Setting up Ironman South Africa
Tissink is back to defend, sort of.
On Sunday, April 22, Raynard Tissink will return to defend his Ironman South Africa title on home soil in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Tissink, has raced in all seven editions of Ironman South Africa and confessed that he is not racing for the podium this time around.
“Racing socially this year, just to be a part of it,” said Tissink on his Facebook page. We will have to wait and see if he’s playing possum.
Either way he will have to contend with Germany’s Andi Boecherer, Switzerland’s Mike Aigroz, and fellow South African James Cunnama.
Look for Jodie Swallow (UK) and Spain’s Virginia Berasategui to lead the way in the women’s race. Ironman legend Natascha Badmann (SUI) is also in the field.
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Andi Boecherer GERMANY James Cunnama SOUTH AFRICA Mike Aigroz SWITZERLAND Ivan Albano BRAZIL Clemente Alonso-Mckernan SPAIN Bruno Clerbout BELGIUM Cyril Viennot FRANCE Michael Davidson SOUTH AFRICA Trevor Delsaut FRANCE Markus Fachbach GERMANY Kent Horner SOUTH AFRICA Jonathan Hotchkiss UNITED KINGDOM Freddy Lampret SOUTH AFRICA Andrey Lyatskiy RUSSIAN FEDERATION Guilherme Manocchio BRAZIL Sylvain Rota FRANCE Alejandro Santamaria SPAIN Steven Shirley SOUTH AFRICA Joseph Spindler GERMANY Georg Swoboda AUSTRIA Raynard Tissink SOUTH AFRICA Craig Twigg UNITED KINGDOM Petr Vabrousek CZECH REPUBLIC Michael Wetzel GERMANY
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Diana Riesler GERMANY Virginia Berasategui SPAIN Natascha Badmann SWITZERLAND Anne Basso FRANCE Simone Brändli SWITZERLAND Susan Dietrich GERMANY Jacqui Gordon UNITED STATES Claire Horner SOUTH AFRICA Caroline Koll SOUTH AFRICA Dianne McEwan SOUTH AFRICA Nina Pekerman ISRAEL Emi Sakai JAPAN Jodie Swallow UNITED KINGDOM Kathrin Walther GERMANY
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