Kat Matthews of Great Britain is Crowned 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series Winner for the Second Straight Year Following Race Finale at the 2025 Precision Fuel & Hydration IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Marbella, Spain

November 9, 2025

– Yearlong consistent racing leads Matthews to 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series win, earning the $200,000 USD Bonus Payout 
– Solveig Løvseth (NOR) and Lisa Perterer (AUT) complete the second edition of IRONMAN Pro Series female podium earning big pay days 

MARBELLA, Spain (November 9, 2025) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Kat Matthews of Great Britain made IRONMAN history again, winning her second straight IRONMAN Pro Series™, and taking home a bonus payout of $200,000 USD. Solveig Løvseth (NOR) and Lisa Perterer (AUT) completed the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series podium, receiving a bonus payout of $130,000 USD and $85,000 USD respectively.

Matthews held on to claim back-to-back titles despite being forced to retire during the run of the Precision Fuel & Hydration IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship with a calf injury. Løvseth needed to beat Matthews by at least 6 minutes and 40 seconds, and also finish within 1 minute and 40 seconds of the overall winner to claim victory. While she finished sixth overall, she crossed the line nearly 10 minutes behind race winner Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR), to secure second place.

Matthews’ 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series campaign has been nothing short of exceptional, marked by the highest levels of consistency and execution. The defending Pro Series champion returned with purpose, racing six times across the year with results no worse than second, apart from this Saturday’s injury-induced DNF in Marbella.

Her season opened with a commanding win at the Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Texas North American Championship, where she set the tone for the year with a dominant performance – achieving an at-the-time new IRONMAN best time of 8:10:34. She followed that up with victories at IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea and IRONMAN 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun triathlons, showcasing her strength across both the full and middle-distance.

Matthews also secured runner-up finishes at the IRONMAN Hamburg European Championship and the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, where she clocked a 2:47:23 marathon to set a new run course record. Finishing just 35 seconds off the win earned Matthews 5,703 points – her highest-scoring race of the season and giving her a comfortable lead heading into the 2025 Precision Fuel & Hydration IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.

Sitting on 20,845 points, Matthews led the IRONMAN Pro Series standings and had already surpassed her 2024 winning total of 20,761 points. Her two IRONMAN 70.3 victories earlier in the season meant Matthews only had a narrow margin for improvement but her retirement meant that her point score stayed where it started the day.

Her 2025 campaign has been a masterclass in consistency, continued improvement, and race-day brilliance – setting a new year-end benchmark score in the IRONMAN Pro Series.

2025 IRONMAN Pro Series runner-up, Solveig Løvseth, has also had an outstanding season. The Norwegian delivered podium performances in four of her five counted IRONMAN Pro Series races. The defining moment came last month at the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, where she claimed her first world title on debut in brutal conditions, earning the maximum 6,000 Series points.

Lisa Perterer, who completed the IRONMAN Pro Series podium, already had her third place in the IRONMAN Pro Series standings locked in, despite not racing at the Precision Fuel & Hydration IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship. Lisa’s season included two second place finishes at Athletic Brewing IRONMAN Lake Placid and IRONMAN 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun triathlons, a third place at Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Texas North American Championship, and a fifth and a sixth at the IRONMAN World Championship, and IRONMAN 70.3 Aix-en-Provence triathlons respectively.

Main movers and shakers following the Precision Fuel & Hydration IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon included Regan Hollioake (AUS) who moved from seventh to sixth and Danielle Lewis (USA) who went from 10th to eighth. Outside of the top 10 Katrine Græsbøll Christensen (DEN) moved up six places into 15th, Taylor Knibb jumped 15 spots into 24th and Marjolaine Pierré climbed 11 positions into 26th, all increasing their year-end bonus payout.

Top 10 Female Professional Results – IRONMAN Pro Series 

*Inclusive of bonus and 2025 individual IRONMAN Pro Series event prize purses

Following two successful campaigns and entrenching itself as the elite professional triathlon series, the 2026 Experience Oman IRONMAN Pro Series will kick off in March with ANZCO Foods IRONMAN New Zealand triathlon and culminates in October at the 2026 IRONMAN World Championship triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawai`i.

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About the Precision Fuel & Hydration IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship

The IRONMAN^® 70.3^® Triathlon Series is the world’s premier middle-distance triathlon series culminating in the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship. Introduced in 2006 in Clearwater, Florida, the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship has grown in stature and popularity to become an annual test for the world’s elite triathletes. The event moved first to Henderson, Nevada in 2011, where athletes encountered a more challenging terrain and then to Mont-Tremblant, Quebec—its first stop on the new “global rotation” for the race. The event reached European soil for the first time ever in 2015, with Zell am See, Austria, and in 2016, the race moved from the mountains to the beaches of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia for its first stop in Asia-Pacific. In 2017, the race returned to the United States, taking place in Chattanooga, Tennessee where it underwent another major change to become a two-day event. In 2018, the event reached the African continent and was hosted in Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa. From here, it has continued to be hosted in some of the world’s most inspiring and beautiful destinations, including Nice, France; St. George, Utah; Lahti, Finland; and Taupō, New Zealand. As the event has continued its global rotation, it has brought about some of the most compelling triathlon racing annually thanks to the attraction of Olympic distance specialists to middle- and long-distance triathletes, all competing together to see who reigns supreme. This year, the event comes to Spain for the first time with Marbella as host location on November 8-9, 2025. The City of Nice will then continue its rich history with triathlon and world championship events, hosting the 2026 and 2028 editions of the race. Historically, more than 200,000 athletes have participated annually in a series of qualifying races, consisting of over 100 global events. Hosting more than 6,000 athletes from around the world, participants in the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon have ranged in age from 18 to 85-plus. For more information, visit www.ironman.com/im703-world-championship.

About IRONMAN Pro Series

The IRONMAN Pro Series™ is a year-long performance-based world series that showcases and rewards top professional triathletes as they vie for points and event prize money, on their way to claiming the title of IRONMAN Pro Series champion and a lion’s share of the lucrative $1.7 million USD year-end bonus prize pool.  Along the way, athletes will battle for the prize money offered at each individual IRONMAN Pro Series triathlon, equating to over $2.5 million USD, as well as coveted world championship qualifying slots. Open to approximately 1,000 eligible professional triathletes worldwide, the IRONMAN Pro Series ushers in a new era of IRONMAN racing where Every Second Matters – every second behind the race winner equates to a point earned or lost. Incorporating iconic distances, challenging courses, and stunning destinations, every IRONMAN Pro Series race will be broadcast live and free to a global audience. In 2025, the IRONMAN Pro Series will be contested over 18 events and 17 race locations around the globe, including a combination of six IRONMAN^® and eight IRONMAN^® 70.3^® triathlons, as well as the IRONMAN World Championship® women’s and men’s races and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship triathlon. An additional 40 events outside of the 2025 IRONMAN Pro Series will also offer IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 professional racing fields with world championship qualifying opportunities, and over $1.8 million USD in prize money. This creates a total professional prize purse of over $6 million USD in 2025. For more information, visit proseries.ironman.com.

About The IRONMAN Group

The IRONMAN Group is the world’s largest operator of participation sports with a portfolio of brands, events, media, partners, merchandise, and digital platforms operating in over 50 countries worldwide. A global portfolio consisting of hundreds of events includes the IRONMAN^® Triathlon Series, the IRONMAN^® 70.3^® Triathlon Series, 5150® Triathlon Series, IRONKIDS^®, premier running events including the Rock ‘n’ Roll^® Running Series, the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon™ and City2Surf^®, the UTMB^® World Series of trail running, the Epic Series™ of mountain biking including the Absa Cape Epic^®, and a collection of road cycling and other multisport races. Since the inception of the iconic IRONMAN^® brand and its first event in 1978, millions of athletes have proven that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE^® by crossing finish lines around the world. From its beginnings as a single race among friends in Hawai’i, The IRONMAN Group has become a global sensation and collection of high-growth lifestyle brands that inspire people to unlock their potential in life. For more information, visit www.ironman.com/about-ironman-group