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28th Ironman Canada Preview

Macel returns to defend on Sunday.

This Sunday’s 28th Ironman Canada promises to be another great one. The age group race will be competitive as this will be the last opportunity for to get qualifying slots for this year’s Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, and despite the relative closeness to Kona, the professional field is packed.

Defending Champion Tereza Macel is back and she sure to be challenged by a number of Canadians – Heather Wurtele (Ironman St. George Champion), Janelle Morrison (third last year with the best marathon), Tara Norton (fifth), Miranda Alldritt, and age group standout turned pro Fiona Whitby (won the w35-39 age group in 2007).

The men’s is features many Ironman title holders, and top 10 finishers. New Zealand’s Kieran Doe (Ironman Canada 2007), Penticton’s Tom Evans (Ironman Canada 2004), Viktor Zyemtsev (7 Ironman wins), Stephan Vuckovic (2nd in 2005, winner of Ironman Florida), Petr Vabrousek (2nd at Ironman Lake Placid), and Canadians Jonathon Caron (2nd in 2007), Nigel Gray (3rd in 2005), Wolfgang Guembel (5th in 2009), Kyle Marcotte (numerous top 10 Ironman Canada finishes including 7th in 2009), Scott Curry (5th on 2006), Mike Neill, and Olympian Paul Tichelaar who hopes to make his Ironman debut but an Achilles injury may prevent him from doing so.

Check out the professional start list below, there are also many other athletes that will be in the mix on Sunday. Ironman.com will have live coverage.

1 MACEL TEREZA

2 MORRISON JANELLE

3 NORTON TARA

4 WURTELE HEATHER

5 MEYERS KATYA

6 ALLDRITT MIRANDA

7 WHITBY FIONA

8 KESSLER MEREDITH

9 KAMENZ ANNETT

10 KIERS RACHEL

11 SYM CHRISTIE

13 MADISON MACKENZIE

14 ZELAZO SUZANNE

16 BROMME ULI BROMME

17 BLATTMANN BEATRIX

18 TINGLE LAURA

19 JACOBS JESSICA

20 MOODY GILLIAN

21 MURPHY CHERYL

22 RIBES LISA

23 STEINBECHER ANDREA

24 BENZ SIMONE

29 VUCKOVIC  STEPHAN

30 DOE KIERAN

31 EVANS TOM

32 VABROUSEK PETR

33 ZYEMTSEV VIKTOR

34 CARON JONATHAN

35 BRANDS CHRIS

36 BAGG CHRISTOPHER

37 GUEMBEL WOLFGANG

38 NEYEDLI SCOTT

39 GORDON MICHAEL

40 FRY MATT

41 SCOTT GAVIN

42 VELAZQUEZ ALVARO

43 LIETO MATT

44 KILSHAW STEPHEN

45 VALDERRABANO UZZIEL

46 WHYTE JAMIE

47 TICHELAAR PAUL

48 CAIN DALLAS

49 TOTH ANTHONY

50 HIROTSUGU KUWABARA

51 PETR TOMAS

52 NEILL MIKE

53 CURRY SCOTT

54 MOSER ERNST

55 WURTELE TREVOR

56 BROWN CHRISTOPHER

57 BRADER CHRISTIAN

58 GRAY NIGEL

59 ELLIOT LEWIS

60 PIGGIN OLLY

61 MARCOTTE KYLE

62 BOSSE YNUK

63 RAMIREZ JUAN CARLOS

64 JOHNSON ROB