Lesing wins florida half ironman in 3:52

The top five men to finish todays race are:
Simon Lessing, 3:52:06
Victor Zyemtsev, 3:57:41
Luke Bell, 3:58:25
Michael Lovato, 4:00:54
Levi Maxwell, 4:01:28
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From Ironmanlive.com:

Badmann Wins!

Last year’s Ironman Triathlon World Champion and this year’s Ironman South Africa Champion, Natascha Badmann has won today’s race. Badmann finished today’s race with what else but a beautiful smile and great attitude!

Lessing had some impressive times too. First in the swim, 3rd in the bike and 2nd in the run.

3:52:06 LESSING, SIMON BOULDER CO USA 1 24:07 2:12 3 2:07:54 26.3 2:07 2 1:15:47 5:48

fastest run for zemstyev -sp-? that guy has some killing run

And Spencer Smith got DQ’ed… too bad for him.

ZYEMTSEV got 4th on the run, Darrin Shearer got first. Here is the results page:

http://vnews.ironmanlive.com/assets/results/05.FL.5.htm

with a 2h07’ bike split maybe some here will reconsider lessing not being a stronger rider…LOL…

What did Spencer ger DQ’ed for?

Two penaltys on the bike…

Thanks.

with a 2h07’ bike split maybe some here will reconsider lessing not being a stronger rider…LOL…

Well, he’s always been strong, but this year he’s fast on the flat stuff with his new bike position.

What was Bjorn’s bike split there last year?

I think it was 2:02 something.