London, UK: Laura Philipp’s first Ironman World title in Nice won her the vote for September’s Professional Triathletes Organisation Athlete of the Month.
The German’s duel with Britain’s Kat Matthews and then blistering second half of a 2:44:59 marathon to pull clear, secured her victory in 8:45:15 and drew a clean sweep of the voting to beat off the other three short-listed athletes:
- Belgium’s Marten Van Riel, who won the Ibiza T100 to remain unbeaten over middle distance.
- Germany’s Mika Noodt, who collected the IM 70.3 Zell am See title at the start of the month before following it up with his best ever 100km performance, coming third in Ibiza.
- American Taylor Knibb, who was a dominant winner of Ibiza T100 women’s race and is now ‘two from two’ in the T100 series this year, with a chance to make it a hat-trick of wins on home soil at the Lake Las Vegas T100 next weekend (Saturday 19 October)
Reflecting in Ibiza, where she delighted age groupers by getting involved in the open water swims on the Friday night of the T100 weekend there and then cheering on the pros and amateurs over the weekend, she said:
“I’m feeling good, but I definitely feel it in the body. But I’m grateful to be here and swim in this beautiful ocean. It was so cool to meet so many people in Ibiza, cheer on the athletes and celebrate my own victory here on this beautiful island.”
“I’ll be back in training soon, because Las Vegas is just around the corner and I’m looking forward to race the last two T100 races in Las Vegas and then Dubai.”
Laura will be in action at next weekend’s Lake Las Vegas T100 and then the Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final (16-17 November) as she looks to build on a third position in San Francisco and a fourth in London, to move her up the T100 series leaderboard from her current position of ninth.
Global Triathlon Network (GTN), Tri-Mag.de, Triathlon Magazine & Triathlete make up the panel of triathlon media who voted on their 1, 2, 3 from a four-athlete shortlist, awarding 3 points for #1, 2 pts for #2 and 1 pt for #3. Votes were also counted from online triathlon fans who had their say via the T100 social handles. Laura received 15 points with Marten securing 9 points to take second place.
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About Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO)
The PTO is a sports body that is co-owned by its professional athletes, seeking to elevate and grow the sport of triathlon and take it to the next level. The T100 Triathlon World Tour is the new name for the PTO Tour and has been designated by World Triathlon as the ‘official World Championship for long distance triathlon’. It is a season-long schedule of T100 races during 2024 that are competed over 100km (2km swim, 80km bike and 18km run) and features the world’s best triathletes going head-to-head in Miami (9 March), Singapore (13-14 April), San Francisco (8-9 June), London (27-28 July), Ibiza (28-29 September), Lake Las Vegas (19-20 October) and then the Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final (16-17 November). There have also been racing opportunities for amateurs at all the events, including the new 100km distance at five stages, including: Singapore, London, Ibiza, Lake Las Vegas and Dubai. The global broadcast shows the races live around the world in 195+ territories, courtesy of the PTO’s partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery as well as a range of other international, regional and local broadcasters.
