Met him briefly at St. Anthony's last year walking down for a swim the day before the race. He was being followed by a camera guy, so I just shook his hand and told him I really enjoyed watching his race in Kona last year. He said thanks and wait til this year...turns out he was right. I was actually surprised how big he was given the pictures I've seen of him. A lot bigger than the few ITU guys I've met. He's a bit taller than me, so I'd guess he's just a shade over 6ft tall.

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Seven feet tall!
At least, that's what I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume you with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.

AAAAHHHHH!! I just signed it to write that EXACT same thing!!! crazy eh.
well...good on ya mate

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Q: Emma, can you tell me how tall Chris is and what his inseam happens to be. Thanks Nov-11-07 A: Chris is 5:11 but i am not sure of his inseam. He rode a 55cm Talon SL when he was with Kestrel. This bike would ride perfect for someone who rides...more


And by the way you got that wrong his eyes shoot thunderbolts and fire is from his arse!

Nowhere near as tall as Stadler.... unless he stands on Faris's shoulders.. And if he is taller than Stadler, that's because Stadler choose not to grow as much as he could if he wanted, or fell victim to a mysterous overnight shrinking disease.

I was actually with him at the Mayweather/Hatton fight this past weekend in Vegas.....he is friends with a good friend of mine and it was great to meet him for the first time. I was stunned at how much bigger he was in person. He is 5-11' and told me he is at 175 right now......he was every bit of 170 at Hawaii.

Interesting. He actually looks like he carries a bit of bodyfat around the middle as well. Hardly overweight, but not as ultra-lean as some of the guys out there. You'd very rarely see one of the top ITU guys carrying as much fat as he does - I wonder if there's an advantage to IM athletes to be a bit heavier than their ITU counterparts, since a lot of them seem to be. Could be injury resistance or just plain power on the bike.

He looks lighter than 170 when he is racing. I'd be surprised if he was over 160 when racing.

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I don't know, he has some big legs and, at 6'+, I wouldn't be surprised if he was 170...

ITU guys are tiny because they have to run 30 minutes for 10k. In "relative" terms, even the fastest IM guys don't really run that fast (4mins/k)

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yea but macca was running sub 4min/km at IM Hawaii.

I remember reading an interview in a Tri magazine with Macca where he said that he had "a bigger frame" than most of the guys he was racing and so he had a harder time keeping his temp. low (like Sindballe).

And in response to the statement that he wasn't as lean as the ITU guys, here is my theory on that. The standard for a good OLY race is sub-2 hours, an endurance event, but obviously not in the same way as an IM. One of the key aspects to true endurance events is fueling and fat stores are a good source of fuel for the human body, so my guess, he trained his body to use fat as fuel in which case being a skeleton wouldn't really be the best idea.

He was much thinner during his ITU days:

Dude, he was running 3m50s.....if 4 isn't "fast" neither is that!!! (Although for IM it is )

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no, the fat stores used in an endurance event would be primarily intramuscular. even a very lean athlete has plenty of fat stores for race fueling.

In Ironman racing you just need some more muscle on the bike to get to T2 with some semblance of legs and as Boney says, you don't need to run that fast, so carrying a few extra pounds of muscle gains you more on the bike than you lose on the run (in my view)....for ITU, its all about carry as little mass as possible that allows you to stay with swim pack 1, catch the bike train and then carry minimal weight for a 30ish 10K...

Dev

FYI, there is no such thing as 5'11". All men go from 5'10 to 6', but I don't know why.

I believe Matt Reid is around 6'3" and he does quite well.

I'm not sure how tall Macca is but I'm sure he's wearing a helmet one size bigger after Kona ;-)

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"He's 6-5, with the afro 6-9. 4 Million dollars a year sure..but he's worth every penny. Fletch, he defines grace under pressure."

Andy Potts too....

I'm just about 5'8" , Macca's probably right at 6'

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I don't think he is 6' -- I am 5'2 and have a pic with him from Baja 70.3 -- if you tell me how to upload it; I will.

That's because Mark Allen told him he was too thin last year. He told us that at our the LA Tri Club meeting in Sept.

I'd say 6"1 and 160lbs.

I chatted to him for 5 mins or so in 2005 over toast and coffee , standing.

I'm 5"9 ( 5"10 on a good day ) and he's clearly 3 inches taller than I am.

I will add here as well , a really nice guy and very misunderstood. I am very happy he won this year :)

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