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The fifth event of the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series takes place this weekend (Sunday May 4) in Italy as 70.3 Venice-Jesolo takes centre stage with vital points up for grabs.
Athletes will be competing to earn 2,500 points, with 2023 IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion Rico Bogen the headline act on the men’s side, with current Pro Series contender Anne Reischmann, who won earlier this year at IRONMAN South Africa, looking to add further points to her tally.
The race boasts strong fields in both the professional races, at least in terms of numbers. Bogen will be challenged by a strong German roster with 2024 IRONMAN Barcelona champion Jan Stratmann, 2024 IRONMAN 70.3 Switzerland and Hradec Kralove victor Leonard Arnold and two-time 70.3 podium finisher Jonas Hoffman.
Reischmann will be joined on the women’s start line by a strong Dutch stable with 2024 IRONMAN 70.3 Philippines champion Els Visser, 2024 IRONMAN 70.3 Poznan victor Marlene De Boer and 2023 IRONMAN 70.3 Gdynia winner Diede Diederiks set to do battle.
Start time and how to watch live
IRONMAN 70.3 Venice-Jesolo takes place on Sunday May 4 with the Pro Men’s race beginning at 07:15am local time, which translates to 06:15am UK time, 01:15am Eastern Time in the US and 10:15pm (Saturday May 3) on the West Coast.
The Pro Women take to the water eight minutes later at 07:23am before the mass age group start at 07:30am. Coverage of the race will be available on proseries.ironman.com, the IRONMAN YouTube Channel, DAZN, L’Equipe Live and on Outside TV in the US and Canada.
The good news is we have embedded the live stream so you can watch it without leaving TRI247. Just click below:
Of course, the IRONMAN Tracker App will also cover the race.
Pro Women’s Start List
IRONMAN 2025 South Africa champion Reischmann will be keen to put a marker down at the head of the Pro Series standings. The German earned a mammoth 5,000 points in South Africa, and a solid performance in Italy would move her to the top of the rankings.
She’ll be re-opposed by Maja Stage Nielsen of Denmark, who earned a top-five finish at IRONMAN South Africa. The 36-year-old is yet to win an IRONMAN or IRONMAN 70.3 race, however, and will be eager to change that in Italy.
Other potential contenders include four-time IRONMAN 70.3 podium finisher Daniela Kleiser of Germany, IRONMAN South Africa’s third-place competitor Katrine Christensen (DEN) and Norway’s Solveig Løvseth – who is the current IRONMAN 70.3 Warsaw champion.
The aforementioned Visser, De Boer and Diederiks represent the Netherlands, Great Britain’s Kate Curran is a two-time podium finisher over the middle-distance and Sweden’s Anna Bergsten will also be a contender.
Pro Men’s Start List
2023 IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion Bogen of Germany headlines the field. The T100-contracted athlete has just two middle-distance wins to his name in his career but is certainly the class of this field, and will take a 10th-place finish from T100 Singapore into the event.
Bogen will be challenged by compatriots Stratmann, Arnold and Hoffman, and there is strong British interest as well with 2023 IRONMAN 70.3 Staffordshire runner-up Joshua Lewis, IRONMAN 70.3 Italy winner Samuel Dickinson and Cameron Main – who finished fourth in Geelong earlier this year – all on the start line
2022 IRONMAN 70.3 Jesolo winner Alessandro Fabian will be hoping home comforts bring success. The Italian is not a regular on the IRONMAN circuit, but has four top-10 finishes in five races, including a third-place in Tallinn in 2023.
German double Olympian Jonas Schomburg was third at 2025 IRONMAN South Africa earlier this year and will likely contend, with France’s Pierre Le Core, another two-time Olympian who finished fourth in Paris, boasting a trio of 70.3 podiums.
Venice-Jesolo 70.3 course
The 1.9km swim takes place in the waters of the Adriatic Sea via a single loop in front of Jesolo’s iconic lighthouse which marks the border between the Municipalities of Jesolo and Cavllino.
The 90km bike leg is also a single loop course. The Venetian lagoon and its landscape surround the athletes before reaching Cavallino. Coming back to Jesolo, athletes will reach Cortellazzo and its unforgettable bridge of boats and up to the municipality of Eraclea which is characterised by the gorgeous picture-perfect canals.
Three 7km loops await the triathletes to conclude the race alongside the shore line. At the end of the third lap, athletes will be directed onto a footpath that will bring them to finish line situated on the beach.
IRONMAN Pro Series 2025
The 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series continues to motor along as we reach the fifth stop of the campaign in Italy at IRONMAN 70.3 Venice-Jesolo. The winner of each race will be awarded 2,500 points, with remaining professional finishers earning points on their finish time compared to the victor – a one second deficit translates to one point lost.
With four races down of 18 scheduled, Australia’s Chloe Lane leads the women’s standings with 5,913 points ahead of Germany’s Reischmann (5,000), Great Britain’s Kat Matthews (5,000), Canada’s Tamara Jewett (4,991) and US star Alice Alberts (4,923).
American standout Rudy von Berg tops the men’s standings with 6,193 points ahead of Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt (6,812), Germany’s Dominik Sowieja (6,496), France’s Leon Chevalier (6,218) and Big Blu’s compatriot Casper Stornes (5,829).
The male and female pro with the most points at the end of the Pro Series will be crowned IRONMAN Pro Series Champions. A competitor’s best five events will determine their points total.
A cool $200,000 is on offer for the series winner on both the men’s and women’s side, with second earning €130,000 and third receiving $85,000. The cumulative payout for the 2025 season is €2,450,000.
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