# How IRONMAN Florida 2026 was won: Magnus Ditlev’s 7:19:17, the fastest full-distance race ever recorded, Alanis Siffert’s course record — and what 2,013 age-groupers did on the same course

By Max, founder of metrica.fit · Published 2026-11-09 · https://www.metrica.fit/analysis/how-ironman-florida-2026-was-won

> Magnus Ditlev led from the first bike checkpoint, rode 3:51:16 and finished in 7:19:17 — nobody has covered the distance faster. Alanis Siffert ran down the women’s race inside five miles of the marathon. Behind them, 2,013 age-groupers finished; here is their day in the numbers, with no names attached.

## The short version

- Magnus Ditlev (Denmark) won IRONMAN Florida on 7 November 2026 in **7:19:17**, the fastest full-distance time ever recorded — 1:47 inside Sam Laidlow’s 7:21:04 from Challenge Roth in July and 1:55 inside Kristian Blummenfelt’s 7:21:12 at IRONMAN Cozumel in 2021.
- He led from the first bike checkpoint, rode **3:51:16** (46.8 km/h, the fastest IRONMAN bike split on record) to reach T2 11:12 clear, and ran 2:33:31 — the second-fastest marathon of the day — to win by 14:08 from Rudy von Berg. Matt Hanson ran 2:28:07 to pass Sam Long for third.
- Alanis Siffert (Switzerland) won the women’s race in **8:07:37**, a Florida course record by 14:51. She left T2 1:54 behind Holly Lawrence, passed her inside the first five miles and ran 2:45:03 to win by 16:19.
- 2,013 of 2,141 age-group starters finished (94%). The median age-grouper took 12:50:56 (men) and 13:22:16 (women); 125 broke ten hours and 110 finished after sixteen. The fastest age-grouper (M30-34) finished in 8:07:24, 13 seconds ahead of the women’s pro winner.
- The typical age-grouper spent 19:56 in the two transitions, 13:19 more than Ditlev, and 937 of the 2,013 finishers (47%) took more than five hours for the marathon.
- When Ditlev crossed the line, von Berg had 3.8 km of the marathon to run, Siffert had 12.4 km, and the median age-grouper still had 14.3 km of the bike and the whole marathon ahead.

## The fastest day there has been

Triathlon has no official world records — courses differ too much — so the fastest full-distance times are kept as “world bests”. Before Saturday the list was headed by Sam Laidlow’s 7:21:04 at Challenge Roth this July and Kristian Blummenfelt’s 7:21:12 at IRONMAN Cozumel in 2021, a swim with a current that some lists carry with an asterisk. Magnus Ditlev went under both at Panama City Beach, on a two-lap sea swim, a flat out-and-back bike and a flat run, with no current to help and no climb to hide behind.

### The fastest full-distance times on record

| Athlete | Race | Time | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Magnus Ditlev | IRONMAN Florida 2026 | 7:19:17 | official results |
| Sam Laidlow | Challenge Roth 2026 | 7:21:04 | reported · not an IRONMAN race |
| Kristian Blummenfelt | IRONMAN Cozumel 2021 | 7:21:12 | reported · swim with a current |
| Kristian Blummenfelt | IRONMAN Texas 2026 | 7:21:24 | official results |
| Jonas Schomburg | IRONMAN Kalmar-Sweden 2026 | 7:22:57 | official results |
| Magnus Ditlev | Challenge Roth 2024 | 7:23:24 | reported · not an IRONMAN race |
| Kristian Blummenfelt | IRONMAN Texas 2025 | 7:24:20 | official results |
| Magnus Ditlev | Challenge Roth 2023 | 7:24:40 | reported · not an IRONMAN race |
| Kristian Blummenfelt | IRONMAN Frankfurt 2025 | 7:25:57 | official results |

_Official IRONMAN results where we hold them (solid); the Challenge Roth and Cozumel marks are as reported (outlined). Bars start at 7:15:00. Our results cover 110 full-distance IRONMAN editions since 2011, dense from 2024._

It was also the fastest men’s time at Florida by 15:24 (Rudy von Berg’s 7:34:41 from 2023), and Ditlev took 7:46 off his own course bike record from the same year. The race-day high was 22.1 °C with a light northerly (4.2 m/s at most, by the weather model) and a sea at about 23.8 °C with 24 cm of swell — a calm, cool November morning on the Gulf.

## Men: gone by the first bike check

Andrew Horsfall-Turner led the swim out in 47:42; Ditlev was sixth, **10 seconds back**, in a front pack of a dozen. By the first bike checkpoint at 10.2 miles he was in front by three seconds. At 34.5 miles the lead was about three minutes, at 57.6 miles 6:22, and at 89.6 miles 9:27 over Kanute. He came into T2 at 4:43:13 of race time, **11:12 ahead** of Sam Long, who had ridden through the field from 27th out of the water; von Berg and Kanute were within 6 seconds of Long.

### Time ahead of (+) or behind (−) Magnus Ditlev

| Athlete | Swim exit | Off the bike | Finish |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. Magnus Ditlev | 0:00 | 0:00 | 0:00 |
| 2. Rudy von Berg | +0:02 | −11:15 | −14:08 |
| 3. Matt Hanson | −3:24 | −22:34 | −16:31 |
| 4. Sam Long | −3:28 | −11:12 | −19:42 |
| 5. Justin Metzler | −0:06 | −17:01 | −25:43 |
| 6. Jakub Stádník | −3:21 | −16:54 | −26:17 |
| 7. Gabriel Sandör | −0:08 | −12:56 | −27:43 |
| 8. Ben Kanute | +0:05 | −11:18 | −28:10 |

_Top eight men at the swim exit, off the bike (swim + T1 + bike) and at the finish, from the official splits._

The marathon only widened it: 13:12 at 13.2 miles, nearly fourteen minutes at 22.1 miles, 14:08 at the line. His 2:33:31 was the second-fastest run of the day — only Matt Hanson’s **2:28:07**, a Florida run record by 5:59, was quicker. Hanson had left T2 22:34 behind Ditlev and 11:22 behind Long, was still 4:36 down on Long at 17.3 miles, eight seconds down at 22.1, and passed him in the closing miles for third and the last of the three men’s Kona slots. von Berg and Long had run together to halfway before von Berg edged clear for second.

### 7:19:17: where everyone else was

| Athlete | Swim | T1 | Bike | T2 | Run | Finish | At 7:19:17 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Magnus Ditlev | 47:52 | 4:05 | 3:51:16 | 2:32 | 2:33:31 | 7:19:17 | finished |
| Rudy von Berg | 47:50 | 3:20 | 4:03:18 | 1:48 | 2:37:09 | 7:33:25 | 3.8 km of the run to go |
| Matt Hanson | 51:16 | 3:11 | 4:11:20 | 1:53 | 2:28:07 | 7:35:48 | 4.7 km of the run to go |
| Sam Long | 51:20 | 3:06 | 3:59:59 | 1:48 | 2:42:45 | 7:38:59 | 5.1 km of the run to go |
| Justin Metzler | 47:58 | 3:15 | 4:09:01 | 2:03 | 2:42:44 | 7:45:00 | 6.7 km of the run to go |
| Jakub Stádník | 51:13 | 3:41 | 4:05:13 | 1:51 | 2:43:36 | 7:45:34 | 6.8 km of the run to go |
| Alanis Siffert | 51:09 | 3:49 | 4:25:57 | 1:39 | 2:45:03 | 8:07:37 | 12.4 km of the run to go |
| Median age-grouper | 1:21:02 | 11:49 | 6:16:12 | 7:43 | 4:53:47 | 12:50:33 | 14.3 km of the bike to go |

_Each athlete’s day as a bar — swim, T1, bike, T2, run — against their own race clock, with the point they had reached when Ditlev finished (even pace within each leg). The last row is a synthetic age-grouper built from the median split of every leg._

At 7:19:17 on their own clocks, every other pro finisher was still on the marathon. von Berg had 3.8 km of the marathon left, Hanson 4.7 km, and Siffert, who would win the women’s race by 16:19, had 12.4 km to run. The median age-grouper was 14.3 km from the end of the bike — with a marathon to follow.

### Men’s top 10: every leg, with its rank among the finishers

_“Off the bike” is the position after swim + T1 + bike among the 41 men who finished._

## The bike: 46.8 km/h for 180.2 km

- **3:51:16** — Ditlev’s bike split · 46.8 km/h
- **8:43** — faster than the next-best split (Long, 3:59:59)
- **1:56** — under the previous IRONMAN best (Robert Kallin, 3:53:12, Kalmar 2026)
- **29.1 km/h** — median age-group man (6:11:24)

No IRONMAN bike leg had been ridden under 3:53 before: the reports put the previous bests at 3:53:12 (Robert Kallin, IRONMAN Kalmar 2026) and 3:53:32 (Cameron Wurf, IRONMAN Texas 2025). Ditlev’s 3:51:16 is 46.8 km/h for 180.2 km, ridden alone from the first checkpoint — since March 2026 pros ride 20 m apart, so there was nobody to sit behind even if he had wanted to. The next-fastest split of the day, Long’s 3:59:59, was 8:43 slower. Then he ran a 2:33:31 marathon (3:38/km) off it.

### Fastest bike splits

| Race | Athlete | Bike | Finish place |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Men | Magnus Ditlev | 3:51:16 | 1st overall |
| Men | Sam Long | 3:59:59 | 4th overall |
| Men | Elliot Bach | 4:02:31 | 13th overall |
| Men | Rudy von Berg | 4:03:18 | 2nd overall |
| Men | Ben Kanute | 4:03:25 | 8th overall |
| Men | Martin Ulloa | 4:04:45 | 10th overall |
| Men | Gabriel Sandör | 4:04:49 | 7th overall |
| Men | Jakub Stádník | 4:05:13 | 6th overall |
| Women | Holly Lawrence | 4:24:07 | 2nd overall |
| Women | Alanis Siffert | 4:25:57 | 1st overall |
| Women | Laura Jansen | 4:38:48 | 3rd overall |
| Women | Megan McDonald | 4:38:50 | 4th overall |
| Women | Brooke Gillies | 4:41:45 | 5th overall |
| Women | Linda Brännlund | 4:47:25 | 7th overall |

_Bike splits from the official results, with each athlete’s finishing place._

## Women: Siffert inside five miles

Alanis Siffert and Holly Lawrence swam away from the field on the first lap and came out of the water together — 51:09 and 51:10 — with Megan McDonald leading the chase 3:47 later. They traded the lead for 70 miles of the bike before Lawrence opened a gap: 51 seconds at 89.6 miles, **1:54** at the dismount line after a 4:24:07 ride, the fastest of the women’s race. Jansen was 18:52 back in third.

Siffert closed most of it in the first 2.3 miles, passed Lawrence by mile 4.3 and led by 8:58 at 15.3 miles. Her **2:45:03** marathon — 17:45 quicker than Lawrence’s 3:02:48 and 8:23 under the 2011 course run record — brought her home in 8:07:37, 16:19 clear, 14:51 inside Skye Moench’s course record and 1:32 faster than her own winning time at Roth. Laura Jansen ran 2:52:16 for third; the three women’s Kona 2027 slots went to the podium. In our results, only Laura Philipp’s 8:03:13 (IRONMAN Hamburg 2025) is faster among women’s IRONMAN winning times.

### Time ahead of (+) or behind (−) Alanis Siffert

| Athlete | Swim exit | Off the bike | Finish |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. Alanis Siffert | 0:00 | 0:00 | 0:00 |
| 2. Holly Lawrence | −0:01 | +1:54 | −16:19 |
| 3. Laura Jansen | −3:48 | −16:58 | −24:44 |
| 4. Megan McDonald | −3:47 | −17:00 | −45:11 |
| 5. Brooke Gillies | −3:52 | −19:58 | −50:52 |
| 6. Joanna Ryter | −13:29 | −35:22 | −54:11 |
| 7. Linda Brännlund | −3:52 | −26:23 | −1:05:19 |
| 8. Kristina Grieger | −14:56 | −49:01 | −1:22:30 |

_Top eight women at the swim exit, off the bike and at the finish._

### Women’s top 10: every leg, with its rank among the finishers

_“Off the bike” counts the 12 women who finished._

### Fastest marathons

| Race | Athlete | Run | Finish place |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Men | Matt Hanson | 2:28:07 | 3rd overall |
| Men | Magnus Ditlev | 2:33:31 | 1st overall |
| Men | Rudy von Berg | 2:37:09 | 2nd overall |
| Men | Mitchell Kirby | 2:40:00 | 18th overall |
| Men | Justin Metzler | 2:42:44 | 5th overall |
| Men | Sam Long | 2:42:45 | 4th overall |
| Men | Andre Lopes | 2:43:12 | 9th overall |
| Men | Jakub Stádník | 2:43:36 | 6th overall |
| Women | Alanis Siffert | 2:45:03 | 1st overall |
| Women | Laura Jansen | 2:52:16 | 3rd overall |
| Women | Holly Lawrence | 3:02:48 | 2nd overall |
| Women | Joanna Ryter | 3:03:19 | 6th overall |
| Women | Megan McDonald | 3:12:52 | 4th overall |
| Women | Brooke Gillies | 3:15:16 | 5th overall |

_Run splits from the official results, with each athlete’s finishing place._

## The age-group race

- **2,013** — age-group finishers of 2,141 starters (94%)
- **12:50:56** — median finish, men
- **13:22:16** — median finish, women
- **125** — broke ten hours · 110 finished after sixteen

2,141 age-groupers from 77 countries started — 38% more than in 2025 — and 2,013 finished. Of the 128 who didn’t, 46 stopped on the bike, 62 on the run and 21 have a run split but no official finish. The men’s median was 12:50:56, the women’s 13:22:16; the busiest half-hour at the finish line was 11:30–12:00. The fastest age-grouper, a man in M30-34, finished in **8:07:24** — 13 seconds ahead of the women’s pro winner. The fastest age-group woman (F30-34) finished in 9:17:30.

### When the age-group field finished

| Finish time (from) | Men | Women |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 8:00:00–8:30:00 | 3 | 0 |
| 8:30:00–9:00:00 | 12 | 0 |
| 9:00:00–9:30:00 | 35 | 1 |
| 9:30:00–10:00:00 | 72 | 2 |
| 10:00:00–10:30:00 | 77 | 14 |
| 10:30:00–11:00:00 | 87 | 18 |
| 11:00:00–11:30:00 | 120 | 28 |
| 11:30:00–12:00:00 | 173 | 31 |
| 12:00:00–12:30:00 | 132 | 23 |
| 12:30:00–13:00:00 | 158 | 45 |
| 13:00:00–13:30:00 | 138 | 36 |
| 13:30:00–14:00:00 | 138 | 29 |
| 14:00:00–14:30:00 | 122 | 37 |
| 14:30:00–15:00:00 | 111 | 33 |
| 15:00:00–15:30:00 | 109 | 29 |
| 15:30:00–16:00:00 | 69 | 21 |
| 16:00:00–16:30:00 | 46 | 15 |
| 16:30:00–17:00:00 | 32 | 13 |
| 17:00:00–17:30:00 | 2 | 2 |

_Finishers per half-hour of race time, men and women stacked, with the pro winners and the medians marked. The midnight cutoff is 17 hours after the last wave starts._

The shape of the day is different too. Ditlev spent 52.6% of his race on the bike and 34.9% running; the median age-group man spent 48.6% riding and 38.3% running, because the marathon slows more than the ride does. A typical age-group marathon (4:53:02, 6:57/km) is 78% as long as the bike; Ditlev’s was 66%.

### How the day divides

| Athlete | Swim | T1 | Bike | T2 | Run | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Magnus Ditlev | 47:52 (10.9%) | 4:05 | 3:51:16 (52.6%) | 2:32 | 2:33:31 (34.9%) | 7:19:17 |
| Alanis Siffert | 51:09 (10.5%) | 3:49 | 4:25:57 (54.5%) | 1:39 | 2:45:03 (33.8%) | 8:07:37 |
| Median age-group man | 1:20:28 (10.5%) | 11:54 | 6:11:24 (48.6%) | 7:42 | 4:53:02 (38.3%) | 12:44:30 |
| Median age-group woman | 1:23:34 (10.4%) | 11:21 | 6:38:55 (49.8%) | 7:46 | 4:59:15 (37.4%) | 13:20:51 |

_Each leg as a share of the finish time. The age-group rows use the median split of every leg for that sex._

### Median finish by age group

| Age group | Finishers | Median finish | Fastest |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| F18-24 | 48 | 13:12:01 | 10:54:29 |
| F25-29 | 78 | 13:37:22 | 9:34:14 |
| F30-34 | 62 | 12:43:18 | 9:17:30 |
| F35-39 | 49 | 13:12:58 | 10:07:16 |
| F40-44 | 38 | 13:01:21 | 10:16:37 |
| F45-49 | 36 | 13:22:49 | 10:10:42 |
| F50-54 | 23 | 13:17:21 | 10:52:34 |
| F55-59 | 25 | 14:38:22 | 11:31:18 |
| F60-64 | 11 | 15:06:24 | 13:09:56 |
| F65-69 | 6 | 15:27:35 | 13:36:42 |
| M18-24 | 230 | 12:45:27 | 8:42:12 |
| M25-29 | 309 | 12:48:32 | 8:33:41 |
| M30-34 | 261 | 12:36:11 | 8:07:24 |
| M35-39 | 182 | 12:33:23 | 8:29:25 |
| M40-44 | 165 | 12:35:15 | 8:27:45 |
| M45-49 | 151 | 12:57:57 | 9:01:55 |
| M50-54 | 126 | 13:32:17 | 9:01:47 |
| M55-59 | 118 | 13:19:01 | 9:30:17 |
| M60-64 | 57 | 13:36:41 | 10:26:51 |
| M65-69 | 29 | 14:25:53 | 10:00:56 |
| M70-74 | 7 | 14:25:47 | 12:23:40 |

_Age groups with at least five finishers. The tick marks the fastest finisher in the group._

## Transitions, marathons and the move on the run

- **19:56** — median time in T1 + T2 (Ditlev: 6:37)
- **190** — finishers who spent over 30 minutes in transition
- **47%** — ran the marathon in over five hours (937)
- **92** — age-group marathons under 3:30 · 3 under 3:00

**Transitions are the cheapest minutes on the course.** The median age-grouper spent 11:49 in T1 and 7:43 in T2 — 19:56 in all, 13:19 more than Ditlev’s 6:37. 190 finishers spent more than half an hour between the three legs; 90 were through both in under ten minutes. Florida’s T1 is a long run up the beach, but most of that time is spent in the tent.

**The marathon is where the day gets long.** 937 of 2,013 finishers took more than five hours to run it and 320 more than six, against 344 under four hours and 92 under 3:30. On the bike, 130 rode under five hours (36 km/h) and 444 took more than seven. In the water, 82 swam under the hour and 533 over an hour and a half; the median swim was 1:21:02, 2:08 per 100 m.

- **Half the age-group top tens were made on the run.** 93 of the 180 athletes who finished in their age group’s top 10 (52%) were further back when they left T2. At Kona a month earlier it was 62%.
- **Florida’s flat bike forgives more than Kona’s.** Of the fastest 20% of cyclists in each age group, 29 of 390 (about one in 13) then ran a bottom-half marathon. At Kona it was about one in six.
- **Places still move a lot.** 642 of 1,987 finishers in the larger age groups (32%) moved by at least a tenth of their group between T2 and the finish — 1,008 up, 875 down.

## Three Novembers

The same course, three very different days. 2024’s race-day high was 29 °C and the men’s median finish was 13:21:38, with a median marathon of 5:26:00 and 9.7% of starters not finishing. 2025 was 20.4 °C: the men’s median fell by 34:07 to 12:47:31, the median marathon to 4:53:05, and the drop-out rate to 6.4%. 2026, at 22.1 °C, matched 2025 almost exactly (12:50:56, 4:53:02, 6%) with a field 38% bigger. Roughly 34 minutes of the typical day was weather.

### IRONMAN Florida 2024–2026, age-group field

| Year | Race-day high | Starters | Finishers | Did not finish | Median finish, men | Median finish, women | Median run, men | Median run, women | Sub-10 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2024 | 29 °C | 1,651 | 1,491 | 9.7% | 13:21:38 | 13:38:22 | 5:26:00 | 5:28:38 | 39 |
| 2025 | 20.4 °C | 1,555 | 1,457 | 6.4% | 12:47:31 | 13:38:14 | 4:53:05 | 5:08:17 | 95 |
| 2026 | 22.1 °C | 2,141 | 2,013 | 6% | 12:50:56 | 13:22:16 | 4:53:02 | 4:59:15 | 125 |

_Median finish and median marathon by sex, starters, drop-outs and the race-day high (ERA5 reanalysis for 2024–2025; the forecast-model archive for 2026, which the reanalysis will replace)._

For scale: the median age-group man at Kona 2026, on a hotter, hillier course, finished in 10:46:50, 2:04:06 faster than the median man here. The fastest course on the calendar had a median two hours slower than the hardest one, because Kona’s field has already qualified.

## What it took for a Kona slot

Florida carried 55 age-group slots for Kona 2027, allocated under IRONMAN’s 2026 system: every age-group winner qualifies, then the remaining slots go by age-graded time within each sex’s pool — 37 to the men and 18 to the women here. M55-59 took the most (7). The slowest time that still took a slot ranged from 8:34:13 in M30-34 (3 slots) to over 15 hours in the oldest groups, where the group winner’s automatic slot is the only one. Among the women, F30-34’s five slots ran out at 10:12:57.

### Slowest qualifying time by age group

| Age group | Slots | Fastest qualifier | Slowest qualifier |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| F18-24 | 1 | 10:54:29 | 10:54:29 |
| F25-29 | 1 | 9:34:14 | 9:34:14 |
| F30-34 | 5 | 9:17:30 | 10:12:57 |
| F35-39 | 2 | 10:07:16 | 10:19:52 |
| F40-44 | 1 | 10:16:37 | 10:16:37 |
| F45-49 | 1 | 10:10:42 | 10:10:42 |
| F50-54 | 1 | 10:52:34 | 10:52:34 |
| F55-59 | 4 | 11:31:18 | 11:49:11 |
| F60-64 | 1 | 13:09:56 | 13:09:56 |
| F65-69 | 1 | 13:36:42 | 13:36:42 |
| M18-24 | 4 | 8:42:12 | 9:07:16 |
| M25-29 | 2 | 8:33:41 | 8:51:45 |
| M30-34 | 3 | 8:07:24 | 8:34:13 |
| M35-39 | 2 | 8:29:25 | 8:54:53 |
| M40-44 | 4 | 8:27:45 | 9:08:07 |
| M45-49 | 4 | 9:01:55 | 9:21:41 |
| M50-54 | 4 | 9:01:47 | 9:49:07 |
| M55-59 | 7 | 9:30:17 | 10:10:16 |
| M60-64 | 3 | 10:26:51 | 10:42:11 |
| M65-69 | 2 | 10:00:56 | 11:24:08 |
| M70-74 | 1 | 12:23:40 | 12:23:40 |
| M75-79 | 1 | 15:49:36 | 15:49:36 |

_Each bar ends at the slowest finish that took one of the 55 slots; the number is how many slots the group received. Groups where only the winner qualified are marked. Modelled from the official results with IRONMAN’s published allocation rules; roll-downs at the awards ceremony can move the line._

## What age-groupers can take from it

- **Ride your own race.** Ditlev rode alone for 180.2 km at a pace nobody could follow and still ran the second-fastest marathon. The age-groupers who went with the fastest 20% of their group on the bike mostly held it together on the run here — Florida is flat — but 29 of them didn’t, and the ones who moved into the top 10 did it running.
- **Practise transitions.** The gap between the typical age-grouper’s 19:56 and a pro’s 6:37 in the tents is bigger than most people’s swim gains in a season.
- **Plan the marathon for the second half.** 47% of finishers ran over five hours; a cool day didn’t prevent it. Our [IRONMAN Florida race guide](https://www.metrica.fit/races/im-florida) has the course, typical race-day conditions and a fueling plan, and the [fuel planner](https://www.metrica.fit/fuel) builds one hour by hour.

**Racing Florida, or any full, next season?** metrica builds your season around your race, syncs to Garmin and Wahoo, and moves the week when life does. Every IRONMAN 70.3 we cover also has a free 16-week plan dated back from race day. [Find your race’s plan](https://www.metrica.fit/plans/70-3).

Age-group pacing figures cover standard age groups with at least 20 finishers; “further back” means a lower place within the age group after swim + T1 + bike than at the finish. Positions “at 7:19:17” assume an even pace within each leg. Age-group numbers are aggregates of the official results; no individual age-group athlete is named.

## Sources

1. [Official IRONMAN results (imported 9 November 2026)](https://www.metrica.fit/ironmanwc/2026-ironman-florida)
2. [TRI247 — IRONMAN Florida 2026 men’s results: world record for Magnus Ditlev](https://www.tri247.com/triathlon-news/elite/ironman-florida-2026-men-results-report-world-record)
3. [TRI247 — Alanis Siffert caps breakthrough season with IRONMAN Florida win](https://www.tri247.com/triathlon-news/elite/ironman-florida-2026-women-results-report)
4. [Slowtwitch — Magnus Ditlev sets world record at IRONMAN Florida](https://www.slowtwitch.com/triathlon/ditlev-sets-world-record-at-ironman-florida/)
5. [TriRating — IRONMAN Florida 2026: analyzing results](https://www.trirating.com/ironman-florida-2026-analyzing-results/)
6. [Open-Meteo weather and marine models for Panama City Beach, 7 November 2026](https://open-meteo.com/)

## Related on metrica.fit

- [IRONMAN Florida 2026 results](https://www.metrica.fit/ironmanwc/2026-ironman-florida) — Every finisher’s splits, who qualified for Kona, searchable by name, age group and country.
- [IRONMAN Florida race guide](https://www.metrica.fit/races/im-florida) — The course, typical race-day weather and a fueling plan for Panama City Beach.
- [How Kona 2026 was won](https://www.metrica.fit/analysis/how-kona-2026-was-won) — Ditlev’s other November story began here: the race he led and didn’t finish, by the splits.
- [Kona qualifying times by age group](https://www.metrica.fit/ironmanwc/kona-qualifying-times) — What it took to qualify at every race, per age group.