{"id":11174,"date":"2021-03-14T16:37:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:37:02","slug":"lionel-sanders-sets-new-ironman-record-at-im-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=11174","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Sanders sets new Ironman record at IM Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lionel Sanders stormed to an incredible victory at Ironman Arizona on Sunday 20th November, finishing in 7:44:29 to record the fastest ever time at an Ironman-branded event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>His countryman Brent MacMahon was second in 7:50:15, the only other finisher to go under 8hrs, and also recorded the fastest run time of 2:40:17; however the day was all about Sanders, who broke Marino Vanhoenacker\u2019s previous 7:45:58 Ironman record by over a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being known as \u2018The Valley of the Sun\u2019 temperatures were overcast and still for raceday in Arizona, which undoubtedly contributed to Sanders\u2019 incredible 4:04:38 bike split. According to our records that\u2019s the second fastest 180km by a competitor in an iron-distance event, only bettered by the 4:02:17 Andrew Starykowicz posted at Ironman Florida in 2013. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although Sanders\u2019 time is the fastest ever at an Ironman-branded event, the world record for the fastest iron-distance race of all time is still safely with current world champion Jan Frodeno, who went 9mins faster at Challenge Roth in July with a 7:35:39.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s race, American Meredith Kessler claimed victory in Arizona for the third time running, finishing in 8:48:23. Yvonne Van Vlerken of the Netherlands and Malindi Elmore of Canada also went under 9hrs in times of 8:51:27 and 8:57:22 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lionel Sanders explains when to use tri gadgets and when you don\u2019t need to use them\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Sanders stormed to an incredible victory at Ironman Arizona on Sunday 20th November, finishing in 7:44:29 to record the fastest ever time at an Ironman-branded event. Advertisement His countryman Brent MacMahon was second in 7:50:15, the only other finisher to go under 8hrs, and also recorded the fastest run time of 2:40:17; however the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=11174\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lionel Sanders sets new Ironman record at IM Arizona&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}