Magnus Ditlev is new males’s world primary – regardless of Roth rankings ‘anomaly’

Magnus Ditlev has taken over as the boys’s world primary within the newest PTO rankings following his record-breaking Challenge Roth win.

The nice Dane has been within the prime 4 of the standings for the final two years however by no means occupied the primary spot – till now.

Nonetheless he really scored fewer rating factors for his precise Roth efficiency than 12 months beforehand, regardless of going greater than a minute faster and profitable way more emphatically. Right here’s why…

Higher efficiency however fewer factors – initially

In 2023 Ditlev efficiently defended his title at Problem Roth and within the course of set the fastest-ever males’s full-distance time* of seven hours, 24 minutes and 40 seconds, beating runner-up Patrick Lange by simply over 5 minutes.

That *asterisk is there as a result of Kristian Blummenfelt clocked 7:21:12 at IRONMAN Cozumel in 2021 but in the confusing world of fastest times, that has largely been downgraded as a result of it was a down present swim.

And final Sunday, Ditlev went one higher at Roth as he made it three wins on the trot in Bavaria with a time of seven:23:24 to win by a large 14-and-a-half minutes.

The power of subject – click here for an explanation of what that means – was stronger too, 91.65 in comparison with 89.81.

So given this unprecedented efficiency, why did Ditlev ‘solely’ initially earn 95.56 PTO rating factors, lower than his 96.82 from 12 months beforehand?

It’s all to do with the race tier of Roth this yr – it was ‘Platinum’ in 2023 however solely ‘Gold’ this time round.

Diamond (T100 races and the IRONMAN World Championships) is prime of the pile, then Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze – and that will get factored into the ceiling of factors obtainable within the scoring algorithm.

However the excellent news for Ditlev is there’s a 5% bonus obtainable utilized to an athlete’s greatest rating at a Gold tier or beneath occasion which pushes him as much as 100.34pts for Roth this yr and really makes the distinction between first and second, so it’s swings and roundabouts!

American Sam Long is the person displaced on the prime of the standings – he’s on a mean of 96.52 factors for his greatest three races in comparison with Ditlev’s 97.41 factors.

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Haug again into stellar prime 4

In the meantime within the girls’s rankings it is going to come as no shock that Anne Haug, who shattered the previous all-time women’s best at Challenge Roth, is the large mover.

The German famous person knocked practically six minutes off Daniela Ryf’s personal unbelievable time from final yr’s Roth to maneuver up from eighth to fourth, once more netting a 5% bonus to rack up a mixed 99.78 factors for Sunday’s heroics.

And all 4 of the highest girls – Taylor Knibb, Ashleigh Mild and Lucy Charles-Barclay are the trio forward of Haug – have common rating scores of upper than 98 factors.