Tom Warren

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Personal information
Date of birth 1951
place of birth San Diego, California, United States
societies
successes
1979 Ironman Hawaii winner
1981 2nd place Ironman Hawaii
status
inactive

Tom Warren (* 1951 in San Diego , California ) is a former American triathlete and winner of the second Ironman Hawaii (1979).

Career

After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in accounting and serving in the military, Warren turned intensely into endurance sports.
In the summer of 1978, John Dunbar , a Navy Seal, told him about the competition in Hawaii, which he had completed the previous year as the second fastest. Warren took up intense training to prepare for the competition. However, he repeatedly emphasized that he had not done any special triathlon training.
Twelve participants - including a single woman with Lyn Lemaire - finished the race successfully. The 28-year-old Warren won the Ironman Hawaii in 11:15:56 hours (48 minutes before runner-up John Dunbar) and set a new course record.

Tom Warren also regularly took part in the "Horny Toad Invitational Triathlon" organized by Murphy Reinschreiber in Torrey Pines between Del Mar and La Jolla over half the Ironman distance, the first triathlon with prize money for the winners.

He was married to the Austrian Barbara Müller (1943-2008) - who started as Barbara Alvarez at Ultraman Hawaii in 1990 and took second place there.

Sporting successes

Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Oct 3, 1998 DNF Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Kailua-Kona -
 Oct 1990 248 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Kailua-Kona 10:42:41
Oct 14, 1989 146 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Kailua-Kona 09:42:59
Aug 12, 1984 16 Horny Toad Invitational Triathlon United StatesUnited StatesTorrey Pines, San Diego 04:26:33 Middle distance, winner: Scott Tinley , in 15th place John Howard
0Aug 7, 1983 7th Horny Toad Invitational Triathlon United StatesUnited StatesTorrey Pines, San Diego 04:33:49 Middle Distance Winner: Scott Tinley
0Aug 8, 1982 15th Horny Toad Invitational Triathlon United StatesUnited StatesTorrey Pines, San Diego 04:41:09 Middle distance, behind Mark Allen , Scott Molina , Scott Tinley , Jeff Tinley
0Feb 6, 1982 10 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Kailua-Kona 10:18:06
0Aug 2, 1981 2 Horny Toad Invitational Triathlon United StatesUnited StatesTorrey Pines, San Diego 04:39:48 Middle distance, behind Mark Montgomery , in front of Scott Tinley
Feb. 14, 1981 2 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Honolulu 10:04:28 Vice world champion behind his compatriot John Howard
Jan. 10, 1980 4th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Honolulu 10:49:16
Jan. 14, 1979 1 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Waikiki 11:15:56 Ironman world champion

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picture by Tom Warren - at the Superfrog Triathlon , Coronado (1984)
  2. ↑ 1979 Triathlon Finishing Times (PDF)
  3. ↑ IRONMAN Looks Back: Tom Warren's Legacy (November 12, 2013)
  4. ↑ Famous Triathletes: Tom Warren (December 16, 2012)
  5. ↑ IRONMAN: Tom Warren's victory that started it all ( Memento of April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (May 14, 1979, Sports Illustrated )
  6. ↑ Endurance sports legend Barbara Warren dies after Santa Barbara bike accident (August 29, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Warren, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California , United States