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And the #KonaTop3 competition winners are…

The numbers have been crunched and the entries reviewed... and here are the prize winners of the 2017 #KonaTop3 competition
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Our 2017 IRONMAN World Championship coverage offered readers the opportunity to predict the podium positions in Kona (#KonaTop3) – and potentially win prizes of an IRONMAN Wales entry or IRONMAN 70.3 Edinburgh entry, courtesy of the team at IRONMAN UK & Ireland.

How the winners were determined:

For each athlete you correctly predicted in the correct finishing position, you earned three points. If you correctly predicted a top three finisher but in a different position, that earned one point. In the event of a tie, the closest prediction to the overall winning time was the decider.

Thus, a maximum of 18 points could be earned if you were able to correctly predict the Men’s AND Women’s podium, in the correct order… which nobody did!

And the winners were:

When the points were totalled up we had two entrants who both secured a total of 12 points.

Ignacio de las Heras managed to predict both of the top-two (Lange/Sanders and Ryf/Charles) in the correct order, while Neil Sorrell got the full women’s podium correct (Ryf/Charles/Crowley), while also picking Lionel Sanders to finish second in the men’s race.

With two entrants on 12 points and two prizes to give away, who won? The tie-breaker question was predicting the finishing time of the men’s winner, and on that basis (with a prediction of 8:04:30, less than three minutes away from the new course record of Patrick Lange), the winner is Ignacio de las Heras….

Prizes:

  • 1st Prize – Ignacio de las Heras – Entry to IRONMAN Wales 2018
  • 2nd Prize – Neil Sorrell – Entry to IRONMAN 70.3 Edinburgh 2018

Congratulations to Ignacio and Neil – and many thanks to all of you for entering this year’s #KonaTop3 competition.

#GBKona coverage 2017

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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