Here is the 24 & Under Competition!

1920 Katharina Grohmann F 24 F18-24 GER

1921 Verena Rau F 24 F18-24 GER

1922 Julia Reichert F 24 F18-24 CAN

1923 Larisa Marsh F 24 F18-24 NZL

1924 Claire Geiger F 24 F18-24 USA

1925 Whitney Engle F 24 F18-24 USA

1926 Katie Araujo F 24 F18-24 USA

1927 Monica Obsitos F 24 F18-24 USA

1928 Danielle Kehoe F 24 F18-24 USA

1929 Ling Er Choo F 24 F18-24 SIN

1930 Vanessa Larrosa Poveda F 24 F18-24 ESP

1931 Morgan Anderson F 24 F18-24 USA

1932 Jade Garrett F 24 F18-24 GBR

1933 Tatiana Vertiz F 24 F18-24 MEX

1934 Chelsea Tiner F 24 F18-24 USA

1935 Rahel Bättig F 23 F18-24 SUI

1936 Annamarie Hofstetter F 23 F18-24 USA

1937 Thays Santos F 23 F18-24 BRA

1938 Jessica Simpson F 23 F18-24 AUS

1939 Rachel Lindner F 23 F18-24 USA

1940 Vanessa Pereira F 23 F18-24 POR

1941 Madian Ramirez F 23 F18-24 MEX

1942 Erin Holmes F 22 F18-24 USA

1943 Gina Nourmohamadian F 21 F18-24 USA

1944 Chloe Lane F 21 F18-24 AUS

1945 Kelly Kingma F 19 F18-24 USA

If you have been following my blog, I did a race report on Ironman St. George back in May. If you recognize the name underlined above Katharina from GER, she is the one I had to chase down to qualify for the Ford Ironman World Championship. Since only one slot was awarded to our age-group even though we both beat all the boys in our age-group! She is extremely tough competition. If you don't know the story check it out, I am excited to race her yet again!!!

Overall, there is some extremely stiff competition showing up for the World Championship, 12 USA Women and 14 abroad Women