Daniel Baekkegard essentially the most up-to-date mammoth title to determine to PTO Tour in 2024

‘World Championship-calibre races’ all yr spherical is the thought for Daniel Baekkegard as he nominated the PTO Tour and the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona as his mammoth targets for 2024.

The Dane performed closing season fashioned, with wins before everything Scenario Canberra after which IRONMAN Western Australia, the latter articulate incomes him the PTO’s athlete of the month award for December.

‘It’s going to be yarn’

But it was his consistent performances within the PTO events plus a fourth put at Scenario Roth which helped him conclude the campaign at #11 within the field rankings.

And having a search forward to the unusual season, he told the PTO: “Loyal now I’m on Lanzarote prepping for the 2024 season. My goal in all fairness obvious, it’s the PTO Tour. It’s a no brainer and it’s going to be fully yarn. By the sound of it, it’s the long term in races and I will’t watch for it to open.

“Then, clearly, Kona is a mammoth one for me.

Qualifying in Western Australia and getting the slot early was key for me, so I may well possibly moreover focal point on the PTO calendar within the season.

“It’s in overall a season of World Championship-calibre races we’re going to possess and that’s with out a doubt going to motivate the game develop, obtain more followers, fabricate the profiles of the athletes and loads others.”

‘Varied space of abilities’

Baekkegard has been a mannequin of consistency, ending 11th within the standings for every of the closing two years, but he’s having a search to crack the tip 10 in 2024.

He defined: “With my coach we regarded within the slay season, what went neatly and what we may well possibly moreover attain greater. And we’ve changed into things a itsy-bitsy spherical for this season because it’s a determined space of abilities I’m going to desire. So I’m real extraordinarily motivated to acquire going and with any luck attain neatly.”

The PTO possess but to initiate their full agenda but it no doubt’s anticipated to be between six to eight races, with the Asian Originate in Singapore in April and the European Originate in Ibiza in September the 2 confirmed up to now.

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