Brown combined a 7th-best 48:37 swim, a 4th-best 4:29:13 bike split and a 2nd-fastest 2:44:54 run to finish in 8:07:58. This gave him a 1:39 margin of victory over runner-up Joe Skipper of Great Britain and 2:59 over 3rd-place finisher Callum Millward of New Zealand. Brown’s winning time bested the previous race record time set by Beven Doherty in 2013 by 7:24.