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Kona 2015: Preliminary Swim Analysis

After the swim I did a quick analysis of the data. Here are a few quick points:

  • The swim in Kona is always slow, this year it was maybe just a little bit slower than in the last years. The 2014 adjustment was -4:46, this year’s preliminary adjustment -4:58, 12 seconds slower.
  • In the mens’s race we saw fast swims by Romain Guillaume (58 seconds faster than expected), Ben Hoffman (1:21), Paul Ambrose (1:20), Tim Berkel (1:47).
    But Sebastian Kienle had the best swim relative to expectations, 3 minutes quicker than expected!
  • Slow men’s swims were by Dylan McNeice (even though he won the swim, he was 1:02 slower than expected), Brad Kahlefeldt (1:39), Brent McMahon (1:03),
    Two strong bikers also didn’t really have a good swim: Marino Vanhoenacker (2:37) and Maik Twelsiek (2:09)
  • In the female race there were fast swims by Annabel Luxford (53 seconds faster than expected), Caroline Steffen (47 sec), Dede Griesbauer (46 sec) , Susie Cheetham (3:50) and Liz Lyles (2:25).
  • Similar to Dylan on the men’s side, Jodie Swallow won the swim but was slower than expected (by 1:31). Meredith Kessler (1:05), Haley Chura (2:17) and Amanda Stevens (2:43) also don’t have the swims they were probably looking for.

Preliminary Swim Analysis Men

Rank  Name Nation Swim Swim Diff
Dylan McNeice  NZL 00:50:48  01:02 
Jan Frodeno GER 00:50:50 -00:07
Andy Potts  USA 00:50:56 00:20
Christian Kramer  GER 00:52:21 -00:06
Nils Frommhold GER 00:52:23 00:21
Tim Don GBR 00:52:25 00:11
Romain Guillaume  FRA 00:52:25  -00:58 
Jeremy Jurkiewicz FRA 00:52:26 00:07
Timothy O’Donnell  USA 00:52:27 00:33
10  Andreas Raelert  GER 00:52:27 -00:34
11  Brad Kahlefeldt  AUS 00:52:27  01:39 
12  Fraser Cartmell  GBR 00:52:28 -00:28
13  Denis Chevrot FRA 00:52:28 00:31
14  Frederik Van Lierde  BEL 00:52:28 00:07
15  Ivan Rana ESP 00:52:28 00:00
16  Brent McMahon  CAN 00:52:28  01:03 
17  Luke McKenzie  AUS 00:52:30 -00:36
18  David McNamee GBR 00:52:31 00:16
19  Ben Hoffman  USA 00:52:32  -01:21 
20  Paul Ambrose AUS 00:52:32  -01:20 
21  Igor Amorelli BRA 00:52:33 00:18
22  Tim Van Berkel  AUS 00:52:33  -01:47 
23  Bas Diederen NED 00:52:35 00:19
24  Tyler Butterfield  BMU 00:52:36  -01:06 
25  Miquel Blanchart Tinto ESP 00:52:36  -01:00 
26  Sebastian Kienle  GER 00:52:36  -03:00

Swim Analysis

Rank  Name Nation Swim Swim Diff
Jodie Swallow  GBR 00:55:04  01:31 
Leanda Cave  GBR 00:56:08 00:24
Annabel Luxford AUS 00:56:11  -00:53 
Michelle Vesterby  DEN 00:56:14 -00:44
Rachel Joyce  GBR 00:56:14 -00:10
Mary Beth Ellis USA 00:56:16 00:21
Liz Blatchford AUS 00:56:16 00:05
Daniela Ryf SUI 00:56:17 -00:36
Camilla Pedersen DEN 00:56:17 00:12
10  Meredith Kessler  USA 00:56:17  01:05 
11  Caroline Steffen  SUI 00:56:19  -00:47 
12  Gina Crawford  NZL 00:56:21 -00:38
13  Haley Chura  USA 00:56:25  02:17 
14  Dede Griesbauer  USA 00:56:42  -00:46 
15  Julia Gajer GER 00:57:39 -00:31
16  Susie Cheetham GBR 00:57:43  -03:50 
17  Laurel Wassner USA 00:57:45  -00:56 
18  Amanda Stevens  USA 00:57:45  02:43 
19  Kelly Williamson  USA 00:59:58  01:42 
20  Heather Wurtele CAN 01:00:01 00:07
21  Elizabeth Lyles  USA 01:00:07  -02:25 
22  Mirinda Carfrae  AUS 01:00:58 00:36
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