Canada’s Tenille Hoogland wins Ironman 70.3 Pocono Mountains

Jessie Thomas takes the men's title.

Rogerhospedales September 30, 2012

Canada’s Tenille Hoogland got out to the early lead after a 21:56 swim, rode the top women’s bike split of 2:27:59 to further pad her lead, and coasted in with a 1:31:08 half marathon to win with relative ease in 4:23:52 at Ironman 70.3 Poconos in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania today. Americans Amber Ferreira (4:30:55), and Beth Shutt (4:30:57) took second and third respectively. Jessie Donavan, the Ironman Lake Placid and Mont-Tremblant champion, surrendered over 8 minutes to Hoogland after the swim and just could not make up the gap.

Canadians Miranda Tomenson-Bharadwaj finished 7^th (4:35:03), Christine Fletcher 8^th (4:36:56), and Cindy Lewis 11^th (4:54:30).

Pro Women

1. HOOGLAND, Tenille CAN 04:23:52

2. FERREIRA, Amber USA 04:30:35

3. SHUTT, Beth USA 04:30:57

4. DONAVAN, Jessie USA 04:32:11

5. LEIGGI, Heather USA 04:33:21

7. TOMENSON-BHARADWAJ, Miranda CAN 04:35:03

8. FLETCHER, Christine CAN 04:36:56

11. LEWIS, Cindy CAN 04:54:30

American Jessie Thomas simply outrode (2:10:32) and outran (1:14:49) everyone to lock down victory in 3:49:41. Fellow American Jordan Jones had the second best run (1:15:41) to take the runner-up position (3:54:02), and Germany’s Maik Twelsiek closed with a 1:17:42 half marathon to take third (3:55:01).

Canada’s Ryan Cain finished 12^th (4:15:40), and Martin Lamontagne Lacasse 15^th (4:24:56).

Pro Men

1. THOMAS, Jesse USA 03:49:41

2. JONES, Jordan USA 03:54:02

3. TWELSIEK, Maik GER 03:55:01

4. SUNDBERG, Swen GER 03:56:24

5. SNILSTVEIT, Gudmund NOR 03:57:16

12. CAIN, Ryan CAN 04:15:40

15. LAMONTAGNE LACASSE, Martin CAN 04:24:56