Germany's Patrick Lange wins 2018 Ironman World Championship

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Germany's Patrick Lange wins 2018 Ironman World Championship

Patrick Lange won the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii on Saturday and became the first athlete to break the eight-hour mark in the grueling event.
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The 32-year-old finished with a record-breaking 7 hours, 52 minutes and 39 seconds, beating his 2017 time by nine minutes. Belgian Bart Aernouts came in second with a time 7:56:41 and Britain's David McNamee got the bronze, finishing in 8:01:09.At first, Lange was behind in the swimming event, but managed to come back in the cycling and running sections to win it all.
In the women's event, Austria's Daniela Ryf captured her fourth Ironman World Championship in a row and also set a race record, finishing with a time of 8:26:16. She was behind in the swimming competition, hindered by a jellyfish attack.

Daniela Ryf set a record on her fourth-straight Ironman World Championship win

"This was the hardest swim I ever hard," Ryf said. But the Austrian overtook Lucy Charles of England with a strong performance in the cycling event, where she broke the record in that section by 18 minutes.

Charles came in second overall with a time fo 8:36:34 and Germany's Anne Haug captured the bronze in 8:41:58, giving Germany its first female medal in the event in over 10 years.
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