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Friday, May 16, 2025

Ramadharsingh completes 4th triathlon

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Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh shows off his four Ironman medals.

Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh shows off his four Ironman medals.

Shas­tri Boodan

Hot on the heels of his fourth Iron­man, Dr Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh said he plans to in­spire more peo­ple to take up the sport of run­ning. Ra­mad­hars­ingh, 51, com­pet­ed in his fourth Iron­man event on Sun­day in Tempe, Ari­zona in the Unit­ed States when he com­plet­ed the course in a time of 16 hours, 20 min­utes, and 40 sec­onds.

An Iron­man Triathlon is one of a se­ries of long-dis­tance triathlon races or­gan­ised by the World Triathlon Cor­po­ra­tion (WTC), con­sist­ing of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) cy­cle ride and a marathon 26.22 miles (42.2 km) run com­plet­ed in that or­der, for a to­tal of 140.6 miles (226.3 km).

It is wide­ly con­sid­ered one of the most dif­fi­cult one-day sport­ing events in the world. Ra­mad­hars­ingh, a for­mer Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment said this was the most gru­elling Iron­man he con­test­ed. He said, “It was very tough, it brought out the grit and in­ten­si­ty of train­ing, it had to be high (train­ing) for one to be able to de­liv­er on that day. It was my first ex­pe­ri­ence with ice-cold wa­ter. When I hit the wa­ter one side of my face start­ed to get ac­cli­ma­tised but the oth­er side was un­will­ing to go through that tor­ture and it was on­ly when I warmed up I was able to get bi-lat­er­al on that swim, it was a long swim, in icy wa­ter.”

Ra­mad­hars­ingh, a vet­eri­nar­i­an, at­tor­ney-at-law and fit­ness en­thu­si­ast, said dur­ing the bike ride phase wind storms had hit the area. He said the storm took them frontal­ly in a val­ley and re­duced his speed.

The for­mer chair­man of the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion said, “Where you could have been do­ing 33 Kph you were fight­ing to make 14 Kph down­hill. A lot of brand names, and good Iron­men ath­letes, some of them dropped out. I was able to stay the game and keep the faith to put in the work.”

Ra­mad­hars­ingh said he plans to go for his fifth Iron­man next year. Be­fore the 2023 event, he com­plet­ed the 2019 course in Flori­da, USA 15:54:03, and in 2018 in Cozumel, Mex­i­co his to­tal time was 16:06:52.


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