In even more excitement, rookie (her first Ironman length race was 7 weeks ago in Korea ! ) Chrissie Wellington, from Great Britain, claimed the women's title finished in an amazing 9:08:45. The 6:45am Hawaii Standard Time start to the 2.4 mile swim, followed by 112 mile bicycle race, and a 26.2 mile marathon saw defending champions 2006 Normann Stadler and Michellie Jones and 2005 Faris Al-Sultan and Cameron Brown struck down due to stomach ailments; six-time winner Natascha Badmann totaling her bike after crashing into road cone; and the sidelining of Luke Bell due to a leg injury. (And most of this was during the bike portion!) But normal returned as many of the 1,788 starters completed before the October 14, 2007 12am deadline.
In even more excitement, rookie (her first Ironman length race was 7 weeks ago in Korea ) Chrissie Wellington, from Great Britain, claimed the women's title finished in 9:08:45. The 6:45am Hawaii Standard Time start to the 2.4 mile swim, followed by 112 mile bicycle race, and a 26.2 mile marathon saw defending champions 2006 Normann Stadler and Michellie Jones and 2005 Faris Al-Sultan and Cameron Brown struck down due to stomach ailments; six-time winner Natascha Badmann totaling her bike after crashing into road cone; and the sidelining of Luke Bell due to a leg injury. But "normal" returned as many of the 1,788 starters completed before the October 14, 2007 12:00am deadline.
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