Lisa Marangon Wins Ironman 70.3 Port Macquarie

Sydney’s Lisa Marangon put  together a strong bike leg to set herself up for a convincing win in the women’s race today in Port Macquarie.

Marangon dominated the bike and run to claim one of her best wins over the distance, further inspired with 13-year-old son Josh watching on. Andrea Forrest delivered an outstanding performance to finish second ahead of Holly Ranson.

An emotional Marangon revealed a rough lead up to the race today.

“I’m so happy, I was unable to run because I had a calf strain so didn’t know if I’d be able to run,” Marangon said.

Pip Taylor lead out of the swim from Marangon who then made short work of reeling her in. She then cranked out the 13th fastest bike split of the day (2:59:37) to set up a 9min 20sec lead heading out onto the 21.1km run.

It was then a race for the minor placing’s for the chasers and to see if they could claw back any time on Marangon. Forrest was the quickest on the run to secure a podium place with Ranson doing enough to hold on for third.

Marangon was full of praise for her team that helped her recover from the injury and the fantastic crowd.

“Being patient and not running, it all paid off and I’m really, really happy.”

“It’s a really good feeling to win this title, I’ve had a pretty rough year not racing to my full potential but maybe that injury that happened ten days ago was a blessing in disguise and I could perform at my best today so I was really, really happy.

It sets the 33 year-old up for a great performance at IRONMAN Western Australian in December.

“It was all about getting my nutrition right, which is where I really fall down in my Ironman racing. I think I really nailed it today.”

Results:

1 Lisa MARANGON      (Aust)         4:30:48
2 Andrea FORREST     (Aust)         4:40:53
3 Holly RANSON          (Aust)         4:52:51