Richie Cunningham gets podium finish in Ironman 70.3 Austin

Australian Richie Cunningham achieved a solid third place finish in the Lone Star state. Cunningham who now lives in Austin, had won the race for the past two years, and is very familiar with the course as he is able to train over it on a regular basis, however this year he was piped to line honors by James Cunama and Marko Albert. Richie put in a consistently good performance across all three disciplines, but was out biked by Albert, and out run by Cunnama who put in a blisteringly fast 1hr 12 minute half marathon. Paul Amey withdrew from the race after the swim.

In the womens race Australia’s Christie Sym was able to run her way into fourth place after snapping her chain on the bike. The race was won by Switzerland’s Nicola Spirig.

This race was also the first age group qualifying race for the newly announced Ironman 70.3 World Championships on September 11, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada

POS	ATHLETE	AGE/DIV	SWIM	BIKE	RUN	TOTAL
1	Cunnama, James	27/MPRO	0:25:29	2:12:22	1:12:56	3:53:57
2	Albert, Marko	31/MPRO	0:23:04	2:08:25	1:20:43	3:55:06
3	Cunningham, Richie	37/MPRO	0:24:31	2:13:51	1:16:03	3:57:04
4	Degasperi, Alessandro	30/MPRO	0:24:35	2:13:48	1:16:12	3:57:29
5	Symonds, Jeff	25/MPRO	0:24:32	2:13:57	1:16:37	3:57:57
6	Poulsen, Brent	28/MPRO	0:24:34	2:13:55	1:18:38	4:00:02
7	Seng, Brad	41/MPRO	0:26:37	2:15:49	1:18:39	4:04:45
8	Wurtele, Trevor	31/MPRO	0:26:34	2:14:27	1:20:28	4:04:54
9	Elliot, Lewis	30/MPRO	0:26:42	2:11:50	1:24:13	4:05:48
10	Mikelson, Ian	30/MPRO	0:25:55	2:15:02	1:22:22	4:06:41
11	Spirig, Nicola	28/WPRO	0:24:49	2:15:37	1:25:41	4:09:34
12	Sickl, Heinrich	37/MPRO	0:26:48	2:15:42	1:24:30	4:10:29
13	Russell, Matthew	27/MPRO	0:36:11	2:13:57	1:18:00	4:11:17
14	Toth, Anthony	30/MPRO	0:26:47	2:14:23	1:28:28	4:13:29
15	Vondracek, Jesse	29/MPRO	0:26:36	2:19:44	1:24:12	4:14:08
16	Dyke, Stephen	48/MPRO	0:26:32	2:19:59	1:24:09	4:14:33
17	Gloekler, Matt	21/MPRO	0:26:32	2:20:21	1:24:47	4:15:12
18	Valera, Cesar	33/MPRO	0:28:37	2:15:41	1:28:38	4:16:50
19	Naeth, Angela	28/WPRO	0:29:49	2:18:28	1:26:28	4:17:58
20	Young, Dantley	26/MPRO	0:31:18	2:15:14	1:27:59	4:18:56
21	Warriner, Samantha	39/WPRO	0:26:24	2:22:21	1:30:02	4:22:01
22	Sym, Christie	27/WPRO	0:27:40	2:21:42	1:29:54	4:23:03
23	Mlinar, Markus	30/MPRO	0:30:28	2:15:26	1:33:29	4:23:10
24	De Bruin, Gerhard	26/MPRO	0:26:38	2:16:00	1:37:10	4:23:23
25	Wurtele, Heather	31/WPRO	0:27:31	2:20:40	1:31:28	4:23:25
26	Watson, Jason	31/MPRO	0:30:17	2:26:27	1:23:31	4:23:48
27	Meyers, Jessica	32/WPRO	0:27:38	2:26:24	1:27:42	4:24:56
28	Clode, Peter	39/MPRO	0:24:36	2:17:36	1:39:37	4:25:06
29	Kraft, Nina	42/WPRO	0:24:51	2:27:49	1:30:08	4:26:11
30	Jackson, Heather	26/WPRO	0:29:40	2:19:36	1:36:47	4:29:14
31	Gervais, Annie	35/WPRO	0:30:34	2:27:03	1:28:13	4:29:24
32	Bromme, Uli	29/WPRO	0:29:39	2:27:31	1:28:23	4:29:31
33	Wernick, Charisa	34/WPRO	0:29:55	2:29:26	1:29:52	4:32:51
34	Castro, Terra	30/WPRO	0:27:34	2:29:17	1:33:22	4:33:38
35	Homo, Malaika	32/WPRO	0:26:19	2:26:09	1:39:17	4:35:07
36	Kirkham, Amy	26/WPRO	0:30:50	2:30:10	1:30:51	4:35:44
37	Harrison, Lauren	33/WPRO	0:30:43	2:25:36	1:37:56	4:38:16
38	Jesberger, Heidi	32/WPRO	0:27:36	2:33:35	1:34:15	4:39:01
39	Luebke, Jennifer	24/WPRO	0:27:35	2:28:48	1:40:51	4:41:03
40	Asplund, Marisa	33/WPRO	0:36:35	2:26:08	1:34:29	4:41:10
41	Van Der Merwe, Natasha	29/WPRO	0:34:11	2:27:01	1:38:48	4:43:34
42	Iavarone, Kristin	31/WPRO	0:30:47	2:40:45	1:49:21	5:04:53
43	Bau, Fernanda	26/WPRO	0:27:39	2:37:58	1:56:20	5:06:06

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