Lisa Bentley 11x IRONMAN Champion

Career Highlights

Lisa Bentley's Ironman success began in 1997, placing 9th at the Ironman World Championships. This was just the tip of the iceburg, what followed was a progressive rank improvement to 3rd place at the 2006 Ironman World Championships.

Lisa supplimented high ranking Ironman Championship performace with up to two Ironman wins per year since 2003 and totaling three 1st place finishes at Ironman Canada.

5 Straight Ironman Australia Victories - ('02-'06)
3rd - 1999 Ironman New Zealand in 9:27:43 with the fastest marathon - 3:01:58
1999 Ironman Hawaii personal best of 9:46:40
Ranked 6th in the 2000 World Long Distance Rankings on Triathlon Digest
5th in the 1998 I.T.U. World Long Course Championships
2nd fastest Ironman debut (9:29:45 - Ironman Canada 1997) in history. 2nd to Natascha Badmann
9th in the 1997 Hawaii Ironman World Championships in her first attempt at the Hawaii Ironman
Winning the Strongman Japan Triathlon; 3 km swim, 155 km bike and 42 km run. Broke the course record by 19 minutes fastest bike split and fastest run split won the race again in 1998
Women's 1996 National Duathlon Team, including Lisa, won the bronze medal at the World Duathlon Championships
Represented Canada at the Pan American Games , Argentina, 1995 placed 7th, Canadian women's team won gold

11x IRONMAN CHAMPION

2007	IRONMAN	Canada	1st Place
2006	IRONMAN	Australia	1st Place
2005	IRONMAN	Germany	1st Place
2005	IRONMAN	Australia	1st Place
2004	IRONMAN	Canada	1st Place
2004	IRONMAN	Australia	1st Place
2003	IRONMAN	Canada	1st Place
2003	IRONMAN	Australia	1st Place
2002	IRONMAN	Australia	1st Place
2001	IRONMAN	New Zealand	1st Place
2000	IRONMAN	New Zealand	1st Place

IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2006	IRONMAN	3rd Place
2003	IRONMAN	4th Place
2002	IRONMAN	5th Place
2000	IRONMAN	6th Place
1997	IRONMAN	9th Place

2005 Ironman Australia

The Forster dynasty of the Ironman Australia triathlon ended yesterday as Chris McCormack and Lisa Bentley confirmed they were the last king and queen of the era.

They won their fourth-straight titles at the mid-north NSW coastal town of Forster, which hosted the day-long event for the last time before it moves north to Port Macquarie.

There is much behind-the-scenes bitterness between the local organising committee and Ironman Australia promoter IMG over the move away from the town, which first staged the race in 1985.

A huge pack of age-group cyclists also swallowed up the lead women today to emphasise the drafting problem that has dogged the race for many years.

But the outstanding performances from McCormack and Bentley over the 3.8km swim, 180km cycle and 42.2km run overshadowed these troubles.

Sydney's McCormack, 31, became the first four-time men's winner here since Finnish legend Paul Kiuru dominated the race between 1991-94.

Australian Louise Bonham had also won four titles, but Canada's Bentley became the first woman to win four successive Forster titles.

View the Sydney Herald article