IRONMAN New Zealand outcomes 2025: Glory once more for Phillips however McCauley hat-trick bid falls quick

Mike Phillips claimed a wonderful third IRONMAN New Zealand victory in Taupō on Saturday, however Jocelyn McCauley fell simply quick in her bid for a hat-trick of titles in 2025.

Phillips made it a hat-trick of wins in his nation’s largest professional occasion by holding off Joe Skipper and Jack Moody within the males’s professional race so as to add to his successes from 2019 and 2023.

Within the girls’s race McCauley couldn’t fairly observe swimsuit on this Saturday, as she was handed by Aussie star Regan Hollioake on the run earlier than finally claiming second place.

Right here is how the professional races performed out on one other terrific day of racing in Taupō.

Professional Males – Phillips completes the hat-trick

Benjamin Zorgnotti of Tahiti was first out of the water in 47:49, simply a few seconds forward of Kiwi Jack Moody with one other house hope – two-time former champion Phillips – solely 9 seconds off the lead in fourth place. Then it was Aussie Tim van Berkel in fifth forward of Dutchman Pim van Diemen and France’s Arnaud Guilloux. Britain’s Skipper in the meantime was thirteenth and three:30 again as he headed for T1.

The bike leg had a entrance pack of seven riders heading the best way, comprising of van Diemen, Guilloux, Mikel Ugarte Ramos (ESP), Van Berkel, Moody, and Zorgnotti. This group had a bonus of greater than three minutes on the chasers, led by Skipper, as the sector handed the 80km mark.

Transferring in the direction of the 120km mark, that entrance pack of seven lastly began to fragment as Moody and Guilloux dropped off the again. Now there have been 5 males on the head of affairs – Phillips, Ramos, van Diemen, Zorgnotti and Van Berkel.

Into the ultimate 60km on on the bike and whereas the entrance 5 had been persevering with to paved the way, Moody and Skipper had been each beginning to make vital inroads. These inroads had been slowed although when Phillips broke away from his 4 travelling companions to construct a lead of 1:39 by the point the sector arrived in T2. The chasers had been headed by a three-man pack comprising of Van Berkel, Moody and van Diemen. Skipper in the meantime was 2:20 off the tempo and simply forward of Zorgnotti.

It was now very a lot all to play for on the run with Phillips seeking to seize a 3rd victory on this race and the chasers making an attempt to take him down. The Kiwi appeared robust for the primary 15k of the closing marathon, sustaining that hole of just below two minutes as Moody and Skipper struggled to chop into it.

However then because the midway level approached Moody began to eat away on the deficit, and by 21km he was simply 1:20 away. The lead Phillips held did dwindle to only over a minute at one stage, however the two-time champion wouldn’t be denied and commenced to tug away once more as Moody’s surge faltered. The hat-trick for Mike was assured as they entered the closing phases.

When Phillips took the tape he was three minutes forward of Skipper, who had made the move on Moody within the latter phases to say second place. The Kiwi accomplished the rostrum with Zorgnotti fourth and Van Berkel fifth.

Mike Phillips IRONMAN New Zealand 2025 Podium — Mike Phillips celebrates a 3rd IRONMAN New Zealand victory in 2025 (Picture – Getty Photographs for IRONMAN).

Professional Ladies – Hollioake bursts McCauley bubble

Switzerland’s Alanis Siffert led the sector out of the water, simply forward of Britain’s Fenella Langridge. The pair then had greater than two minutes to spare over US star and two-time winner McCauley.

McCauley wasted no time in taking management of the race early on the bike leg, and she or he had handed Siffert and Langridge for the lead by the point they arrived on the 30km mark. By the point the sector handed via 60km, Jocelyn led Australian Regan Hollioake and Swiss pair Nina Derron and Siffert by simply over a minute, whereas Langridge had dropped to greater than three minutes off the tempo in fifth.

Derron and Hollioake had been now just below two minutes down on McCauley on the 90km midway stage of the bike, with Siffert greater than three minutes again. Langridge in the meantime was dropping again quick – greater than seven minutes adrift now.

The second half of the bike gave us extra of the identical with McCauley persevering with to drive from the entrance, and she or he began to pile on the facility within the remaining 50km, step by step growing her lead. By T2 that benefit had grown to nearly six minutes over Derron and Hollioake. Might she cling on for an additional victory right here? We had been about to seek out out.

McCauley followers should have been fearful early on the run as Jocelyn’s lead started to decrease quickly as Derron surged in the direction of the entrance. Inside 6km that benefit was right down to 2:32, and by 11km it was simply 27 seconds. This time, it will not be her day.

Derron made the move quickly afterwards to seize the lead from McCauley, however fairly quickly there was a hazard to the Swiss star as nicely – within the form of Aussie ace Hollioake. She was pacing her effort completely and stormed via to take the lead approaching the midway stage of the marathon.

The remainder of the day was Regan step by step extending her benefit as a superb victory beckoned – by the road she had simply over 5 minutes to spare on McCauley, who had retaken second place from Derron. The Swiss ace would declare the ultimate spot on the rostrum. Gabrielle Lumkes of the US grabbed fourth place with former Aussie Guidelines star Kate Gillespie-Jones (AUS) fifth.

Langridge in the meantime would sadly finish the day as a DNF as she started the street again after a irritating 2024.