The IRONMAN Pro Series moves from Hamburg and across the Atlantic as Pennsylvania hosts the 70.3 North American Championship on Sunday, with pro fields living up to the billing.

The top North American middle-distance athletes take each other on for bragging rights and all-important Pro Series points – and all on a course which looks to offer something for everyone.

Read on to find out all the key details…

Start times and how to watch live

IRONMAN 70.3 Pennsylvania Happy Valley will take place on Sunday 14 June. The men’s professional race begins at 06:50 local time (which is Eastern). That corresponds to 03:50 on the West Coast and 11:50 in the UK and 12:50 Central European. The pro women set off five minutes later.

This event is the seventh stop in the Pro Series which means a full livestream which we’ll embed below so you don’t need to leave this page.

There will be additional regional live broadcast and highlight shows also available, including L’Équipe Live in France, ESPN (within Disney+), SuperSport, hr-Fernsehen, NRD, RTVE, iQIYI, and Outside TV.

And of course the ever-useful IRONMAN Tracker app is an essential addition to the broadcast.

Course details

This event featured a (women-only) pro field for the first time in 2025 and iT begins with a single 1.2-mile loop – or triangle – in Foster Sayers Reservoir at Bald Eagle State Park with a beach start and finish, featuring just two right turns.

The bike course should lend itself to exciting racing – it’s billed as “smooth, quiet roads with countryside views for 56 miles” but that only tells half the story.

For there’s not much flat at all, with over 3,000 feet of climbing the likes Beaver Bluff, Old Main Grind, and Nittany Summit.

There’s a tweak to the run course this year in that it finishes outside rather than inside Beaver Stadium. The one-lap 13.1-mile route rolls through the Pennsylvania State University campus.

Men’s Pro field

There are plenty of close friends and rivalries in play here, with most of the most talented middle-distance American men lining up.

Bibs #1 through to #12 are all American bar Aussie Sam Appleton, though he’s based primarily in Boulder.

Veteran Matt Hanson heads the start list and has already collected two podiums this year – at IRONMAN New Zealand and 70.3 Chattanogga.

Arguably the favourite is Sam Long who won 70.3 Gulf Coast and has tended to mop up victories in US 70.3s in recent years. The big questions around him are firstly what sort of gap he and the likes of Trevor Foley will have to make up on the swim – and then how much damage can they do on the testing bike course?

Those already mentioned are strong runners but they will be wary of having Morgan Pearson anywhere near them going out of T2. Pearson is ranked #1 in both swim and run and made his seasonal return at T100 San Francisco just last weekend when he led onto the bike before dropping back and then running through to fourth.

He summed that afterwards by saying: “The fitness was solid, I was making up good time and positioning on the hills but when it came to putting down high power and riding aero I could tell I was off my game.”

This bike course should lend itself better to him but plenty of his rivals will be trying to distance him on two wheels again.

Jason West is another super-fast US runner and arguably the top American male full-distance athlete right now is Matthew Marquardt who produced his most complete performance to date (and without any cramping issues) when he won IRONMAN South Africa earlier this season. That’s three full-distance wins out of his last four but he hasn’t yet been as effective at 70.3.

Plenty of others will fancy their chances too, with the likes of Ben Kanute and Marc Dubrick looking to put the pressure on right from the swim while there is a rare European name lower down the entries in Sweden’s Rasmus Svenningsson, last year’s IRONMAN Chattanooga winner.

Women’s Pro field

Wearing #1 is last year’s winner Lydia Russell, who took down Chelsea Sodaro and others 12 months ago for a surprise win.

However she is working her way back from injury so a repeat looks a big ask, especially given this is a much deeper field as you’d expect for a Pro Series race.

The favourite has to be Paula Findlay and not just because she has won a whole host of North American 70.3s in recent years, including Augusta, Boise, St. George and Oceanside in the 2025 campaign.

Add in the rolling bike course and the three-time Canadian TT champ will be a tough nut to crack.

Again though we’ve got a great mix of strong swimmers, bikers and runners so lots of dynamics like to play out – Hannah Berry (NZL) will be one of those to the fore from the start and is another strong biker while Grace Alexander comes into this race on a 70.3 hat-trick after doing the Gulf Coast / Chattanooga double which eluded Sam Long.

She beat the likes of Findlay, Danielle Lewis and Jackie Hering in those events, all of whom re-oppose here.

And we’ve also got to mention one of the fastest runners in women’s triathlon in Tamara Jewett, with the Canadian heading here after starting her season in New Zealand and Australia.

Prize Money: What’s on the line?

The prize purse on offer this weekend is $75,000 – with the winners each collecting a $12,000 share of that total.

As part of the IRONMAN Pro Series, athletes will also earn points as they seek to become the IRONMAN Pro Series Champion and win a share of the $1.8 million bonus prize purse.

In Happy Valley, the maximum possible score will be 2,500 points for 1st place, with points for all remaining professional finishers diminishing based on the time deficit to first place, at a rate of 1 point per 1 second deficit to the winner’s finishing time.

In addition to money and series points, there will be a total of six qualifying slots (three per gender) for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships in Nice later this season.