Many well-known celebrities have found Kona's challenging conditions hard to resist.
These celebs have not only participated the IRONMAN World Championship but also crossed the finish line.
The victories of these sportsmen made the Craziest Moments in IRONMAN World Championship History.
In this video we will tell you about some triathlon moment that went down in history
to never be forgotten.
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The first IRONMAN was held in 1978 at Waikiki. It combined three elements together (Swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, & run 26.2 miles) into one.
Ofcourse the sport started with only a few competitors but has now grown into a worldwide phenomenon.
The 15 participants have now become thousands of triathletes who have had to qualify to
take part of the in Kailua-Kona Race every October.
Like every sport, triathlon evolved with the time, improvements in gear and nutrition have
ultimately resulted in a drastic decline in finishing times.
The Kona race every October is the main event of the year for thriathletes, its where we
get to know who the best of the best is and has made some of the most memorable moments
in history.
For our first historic moment we must take a trip down memory lane to 1989, where the
two strongest athletes all year were Dave Scott and Mark Allen, the two had a fierce
rivalry and both shattered the World record at the time with 20 minutes.
However after their fierce battle only 58 seconds would seperate Allen from Scott and
he ultimately won the race.
This recordbreaking moment will absolutely go down in history as these 2 men proved that
not only you had to be physically strong to complete the course, this race also proved
that the mental aspect of running a triathlon was detremental to winning an Ironman World
Champioship.
Our second moment is often referred to as "The crawl Race", which has become one of
the most iconic scenes in the IRONMAN World Champioship history.
Julie Moss had an eight minute lead over second place Kathleen McCartney, however she had
pushed herself to her absolute limit and collapsed several times, she had to take a 3 minute
break to get herself back together and looked to win the race with only half a mile to go,
she gave it her all and crawled to the finish line as her legs simply gave up on her.
McCartney had been chasing Moss and started gaining on her while she was struggling.
Ultimately McCartney wo n the IRONMAN World Championship 1982 with Julie Moss finishing
29 heartbreaking seconds later.
Third on the list is the Championship in 1983 when Dave Scott once again was in the leading
position, he had a dominant performance and managed a 6 minute gap between him and second
place which was Scott Tinley.
Even though Scott had proven himself to be an excellent marathon runner, Tinley started
to gain on him and inched his way forward.
It was a truly stunning performance from both men as they gave it their all, Scott had drained
himself while creating the 6minute gap and it started to show while running the marathon.
It became a true battle of who wanted the title more.
Tinley gained more and more space and could even see Scott which gave him an extra mental
boost to catch Scott.
However it was not enough as Tinley could see scott crossing the finish line, a heartbreaking
moment and this one truly kept us on the edge of our seat right to the very end.
Our next historic moment is not an impossible time beaten or crazy rivalry decided just
before the finish line, our next moment was brought to us by Lew Hollander in 2012, Lew
Hollander finished the Triathlon with a time of 16:45:52, Hollander had been a sportsman
his whole life and trained incredibly hard to manage this historic time.
You might wonder: But this could not possible be close to the world record?
Yes you are absolutely right but what I have not told you yet is that Lew Hollander was
82 years old when he completed the triathlon.
Seems a little more impressive now huh?
Hollander's longevity was due to his consistent cardio workouts and excellent nutrition.
He still hords the record for being the oldest Triathlete to finish the Kona IRONMAN Worldchampionship.
Age truly is just a number.
We will stay in 2012 for a moment as we will discuss another instance when people finished
the Kona race while crawling.
Sian Welch and Wendy Ingraham collapsed while running the martahon, Welch due to a lack
of calories and Ingraham due to cramps.
The duo staggered, crawled and collapsed while trying to cross the finish line and even used
the fence for support.
However the both did not manage to win as they finished 4th and 5th, even thought they
did not win they gave us a championship to never forget.
The biggest comeback in a World championship race was made by Carfrae who had a hard time
swimming and cycling.
She simply couldn't keep up with the IRONMAN Champion of the time Daniele Ryf.
Carfrae was 14 and a half minutes behind the Champ when beginning to run her marathon.
All hope seemed to be lost for Carfae as 14 minutes are hard to overcome when competing
any triathlete, let alone the world champion.
However Carfrae caught her groove and made the biggest comeback of all time as she passed
Ryf at the 22nd mile to become the world Champion for the third time.
What a crazy effort this was from Carfrae.
Maybe the most tragic moment in IRONMAN history was in 1995 when Paula Newby-Fraser dominated
the opposition throughout the whole triathlon, she was on course to win it all when she had
an 11 minute lead with only 1 kilometer to go.
However at the kilometer line she started to fumble, she had hydration and nutrition
problems and her 11mintue lead started to decrease.
However she pushed herself and inched closer and closer to the finish line.
With only 300 yards to go she was struggling really bad but she was still able to win the
race as she had a big gap to second place.
One step at the time she crawled further and further but as we all know the IRONMAN triathlon
is unforgivable.
Newby Collapsed once more, this time she was completely disoriented and unable to continue,
she was passed by her colleagues who tried to support her, together with spectators she
was cheered on and showered with cold water.
In the end it wasn't enough, she finished fourth 20 minutes behind first place.
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