Sad News Ironman triathlete: Two top triathlon rider Lionel Sanders and Magnus Ditlev has been just announced died shortly after the race, just few minutes…….

Sanders is an ultra-endurance athlete, competing in Ironman triathlons that include a 3.8-kilometre swim followed by a 180k bike and a marathon run.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He claimed the men’s ITU world long-distance triathlon championship and also placed second in the world Ironman championship in Kona, Hawaii, in 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cycling record was a test of his top-end bike speed, over a relatively short distance for him, in an unfamiliar environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sanders trained on the Milton velodrome just half a dozen times before Friday’s assault on the record.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Learning the velodrome on a very tight timeline, it was expensive to do the training, five hundred dollars every time I went there to do a two-hour session there,” he said.