Ben Hoffman and Jocelyn McCauley Victorious at IRONMAN Texas

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (April 23, 2022) – Grand Junction native Ben Hoffman sprinted to victory in the 2022 Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Texas. Nearly 2,300 athletes, including professionals and age-group athletes took on the popular event to kick off the 2022 North America full-distance IRONMAN triathlon season.

Hoffman bested Magnus Ditlev of Denmark in the final stretch of the 140.6-mile race to take the overall victory with a finishing time of 7 hours 57 minutes 58 seconds. In the women’s professional race, local Texan Jocelyn McCauley laid down a solid race finishing first with a time of 8:58:13.

Ditlev, making his debut in the full-distance IRONMAN triathlon, overcame a punctured tire on the bike portion of the event to finish the event running side-by-side with the eventual winner to claim an impressive second-place finish. Ditlev would finish with an overall time of 7:58:12. Jesper Svensson (SWE) rounded out the podium in third with a time of 8:08:54.

In the professional women’s race, Lauren Brandon (USA) took second behind McCauley with an overall time of 9:10:43 while Joanna Ryter (CHE) finished in third with a time of 9:13:24.

Top five professional men’s results:

		SWIM	BIKE	RUN	FINISH
1. Ben Hoffman	USA	00:52:33	04:19:58	02:40:20	07:57:58
2. Magnus Ditlev	DNK	00:52:36	04:20:22	02:40:56	07:58:12
3. Jesper Svensson	SWE	00:50:26	04:22:45	02:51:37	08:08:54
4. Cody Beals	CAN	00:52:31	04:27:12	02:45:51	08:09:55
5. Tomasz Szala	POL	00:52:33	04:27:00	02:51:09	08:15:38

Top five professional women’s results:

		SWIM	BIKE	RUN	FINISH
1. Jocelyn McCauley	USA	00:56:04	04:43:02	03:13:51	08:58:13
2. Lauren Brandon	USA	00:50:28	04:55:18	03:19:31	09:10:43
3. Joanna Ryter	CHE	01:05:12	05:00:57	03:02:52	09:13:24
4. Rachel Zilinskas	USA	00:50:30	05:07:03	03:19:50	09:23:36
5. Jen Annett	CAN	01:05:21	04:57:28	03:18:24	09:25:52