Race Conditions
This year was one of the slower races for Western Australia – the adjustment was 7:30 compared to the new course rating of 11:16 (down from 11:54), so it was about four minutes slower than the average of the last years.
Male Results
Timo Bracht had to come up with another strong run to catch a courageous Clayton Fettel:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Timo Bracht GER 08:12:39 08:17:14 2 Clayton Fettell AUS 08:19:02 08:37:14 3 Jason Shortis AUS 08:27:31 08:50:51 4 Joshua Rix 08:30:59 09:14:24 5 Aaron Farlow AUS 08:34:09 08:31:27 6 Petr Vabrousek CZE 08:35:08 08:51:14 7 Mitchell Anderson AUS 08:35:57 08:37:58 8 Simon Billeau FRA 08:38:06 08:48:05 9 Luke Whitmore AUS 08:54:35 08:59:20 10 Maik Twelsiek GER 08:56:10 08:32:29 11 Luke McKenzie AUS 09:03:44 08:35:03 12 Leon Griffin AUS 09:03:49 08:32:23 13 Guy Crawford AUS 09:10:50 08:55:10 14 Shinya Suganuma JPN 09:19:15 09:10:15 15 Mike Gee 09:22:49 n/a 16 Dion Harrison GBR 09:57:07 09:21:10 17 Hirotsugu Kuwabara JAP 10:47:05 10:03:18
Maik Twelsiek and Luke McKenzie were predicted to go quite a bit faster, but they already lined up their “validation” IM, so now they can – as well as Timo Bracht – focus on their Kona 2012 prep.
Female Results
On the female side, IM rookie Michelle Bremer won her first IM. Pre-race favorite Kristin Moeller was 40 minutes slower than expected, so she dropped out of the prize money spots:
Rank Name Nation Actual Time Expected Time 1 Michelle Bremer NZL 09:25:38 n/a 2 Michelle Mitchell AUS 09:28:07 09:37:28 3 Carrie Lester AUS 09:32:44 09:36:25 4 Elly Franks AUS 09:37:51 10:21:46 5 Hillary Biscay USA 09:39:41 10:08:20 6 Kate Bevilaqua AUS 09:43:37 09:49:58 7 Yvette Grice GBR 09:53:33 10:12:04 8 Emi Shiono JPN 10:00:23 10:00:23 9 Kristin Moeller GER 10:07:05 09:26:48 10 Suzanne Blackborrow 10:31:51 n/a