Ironman Triathlon World Series 2008

The 2008 Ironman Triathlon World Series was a racing series of triathlon competitions over the Ironman distance and is organized annually by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC).

organization

An Ironman race covers the long-distance triathlon: 3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running

In the 20 individual races of the season as well as the races over half the Ironman distance ( Ironman 70.3 ), the triathletes were able to qualify for a starting place at Ironman Hawaii - the unofficial world championship - on October 11, 2008.

run

date	event	place	Remarks
September 9, 2007	Ironman Wisconsin	Madison , Wisconsin
November 3, 2007	Ironman Florida	Panama City , Florida
December 2, 2007	Ironman Western Australia	Busselton
February 23, 2008	Ironman Malaysia	Langkawi
March 1, 2008	Ironman New Zealand	Taupo
April 6, 2008	Ironman Australia	Port Macquarie
April 13, 2008	Ironman South Africa	Port Elizabeth
April 13, 2008	Ironman Arizona	Tempe , Arizona
April 20, 2008	Ironman China	Haikou , Hainan
May 24, 2008	Ironman Lanzarote	Puerto del Carmen
May 25, 2008	Ironman Brazil	Florianópolis
June 22, 2008	Ironman France	Nice
June 22, 2008	Ironman Coeur d'Alene	Coeur d'Alene , Idaho
July 6, 2008	Ironman Germany	Frankfurt am Main
July 13, 2008	Ironman Austria	Klagenfurt
July 13, 2008	Ironman Switzerland	Zurich
July 20, 2008	Ironman USA	Lake Placid , New York
August 24, 2008	Ironman Canada	Penticton , British Columbia
August 31, 2008	Ironman Louisville	Louisville , Kentucky
September 7, 2008	Ironman UK	Bolton
October 11, 2008	Ironman Hawaii	Kailua-Kona , Hawaii	World championship on the Ironman distance

Results

Men

run	winner	time	Second	time	Third	time
Madison	Maik Twelsiek	8:52:49	Paul Fritzsche	9:03:22	Uzziel Valderrabano	9:06:05
Florida	Stephan Vuckovic	8:21:29	Sérgio Marques	8:23:49	Bryan Rhodes	8:26:52
Western Australia	Patrick Vernay	8:06:00	Raynard Tissink	8:09:20	Mitchell Anderson	8:12:20
Malaysia	Faris Al-Sultan	8:34:42	Petr Vabrousek	9:04:54	Elmar Schuberth	9:06:03
New Zealand	Cameron Brown	8:24:49	Frederik Van Lierde	8:31:35	Kieran Doe	8:33:35
Australia	Patrick Vernay	8:31:33	Mitchell Anderson	8:40:19	Mathias Hecht	8:42:48
South Africa	Stephen Bayliss	8:18:23	Raynard Tissink	8:23:09	Peter Schoissengeier	8:33:24
Arizona	József Major	8:34:19	TJ Tollakson	8:34:36	Jordan Rapp	8:35:04
China	Olaf Sabatschus	8:52:14	Park Byung-hoon	9:13:15	Timothy Marr	9:14:17
Lanzarote	Bert Jammaer	8:59:37	Teemu Toivanen	9:08:15	Ain-Alar Juhanson	9:08:36
Brazil	Eduardo Sturla	8:28:24	Olaf Sabatschus	8:38:56	Benjamin Sanson	8:41:32
France	Marcel Zamora Pérez	8:34:18	Hervé Faure	8:41:55	Patrick Bringer	8:45:15
Coeur d'Alene	Tom Evans	8:34:22	Viktor Semtsev	8:43:56	Michael Lovato	8:48:22
Germany	Chris McCormack	7:59:55	Eneko Llanos	8:00:49	Timo Bracht	8:04:16
Austria	Marino Vanhoenacker	8:06:11	Stephen Bayliss	8:13:53	Hannes Hempel	8:16:56
Switzerland	Ronnie Schildknecht	8:16:05	Stefan Riesen	8:32:10	Frank Vytrisal	8:40:53
Lake Placid	Francisco Pontano	8:43:32	Petr Vabrousek	8:55:20	Mathias Hecht	8:56:33
Canada	Bryan Rhodes	8:30:12	Bernhard Hiebl	8:34:34	Jasper Blake	8:36:08
Louisville	Maximilian Longrée	8:33:58	Chris McDonald	8:54:52	Sérgio Marques	8:59:15
UK	Stephen Bayliss	8:53:58	Scott Neyedli	9:04:29	Andreas di Bernardo	9:08:24
Hawaii	Craig Alexander	8:17:45	Eneko Llanos	8:20:50	Rutger Beke	8:21:23

Women

run	winner	time	Second	time	Third	time
Madison	Gina Ferguson	9:37:03	Hillary Biscay	10:01:30	Ina Reinders	10:03:39
Florida	Nina Kraft	9:05:35	Heleen bij de Vaate	9:07:40	Tyler Stewart	9:09:18
Western Australia	Charlotte Paul	9:00:55	Gina Ferguson	9:08:23	Bella Comerford	9:14:25
Malaysia	Belinda Granger	9:29:21	Yvonne van Vlerken	9:35:46	Yasuko Miyazaki	10:14:01
New Zealand	Joanna Lawn	9:16:00	Kate Bevilaqua	9:20:06	Emi Shiono	9:23:26
Australia	Chrissie Wellington	9:03:55	Kate Major	9:09:12	Prue Oswin	10:00:11
South Africa	Bella Comerford	9:27:48	Edith Niederfriniger	9:27:53	Lucie Zelenková	9:34:09
Arizona	Erika Csomor	9:14:49	Michellie Jones	9:25:52	Heather Gollnick	9:32:07
China	Belinda Granger	10:08:37	Donna Phelan	10:37:11	Abigail Bayley	10:43:11
Lanzarote	Bella Comerford	10:02:27	Heleen bij de Vaate	10:12:07	Tara Norton	10:13:16
Brazil	Fernanda Keller	9:42:50	Hillary Biscay	9:56:08	Ladislava Cisarovska	10:06:10
France	Martina Dogana	9:35:29	Katja Schumacher	10:00:59	Alexandra Louison	10:03:46
Coeur d'Alene	Heather Wurtele	9:38:58	Heather Gollnick	9:50:34	Tiina Boman	9:55:28
Germany	Chrissie Wellington	8:51:24	Nicole leather	9:17:26	Wenke Kujala	9:24:54
Austria	Sandra Wallenhorst	8:47:26	Bella Comerford	8:51:17	Edith Niederfriniger	8:59:45
Switzerland	Sibylle Matter	9:30:12	Kathrin Pätzold	9:35:05	Caroline Steffen	9:37:24
Lake Placid	Caitlin Shea-Kenney	9:51:00	Kim Loeffler	9:54:55	Hillary Biscay	9:58:45
Canada	Belinda Granger	9:17:58	Alison Fitch	9:26:15	Heather Wurtele	9:39:51
Louisville	Mariska Kramer-Postma	9:54:17	Heather Gollnick	9:56:53	Lisbeth Kristensen	9:58:33
UK	Bella Comerford	9:49:06	Heike Funk	10:24:40	Susanne Buckenlei	10:28:41
Hawaii	Chrissie Wellington	9:06:23	Yvonne van Vlerken	9:21:20	Sandra Wallenhorst	9:22:52

Podium placements

space	country	First	Second	Third	total
1	United Kingdom	8th	3	2	13
2	Germany	7th	5	6th	18th
3	Australia	6th	4th	2	12
4th	New Zealand	4th	1	3	8th
5	Spain	2	2		4th
6th	France	2	1	3	6th
	Canada	2	1	3	6th
	Switzerland	2	1	3	6th
9	Belgium	2	1	1	4th
10	Hungary	2			2
11	United States	1	9	5	15th
12	Netherlands	1	4th		5
13	Italy	1	1	1	3
14th	Argentina	1			1
	Brazil	1			1
16	Czech Republic		2	2	4th
17th	South Africa		2		2
18th	Austria		1	3	4th
19th	Finland		1	1	2
	Portugal		1	1	2
21st	South Korea		1		1
	Ukraine		1		1
23	Japan			2	2
24	Denmark			1	1
	Estonia			1	1
	Mexico			1	1

See also

• Triathlon leaderboard

Web links

• Kona 2008 »IRONMAN.com (event website)