Jonathan Puskas

Not bad for a guy who used to race in OBRA events...





Many records fall as Larsen, Fuhr sweep Isuzu Ironman

Lake Placid

By Kelly Mione for Ironmanlive.com on Mon, Jul 30th

2001 (7:04 AM).



In a day filled with record-breaking performances,

Steve Larsen of Davis, Calif., put on an amazing

display of athletic ability to win the third annual

Isuzu Ironman USA Lake Placid triathlon.





Ideal race conditions at the 20001 Isuzu Ironman USA

Lake Placid saw new course records in every category

(swim, bike, run, overall) except the women?s bike.





Larsen smashed both the bike course record (4:33:23)

and the course record (8:33:11) to post his first-ever

Ironman victory. What makes Larsen?s victory even more

impressive is the fact that it was the first Ironman

event of his career, and only his third triathlon of

any length.





Larsen, a two-time NORBA Cross Country Mountain Biking

Champion, came out of the water in 132nd place

overall, but quickly hammered his way through the

field to take control of the race on the bike. By the

time he reached T2, he had a 15-minute lead headed out

on the marathon portion of the event.







U.S. Olympian Ryan Bolton (Boulder, Colo.), also

competing in his first Ironman, made up ground on

Larsen with a record-setting run (2:49:52), but

couldn?t catch him, settling for second place in his

Ironman debut.





Cameron Widoff (Boulder, Colo.), last year?s champion,

finished third (8:55:07), with Austria?s Norbert

Domnik was fourth (8:56:50) and Hideya Miyazuka of

Japan finished fifth (9:05:49).







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Jonathan C. Puskas

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