Last weekend, we had two exciting races finalizing the KPR rankings for 2011. A number of athletes tried to snag some final points, and we’ll have a closer look at the Kona qualifiers in the next few weeks.
This weekend was exciting for Thorsten’s Triathlon Ratings as well: We managed to predict all the winners for this weekend – so we must be doing something right!
IM Louisville
Race Conditions
This year’s race was the fastest one in Louisville – an adjustment of 10:47 leads to a new course rating of 3:31.
Male Results
After a bit of an injury break, Chris McDonald came back with a solid race to win by a few minutes:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Chris McDonald AUS 08:27:36 08:38:56 2 Patrick Evoe USA 08:30:35 08:49:35 3 Justin Daerr USA 08:34:35 08:44:37 4 Dave Harju CAN 09:20:01 09:05:03 5 Ivan Albano BRA 09:21:39 09:08:43 6 Bojan Maric SCG 09:56:06 09:55:28 7 Logan Franks USA 10:20:01 09:22:13
Female Results
Nina Kraft overcame some struggles in the final part of the run to become one of the oldest winners of an Ironman:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Nina Kraft GER 09:38:14 09:19:05 2 Jackie Arendt USA 09:40:28 09:51:02 3 Stephanie Jones USA 09:52:40 10:45:09 4 Donna Phelan USA 10:01:34 10:09:57 5 Terra Castro USA 10:02:40 10:13:49 6 Cindy Lewis USA 10:04:14 n/a 7 Marilyn McDonald CAN 10:06:47 10:10:07 8 Hillary Biscay USA 10:09:32 10:04:13 9 Marie Danais CAN 10:22:23 10:21:43
IM Canada
Race Conditions
The conditions in Canada were pretty typical with an adjustment of 4:57, barely changing the course rating to 3:20.
Male Results
Jordan Rapp managed to win his third IM – underscoring that he’s back from his horrible crash:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Jordan Rapp USA 08:28:09 08:26:50 2 Torsten Abel GER 08:41:09 08:46:16 3 Bert Jammaer BEL 08:42:34 08:54:37 4 Christopher Bagg USA 08:47:25 09:08:24 5 Jasper Blake CAN 08:50:30 08:41:43 6 Nigel Gray CAN 08:57:41 09:08:36 7 Matthew Russell USA 08:59:31 09:17:49 8 Trevor Wurtele CAN 09:05:19 09:21:51 9 Scott Tremblay CAN 09:07:03 09:24:05 10 Jason Shortis AUS 09:12:55 08:50:43 11 Ryan Cain CAN 09:16:23 10:47:10 12 Paul Attard 09:17:22 n/a 13 Mike Neill CAN 09:18:55 08:55:07 14 Scott Curry CAN 09:22:30 09:09:12 15 Bryan Rhodes NZL 09:23:24 09:05:09 16 Dallas Cain CAN 09:26:44 09:42:03 17 Mathieu Ohalloran 09:34:26 n/a 18 Adam O’Meara CAN 09:35:55 09:30:25 19 Juan Carlos Ramirez USA 09:46:04 09:50:50 20 Hiroyuki Nishiuchi JPN 10:00:39 09:13:55 21 Kyle Marcotte CAN 10:09:49 08:59:03 22 Paul Tichelaar 10:34:08 n/a 23 Christopher Baird 11:20:14 n/a
Female Results
On the female side, Mary Beth Ellis also won her third Ironman – in three starts and within 8 weeks! She’s got enough points for a Kona start – hopefully she can recover in time to deliver a good race:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Mary Beth Ellis USA 09:03:13 09:15:48 2 Kim Loeffler USA 09:34:54 09:41:58 3 Meredith Kessler USA 09:37:22 09:34:49 4 Sara Gross CAN 09:46:56 09:54:07 5 Fiona Whitby CAN 10:13:28 10:39:49 6 Haley Cooper USA 10:34:41 10:07:11 7 Maki Nishiuchi JPN 10:44:42 10:08:15 8 Miranda Alldritt CAN 11:11:24 10:44:50 9 Fernanda Keller BRA 11:26:40 10:24:51