Course Conditions
The heat and humidity of Malaysia make the race quite slow and a lot of athletes commented that this year’s run was especially hard for them. The run adjustment of -7:46 is a clear indication of a tough run, but if anything even a bit easier than normal for Malaysia. The overall adjustment was -2:55 with a relatively quick bike of 4:11. The tough conditions probably contributed to the female race leader Jocelyn McCauley dropping out short of the 30k mark on the run with dehydration, needing medical attention according to the Ironman Live blog.
There are a few new course records set in today’s race: Philipp Koutny set a new record for the bike, improving Marino Vanhoenacker’s 2010 bike split of 4:21:01. Javier Gomez’ marathon of 2:54 is a new run course record – the old record dates back to 2006 (2:56:27 by Jason Shortis), indicating how hard it is to run even a sub-3 marathon (or a sub-3:20 for the female Pros). I’ve seen a few posts that claimed Javier’s overall finishing time of 8:18 as a new course record, however I still have the 2002(!) winning time of 8:10 by Bryan Rhodes as the course record (though the course might have changed since then).
Kona Qualifying
IM Malaysia offered one male and female Kona Pro slot, these go to the winners
- Tessa Kortekaas
and - Javier Gomez.
Male Race Results
Rank | Name | Nation | Swim | Bike | Run | Time | Diff to exp. | Prize Money |
1 | Javier Gomez | ESP | 00:47:16 | 04:32:45 | 02:54:43 | 08:18:58 | 03:51 | US$ 5,000 |
2 | Philipp Koutny | SUI | 00:49:26 | 04:20:50 | 03:09:49 | 08:24:18 | -01:31 | US$ 2,750 |
3 | Thiago Vinhal | BRA | 00:49:28 | 04:38:15 | 02:59:18 | 08:31:15 | -13:16 | US$ 1,750 |
4 | Kaito Tohara | JPN | 00:53:44 | 04:50:06 | 03:02:44 | 08:50:28 | -05:33 | US$ 1,250 |
5 | Andy Potts | USA | 00:49:05 | 04:37:26 | 03:29:30 | 09:00:29 | 37:37 | US$ 1,000 |
6 | Per Van Vlerken | GER | 00:53:33 | 04:49:06 | 03:14:58 | 09:01:28 | 14:20 | US$ 750 |
7 | Nick Baldwin | SEY | 00:53:33 | 04:49:05 | 03:20:51 | 09:08:33 | 11:40 | |
8 | Petr Soukup | CZE | 00:53:32 | 04:51:13 | 03:27:04 | 09:15:33 | n/a | |
9 | Daniil Sapunov | UKR | 00:49:00 | 05:05:18 | 03:16:39 | 09:17:18 | 35:39 | |
10 | Eneko Elosegui | ESP | 00:59:12 | 04:48:01 | 03:38:24 | 09:30:04 | 02:06 | |
11 | Freddy Lampret | ZAF | 00:53:42 | 05:07:06 | 03:42:46 | 09:49:12 | -05:11 | |
12 | Balazs Csoke | HUN | 00:49:33 | 05:17:57 | 03:47:01 | 10:00:55 | 46:49 | |
13 | Marek Nemcik | SVK | 01:14:16 | 06:41:30 | 05:22:48 | 13:28:03 | 1:25:17 | |
14 | Josef Svoboda | CZE | 01:14:20 | 06:53:35 | 05:28:23 | 13:46:01 | 1:59:39 | |
Romain Guillaume | FRA | 00:49:33 | 04:46:51 | DNF | ||||
Thomas Bosch | GER | 00:58:37 | 04:41:49 | DNF | ||||
Robert Brundish | GBR | 00:53:39 | DNF | |||||
Zsombor Deak | ROM | 00:58:39 | DNF | |||||
Diego Vasquez | ECU | 00:59:39 | DNF |
Female Race Results
Rank | Name | Nation | Swim | Bike | Run | Time | Diff to exp. | Prize Money |
1 | Tessa Kortekaas | NED | 01:00:52 | 05:02:55 | 03:35:01 | 09:43:20 | -13:44 | US$ 5,000 |
2 | Naomi Washizu | JPN | 01:00:59 | 05:16:19 | 03:30:29 | 09:52:01 | -02:57 | US$ 2,750 |
3 | Simona Krivankova | CZE | 01:05:59 | 05:21:40 | 03:26:16 | 09:59:28 | 10:33 | US$ 1,750 |
4 | Magda Nieuwoudt | ZAF | 01:00:59 | 05:13:34 | 03:43:58 | 10:02:44 | n/a | US$ 1,250 |
5 | Katie Kyme | AUS | 01:01:02 | 05:44:02 | 03:39:31 | 10:29:15 | n/a | US$ 1,000 |
Jocelyn McCauley | USA | 00:52:19 | 04:58:29 | DNF | ||||
Federica De Nicola | ITA | 01:00:56 | 05:09:46 | DNF | ||||
Claire Davis | AUS | 00:56:50 | DNF |
Rhodesy has the record on a different and much easier course in Langkawi.
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