MEDIA GUIDE WELCOME TO: WoRld ChaMpIoNShIp EVENT THEME 2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MEDIA GUIDE: 2.4 SWIM • 112 BIKE • 26.2 RUN All IRONMAN® event images in this guide are courtesy of Bakke-Svensson, IRONMAN®, EnduraPix. com and ASIPhoto.com Julie Moss image on page 41 is courtesy of Carol Hogan/IRONMAN® IRONMAN®, IRONMAN TRIATHLON®, IRONMAN 703®, M-DOT®, M-DOT 70.3®, , 70.3®, IRONMAN.COM®, IRONMANLIVE.COM® are registered trademarks of World Triathlon Corporation. © 2013 World Triathlon Corporation MEDIA GUIDE: 2.4 SWIM • 112 BIKE • 26.2 RUN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 3 TaBlE of Contents Introduction IRONMAN: The Beginning 5 Quick Facts 7 Media Logistics & Contacts 8 Schedule of Events 9 Swim Course 11 Bike Course 12 Run Course 13 IRONMAN Almanac 14 Countries Represented 15 Swim 2.4 miles, Bike 112 miles, Run 26.2 miles– Brag for the rest of your life. States Represented 16 Pace Chart 17 –John Collins, IRONMAN Founder Features The Qualification Process 18 The “Average” IRONMAN 19 Support Requirements 20 IRONMAN Recycling Process 21 Countries Represented 1978-2012 22 Physically Challenged Division 23 Volunteers 24 Event History 25 IRONMAN Hall of Fame 33 IRONMAN Television 34 IRONMAN Economics & Demographics 36 The IRONMAN Foundation 37 Event Information IRONMAN Qualifier Series Champions 39 2012/2013 Professional Prize Purse 40 Results Winning Times Recap 1978-2012 41 Starters and Finishers 42 Win Times Ranked 43 Swim Times Ranked 45 Bike Times Ranked 47 Run Times Ranked 49 Course Records 51 Top 10 All-Time Finishes 52 Top 10 All-Time Swims 53 Top 10 All-Time Bikes 54 Rules and Regulations Top 10 All-Time Runs 55 Swim Rules 99 Top Ten Smallest Margins of Victory 56 Bike Rules 100 Most Recorded Top 10 Kona Finishes 57 Run Rules 102 Race Results 1978-2012 59 Rules Applying To All Race Segments 103 Amateur Record Holders 93 Finish Line Policy 110 2012 Top Five Age Group Results 94 Physically Challenged Division Rules 112 2012 Physically Challenged and Military Results 98 Sponsors 113 4 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MEDIA GUIDE: 2.4 SWIM • 112 BIKE • 26.2 RUN ThE BEginning 1978 Participants gather on the beach before the start of the inaugural “Hawaiian IRONMAN Triathlon.” Swim 2.4 miles, Bike 112 miles, Run 26.2 miles– Brag for the rest of your life. “ –John Collins, IRONMAN Founder ” From unlikely challenge to international sensation While stationed near San Diego in the mid-1970s, John Collins As the conversation continued, Collins began playing with and wife, Judy, participated in multi-sport workouts designed the idea of combining the three toughest endurance races on to break up the monotony of constant run training. the island into one race. He decided to issue a challenge. He proposed combining the 2.4-mile Waikiki Roughwater Swim During an awards banquet in 1977 for a Hawai`i running race, with 112 miles of the Around-O’ahu Bike Race (originally a a lively discussion about the creation of a major endurance two-day event and 114 miles), followed by a 26.2-mile run on event in Hawai’i occurred. To challenge athletes who had the same course as the Honolulu Marathon. The event was already seen success at a local biathlon (swim/run), the first unveiled at the Waikiki Swim Club Awards Banquet in late “Hawai`ian IRONMAN Triathlon” was born. 1977. “The gun will go off about 7 a.m., the clock will keep MEDIA GUIDE: 2.4 SWIM • 112 BIKE • 26.2 RUN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 5 ThE BEginning continuation from page 4 running and whoever finishes first we’ll what Collins remembers as a “shoebox another San Diego competitor, Kathleen call the IRONMAN,” Collins recalls. full of hundreds of letters from athletes McCartney, began to cut into Moss’ lead. around the world who wanted to do the Moss managed to hang on, sometimes On Feb. 18, 1978, 15 competitors, race.” ABC Sports called Collins asking appearing like a punch-drunk fighter including Collins, came to the shores his permission to film the 1980 event. as she moved toward the finish line. of Waikiki to take on the IRONMAN Collins agreed as long as ABC brought But with a little more than 20 yards to challenge. Prior to racing, each received its own crew and the filming bore him no go, her legs gave out and she fell to the three sheets of paper listing a few rules expense. ground. She attempted to get up, but and a course description. Handwritten her legs wouldn’t hold her. Rather than on the last page was this exhortation: Ironically, Collins transferred out of give up, she crawled. Race officials and “Swim 2.4 miles! Bike 112 miles! Run Hawai’i just as his baby hit the big time spectators gathered around her, visibly 26.2 miles! Brag for the rest of your life!” in 1980. He turned the event over to the concerned for her well being, as well owners of a local health club. No money as amazed by her courage. Although Who would have predicted this exchange changed hands, but Collins did receive McCartney passed her, Moss won the of bravado would be the foundation for assurance that he or his family could hearts of those on-hand and millions what is now the world’s most recognized race for free any year that they wanted, who later saw her determined effort on endurance event and the global and that “they would save a few racing television. ABC’s Jim McKay, among the benchmark for testing one’s personal spots for the ‘ordinary athlete,’ because most experienced sports broadcasters limits? these were the type of individuals who in history, called it the most inspiring created the race.” sports moment he had ever witnessed. Judy Collins, who originally planned to participate in the inaugural event, was In 1981, Valerie Silk took over supervision Instantly, competing in the IRONMAN forced to withdraw just days before. John of the race and made the key decision to became such a hot ticket that organizers Collins and 11 others finished the entire move the IRONMAN from the tranquil instituted a qualifying system to keep course. Gordon Haller, a taxi cab driver shores of Waikiki to the barren lava fields the race field more manageable. and fitness enthusiast, crossed the of Kona on the Big Island of Hawai’i. finish line first in 11 hours, 46 minutes By any measure, the IRONMAN presents and 40 seconds to become the “original” Along the Kona Coast, black lava rock the ultimate test of body, mind and IRONMAN. Collins finished the race in a dominates the panorama. Against this spirit for professional and amateur little over 17 hours. backdrop, athletes would cover 140.6 athletes. And as the IRONMAN Triathlon miles by sea, bike and foot while battling has emerged into the mainstream, Having lost only $25 on that first race, “ho’omumuku” crosswinds of 45 mph, the IRONMAN experience continually Collins agreed to organize a second event 95 degree temperatures and a scorching transcends pure sport. It centers on the in 1979. Unfortunately, bad weather sun. The IRONMAN Triathlon became the dedication, courage and perseverance postponed the race one day, and more benchmark against which all extreme exhibited by athletes who demonstrate than half of the race-field dropped out; sporting challenges would be measured. the IRONMAN mantra that “ANYTHING IS this left only 15 to race for the second POSSIBLE®.” straight year. Among the remaining 15 ABC’s broadcasts on “Wide World of athletes was Lyn Lemaire, a cyclist from Sports” in 1980 and 1981 continued to Boston, Mass. generate interest from athletes, but IRONMAN’s signature moment would The first female finisher maintained come the following year. second place for much of the race before finishing fifth overall. The winning time With the men’s championship title of 11:15:46, posted by Californian Tom already claimed, ABC’s cameras zeroed in Warren, improved upon Haller’s first- on the women’s leader. A college student year mark, and Warren became a minor from San Diego, Julie Moss’ lifeguarding celebrity when he and the race received background helped her stay among the exposure in Sports Illustrated. early women’s leaders. After a strong bike, she found herself with a sizeable This larger-than-life depiction of the lead in the run. Her energy levels started race in Sports Illustrated generated to dip in the last five miles, however, and 6 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MEDIA GUIDE: 2.4 SWIM • 112 BIKE • 26.2 RUN ThE BEginning WoRld ChaMpIoNShIp Quick facts When slots to 100 general Age Group athletes Course Records Oct. 12, 2013, beginning at 6:30 a.m. plus five Physically Challenged athletes, Men (professional male athlete start), 6:35 to compete in the 2013 IRONMAN Craig Alexander (AUS), 8:03:56 in 2011 a.m. (professional female athlete start) World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Women and 7 a.m. (age group athlete start). Hawai`i. Winners will be announced Chrissie Wellington (GBR), 8:54:02 in 2009 in April. In recognition of their athletic What accomplishments, the 2012 top 10 Weather A 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112-mile bike male and female professional athletes Temperatures on race day range from race and 26.2-mile run. Competitors automatically qualify for the 2013 82 to 95 degrees, with the humidity have 17 hours to finish; cutoff times are race, along with the 2012 age group hovering around 90 percent. Crosswinds applied to each segment of the race. champions. on portions of the bike course sometimes gust as high as 60 mph.