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The Ironman World Championship is a triathlon competitions held annually in Hawaii, United States from 1978 to 2022, with no race in 2020 and an additional race in 1982. It is owned and organized by the World Triathlon Corporation. It is the annual culmination of a series of Ironman triathlon qualification races held throughout the world. From ...
Ironman 70.3 Budapest, 2014. An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km).
The first Ironman race was on Feb. 18, 1978, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The idea was discussed in 1977 after an event called the Oahu Perimeter Relay competition.
It’s February of 1978, and 26-year-old Bob Babbitt—who’s been (in his own words) “racing triathlons way back when the earth was still cooling”—has a front-row seat to the world’s ...
On Oahu, Hawaii in 1978, Haller competed in Navy Commander John Collins’ race which combined the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the Around-Oahu Bike Race, and the Honolulu Marathon. Of the 15 competitors, 12 finished what today is called the Ironman , and Gordon Haller was the first champion, with a time of 11 hours, 46 minutes, 58 seconds.
John Dunbar is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL and Ironman triathlete.. Dunbar finished 2nd in the first two Ironman races - 1978 and 1979. [1]The competitive struggle between Dunbar and the fourteen other athletes in the 1979 race was profiled in a ten-page, 6,175 word article titled "IRONMAN" in the May 14, 1979 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine that is widely credited with launching triathlons ...
1978 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. ... Hurdle races. Champion Hurdle – ... First Ironman Triathlon held in Kona, ...
A followup to triathlon events staged in San Diego, California in 1974 and 1975, the event was the first to refer to its champion as an "Ironman" and followed the standards used in three existing long-distance events: the Waikiki Roughwater Swim (2.4 mi (3.9 km)), the Around-Oahu Bike Race (115 mi (185 km)) and the Honolulu Marathon (26.219 mi ...