The Ironman Austria is an annual triathlon - sporting event over the Ironman distance (3.86 km swim, 180.2 km cycling, 42,195 km run) in Austria's Klagenfurt in Carinthia. It is part of the Ironman World Series of World Triathlon Corporation and the number of participants ago (2467 starters in 2008), the largest in the world. The participants have the opportunity to qualify for the Ironman Hawaii to qualify. Organizes the Ironman Austria is founded in 1998 by the Triangle Show & Sports Promotion GmbH.
The first Ironman Austria took place in 1998 with 124 participants. About 2,000 workers supplied the athletes along the course and were a total of more than 100,000 spectators along the route there. Audience magnets are the start, and the increase in Faaker See and the Rupert's Mountain . Thus, the Ironman is an important source of income for which tourism businesses have become the city of Klagenfurt. In 2004, 40,000 overnight stays are counted. Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is the capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria. With a population of over 90,000 it is the sixth-largest city in the country. The city is the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and home to the Alpen-Adria University.
Klagenfurt is located 446 m (1,463 ft) above sea level and covers an area of 120.11 km2 (46.37 sq mi). It is on the lake Wörthersee and on the Glan River. The city is surrounded by several forest-covered hills and mountains with heights of up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft), for example, Ulrichsberg. To the south is the Karawanken mountain range, which separates Carinthia from Slovenia and Italy. Klagenfurt has a typical Continental climate, with quite some fog throughout the autumn and winter. The rather cold winters are, however, broken by occasional warmer periods due to foehn wind from the Karawanken mountains to the south. The average temperature from 1961 and 1990 is 7.1 °C, while the average temperature in 2005 was 9.3 °C.
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