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The fastest times to complete a half-iron distance race for men and women were both set at the 2019 Ironman 70.3 Bahrain by Kristian Blummenfelt and Holly Lawrence. [14] While these remain the fastest times for any Ironman-branded 70.3 race, they were achieved on a 53.9-mile (86.8 km) bike course, [ 15 ] noticeably less than the standard 56 ...
Ironman 70.3 Budapest, 2014. An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km).
Blummenfelt is the world record holder for the 70.3 distance, setting a time of 3:29:04 [4] in 2018 and both repeating the feat and bettering his own mark in 2019 with a time of 3:25:21. [5] This was the third victory for him in as many years at the Ironman 70.3 Middle East Championships held in Bahrain.
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He became the first Bangladeshi athlete to complete both the Ironman 70.3 World Championship and the Ironman World Championship. [11] He has finished five full Ironman distance and five completions of the Ironman 70.3 distance. He came in 2nd place in his age group and overall 10th place in the Ironman Malaysia 2022 competition.
Through March 2016, the Hoyts had competed in 1,130 endurance events, including 72 marathons and six Ironman Triathlons. [11] They ran the Boston Marathon 32 times, between 1980 and 2014. [3] Also adding to their list of achievements, Dick and Rick biked and ran across the U.S. in 1992, completing a full 3,735 miles (6,011 km) in 45 days.
Lawrence holds the current record for the most half-ironman distance triathlons in one year: 22, in 2011. He is married and has four daughters and one son. Lawrence is the author of Iron Cowboy: Redefine Impossible , a memoir released on the 22nd of October 2017; centred around his 2015 consecutive Ironman-distance world record.
Lucy Charles-Barclay (born 15 September 1993) is an English professional triathlete specialising in the Ironman and 70.3 ("half-Ironman") distances. She is the 2023 World Ironman champion and the 2021 World Champion in the 70.3 discipline, both under the authority of the World Triathlon Corporation.