Ironman Triathalon Data - Market Insights

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Project Background

The goal of this project is to investigate Ironman 140.6 race/performance data in order to provide recommendations on potential future budget marketing strategies.

The IRONMAN Group is a global organization that operates a wide range of endurance sports events. They are best known for their IRONMAN Triathlon Series, which includes full-distance and half-distance triathlons. The full IRONMAN race consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile marathon run. This group is owned by Advance, a private, family-owned business, and Orkila Capital, a growth equity firm. They have grown significantly since their inception in 1978 and now host events in over 55 countries.

Webscraping Ironman Triathalon Results

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:48:13 -0600

Introduction

Ironman race results data was scraped from a third-party website for the purpose of EDA. All the data and code used for extracting results data can be found in the following links:

GitHub Repository here
Kaggle Dataset here

The following files contained in the Github (mainly the Jupyter notebook and Python script) were used to scrape 140.6 Ironman race results ranging from 2002 to 2024 (as of 12-05-2024). Note, the data was not scraped from the official Ironman website, but a proxy-website not owned by Ironman.

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Ironman Triathalon Data - Market Insights

Project Background

Webscraping Ironman Triathalon Results

Introduction