IRONMAN Gurye Korea is a split-transition full distance — the one race this weekend where you do not come back to where you started. You swim and start the bike at Jirisan Lake Park, then ride down to a second transition in Gurye town and finish at the Main Stadium. Your kit is split across a blue bike bag and a red run bag that live in different places, plus a street gear bag that travels to the finish.
On a split course you never return to where you started, so your kit is split across colour-coded bags that get moved for you while you race.
This is a true split transition: T1 is at Jirisan Lake Park where you swim, and T2 is a parking area next to the Jirisan Dulle-gil Center in Gurye town, next to the Main Stadium finish. You never return to the lake, so anything you leave there has to be collected afterwards — and anything you want at the finish must be in the right bag.
Gurye uses blue for the bike and red for the run, plus a street gear bag and separate bike and run personal-needs bags. On a split course the colours matter more than usual: the blue bag waits at the lake and the red bag waits in town, so a mis-packed bag is not recoverable mid-race.
Gurye runs a mandatory day-before check-in across two venues: bike and bike-gear bag at Jirisan Lake, run-gear bag in town. All three close at 18:20 on Saturday and the bike is racked overnight. Race briefings are compulsory and run in both Korean and English on Friday and Saturday.
The 2026 official guide is in. The times below are now confirmed for this edition — a few moved from last year.
Transition opens at 05:10 and closes at 06:40, with the street gear and personal-needs drops running the same window. Swim warm-up is 06:00 to 06:20, athletes line up at 06:40, and the rolling swim start goes at 07:00. Athlete vehicles cannot enter the Lake Park on Sunday, so allow for the shuttle.
Yes. T1 is at Jirisan Lake Park and T2 is in Gurye town, beside the Main Stadium finish — you do not return to the swim venue. That means two check-in points on Saturday and two separate gear bags waiting in two different places.
Bike check-in, the bike-gear bag and the run-gear bag all close Saturday at 18:20, with the bike racked overnight. Athlete Check-In itself closes earlier, at 17:30, and all race packs must be collected by then. Confirmed from the 2026 athlete guide.
Unusually, the guide publishes them as absolute times of day as well as durations. From your individual start you get 2:20 for the swim, 10:30 through the bike and 17:00 overall. As clock times for the predicted last starter: swim 09:40, Namdo Bridge turn (86.7 km) 13:45, Gurye Exit at Naengcheon (150.5 km) 16:40, bike dismount 17:50, Park Golf Entrance on the run 23:00, and the course closes at 00:20. The guide notes these are adjusted per athlete by the Race Director on the day.
Street and bike-gear check-out runs 16:00 to 00:30, and bike and run-gear check-out 18:00 to 00:50. If you cannot collect that night there is a second window on Monday morning, 07:30 to 10:00 — useful given the two venues are 30 km apart.
No. Athlete vehicles are not permitted into the Jirisan Lake Park area on Sunday — parking is arranged separately for Saturday and Sunday, with shuttle transport into the Lake Park. Plan your race-morning transport in advance rather than assuming you can park at T1.
Add Gurye and RackSide turns this into a personal, deadline-aware plan — your wave time against the confirmed 2026 cut-offs and a packing checklist you tick off.
These editions have raced. Each guide stays up for reference.