Jodie Cunnama won her seventh Ironman 70.3 South Africa pro title and household bragging rights over husband James Cunnama who was the runner-up in the men’s contest. Jodie won wire-to-wire with a women’s-best 26:31 swim and women’s-fastest 2:38:59 bike split capped off with a women’s 4th-best 1:29:04 run.

Jodie C opened the day with a 26:31 swim that gave her a 2:40 lead over Cheetham, 2:43 over Katja Konschak of Germany, 2:48 over Agnieszka Jerzyk of Poland, 5:21 over Jeanne Collonge of France, 6:04 over Annah Watkinson of South Africa and 6:51 over Kristin Moeller of Germany.

After her women’s-best bike split that was 1:12 better than Cheetham’s next-best 2:40:11, Cunnama led Cheetham by 3:52, Jerzyk by 8:32, Collonge by 11:17, Watkinson by 13:17 and Moeller by 14:58.

After a women’s 4th-best run, Cunnama finished in 4:39:49 with a 1:02 margin of victory over fellow Brit Susie Cheetham, who whittled Cunnama’s lead at T2 by 2:50 with a women’s 2nd-fastest 1:26:08 run. Jerzyk closed with a women’s 3rd-best 1:27:46 half marathon to take 3rd, 8 minutes arrears of the winner. Moeller closed hard with a women’s-best 1:23:26 run to take 4th, 1:16 behind Jerzyk and 4:25 ahead of 5th-place Watkinson.

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