The return of the IRONMAN World Championship to the Big Island this week is necessitating the closure of the county’s solid waste facilities because of road closures associated with the triathlon.

The VinFast Ironman World Championship’s Parade of Nations was held Monday afternoon in Kailua-Kona to celebrate approximately 5,000 triathletes who qualified for the elite race from about 90 countries.

Ironman expects the two championship races this year to bring $100 million to the state. Some businesses and residents around Kona say the impact the island endures isn’t worth it.

Driving a car around West Hawai‘i during Ironman race day, or race days, in this case, is hectic. But it’s not impossible.

With the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona less than a week away, race organizers are scrambling to find volunteers to fill about 4,000 shifts to help care for the approximately 5,000 participants.

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the VinFast Ironman World Championship is back in Kailua-Kona, with a new two-day race format: the women’s event is on Oct. 6 and the men compete on Oct. 8.

The talk-story sessions are meant to engage and inform the Kailua-Kona community about the first-ever two-day Ironman World Championship race.

IRONMAN, in collaboration with local and state officials in Hawai‘i, announced today that the 2023 VinFast IRONMAN® World Championship triathlon will continue with a two-day format in Kailua-Kona, Hawai`i on Oct. 12 and 14.

The IRONMAN World Championship will be conducting a half-distance qualifying race this weekend for athletes vying to compete in the 2022 triathlon in October.

Hawaiʻi County Mayor Mitch Roth traveled to Utah during the weekend to attend the 2021 IRONMAN World Championship, which was postponed from last October and moved from the Big Island because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ironman World Championship will return to Kona in 2022 after a two-year break, albeit under a different format. In October, Hawai‘i’s famous race will hit Kona’s water and streets not once, but twice, Oct. 6 and 8, 2022. The change was made as organizers navigated state, county and travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Skye Ombac dreamed of finishing the IRONMAN World Championship but was daunted by the idea of training alone.

Photo opportunities abounded in West Hawai‘i on Saturday.

The 2019 VEGA IRONMAN World Championship, held in Kailua-Kona on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, was not lacking for drama. Nor was it lacking for elation. 

Jan Frodeno’s recipe for running the best IRONMAN World Championship race on record was simple, if not a little counterintuitive

Athletes tackled the 140.6-mile course Saturday for Vega IRONMAN World Championship 2019.

Haug, who finished third in 2018, said after the race she wasn’t aware of how quickly she’d completed the marathon.

Frodeno clocked a time of 7:51:13, almost a minute and a half better than the former world record set last year by his fellow countryman, Patrick Lange.

US triathlete Tim O‘Donnell hit the final leg of the 2019 VEGA IRONMAN World Championship a little before noon on Saturday running in second place. 

IRONMAN confirmed Lange’s departure from the race via a Facebook post just before 9:20 a.m. Saturday.