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MEDIA RELEASE The world’s top Ironman triathletes will enter the water in Kailua Bay in the hunt for the champion’s jersey on October 13, 2012. While defending women’s champion Chrissie Wellington won’t be competing this year, the 2010 Ironman world champion, Mirinda Carfrae, is competing. The men’s race features three former Ironman world champions: defending […]

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New Waikoloa triathlon course record for Kona’s hometown pro; Henderson, Tanimoto also earn podium finishes

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(Kevin Mackinnon profiles last year’s Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack) The seeds of Chris McCormack’s Ironman World Championship win last year actually came one year earlier, when the best he could do was finish fourth. McCormack considered 2009 Kona race to be the best he’d ever done in Hawaii. During the marathon McCormack experienced a […]

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(Kevin Mackinnon reports on the news that Chris McCormack might not return to defend his title.) Surprisingly enough, I’m not surprised to have learn Chris McCormack might not defend his title in Kona next year, as Amanda Lulham reported in The Daily Telegraph yesterday. During a long interview with the two-time Kona champ in Frankfurt […]

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Special to Hawaii 24/7 by Matthew Dale There are difficult assignments in the sports world. Convincing sumo wrestlers to enroll in Weight Watchers. Keeping up with Tom Brady in the suave department. Filling Shaquille O’Neal’s shoes. (The latter, we mean literally.) Then there are the easy, do-I-really-get-paid-for-this tasks. Like interviewing Chris McCormack. With Macca, you […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Thanks to her impressive win at the Ironman 70.3 Asia Pacific Championship, Caroline Steffen has moved to the top of the Kona Pro Rankings list as 2011 begins. Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack remains at the top of the men’s standings. The big mover on the men’s side of things is Timo Bracht, […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Wheaties has announced the champion of the world’s most challenging endurance event, the Ironman World Championship, will be featured on the famous orange box in the coming months. This announcement marks the first time an Ironman World Champion has been honored with an appearance on a Wheaties box. Chris McCormack finished the grueling […]

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Double delight for Australians as Carfrae wins women’s crown with fourth fastest time ever, breaks run record for second straight year

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Karin Stanton | Hawaii 24/7 Contributing Editor Chris McCormack scored his second straight Waikoloa Triathlon title, and also set a second straight course record Sunday, March 28 along the Kohala Coast. McCormack, 36, of Australia, finished the 1.5K swim, 40K bike and 10K run course in 1 hour, 49 minutes and 24 seconds. That sliced […]

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Alexander drops everyone coming out of Energy Lab, joins three others with back-to-back world titles

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Hawaii’s best finishers are Luis Dela Torre and Bree Wee, both from Kona.

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