Pro Men entered in the 1997 Ironman World Championship (Oct. 18, Kona, Hawaii): Australia: Murray Dunn Grant Giles Chris Legh Ironman Australia 3rd Adam Radford Jason Shortis Ironman Australia 6th / Ironman Japan 7th Shane Smith Peter Taylor Bruce Thomas. Ironman Australia 5th Belgium: Dirk Van Gossum Jean Moureau. Ironman Lanzarote 4th Brazil: Armando Barcellos Porto Seguro 4th Leandro Macedo Porto Seguro 2nd Alexandre Ribeiro. Porto Seguro 3rd Britain: Julian Jenkinson Powerman Zofingen 10th / Ironman Switzerland 7th Canada: Frederic Biondi Ironman Canada 9th Michael Buck Ironman Canada 6th Ian Fraser Noel Harrington; Ironman Canada 1st Erik Myllymaki; Peter Reid Ironman Australia 1st / Ironman Lanzarote 1st Randy Zabukovec. Chile: Cristian Bustos. Colombia: Ricardo Cardeno. Czech Republic: Tomas Petr Michal Pilousek. Denmark: Peter Sandvang. Ironman New Zealand 3rd / Nice 4th Finland: Anssi Lehtinen Ironman Lanzarote 7th Kai Soderdahl. France: Christophe Bastie Ironman Switzerland 8th Didier Curtet Rene Rovera. Germany: Jochen Basting Ironman Germany 9th Wolfgang Dittrich Harald Feierabend; Siegfried Gerstl Powerman Zofingen 4th Ingo Frantzki Juergen Hauber Thomas Hellriegel; Ironman Australia 2nd / Ironman Germany 4th Matthias Klumpp Ironman Germany 7th Lothar Leder Ironman New Zealand 1st / Ironman Germany 3rd Steffen-Marc Liebetrau Ironman Switzerland 9th Holger Lorenz Ironman Germany 6th Dirk Niederau Andreas Niedrig Nice 7th / Ironman Germany 5th Sven Riedesel Ironman Lanzarote 9th Alex Taubert Uwe Widmann Ironman Switzerland 5th Jurgen Zack Ironman Australia 4th / Ironman Germany 2nd Hungary: Peter Kropko Ironman Japan 1st Tibor Lehmann. Ironman Japan 4th Italy Marco Damiani. Japan: Yuji Fukiwara Ironman Japan 8th Makoto Komatsuzaki Ironman Japan 14th Hidea Miyazuka Taro Sirato Yoshinori Tamura Ironman Japan 3rd Shingo Tani Ironman Japan 6th Mitsuhiro Yamamoto Ironman Japan 10th Netherlands: Frank Heldoorn. New Zealand: Scott Ballance Ironman NewZealand 6th Stephen Farrell Ironman NewZealand 4th Bryan Rhodes Ironman NewZealand 8th / Ironman Canada 4th Grant Schofield Russell Smith. Norway: Trond Evald Hansen Arild Tveiten. Poland: Grzegorz Zgliczynski. Slovenia: Igor Kogoj. Ironman Australia 7th South Africa: Jonathan Barber. Switzerland: Olivier Bernhard Powerman Zofingen 3rd Jean-Marc Coendet Pierre-Alain Frossard Powerman Zofingen 9th / Ironman Switzerland 1st Bernhard Hug. Ukraine: Bogdan Mykhalus. USA: James Bonney James Curwen Tim DeBoom Tony DeBoom Ironman Switzerland 4th Luis De La Torre T.J. Fry Ken Glah Ironman NewZealand 7th / Porto Seguro 1st Brent Imonen Mark James Lars Jorgensen Chip MacElhiney Michael McCormack Ironman Japan 2nd Tim Monaco Hugh Murray Alec Rukosuev ST. ANTHONY'S 2nd Scott Tinley Michael Tobin Ironman Canada 5th Peter Valentyik Chuckie Veylupek Tim Watson; Cameron Widoff Darren Wood. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pro Women in the 1997 Ironman World Championship (Oct. 18, Kona, Hawaii): Argentina: Vicky Coronel. Australia: Louise Davoren Ironman Australia 9th Anne Martin Sally Martin. Ironman Canada 7th Brazil: Cristina Carvalho Porto Seguro 4th Fernanda Keller. Porto Seguro 1st Canada: Lisa Bentley Ironman Canada 4th Lori Bowden Ironman Australia 3rd / Ironman Canada 1st Heather Fuhr Ironman Japan 1st / Ironman Switzerland 3rd Melissa Spooner. Ironman Canada 2nd Colombia: Maria Moraels. Denmark: Karin Jorgensen Ironman Lanzarote 3rd Jeannette Pardorf Ironman Lanzarote 9th Germany: Dagmar Geissinger Ironman Switzerland 4th Katja Mayer Ute Mueckel Ironman Switzerland 1st Katja Schumacher. Ironman Germany 3rd Hong Kong: Kim Isherwood. Ironman NewZealand 10th Japan: Noriko Yamakura. New Zealand: Tara-Lee Marshall Ironman Canada 10th Jo Moysey. Switzerland: Natascha Badmann Powerman Zofingen 1st Bettina Ernst USA: Laurie Abrams Lauren Alexander Ironman NewZealand 2nd / Ironman Canada 6th Danelle Ballangee Powerman Zofingen 6th Lee DiPietro Laura Drake Debbie Hornsby Wendy Ingraham Ironman Australia 2nd Lauren Jensen Lauren Maule Marci Mauro Ironman Canada 8th Paula Newby-Fraser Ironman Australia 1st / Ironman Lanzarote 1st Juliana Nievergelt Nice 9th / ST. ANTHONY'S 6th Holly Nybo Ironman Germany 4th / Ironman Canada 5th Sharon Sander Martha Sorensen Sian Welch. Ironman On-Line Home Page
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