Right now there are 42 events globally that qualify athletes for the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 in Clearwater Florida USA, every November. The number of races continues to grow annually!

Ironman 70.3 races consist of a 1.9km / 1.2 mile swim, a 90-kilometre / 56-mile bike and a 21.1km /13.1 mile run, which adds up to 70.3 miles of total racing, hence the name.

By coincidence, in 2005, two men in Australia began a search for an ideal location for such a race, having already run two highly successful Half Ironman events through X-Tri Australia since 2000, and having been part of the Ironman phenomenon in the Asia Pacific since the mid 90s.

At the same time there were two men in Singapore who had also long wanted to bring the Ironman name to the island country; but the global series for Ironman racing had been filled. However they formed an event company, HiVelocity and accrued a team of event experts.

A meeting in 2005 brought the quartet together, and with so much common ground upon which to build, they formed H-Tri (Singapore) Pte Ltd, now known globally as the organiser of the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore - now heading in to its 5th anniversary.

The first event, in September 2007 saw Brazilian youngster, Reinaldo Colucci (3:49:59) and Australian veteran, Belinda Granger (4:11:33) take on the world's best to become the first Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore Champions.

Ironically, also on the podium was a then unknown British athlete, Chrissie Wellington, who, just one month later would become the Ironman World Champion and catapulted the Singapore based Team TBB into global success also! One month later, in November 2007, Miranda Carfrae, second in Singapore, would win the Ironman World Championship 70.3 in Clearwater, Florida - an auspicious podium for that first Aviva Ironman 70.3 to be sure confirmed when Belinda Granger backed up from Singapore in February 2008 to win Ironman Malaysia Langkawi!

It's now hisory that World Champions, Ironman and Ironman 70.3 winners and short course champions and specialists all come together in Ironman 70.3; and the inaugural race had all these and more - including World Ironman 70.3 champion, Craig Alexander!

In 2008, Hi-Tri moved to make many improvements to the race. Swim, bike and run courses were revised and improved, and other areas such as logistics, volunteers and merchandise were further modified to bring to the participating triathlete, the ultimate Ironman 70.3 experience, all backed by the warmth, safety and security of Singapore.

In one of the closest finishes on the Ironman 70.3 circuit in 2008, Australian Olympian Simon Thompson edged out Kiwi pre-race favourite Terenzo Bozzone by a mere 15 seconds to win the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore in a time of 3:55:40.

In an irony lost on no one, Bozzone went on to win the Ironman 70.3 World Championships the same year!

Completing the double for the Australians was Rebekah Keat, who saw off a challenge from 2007 winner Belinda Granger, who would place fourth this time round after suffering a punctured tyre, and losing some five minutes while fixing it. Keat's winning time of 4:25:43 was more than four minutes ahead of second-placed New Zealander Gina Ferguson, with fellow Aussie Alison Fitch rounding up the top three in the women’s elite category.

In 2009 organisers brought the race forward to March, and consolidated the event around the unique Playground@BigSplash area in Singapore's East Coast Parkland, introducing an unique but ultra safe  two-lap, two lane swim, and focussing the bike course on Singapore's fast freeways...

2009 delivered a simply awesome men's field, featuring a fight out between respective Ironman World Champions, Craig Alexander and Chris McCormack, with Alexander writing his name in the history books with an electric 3:47:24 (new course record!) victory from "Macca", and 2008 winner Simon Thompson taking third.

In the women's race it became a battle of the Olympians, with British star Jodie Swallow going 4:19:11 to beat New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt and Canada's Tereza Macel.

In an incredible twist of fate both defending champ, and again, reigning Ironman World Champ, Craig Alexander and Chris McCormack would both be back in 2010.

This time "Crowie" would again take the race in a time of 3:53:31; whilst 'Macca' raced in a team!

The men's race was again graced with a huge depth of talent not often seen in Asia and it was South African front runner, James Cunnama in second with a 3:54:23 and Australia's Aaron Farlow in his best finish in Singapore todate, third with a 3:55:45.

The 2010 Women's field was again headed by the gutsy defending champ, Jody Swallow, but Swallow (4:26:32) fell back to second on the run as a new face in SIngapore surged to her first victory in the new Swiss Miss, Caroline Steffen who went 4:18:14 for the victory. Third on the podium was the USA's ITU racer, Margaret Shapiro, who recorded a 4:31:27 for her debut in Singapore.

Incredibly, the first ever women's race winner, Belinda Granger still holds the course record after four years!

With the ongoing assistance and support of naming sponsor Aviva, the event has been aggressively and uniquely marketed to Singapore and the world and so it's no surprise that the triathletes of that world will meet again in Singapore on March 20th 2011 for the 5th anniversary edition of this exciting event.

Once again Singapore and the world will experience triathlon at its best, highlighting Singapore's sports ability and the prowess of the elite and amateur athletes on the day.

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