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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