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Hungarian athlete comes in second in ironman race in Argentina
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József Major Hungarian athlete reached second place of Ironman Mar Del Plata in Argentina. He biked and ran from a position of disadvantage. He finished the run consisting of 3.9 km of swimming, 180 km of biking and 42 km of running in 8 hours 26 minutes and 3 seconds, reports index.hu.
The seven-time Hungarian champion triathlon sportsman was quite behind his rivals during the swimming, his weakest discipline. Marr Chrabot, the winner started biking with a 10 minute 15 second advantage.
But Major is among the best in the other two disciplines, so a great pursuit competition begun.
Major got nearer and nearer in the 180 km biking and got one minute ahead of Chabot, riding the second best time. The Hungarian Ironman performed even better in marathon running, he took his opponents over one by one, he tried to get on the podium from the fifth place. At the 16th km, he was fourth, seven kilometres later he was third. He stepped one more place ahead from there. Nevertheless, he had no chance of defeating Chabot, who ran a time 6 minutes 6 seconds better than Major.