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Ironman World Championship Trivia Quiz

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1. On which island was the first Ironman held?
2. In what year did the first-ever Ironman take place?
3. Who started Ironman?
4. In what month did the first Ironman take place?
5. How many competitors showed up to that first race?
6. How many people finished the first ironman?
7. Was the winning finish time for that first race over or under 12 hours?
8. What was the occupation of the first winner?
9. How long did the last place finisher take to complete the first ironman?
10. How much was the entry fee to the first race?
11. In what year did the race move to the Big Island?
12. The longest finish time ever was set at the 1981 edition of Ironman. How long did 73-year old Walt Stack take to finish?
13. True or false: Ironman was held twice in one year in the ‘80s.
14. In 1982, Julie Moss famously crawled to the finish line. The crawl was aired on a broadcast network channel and became one of the most iconic moments in Ironman history, inspiring people around the world to start their own Ironman journeys. Which network broadcast that crawl?
15. Who was the “Iron War” between?
16. What year was the first year the race reached more than 1000 participants?
17. In 1985, Ironman added its first international qualifying races two countries: New Zealand and which other country?
18.

In 1983, race organizers initiated the first Ironman cutoff time. What was that cutoff time?
19. 1986 marked an important addition to the World Championship race. What was it?
20. The longest standing record in the Ironman World Championship history is Mark Allen’s marathon record, set in 1989 (and broken last year). What was Mark Allen’s record?
21. Two-time winner Erin Baker is married to what fellow Ironman star?
22. This eventual top three Ironman finisher from Chile ran a 2:19 open marathon at his first attempt in the early ‘90s
23.

This Australian goofball once posed for photos in a joker’s costume and is known for jumping across the finish line with both hands in the air. He was also once a full-time construction worker in the years before placing top three at IMWC.
24. How old was Dave Scott when he finished second to Welchy in 1994?
25. What year did the first handcycle competitor complete IMWC?
26. In 1995, Mark Allen wore ______ in order to save time during the swim.
27.

In 1995, Chile’s Christian Bustos received a “best comeback of the year” award for his 6th place finish in Kona after he:
28.

The woman to snap Paula Newby-Fraser’s four year winning streak in 1995 was:
29. Also known as “Wildman,” this guy raced IMWC with dreadlocks in the nineties:
30.

In the annals of dated (and regrettable) photography, this German athlete once posed as a shirtless Zorro for the cover of Competitor Magazine.
31. This Baywatch star has competed in IMWC:
32. This athlete took a year off from Kona to try to make her country’s Olympic team before winning three IMWC titles in a row in the early ‘00s:
33.

Just over a month after the events of September 11, this American won IMWC in Kona:
34.

In 2001, Steve Larsen finished in the top ten, what was his background?
35.

Before the 2002 edition, this outspoken athlete boasted about wanting to win six IMWC titles.  After leading into T1, he was reduced to walking and dropped out in the marathon.
36. Natascha Badmann’s nickname is:
37.

This husband-and-wife duo shared the Kona podium five times during their careers
38. Peter Reid started training for Kona ____ weeks out from race day in 2002.
39.

What caused Tim DeBoom to drop out during the marathon in 2003?
40. Germany’s Normann Stadler tossed this into the lava fields in 2005.
41.

Legendary British triathlete--and Ironman Hall of Fame inductee--Chrissie Wellington seemed to come out of nowhere to win her first Kona in 2007. Her final win was in 2011. How many total Kona wins did Chrissie rack up?
42. This athlete broke the nine-year British/Australian stranglehold on the women’s event with her win in 2015:
43. Who was the last American to win Kona?
44. This athlete broke the 27-year-long men’s run course record with a blazing 2:39:45 marathon:
45. German Jan Frodeno has won both:
46. In 2011, two weeks before winning IMWC, Chrissie Wellington was in:
47. This athlete broke the women’s course record with a time of 8:52 in 2013:
48. This celebrity chef finished Kona in 2013 with a time of 14:04:
49.

Which female champion was the first woman to run faster than the men’s champion of the same year?
50. The figure atop the original Kona finisher trophy had a:
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