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Kona is the stage again. After several years of split races, the IRONMAN World Championship brings the pro men and pro women back to the Big Island on the same day, Saturday, October 10, for the first time in seven years. It is also the final event of the 2026 IRONMAN Pro Series, worth up to 6,000 points. Race Day EssentialsDate: Saturday, October 10, 2026Location: Kailua-Kona, HawaiiStart times: Pro men 6:20 a.m. local (12:20 p.m. ET); pro women 6:30 a.m. local (12:30 p.m. ET), from Kailua PierCourse: 2.4-mile swim in Kailua Bay, 112-mile bike to Hawi and back, 26.2-mile run finishing on Ali'i DriveField: 2,548 registered athletes from 85 countries, including 110 professionalsPrize money: US$375,000 in each pro race, with US$125,000 to each winnerCourse RecordsPatrick Lange holds the men's Kona record of 7:35:53, set in 2024. Lucy Charles-Barclay owns the women's mark of 8:24:31 from 2023. Men's Race: Stornes Out, Norway Still LoadedCasper Stornes won the 2025 world title in Nice in 7:51:39, leading a Norwegian sweep ahead of Gustav Iden (7:54:13) and Kristian Blummenfelt (7:56:36). He will not defend it.

On Friday morning—Canadian time—the Men’s U23 World Cycling Championships will take place. On the grueling course in Montreal, we’ll be looking for a successor to Italy’s Mark Lorenzo Finn, who—after winning the Baby Giro and the Tour de l’Avenir—has chosen to compete in the World Championships with the pros this year. IDL Pro Cycling brings you everything you need to know. Recent Winners of the Men's U23 World Cycling Championships2025 Mark Lorenzo Finn2024 Niklas Behrens2023 Axel Laurance2022 Yevgeniy Fedorov2021 Filippo Baroncini2020 Not held2019 Samuele Battistella2018 Marc Hirschi2017 Benoit Cosnefroy2016 Kristoffer Halvorsen2026 Men's U23 World Cycling Championships: route, weather, and timesWhile the elite riders will start in Brossard on Saturday and Sunday, the U23 and junior races start and end in Montreal. The entire race takes place on the circuit, so there is no flat opening section, meaning it will be a race from start to finish. National team coach Tom Leezer felt it would have made more sense if they, too, had been given a short warm-up loop. As it stands, the U23s will actually ride one more lap than the elite riders (13 to 12) on the Montreal circuit.