Saturday, July 23 at 15:00 ET on NBC, Peacock, NBC Sports App and NBCSports.com/Live.
The IRONMAN World Championship special will chronicle the event, which for the first time in its history took place outside Hawai`i, on May 7, 2022, in St George, Utah.
IRONMAN added that… ‘The documentary special will chronicle what has become the most iconic single-day endurance event in the world along with the stories of both professional and inspiring age-group athletes competing in the prestigious triathlon.’
The documentary special will also be made available globally on the IRONMAN YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/ironmantriathlon following its airing on NBC.
Among the features for the 2021 Intermountain Healthcare IRONMAN World Championship presented by Utah Sports Commission special are:
- Two young Norwegians at the top of the sport, Olympic Gold Medallist Kristian Blummenfelt and reigning IM 70.3 World Champion Gustav Iden, who go head-to-head for World Championship supremacy.
- Two top Americans, rising star and Utah resident Skye Moench and the seasoned pro Heather Jackson look to stamp their names in the history books on American soil.
- After a stretch of unfamiliar form, Daniela Ryf looks to return to glory and chase down her fifth IM World Championship title.
- Australian Renee Kiley who was a pack a day smoker and did not exercise, shares how she turned her life around to first become an elite amateur triathlete and eventually making it to the professional field and professional start line of the IRONMAN World Championship.
- Jonathan Courchene, of the Sagkeeng First Nations community in Manitoba, Canada, is a certified school clinician in many of the First Nations schools in his province who races to spread awareness on suicide among indigenous people, and to inspire his students and community, helping them realize the IRONMAN athlete inside of them all.
The broadcast special of the 2021 Intermountain Healthcare IM World Championship presented by Utah Sports Commission was filmed and produced by The IRONMAN Group Production team.
Since the first IM World Championship documentary special in 1991, the show has earned 68 Sports Emmy nominations and 16 Sports Emmy Award wins.
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