New Zealand Ironman 2011 Results

March 2011.
New Zealand Ironman Taupo New Zealand was held for the 27th year, originally this Ironman was held in mission Bay Auckland.

2.4 Mile seim 112 mile bike 26.2 mile marathon
Men’s Ironman winner
Cameron Brown (38)  wins his 10th Ironman in the Kellogg’s NUtri-Grain  New Zealand in 8:31:07
This is the first time that anyone has won the same Ironman 10 times.

Female Ironman winner
Sam Warriner won her first Ironman after having a successful Olympic distance triathlon career being  where she was ranked number one.
Sam lead from start to finish beating last years Ford Ironman world champion Mirinda Carfrae who finished 2nd Jo Lawn was 3rd  who had won this event 7 times before shows how experience can overcome age.
Carfrae ran 3:01:05 for the 3rd fastest Ironman marathon of the day from all of the 1,249 competitors to finish including all of the professioanl and age group men & women.
Sam Warriner who spent time working in England was probably use to the non-stop rain that occurred for most of the ironman triathlon.

What is more remarkable is Sam under went a heart procedure to stop a racing heart beat just 3 months before winning I M New Zealand.
Mike Reily the voice of Ironman celebrated announcing his 100th Ironman at New Zealand.

Mike Ramsay and Tony Jackson have both completed all 25 of the New Zealand Ironamn triathlon events! 

                                     SWIM 3.8K     BIKE 180K    RUN 42.2K    TOTAL TIME 

1 BROWN Cameron              00:50:21     04:43:04     02:52:09         08:31:07
2 BOZZONE, Terenzo           00:47:14     04:51:36     02:57:52         08:41:54
3 HECHT, Mathias                00:47:19     04:48:22     03:04:19         08:45:36
4 WILLIAMS, Keegan           00:50:25     04:48:37     03:05:27         08:49:34
5 CURRY, Scott                   00:50:30     04:39:59     03:14:21         08:50:44
6 VABROUSEK, Petr             00:53:51     04:55:51     03:02:59         08:58:30

1 WARRINER, Samantha        00:50:30     05:10:39     03:20:52         09:28:24
2 CARFRAE, Mirinda               00:52:43     05:31:24     03:01:06         09:31:33
3 LAWN, Joanna                   00:52:43     05:22:10     03:10:54         09:31:53
4 BEVILAQUA, Kate              00:58:28     05:11:55     03:23:55         09:40:01
5 HARPER, Belinda                00:52:47     05:18:11     03:22:44         09:40:33

Mark Kleanthous 1989 NZ Ironman finsiher 11:59:24

Swim 1:12:38 Bike 6:53:52 Run 3:41:42 Overall 187th

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