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Ironman Wisconsin news 2003
Photos by Paul H. Phillips
Defending Ironman Wisconsin champion Heather Gollnick (Hartford, Wisc.), competing
in only her third Ironman event as a professional triathlete, made it three Ironman
titles in row by winning the 2003 Ironman Wisconsin triathlon women's title on
Sunday in Madison, Wisc.
The 33-year-old Wisconsinite displayed the same form that has seen her post two wins at Ironman Wisconsin in the past two years, as well as earning her an Ironman USA Coeur d‚Alene title back in June of this year.
Gollnick posted a strong run of three hours, 24 minutes and 30 seconds to record
an overall time of 9:46:28, 20 minutes better than second-place finisher Mary
Uhl (Santa Fe, N.M.) Gollnick overcame a strong swim and bike performance by
Desiree Ficker (Boulder, Colo.) and quickly erased the five-minute deficit she
faced off of the bike. Ficker would later pull out on the run, and Uhl would
push into second place, finishing in an overall time of 10:06:39.
Veteran triathlete Lori-Lynn Leach (Spain) finished third in 10:20:30, with
Amanda Gillam (Boulder, Colo.) fourth in 10:25:41 and Robin Oswald (San Luis
Obispo, Calif.) fifth in 10:35:48.
The men's race featured a spirited three-way battle between three athletes gunning
for their first Ironman win.Canada's Dave Harju won the spirited affair, which
featured a number of passes among three different athletes.
Harju posted an overall time of 8:55:26, the only athlete in the field to break
the nine-hour mark on a day, which saw unseasonably high temperatures pushing
into the 90s.
Torbjorn Sindballe (Denmark) and Uwe Widmann (Germany) played a cat and mouse
game with Harju, with the Canadian winning his first-ever Ironman title.
Sindballe finished second, a career best, in 9:00:56 with Widmann third in 9:02:50.
Ironman veteran Petr Vabrousek (Czech Republic) used a strong run to finish fourth
in 9:08:37, with Terry Labinski (Waukesha, Wisc.) finishing fifth in 9:22:59.
Labinski was the top age group (amateur) finisher at the event.
More than 1,800 athletes (1,807) from around the world competed in the event,
taking place in Madison and surrounding Dane County for the second time. Athletes
were competing for 80 qualifying spots to the Ironman World Championship in Kona,
Hawaii as well as a $25,000 pro prize purse.
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