World Triathlon Corporation
10/10/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/10/2025 01:29
How To Watch: Women’s 2025 IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, Hawai`i
KONA, Hawai`i (Oct. 9, 2025) - The world's top women will take center stage as the 2025 IRONMAN® World Championship® returns to the Island of Hawai`i on Saturday, October 11 in Kailua-Kona. Live and free race day coverage will be broadcast across multiple platforms for global viewers including proseries.ironman.com, DAZN, YouTube, Outside TV exclusively for the U.S. and Canada, L'Équipe in France, HR TV and ARD TV Live in Germany, ESPN (within Disney+) for viewers in the Caribbean and Latin America, iQIYI in China, SuperSport in South Africa, and RTVE Play in Spain.
The live broadcast coverage will give viewers a front row seat to all the action of the women's IRONMAN World Championship. Viewers will have an inside look as the top female professional athletes battle it out on the world's most iconic stage of triathlon for a piece of the $375,000 USD women's professional prize purse and the crown of IRONMAN World Champion, with the winner taking home $125,000 USD and 6,000 IRONMAN Pro Series points.
To continue showcasing the magic of Hawai`i to the world, the IRONMAN broadcast team will be calling the action live from the Hulihe`e Palace studio in Kona, featuring three-time IRONMAN World Champion Mirinda Carfrae and IRONMAN World Champion Greg Welch. They will be supported with sideline analysis provided by five-time IRONMAN World Champion Daniela Ryf, IRONMAN Champion Fenella Langridge, and others, with special guests throughout the race day coverage.
Body marking coverage will start at 4:30 a.m. HST commercial free and globally available on IRONMAN YouTube and proseries.ironman.com. At 6:00 a.m. HST the race broadcast starts with global audiences able to watch on proseries.ironman.com, Outside TV's App and Web platforms, DAZN, YouTube, and iQIYI.
Region exclusive race broadcasts will also begin at 6:00 a.m. HST, via Outside TV for U.S. and Canada; ESPN (via Disney+) for Latin America and the Caribbean; SuperSport for South Africa, and RTVE Play in Spain. In-language commentary will be available in France on La Chaîne L'Équipe from 6:00 p.m. CET and in Germany on HR TV Live from 6:15 p.m. to 03:10 a.m. CET and ARD TV Live from 00:55 a.m. to 03:10 a.m. CET. In Germany, the full livestream will also be shown on sportschau.de and ard.mediathek.de.
A live finish line camera feed will also pick up once the broadcast ends to ensure that every athlete's crowning achievement will be accessible to friends and family at home. Viewers may tune in to IRONMAN Triathlon's YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/@ironmantriathlon to spot their loved ones and cheer the final finishers over the line remotely.
Key moments from the extensive live coverage will include*:
| TIME (local time zone) | COVERAGE | CHANNELS |
| 4:30 a.m. | Live commercial free pre-race show begins with body marking |
All regions:
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| 6:00 a.m. | Race broadcast starts |
All regions (except U.S., Canada, LATAM & The Caribbean):
U.S. & Canada: France (French Commentary):
Germany (German Commentary):
Latin America & The Caribbean China South Africa Spain
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| 6:25 a.m. | Race Start - Professional Athletes | |
| 2:50 p.m. | Estimated finish time for the winner |
*All times listed HST
AN IRON WILL
The latest episode of AN IRON WILL landed earlier this week; a curtain-raiser to the women's edition of the 2025 IRONMAN World Championship triathlon. Episode 7 - Nice, looks back at the scintillating race that was the women's 2024 IRONMAN World Championship in Nice, France, featuring a play-by-play recap of the professional race with insight from the athletes themselves. The episode also heroes inspiring age-group athletes. Season 1 and Episodes 1-7 of Season 2 of AN IRON WILL are all available to watch for free now on the IRONMAN YouTube channel, DAZN, and Outside TV for viewers in the US and Canada.
A Fighting Chance Presented by HOKA
Follow the @ironmantri YouTube for a behind the scenes view of what it takes to have a chance at world-title glory. The latest episodes of A Fighting Chance presented by HOKA will drop during race week of the women's 2025 IRONMAN World Championship triathlon in Kona, Hawai`i. Eight of the top female professionals competing in Kona will feature, with three episodes live on IRONMAN's You Tube Channel on Sunday, October 5, Tuesday, October 7, and Thursday, October 9.
Follow the @ironmantri social channels to be kept up to date with all the latest 2025 IRONMAN World Championship content. ###
On February 18, 1978, 15 competitors came to the shores of Waikiki, Hawai`i to take on the first-ever IRONMAN® triathlon. It was an idea hatched by John Collins, a Naval Officer stationed in Hawai`i, and his wife Judy during a swim club gathering. Collins' proposal was a friendly test of fitness combining the three toughest endurance races on Oahu into one race: The 2.4-mile Waikiki Rough-water Swim, the 112-mile Around-Oahu Bike Race, followed by a 26.2-mile run on the Honolulu Marathon course. That first race would set the stage for what IRONMAN triathlon would become: the most-challenging single-day sporting event in the world, and a brand symbolizing the belief that "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE®." Since its inception in 1978 on the Island of O`ahu and continued history in Kona on the Island of Hawai`i with recent stops in St. George, Utah and Nice, France, the IRONMAN World Championship® triathlon has etched its name in history through historic performances, inspiring athletes, and a lifetime of memories that define the sport of triathlon today. The IRONMAN World Championship remains the most iconic single-day endurance sporting event in the world and is the culmination of 40 global IRONMAN events with over 94,000 athletes around the world striving for one of the coveted qualifying slots of any sporting event in the world. For more information, visit www.ironman.com/races/im-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.
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