Dejan Patrcevic had an amazing race at Ironman Austria and finished at 5th. He had to overcome a bunch of problems including a serious technical problem with the front chainring (he rode the last big hill on the big ring).

Top 10 men results
1 ) Francisco Pontano 8:43:42
2 ) Petr Vabrousek 8:55:20
3 ) Mathias Hecht 8:56:33
4 ) Christian Brader 8:58:10
5 ) Will Ronco 9:02:32
6 ) Paul Fritzsche 9:06:17
7 ) Dave Harju 9:11:58
8 ) Alex Mcdonald 9:13:04
9 ) Patrick Evoe 9:14:18
10 ) Tim Snow 9:18:38
IronCrazy.com authors results
12 ) Aleksandar Sørensen-Marković 9:27:07
33 ) Jovica Ivetić 9:54:21

I finally managed to open the official results. I am marked as DNS.
All along, I had hoped that that they will fix the problem somehow, but it is clear now that my chip was not associated with my name and number. I tend to blame myself for not asking checking the chip although it is [...]

13th July, 2008, offered an amazing opportunity - three of the biggest European Ironman distance races (Ironman Austria, Ironman Zurich and Challenge Roth) took place and four of my triathlon coaching clients have completed all of them with success. All four of them have achieved their personal bests *:

I am still in Klagenfurt which celebrated the new Woman’s Ironman World Record set by first woman: 8:47:26 by Sandra Wallenhorst. However Yvonne Van Vlerken has even bettered that record almost at the same time of day few hundred kilometers - she did 8:45:48 in Challenge Roth 2008.
Clearly this article on Ironman.com needs an immediate [...]