Swim, Bike, and Run Gear the Top Male Pros Will Use at the 2025 Ironman World Championship

The Triathlete team was in Nice, France, in the week leading up to the men's 2025 Ironman World Championship, and we got exclusive access to top podium contenders to see what swim goggles, bike helmets, and running shoes they'll be racing with this weekend.

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(Photo: Brad Kaminski/Triathlete)

If you’re a triathlete, you know gear choice can sometimes be the fourth discipline (or fifth or sixth…triathlon needs a lot of stuff). With so many choices that can have a crucial impact on the biggest race of your year, it’s worth doing the research, so we asked four top contenders – Magnus Ditlev (DEN), Rudy von Berg (USA), Sam Long (USA), and Kristian Hogenhaug (DEN) – what they’ll be using at their biggest race of the year, the 2025 men’s Ironman World Championship in Nice, France.

While Triathlete has shot extensive galleries of the Ironman World Championship pro bikes for years, it’s only recently that we’ve been asking pros: What swim goggles, bike helmets, and running shoes will be in your transition area on race day?

Read below to learn what these top pros are using this year in Nice:

The swim goggles, bike helmets, and running shoes at the 2025 pro men’s race

Magnus Ditlev

Magnus Ditlev’s second-place finish at last year’s Ironman World Championship in Kona bodes well for another podium in Nice in 2025. The well-rounded threat will be using mirrored Roka R1 goggles in the swim, hopefully to minimize time gaps, before he grabs his custom Uvex Race 8 aero helmet for his strength: the bike. Out onto the run, Ditlev has interestingly chosen the first version of Nike’s Air Zoom Alphafly Next% to hopefully maintain and gain on fading runners.

Race Helmet Make/Model	Uvex Race 8
Race Running Shoes Make/Model	Nike Air Zoom Alphafly Next%
Race-Day Goggles Make/Model	Roka R1

Rudy von Berg

If nothing else, Rudy Von Berg is a creature of habit. For 2025, he’ll be using the same bike helmet – the Ekoi TT Pure – and running shoes – the TYR Valkyrie Carbon – as he did when he finished third last year at the 2024 Ironman World Championship (maybe for good luck?). This year, he’s chosen to go with a light tinted pair of TYR Tracer-X RZR Racing swim goggles – likely to enhance the bobbing buoys in the early dawn hours off the coast of Nice.

Race Helmet Make/Model	EKOI Racing PURE AERO
Race Running Shoes Make/Model	TYR Valkyrie Elite Carbon
Race-Day Goggles Make/Model	TYR Tracer-X RZR Racing

Sam Long

Sam Long might be flying slightly under the radar at the 2025 Ironman World Championship, given his limited experience at the event, but that doesn’t mean his competition isn’t paying attention. Though he’ll likely be quite a few minutes down in the swim, wearing his blue-tinted Aquasphere Xceed Goggles, expect to see the American move up quickly on the bike. To help, Long’s wearing a Rudy Project Wingdream, emblazoned with his Powerbar sponsor logo. Like a few other pros, Long has chosen to wear the popular Asics Metaspeed Edge Tokyo running shoes on the flat-and-fast looped course along Nice’s waterfront.

Race Helmet Make/Model	Rudy Project Wingdream
Race Running Shoes Make/Model	Asics Metaspeed Edge Tokyo
Race-Day Goggles Make/Model	Aquasphere Xceed Goggles

Kristian Hogenhaug

Kristian Hogenhaug has been on fire in 2025 with second-place finishes at Ironman Lake Placid in July and Ironman Frankfurt in June (where he outrode Ironman bike leg record holder Cam Wurf (AUS) and überbiker Magnus Ditlev). He’ll be looking to maintain contact with the main group in the swim, wearing mirrored Roka R1 goggles before getting to his specialty in T2, where he’ll reach for his custom painted Rudy Project Wingdream. After (hopefully) smashing the hilly Maritime Alp course, Hogenhaug will head out onto the quick run course wearing the same model shoes as Long, above, the Asics Metaspeed Edge Tokyo.

Race Helmet Make/Model	Rudy Project Wingdream
Race Running Shoes Make/Model	Asics Metaspeed Edge Tokyo
Race-Day Goggles Make/Model	Roka R1