US-based Aussie Sam Appleton broke a longstanding course record to claim victory at Ironman Australia, finishing with an impressive time of 07:57:32.
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00:00Go Apples!
00:02Go Apples!
00:04Good job brother!
00:06Good job buddy!
00:08In the name of
00:10Sam Appleton
00:12You are
00:14the Miami
00:16Champions!
00:18Go Apples!
00:20Go Apples!
00:22Go Apples!
00:24Go Apples!
00:26Go Apples!
00:28Go Apples!
00:30Sam Appleton, Mike Phillips
00:32and Ben Hill
00:34The 1, 2, 3, the 2024
00:36Ironman Australia
00:38I knew I had some
00:40pretty good training leading into this
00:42so I knew I could race pretty well
00:44but I didn't really expect to be
00:46known the whole day
00:48up until Mike caught me on the run and then we had
00:50a bit of a battle for the back half of the marathon
00:52which was really exciting but
00:54I would have preferred a bit more space to be honest
00:56but yeah it feels great
00:58to win, I was third last year
01:00so to come back and
01:02improve on that is really good in front of
01:04my mum lives here, my dad drove up
01:06from Sydney, my brother
01:08so in front of friends and family it's really special
01:10I race around the world and so often
01:12you know it's just me
01:14so yeah when you have your family
01:16watching you and supporting you
01:18it means so much
01:20I wanted to swim pretty hard because
01:22I'm going to try and get a gap on Mike
01:24and Ben Hill
01:26because they're such good riders
01:28and I wanted them to work really hard
01:30to try and catch me so
01:32I tried to swim really hard
01:34and get a gap
01:36and hopefully they would work too hard
01:38on the bike to try and catch me but
01:40they rode really well
01:42I think I might have taken a bit of the sting
01:44out of their legs for the run so
01:46I guess my plan worked out pretty well