Ironman Hawaii
Saturday, October 6
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The 23^rd edition of Ironman Hawaii kicks off at 7am Saturday in Kona. This year's race will have a new look as the bike to run transition has been moved, resulting in an altered run and bike course. Defending champions Natascha Badmann and Peter Reid both return, as do most of the top ten from last year. The question mark is Luc van Lierde, who has raced very little this year and for unspecified reasons pulled out (before the race) of the Half Ironman UK in early September.

From Katherine William's Triathlon Digest, here is the complete list of pro starters for Ironman Hawaii

Men

- Men from Argentina: Juan Mutti, Martin Sturla
- Men from Australia: Steven Brasch, Mitch Dean, Sean Foster, Chris
Legh, Jason Shortis, John van Wisse, Grant Webster
- Men from Austria: Norbert Domnik, Alexander Fruhwirth
- Men from Belgium: Marc Herremans, Philip Segers, Luc van Lierde
- Men from Brazil: Alexandre Ribeiro, Ricardo Santos
- Men from Britain: Paul Amey, Spencer Smith
- Men from Canada: Jasper Blake, Jamie Cleveland, Kevin Cutjar, Dave
Harju, Simon Malo, Mike Neill, Peter Reid
- Men from Croatia: Daniel Kezele
- Men from Czech Republic: Tomas Petr, Jan Rehula, Petr Vabrousek
- Men from Denmark: Peter Sandvang
- Men from Estonia: Lirill Litovtsenko, Margus Tamm
- Men from Finland: Mika Luoto
- Men from France: Rene Rovera
- Men from Germany: Faris Al-Sultan, Ralf Eggert, Markus Forster, Thomas
Hellriegel, Stefan holzner, Paul Kemper, Andreas Koch, Sascha Kruecke,
Lothar Leder, Steffen Liebetrau, Marcus Melcher, Andreas Niedrig, Thomas
Pumm, Alfred Rahm, Olaf Sabatschus, Normann Stadler, Alex Taubert,
Juergen Zaeck
- Men from Japan: Hideya Miyazuka, Takumi Obara, Yoshinori Tamura,
Shingo Tani
- Men from the Netherlands: Guido Gosselink
- Men from New Zealand: Cameron Brown, Bryan Rhodes, Stephen Sheldrake
- Men from Slovenia: Uros Velepec
- Men from South Africa: Raynard tissink, Jan van Rooyen
- Men from Switzerland: Christoph Mauch, Stefan Riesen, Bruno von Flue,
Lukas Zgraggen
- Men from USA: Eric Bean, Ryan Bolton, James Bonney, Tim DeBoom, Tony
DeBoom, Ken Glah, Brent Imonen, Steve Larsen, Chris Lieto, Tim
Luchinske, Lance Muzslay, Dave Scott, Cameron Widoff, Todd Wiley

Women
- Women from Argentina: Veronica Avene
- Women from Belgium: Kathleen Smet
- Women from Brazil: Fernanda Keller
- Women from Canada: Gillian Bakker, Lisa Bentley, Lori Bowden, Heather
Fuhr, Lori-Lynn Leach, Jacqueline Lewis, Jill Savege
- Women from Denmark: Lisbeth Kristiansen
- Women from Germany: Laura Bieger, Cordula Gruber, Sabine Heinrich,
Wenke Kajula, Nina Kraft, Nicole Leder, Ute Mueckel, Katja Schumacher,
Silvia Vaupel
- Women from Japan: Yoko Hori, Yoko Okuda, Noriko Yamakura
- Women from New Zealand: Karyn Ballance, Joanna Lawn, Tara-Lee Marshall
- Women from Sweden: Lena Wahlqvist
- Women from Switzerland: Natascha Badmann
- Women from USA: Laura Drake, Andrea Fisher, Wendy Ingraham, Gina Kehr,
Jeanne-Anne Krizman, Lauren Maule, Donna McMahon, Paula Newby-Fraser,
Kelly Rees, Karen Smyers, Joanna Zeiger, Beth Zinkand