The inaugural IRONMAN Tallinn will take place on August 4, 2018. General registration opens August 28, 2017.
We are excited to announce today the addition of IRONMAN Tallinn. The inaugural race will take place on August 4, 2018.
The new race will take place in Estonia’s capital of Tallinn, located at the Baltic sea. Considered one of the most beautiful and best preserved medieval cities of Europe, today’s Tallinn is home to 445,000 people and has gained a reputation as Europe’s Silicon Valley. Most notably, the internet telephony company Skype was founded in Tallinn.
"With its long and colorful history Tallinn and its people are looking forward to applauding the triathletes’ commitment to IRONMAN. I believe that the IRONMAN Tallinn triathlon in our beautiful and modern city will be very positive experience for everybody," said Mihhail Kõlvart, Deputy Mayor of Tallinn.
Tallinn will become only the second capital in Europe to host an IRONMAN event, sharing this distinction with Denmark’s KMD IRONMAN Copenhagen. The race will be the second IRONMAN event in Estonia, after the SIS IRONMAN 70.3 Otepää.
The race begins with a single-loop 3.8 km swim in the Baltic sea near the Seaplane Harbour museum. Athletes will then continue onto a two-loop, 180.2 km bike course which leads along the coastline and nearby villages. The final 42.2 km four-loop run takes participants through the historical city center of Tallinn, an UNESCO world heritage site, and finishes on Freedom Square.
IRONMAN Tallinn will offer 40 age-group qualifying slots for the 2018 IRONMAN World Championship being held in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i as well as a professional prize purse of 40,000 USD and 2000 points for the Kona Pro Ranking.
General registration for IRONMAN Tallinn will open at 2 p.m. local time on Monday, August 28, 2017 at ironman.com/tallinn. Athlete inquiries may be directed to tallinn@ironman.com.