Ironman Announces 2004
Final Standings
By Staff for Ironmanlive.com on Wed, Aug 10th 2005 (4:17 PM).
Rutger Beke has been declared not guilty concerning the use of EPO, which means that the standings for the 2004 Ironman World Championship will now be considered final.
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Based on the official announcement made by the Belgian Triathlon and Duathlon Federation on August 9 stating that professional triathlete Rutger Beke has been declared not guilty concerning the use of EPO, Ironman has lifted his provisional suspension. Beke will now be permitted to compete in future Ironman-licensed events.
With Beke no longer under the provisional suspension, standings at the 2004 Ironman World Championship will now be considered final.
The standings are as follows:
1st Normann Stadler
2nd Peter Reid
3rd Faris Al-Sultan
4th Alex Taubert
5th Rutger Beke
6th Torbjorn Sindballe
7th Cameron Widoff
8th Timo Bracht
9th Rene Rovera
10th Raynard Tissink
“Now that I have been fully cleared from this doping accusation, I can focus again on my job and my favorite sport,” Beke said in a release posted on his website. “My number one objective remains to win the Ironman Hawaii one of these years!”