IRONMAN South Africa News Index

IRONMAN South Africa: Start time, preview and how to follow

Daniela Ryf (SUI) will star this weekend at IRONMAN South Africa, which doubles as the African Championship in Nelson Mandela Bay.

Alistair Brownlee racing back-to-back weekends as Olympic champion targets Kona slot in South Africa

Alistair Brownlee (GBR) will be one of the firm favourites to secure an automatic qualifying spot for the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona next weekend when he lines up at IRONMAN South Africa in the Eastern Cape.

Third time lucky? Cam Wurf still looking to lock in Nice spot for IMWC

Pro cyclist Cam Wurf still has work to do in order to book another start at the IRONMAN World Championship after another near miss

IRONMAN explain reasons for Justine Mathieux DQ in South Africa

IRONMAN have explained why Justine Mathieux was disqualified after originally finishing third in South Africa

IRONMAN South Africa 2023 results: Laura Philipp takes title in dominant style

The German star showed why she was the clear favourite with an emphatic victory at IRONMAN South Africa

IRONMAN South Africa 2023 results: Chevalier proves a class apart

Leon Chevalier took the title as Bradley Weiss finished runner up for the second year in a row at IRONMAN South Africa

Alistair Brownlee setback as he rules himself out of IRONMAN South Africa

‘I think it’s best not to risk it,” says double Olympic champ as a ‘slightly sore hip’ prompts him to swerve season opener

IRONMAN South Africa 2023: Start time, preview and how to follow live

Brownlee, Philipp, Chevalier, Langridge. We preview Sunday’s IRONMAN South Africa 2023, the $150k African Championship

Brick sessions with a difference – Wurf preps for IRONMAN SA at UAE Tour

Fresh from the UAE Tour, the Aussie professional cyclist heads straight to IRONMAN South Africa this weekend

IRONMAN South Africa postponed to November 2020

IRONMAN South Africa, the 2020 IRONMAN African Championship in Nelson Mandela Bay is another victim of the Coronavirus, the 29th March event postponed

(International) Weekend Roundup: 6-7 April 2019

South Africa, USA, Spain, Cyprus, New Zealand all featured some quality international racing on Saturday and Sunday. Here’s out Weekend Roundup

Lucy Charles-Barclay, Ben Hoffman win IRONMAN South Africa

Repeat winners at IRONMAN South Africa as Lucy Charles-Barclay (for a second time) and Ben Hoffman (for a third), win the IRONMAN African Championship

The Weekend Preview: 6 – 7 April 2019

Some top quality international races, along with the British Duathlon Championships on the schedule this week. Check it all out in the Weekend Preview.

IRONMAN Ireland, IRONMAN Wales to be broadcast live on Facebook

The 2019 schedule of live IRONMAN events on Facebook Watch will include the debut of IRONMAN Ireland and ninth edition of IRONMAN Wales in Tenby

New course for IRONMAN South Africa

The IRONMAN African Championship – IRONMAN South Africa – has announced changes to its bike and run courses for the 2019 edition

Home town win for Kyle Buckingham at IRONMAN South Africa

From Port Elizabeth, it was a home win – only the second athlete from his nation to do so – for Kyle Buckingham at IRONMAN South Africa on Sunday

Lucy Charles, Susie Cheetham go one-two at IRONMAN South Africa

Fine racing at IRONMAN South Africa saw the British run of success continue, with Lucy Charles and Susie Cheetham proving their class with great performances in Port Elizabeth

IRONMAN South Africa: are the Brits set to dominate?

It’s IRONMAN South Africa on Sunday – and an all British podium in the women’s Pro race is a real possibility. Check out who is racing here…

Nikki Bartlett is out of IRONMAN South Africa after training crash

Great Britain Long Distance Pro, Nikki Bartlett, has had to withdraw from IRONMAN South Africa just a week before race day following a bike crash in training

Nikki Bartlett: IRONMAN South Africa report

We followed her preparations before the race and now Nikki Bartlett reports back, in-depth, on her ninth place finish at IRONMAN South Africa

Ben Hoffman, Daniela Ryf secure IRONMAN South Africa titles

Ben Hoffman and Nils Frommhold push each other to sub-eight hour performances in South Africa, while Daniela Ryf takes a classy win. Brits podium too…

Can David McNamee keep this statistic going on Sunday?

David McNamee heads to IRONMAN South Africa on Sunday as, in my opinion, the best IRONMAN athlete in Great Britain. Will he be first Brit across the line?

Pro Bike: The Cervélo P5X of Susie Cheetham

The Cervélo P5X of Great Britain’s Susie Cheetham

Ready to race at IRONMAN South Africa on Sunday

In recent years we have twice featured the race bikes of Susie Cheetham (www.susiecheetham.com). In 2014 it was the Orbea Ordu, and a year later it was the Falco V. A Cervélo sponsored rider from 2016, at Sunday’s IRONMAN South Africa Susie will be racing on their renege-topping P5X model, released to much fanfare at Kona in October.

For full details on the bike, scroll through the image gallery above

Susie says of the bike:

“The front end fully adjustable so gives amazing flexibility to get into any position. It’s pretty much a no compromise bike in terms of position and storage. There’s the option to have another storage box on the middle bottle cage (‘Speedcase’, pictured below), but I’ll run without it on race day.