IRONMAN 70.3 Italy Emilia-Romagna 2027
The Sunday half at Cervia. Warm flat Adriatic water, a flat Romagna bike, and a flat seafront run. One of the friendliest 70.3s in Europe.
2027 edition completed
This record covers the 19 September 2027 edition of IRONMAN 70.3 Italy Emilia-Romagna in Cervia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, with a 1.9 km swim, a 90 km bike and a 21.1 km run. This date belongs to a completed edition. The course record remains available. Course descriptions and coaching notes are archived context for this edition. Check the organiser for a future edition once its date and entry details are published.
48 weeks to race day: base season
Plenty of runway. This far out, the win is a boring, consistent base rhythm: aerobic volume, strength, technique. The structured block starts closer in; what you do now decides how high it can climb.
Building for this one? 70.3 training plan covers the sessions, the weekly shape and how the block is paced. The R.A.C.E. Framework explains why it is built that way.
Build my complete road.
Commit to the date and the work gets a shape: your countdown starts, the emails arrive in step with your build, and the app anchors a recovery-led block so the final week lands exactly on race day.
One confirmation email, then the road begins. Registering for the race itself stays with the organiser.
“The Sunday half at the same venue as the Saturday full. Ideal if one of you wants the long day and the rest of the group wants a race and a holiday.”
The race
The course
Interactive swim route in the Course Lab above ↑ Drawn from the official GPX file, checked against this leg's distance.
One loop off the beach at Cervia. Out into the Adriatic, one turn left, then a long straight parallel to the shore before two right turns bring you home. Almost all of it is swum on one line, so it rewards anyone who can hold a straight course.
Interactive bike route in the Course Lab above ↑ Drawn from the official GPX file, checked against this leg's distance.
A single flat loop from the Cervia promenade out through the Romagna countryside and the Salt Pans nature park, where the flamingos are genuinely worth a glance. Flat and fast, so this is a watts and position course.
Interactive run route in the Course Lab above ↑ Drawn from the official GPX file, checked against this leg's distance.
Three flat laps through Cervia and Milano Marittima, past the old salt warehouse. No hills to break the rhythm, which sounds like a gift and means there is nowhere to hide from your own pacing.
Not yet confirmed for this edition: bike elevation gain, cut-off times, aid station spacing, water temperature history. We publish these only once they are on the official course page, so check there before you pace off anything here.
Course details verified against the official IRONMAN 70.3 Italy Emilia-Romagna course page on 13 August 2026. Courses change; the official page is always the last word.
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Photograph of Cervia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy: Congrega del Passatore ASD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Not official race photography.
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