room to criticise her performance. The three-time Xterra World Champion asks a lot of herself and it seems to be paying off.Mirinda Carfrae (Aus)At her first Kona, in 2009, Carfrae smashed the run course record (2:56:51) and came second, behind Chrissie

Craig Alexander (Aus)Two-time Ironman champion won this year's Coeur D'alene Ironman in Idaho in a course record time of 8:19:48. The 38-year-old Australian was laid low for a month by a viral infection, missing Ironman Australia, so it was a

his third Ironman World Championship, breaking the course record time by 12 seconds, despite suffering leg cramps in the last 2K of the race. He crossed the line in 8:03:56. Fellow Aussie Pete Jacobs was second, in 8:09:11, and German Andreas Raelert