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Event
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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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