Race Conditions
Arizona has been quite consistent with the adjustment in the last years, and this year it came in at 12:25. It started with a few slower years and has course rating of 7:57, quite a bit slower than Florida (22:04 this year, overall 14:16).
Male Results
Eneko Llanos was the second male athlete posting a sub-8 result in North America within two weekends. As noted above, Arizona is a slower course than Florida, so his performance was more than just a few seconds better than the clock time showed.
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Eneko Llanos ESP 07:59:38 08:13:08 2 Paul Amey USA 08:01:29 08:33:40 3 Victor Zyemtsev USA 08:14:36 08:33:51 4 Torsten Abel GER 08:16:44 08:37:57 5 Stephane Poulat 08:18:55 n/a 6 Sebastian Kienle GER 08:19:29 08:05:57 7 Jeremy Jurkiewicz FRA 08:19:38 08:29:28 8 Michael Weiss AUT 08:21:36 08:21:18 9 Trevor Wurtele CAN 08:22:21 09:08:01 10 Christophe Bastie FRA 08:26:10 08:42:17 11 Scott Neyedli GBR 08:29:03 08:40:21 12 Matthew Russell USA 08:29:19 08:59:53 13 Stefan Schmid 08:32:59 08:58:47 14 Patrick Jaberg 08:33:50 08:58:18 15 Nick Waninger 08:34:14 n/a 16 Joe Umphenour 08:36:10 n/a 17 Lewis Elliot USA 08:38:13 09:31:56 18 Gudmund Snilstveit NOR 08:38:39 08:47:58 19 Ryan Rau 08:40:54 09:39:22 20 Mike Schifferle SWI 08:41:48 08:59:21 21 Flo Kriegl AUT 08:44:46 n/a 22 Kevin Taddonio 08:45:51 08:46:00 23 Pedro Gomez POR 08:46:19 08:22:04 24 Jared Milam 08:47:23 n/a 25 Fraser Cartmell GBR 08:50:14 08:36:21 26 Jesse Vondracek USA 08:53:56 09:18:52 27 Thomas Gerlach 08:57:00 10:06:55 28 Timothy O’Donnell USA 08:59:36 08:04:24 29 Christian Nitschke 08:59:56 08:48:30 30 Ivan Albano BRA 09:01:14 09:09:08 31 Dominik Berger AUT 09:02:52 08:56:15 32 Jeff Paul 09:05:19 n/a 33 Dave Harju CAN 09:08:42 09:06:51 34 Douglas Maclean 09:09:57 09:52:50 35 Erich Kunz SUI 09:12:03 08:54:03 36 Chris Boudreaux 09:20:19 n/a 37 Chad Johnston 09:26:25 09:30:28 38 Oliver Simon 09:26:33 08:51:28 39 Stefano Paoli ITA 09:33:08 09:36:14 40 Andrew Powell 09:37:59 10:09:50 41 Arland Macasieb PHL 09:44:30 10:04:31 42 Ryan Kelly USA 10:25:41 10:18:59 43 Marek Nemcik SVK 11:19:16 12:03:12 44 John Dahlz USA 11:21:09 10:36:32
One other thing came out of this race: Tim O’Donnell was leading the race after the bike and dropped to 28th on the run. His 3:44 was probably the slowest marathon for a sub-9 finish – probably one of the weirder records in Ironman racing.
Female Results
On the women’s side, we also had a “sub-x result”, in fact both the winner Leanda Cave and second place Linsey Corbin broke 9 hours. Meredith Kessler was just 15 seconds away.
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Leanda Cave GBR 08:49:00 09:22:32 2 Linsey Corbin USA 08:54:33 09:21:09 3 Meredith Kessler USA 09:00:14 09:27:16 4 Amanda Stevens USA 09:09:39 09:30:28 5 Michelle Vesterby 09:11:23 n/a 6 Kelly Williamson USA 09:12:18 09:21:58 7 Kathleen Calkins 09:12:40 n/a 8 Sara Gross CAN 09:18:03 09:44:29 9 Susan Dietrich GER 09:19:47 09:31:44 10 Charisa Wernick USA 09:22:37 10:18:00 11 Jessie Donavan 09:24:52 n/a 12 Jessica Smith 09:34:45 n/a 13 Whitney Garcia 09:40:22 12:46:28 14 Lisa Ribes 09:41:55 09:48:21 15 Amber Ferreira USA 09:42:20 10:49:00 16 Mirjam Weerd NLD 09:45:50 09:39:27 17 Kelly Liljeblad USA 09:49:41 10:15:31 18 Regula Rohrbach SUI 09:50:10 09:44:15 19 Caroline Gregory USA 09:50:44 09:57:58 20 Rebekka Essmiller Ger 09:51:21 10:22:25 21 Erin Spitler 09:55:03 10:04:01 22 Jeanne Collonge FRA 09:57:26 09:47:12 23 Marie Danais CAN 09:58:21 10:20:03