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 |
