Overview

• Germany’s ARD/Sportschau will stream the entire race from 18:15 CEST, with hr and Das Erste providing overnight TV coverage.
• The course features a 3.8 km ocean swim, 180 km bike leg across the lava fields and a marathon run in heat and humidity around Kailua‑Kona.
• Laura Philipp says a title defense is her primary goal, drawing confidence from her Hamburg world-best and a Roth victory after weeks of heat acclimatization in Hawaii.
• Key challengers highlighted by previews include Britain’s Katrina Matthews and Lucy Charles‑Barclay and the United States’ Taylor Knibb in a deep professional field.
• Human‑interest storylines include Frankfurt’s Nadine Stillger racing roughly a year after breast‑cancer surgery and Janina Edenhofner making her Kona debut under coach Faris Al‑Sultan, with former Hawaii winner Anne Haug retired and not competing.