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Daniela Ryf wins her fourth consecutive title at the Ironman World Championship on Saturday. The Swiss star accomplished the feat in a record time of 8:26:16.
BELOW: Ironman Champion Patrick Lange proposes to his girlfriend Julia Hofmann after crossing the finish line. LAURA RUMINSKI/WEST HAWAII TODAY
THE RACE BEFORE THE RACE: HOW
ATHLETES, FANS AND VOLUNTEERS
PREPARE FOR THE BIG SHOW
THE STING, RING AND RECORD SHATTERING DAY
FROM DANIELA RYF AND PATRICK LANGE AT THE
IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
BY J.R. DE GROOTE
WEST HAWAII TODAY
jdegroote@westhawaiitoday.com
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VOL. 50, NO. 287 30 PAGES
BIG ISLAND IRON
Graca, Wild headline top local
athletes in World Championship
SPORTS, 1B
COUNTDOWN TO
COMPETITION
KAILUA-KONA
— Two hours before
the first professional
athletes entered the
waters of Kailua Bay
for the 2018 Ironman
World Championship,
the stars that hung
over Kona were mixed
with an electrified air
of anxiety and anticipation,
while volunteers
who had been working
virtually nonstop put
the finishing touches
turning the end of Alii
Drive into the site of a
competition that draws
the world’s top athletes
every year.
“Good chaos” is how
one Ironman volunteer
at Kailua Pier on Friday
morning described the
days leading up to the
annual competition.
Later that morning,
with barely 24 hours
before the race kicked
off, volunteer and communication
director
Franz Weber likened it
BY CAMERON MICULKA
WEST HAWAII TODAY
cmiculka@westhawaiitoday.com
KAILUA-KONA —
Patrick Lange didn’t collapse
at the finish line
of the Ironman World
Championship from
exhaustion on Saturday.
He collapsed from pure
emotion.
For a second consecutive
year, Lange set the world’s
best benchmark at the storied
140.6-mile race, clocking
a course record time of
7 hours, 52 minutes and 39
seconds, and becoming the
first triathlete to break the
mythical 8-hour barrier in
Kona.
He crushed the previous
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