Hamburg, Germany, will host the IRONMAN European Championship for professional women on Sunday, June 1, 2025. The event marks the eighth stop on the IRONMAN Pro Series, the third full-distance IRONMAN in the series, and the third to take place in Europe.
Athletes will compete for a share of the US$87,500 prize purse, up to 5,000 points in the IRONMAN Pro Series standings, and five qualifying slots for the 2025 IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i.
The IRONMAN European Championship for professional men will be held four weeks later, on Sunday, June 29, in Frankfurt.
Spectators can watch the Hamburg via live broadcast on proseries.ironman.com. Coverage will also be available on Outside TV (US and Canada), DAZN and L’Equipe (France), iQIYI (China), YouTube, and other platforms.
Reigning IRONMAN European Champion Jackie Hering (USA) returns wearing bib number one. Hering won the title in 2024 and currently sits tenth in the IRONMAN Pro Series standings.
Top contenders include Laura Philipp (DEU), who won in Hamburg in 2022 with what was then the fastest women’s IRONMAN time, and Kat Matthews (GBR), who set a new record of 8:10:34 in Texas last month. Philipp and Matthews went head-to-head at the 2024 IRONMAN World Championship in Nice, with Philipp taking the win.
Anne Reischmann (DEU), the current IRONMAN Pro Series leader and 2025 IRONMAN African Champion, is also expected to feature strongly.
Other athletes to watch include Danielle Lewis (USA), Solveig Løvseth (NOR) making her full-distance debut, Marjolaine Pierré (FRA), Sara Svensk (SWE), and Els Visser (NLD).
Nearly 3,000 age-groupers will also race alongside the pro athletes. The Hamburg event features a city-centre location, flat and fast bike and run course and strong spectator support.
Athletes will take on a 3.8km (2.4 mile) long ROKA swim course in the Inner and Outer Alster lake.
They will then embark on the ZOOT bike course, which consists of two loops, passing by some of the best sights such as the Reeperbahn, the fish market and the UNESCO-listed Speicherstadt out into the idyllic Vier- und Marschlande.
The four-loop 42.2 km (26.2 mile) HOKA run course boasts a strong atmosphere in downtown Hamburg, making it a spectator draw in the city.