The Patagonman 2022 is scheduled for Sunday, December 4, the date on which the Aysén region will once again have its extreme triathlon event and will receive competitors from more than 50 countries!
After two years of absence, on December 4, PATAGONMAN will return. There were 1,186 days that changed the world and have put everyone to the test. The return of the most extreme race in the world could not be less than an atomic event.
Elite Starters:
Ben Hoffman (EEUU)
A professional since 2007, Hoffman earned (8) Ironman, (7) Ironman 70.3 and National Championship victories, as well as a world runner-up in Kona in 2014.
Flora Colledge (Reino Unido)
The British will return to Patangoman after conquering it among the ladies in 2019, the same year that she began her adventure as a professional.
In 2018 she had just won the ITU World Long Distance Championship, and more recently she has 3 victories in the Swissman Extreme Triathlon, as well as a third place in the legendary Norseman Extreme Triathlon.
Petr Vabrousek (República Checa)
The undisputed Czech national champion (x13), is also a two-time medalist in the European Long Distance Triathlon Championship in 1999 and 2004, multiple (50) winner of Ironman races and has absolute experience in extreme competitions: in 2015 he won the North Pole Marathon.
Caroline Livesey (Escocia)
She turned professional in 2015 and since then has won victories at Greek Hero (2021) and CanadaManWoman (2019), and placed in multiple Ironman Top 10s, including a runner-up at Ironman UK (in 2015 and 3rd in Ironman Lanzarote that same year .
Saleta Castro (España)
The Spanish has in her curriculum to have been number 1 in the elite ranking of her country in 2009 and her highest point was undoubtedly winning the Ironman Maastricht in 2017, which is one of her 11 Top5 in Ironman.
Patagonman course runs point-to-point, or fjord to lake. It starts before sunrise in the Aysén Fjord, where the athletes must jump from a ferryboat into the icing cold water, to swim 3.8 kilometers toward Puerto Chacabuco where they can exit the water and find their bikes in the first transition area (T1). From there, they ride 180 kilometers into the windy, winding and hilly road of the famous Carretera Austral to Cerro Castillo, one of the most scenic postcards of Patagonia where they can leave their bikes in the second transition area (T2). From there, they run 42.2 kilometers of dirt trail and rubble road following the Ibánez River through forest, next to beautiful lakes and waterfalls all the way to the General Carrera Lake, another landmark of the region.