In 2024, the races will flip flop and the men’s Ironman World Championship will be in Kona and the women’s will be in Nice, France.

Ironman and Hawai‘i County concluded together that the impact of two days of racing in Kona is not in the best interest of the local community.

The 2022 Ironman World Championship in Kona was the largest in its four-decade history with nearly 5,000 finishers, 20,000 plus spectators and an estimated $100 million pumped into the economy on the Big Island.

Nearly 40 men and women from Hawaii Island were among the more than 5,000 athletes from around the world to compete in the VinFast Ironman World Championship this week in Kailua-Kona.

Norwegian Gustav Iden won the 2022 Ironman World Championship in Kona by smashing the old course record for the 140.6-mile race by nearly 11 minutes with a time of 7:40:24.

France’s Sam Laidlow is leading the talent-packed men’s professional field in the 2022 Ironman World Championship.

With three-time Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno out with an injury, Kona rookie Kristian Blummenfelt from Norway is the favorite.

What they started together, they finished together. Kahakai Elementary School teachers Skye Ombac and Bree Wee, who began training for the Ironman World Championship two years ago, crossed the finish line with their arms stretched to the sky Thursday at 8:32 p.m. After 140.6 grueling miles, it was time to hug and cry. The triathlon […]

Chelsea Sodaro, 33, of California stunned the best field in Ironman World Championship history to win on her first try in Kona with a time of 8 hours, 33 minutes and 46 seconds.

Kailua-Kona was buzzing before the sun rose Thursday morning, with about 2,500 triathletes and thousands of volunteers and spectators ready for the return of the Ironman World Championship.

The strongest women’s professional field in Ironman World Championship history will compete in the grueling 140.6-mile triathlon in Kona on Thursday. They all will be gunning for “Angry Bird.”

Skye Ombac remembers when she was a little girl and her father, Eddie-O, would drive her and her twin sister Katrina from their home in Hilo to the west side of the Big Island to experience all the excitement of the famous Ironman World Championship in Kona.

The return of the IRONMAN World Championship to the Big Island this week is necessitating the closure of the county’s solid waste facilities because of road closures associated with the triathlon.

Learn about the 140.6-mile course of the 2022 VinFast Ironman World Championship and where the best places are to view the 5,000 triathletes compete on Thursday and Saturday.

The VinFast Ironman World Championship’s Parade of Nations was held Monday afternoon in Kailua-Kona to celebrate approximately 5,000 triathletes who qualified for the elite race from about 90 countries.

Ironman expects the two championship races this year to bring $100 million to the state. Some businesses and residents around Kona say the impact the island endures isn’t worth it.

Driving a car around West Hawai‘i during Ironman race day, or race days, in this case, is hectic. But it’s not impossible.

With the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona less than a week away, race organizers are scrambling to find volunteers to fill about 4,000 shifts to help care for the approximately 5,000 participants.

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the VinFast Ironman World Championship is back in Kailua-Kona, with a new two-day race format: the women’s event is on Oct. 6 and the men compete on Oct. 8.

The talk-story sessions are meant to engage and inform the Kailua-Kona community about the first-ever two-day Ironman World Championship race.