Wellington, Vanhoenacker Favorites At Ironman South Africa
- By Kurt Hoy
- Published Apr 9, 2011
- Updated Jul 1, 2011 at 10:07 AM UTC
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2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
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2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
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2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
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2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!
- Open full size in new window.

2011 Ironman SA
Chrissie Wellington will take to the streets of Port Elizabeth tomorrow for the Spec Savers Ironman South Africa. Raynard Tissink, a Port Elizabeth local, is back to defend the title he won in 2010, but the 2009 winner, Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium, won’t make it easy.
Pros and age-group athletes turned out this morning (Saturday, April 9), to swim the course a final time and then check their bikes into the transition area.
The Triathlete.com crew is (out-of-their-heads jet-lagged but …) on-location, which means that we survived a lay day in Johannesburg and we’ll be bringing you all of the news and images from Ironman South Africa throughout the weekend. Below are images from today. Photos: Hoy Wow, South Africa!















