{"id":7491,"date":"2021-03-13T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2021-03-13T12:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:46:46","slug":"did-you-know-16-facts-from-the-2018-ironman-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7491","title":{"rendered":"Did you know? 16 facts from the 2018 Ironman World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.<\/strong> 1st male overall<\/strong> was Patrick Lange (GER) in a time of 7:52:39, who broke his own course best set in 2017 of 8:01:40.<\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong> 1st female overall<\/strong> was Daniela Ryf (SUI) in a time of 8:26:16: swim 57:26 (struggled with a jelly fish sting), bike 4:26:07 and\u00a0run 2:57:05, breaking her own course best set in 2016 of 8:46:46.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3. The fastest male swimmer<\/strong> was age-grouper Jan Sibbersen in a time of 46:29, breaking the previous men\u2019s record in Kona of 46:41 that had stood for 20 years, held by Lars Jorgensen. Jan\u2019s bike split was 5:12:51, his run 4:26:24, for a total time of 10:37:33.<\/p>\n

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4. The fastest female swimmer<\/strong> was GB\u2019s Lucy Charles in a time of 48:13. She averaged 1:15mins per 100m and in doing so set a new female course record, beating Jodi Jackson\u2019s 1991 record of 48:43. She also finished\u00a0in the overall top-10 fastest elite swim times of the day.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Fastest male bike split of the day<\/strong> was set by Cameron Wurf (AUS), a former pro cyclist and rower turned Ironman competitor. He improved his Kona record to 4:09:06 (26.98mph) from the 4:12:54 he set in 2017. His other splits were: swim 50:51; run 3:06:18, for a total time of 8:10:32.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> Fastest female bike split of the day<\/strong> was set by Daniela Ryf in 4:26:07 (25:39mph), another new Kona record. The previous best time was 4:44:19, set by former time-trial specialist Karin\u00a0Th\u00fcrig in 2001.<\/p>\n

7. Fastest male marathon run leg<\/strong> of the day came courtesy of Patrick Lange with a 2:41:32.<\/p>\n

8. Fastest female marathon run leg<\/strong> of the day was set by Anne Haug 02:55:20.\u00a0<\/p>\n

9. For the first time in Kona history, the 8hr barrier was broken! <\/strong>Twice! First by\u00a0Lange (7:52:39)\u00a0and then by runner-up Bart Aernouts (BEL) in 7:56:41. His splits were: swim 54:07; bike 4:12:26; run 2:45:42.<\/p>\n

10. Daniela Ryf came 25th overall<\/strong>\u00a0beating 21 male pros; Lucy Charles<\/strong>\u00a0came 35th overall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

11. Another Kona first<\/strong> saw the men\u2019s winner propose to his girlfriend after crossing the finish line. Within a minute of finishing, Lange got down on one knee and proposed to Julia Hoffmann \u2013 she said yes!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

12. Kyle and Brent Pease<\/strong>\u00a0became the first push-assisted team of brothers to cross the finish line, and only the second pair in that category to complete the race. For the swim, Brent towed his brother in a boat, then completed the bike leg in a specially adapted bike before running with his brother in a specially adapted running chair. The last team to do so was father Dick and son Rick Hoyt in 1999.\u00a0The Peases finished in a time of 14:29hrs.<\/p>\n

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13.<\/strong>\u00a0GB\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Liz McTernan became only the second female<\/strong>\u00a0wheelchair participant<\/strong> to complete Kona, and now holds the course record of 14:21:12. McTernan competed in the \u2018Physically Challenged\u2019 or PC Division, using a hand bike for 180km and a racing wheelchair for the marathon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Congratulations #TeamCAF athlete @lizmcternan! Liz crossedthe finish line at #IMKONA as the 2nd wheelchair woman to ever finish the @IRONMANtri World Championship. AND she now holds the course record for fastest time. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. 1st male overall was Patrick Lange (GER) in a time of 7:52:39, who broke his own course best set in 2017 of 8:01:40. Advertisement 2. 1st female overall was Daniela Ryf (SUI) in a time of 8:26:16: swim 57:26 (struggled with a jelly fish sting), bike 4:26:07 and\u00a0run 2:57:05, breaking her own course best…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}