Australian Mirinda Carfrae (9:00:55) won her third Ironman World Championship by making up 14 minutes on the run and setting a new women's marathon record (2:50:27, just a few seconds faster than her previous record). Ironman 70.3 World Champion Daniela Ryf (9:02:07) was second, with Great Britian's Rachel Joyce (9:04:23) taking third, after both led the bike.
Top Men:
1 8:14:18 3 Sebastian Kienle DEU
2 8:19:23 5:05 41 Ben Hoffman USA
3 8:20:32 6:15 9 Jan Frodeno DEU
4 8:21:38 7:20 15 Andy Potts USA
5 8:22:19 8:01 38 Cyril Viennot FRA
6 8:22:29 8:11 43 Nils Frommhold DEU
7 8:23:26 9:08 20 Tim Van Berkel AUS
8 8:24:11 9:53 1 Frederik Van Lierde BEL
9 8:28:28 14:10 4 Bart Aernouts BEL
10 8:30:15 15:58 46 Romain Guillaume FRA
Top Women:
1 9:00:55 101 Mirinda Carfrae AUS
2 9:02:57 2:02 112 Daniela Ryf CHE
3 9:04:23 3:28 102 Rachel Joyce GBR
4 9:10:19 9:24 125 Jodie Swallow GBR
5 9:12:43 11:49 105 Caroline Steffen CHE
6 9:16:58 16:03 128 Julia Gajer DEU
7 9:18:11 17:16 110 Liz Lyles USA
8 9:19:21 18:26 106 Gina Crawford NZL
9 9:20:46 19:51 117 Mary Beth Ellis USA
10 9:23:34 22:39 104 Liz Blatchford AUS
For those of you still up on Saturday night, the results are still coming in! So much fun to watch the finish line.
How do you view it when you see the run isn't very important to the overall result? Basically it's all about the bike and nobody's ever run a fast run split, relatively (I believe the best split is around 2:40).
ReplyDeleteWhat I love about it is it's a true TRI-athlon. You have to be in the top 5% in each discipline, then play your strength. Carfrae held back her bike to have enough to win on the run, and got it in the last five miles. I did this race in 2010, and that marathon is ridiculously hard - 95 degrees, and your body is already destroyed. Sub 2:50 is simply amazing.
DeleteShe ran a marathon time that is only 3 min off the 3rd guy's time which was claimed the fastest this year? Wow.
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