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Weather conditions were unusually kind at the 40th Hawaiian Ironman triathlon as numerous race records were set.
RECORDS SMASHED AT 40TH HAWAIIAN IRONMAN TRIATHLON
* Weather conditions were unusually benign for Kona - little wind on the bike and not too humid on the run.
* Great Britain's Lucy Charles women's swim record 48 minutes 13 seconds (Jodi Jackson, 48:43, 1999).
* Australian Cameron Wurf men's bike record 4:09:06 (Wurf, 4:12:54, 2017).
* Swiss Daniela Ryf women's bike record 4:26:07 (Karin Thuerig, 4:44:20, 2011). The fastest six women, including Australian Sarah Crowley, went under the old mark.
* German Patrick Lange men's course record 7:52:39 (Lange, 8:01:40, 2017). Second-placed Belgian Bart Aernouts finished in 7:56:41 and third-placed David McNamee (Scotland) clocked 8:01:09.
* Ryf women's course record, 8:26:18 (Ryf, 8:46:46, 2016). Charles second in 8:36:34 and Anne Haug (Germany) third in 8:41:58.
* Three-time Australian winner Mirinda Carfrae finished fifth with her fastest Hawaiian Ironman time of 8:50:45. Her previous best of 8:52:14 in 2014 was the race record.
