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 VUCKOVICÂ 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