Magnificent Marino – 16 wins and still counting…

He may be 41 years of age - but Belgium's Marino Vanhoenacker has just won his SIXTEENTH Professional IRONMAN title in Mont-Tremblant
Marino Vanhoenacker - IRONMAN Mont-Tremblant
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The triathlon year for Belgium’s Marino Vanhoenacker started with a DNF at IRONMAN New Zealand, and then a planned start at IRONMAN Lanzarote ended before it started following a bike crash and broken bones.

However, Marino is a man who is driven to win and at IRONMAN Mont-Tremblant he added is 16th career IRONMAN title to his C.V. He has now won at least one IRONMAN in 12 of the last 13 seasons.

In typical style, Marino crushed everyone on the bike via a 4:26:56 bike split – to which he added the only Sub-3 marathon of the day too.

IRONMAN Mont-Tremblant – Sunday 20th August 2017
3.8km / 180km / 42.2km

1st – Marino Vanhoenacker (BEL) – 8:21:29
2nd – Chris McDonald (AUS) – 8:41:47
3rd – Jordan Monnick (CAN) – 8:51:29

Marino Vanhoenacker’s 16 Career Ironman Wins

Year
Event(s)
2005
Ironman Florida
2006
Ironman Austria
2007
Ironman Austria
2008
Ironman Austria
2009
Ironman South Africa, Ironman Austria
2010
Ironman Malaysia, Ironman Austria
2011
Ironman Austria
2012
Ironman Frankfurt (Euro Champs)
2013
N/A
2014
Ironman Canada
2015
Ironman Brasil, Ironman Austria
2016
Ironman Austria, Ironman Chattanooga
2017
Ironman Mont-Tremblant
Written by
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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