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IRONMAN Wales: The Age-Group champions from Tenby 2017

You don't need to be a Pro athlete to go fast. Check out the speedy amateurs from IRONMAN Wales 2017 on an epic day in Tenby.
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Who were the speedy amateur athletes at IRONMAN Wales on Sunday?

As you’ll have read in all of the reports coming from Tenby (including – hopefully – OURS!), the 2017 edition of IRONMAN Wales was something of an epic race, with the worst of the British weather combining with the challenging Pembrokeshire course to deliver a race that was quite simply a massive achievement to make it to the finish line.

It was a day for which finish times really should be taken with a pinch of salt – with Thorsten from TriRating.com ranking it, statistically, as the “second slowest ever in an Ironman-branded race”. Such analysis will likely not come as a surprise to those who were there on Sunday.

That aside, times are only a part of an Ironman story, and while Cameron Wurf (AUS) and Lucy Gossage (GBR) walked away with the Pro wins and $8,000 in prize money, there was still fierce racing across the Age-Group ranks, where it is positions that determine podium awards and Kona slots.

Here are the overall top five AG times, followed by all of the category winners.

IRONMAN UK Tenby 2017: Fastest Age-Group athletes

FEMALE

1st – Josie Rawes (GBR) – 11:23:43 – AG 25-29
2nd – Zoe Smith (GBR) – 11:26:43 – AG 35-39
3rd – Rebecca Bennett (GBR) – 11:38:15 – AG 30-34
4th – Caoimhe Ni Murchu (IRL) – 11:51:52 – AG 35-39
5th – Helena Hayes (IRL) – 11:56:05 – AG 18-24

MALE

1st – Jens Groenbek (DEN) – 9:50:47 – AG 35-39
2nd – Mariusz Olenjniczak (POL) – 10:00:12 – AG 35-39
3rd – Markus Stohr (GER) – 10:04:11 – AG 25-29
4th – Robert Fryer (GBR) – 10:04:11 – AG 30-34
5th – Simon Lovelock (GBR) – 10:06:36 – AG 30-34

IRONMAN Wales Tenby 2017: Age-Group winners

FEMALE

18-24: Helena Hayes (IRL) – 11:56:05
25-29: Josie Rawes (GBR) – 11:23:43
30-34: Rebecca Bennett (GBR) – 11:38:15
35-39: Zoe Smith (GBR) – 11:26:43
40-44: Joanna Shallcross (GBR) – 12:05:15
45-49: Heike Funk (GER) – 11:59:26
50-54: Joanna Grundle (GBR) – 12:30:25
55-59: Jane Wiley (GBR) – 12:38:28
60-64: Judith Dutton (GBR) – 15:37:49
65-69: Linda Spillane (GBR) – 16:22:26

MALE

18-24: Silas Kohn (GER) – 10:51:39
25-29: Markus Stohr (GER) – 10:04:11
30-34: Robert Fryer (GBR) – 10:04:32
35-39: Jens Groenbek (DEN) – 9:50:47
40-44: Marin Koceic (CRO) – 10:14:43
45-49: Paul Lewis (GBR) – 10:18:04
50-54: Michael Noll (GER) – 10:41:04
55-59: Martin Beare (GBR) – 11:58:30
60-64: Jean-Luc Miffand (FRA) – 12:52:59
65-69: William Picton (GBR) – 15:34:51

John Levison
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John Levison
TRI247's Chief Correspondent, John has been involved in triathlon for well over 30 years, 15 of those writing on these pages, whilst he can also be found commentating for events across the UK.
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