2013 Ironman World Championship Lottery Results

Almost 20 more countries were represented in this year’s IRONMAN World Championship lottery than last year, a sign of the international popularity of the sport. The diverse group was comprised of 55 percent more athletes from the Asia Pacific region and a whopping 88 percent more athletes from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.


The winning athletes will compete at the IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii this October. More than half (55 out of 100) of those who earned a spot to Kona through the Legacy program are from outside the United States — 15 different countries are represented, including 15 athletes from Australia, 11 from Canada and nine from Germany.

The IRONMAN Lottery began in 1983 thanks to the vision of IRONMAN's founders, John and Judy Collins. The program provides athletes of all abilities the opportunity to qualify for the world's most challenging one-day endurance event.

I was in church with the family watching my iPhone and awaiting the winners to be announced.  Just a few minutes before 11:00am CST, the list showed up on my phone, and unfortunately I was not on it.  It would have been great to have received the invitation through the lottery just to the pressure off, and two of those that were entered did; but it was just not in the cards.  Now the only way that I can get in is through your votes of my "Kona Inspired" video.

Here are the results of todays daily views:

		Views	Daily Views
1	Fireman Brian's Mission	42069	3768
2	IRONMAN-BAWDO	41731	2974
3	Jacob Fuka_Kona Inspired	39786	4880
4	I'm Dean Bullock, I Have Brain Cancer	18020	258
5	Kona hopeful F16 pilot	17002	262
6	Boudousa Brain	16468	406
7	Suck It Cancer	5440	178
8	Dr. Martin Jay Hernandez Motivational Specialist	4434	280
9	Kona Inspired, Ironman retun…Heart Condition	4311	826
10	Shawn's Ironman	4022	104
11	Green Dot (Henry Tolstedt)	2986	38
12	Clarissa Alba	2727	637
13	Kona for the Kids	2375	131
14	From the Bathroom to Kona	1910	69
15	The Quadfather (Nick Tieney)	1620	24
16	Eric Yollick (Team Yollick)	1405	11
17	MAKING POSSIBLE THE IMPOSSIBLE*	1173	117
18	Spirit of Hawaii (Anja Kraft)	1141	137
19	Dad's Great Day	1020	26
20	Isabella' Legacy	725	10
21	Operation Brain Tumor (Ted Pepenhagen II)	620	15
22	Happy Birthday Ironman	543	11
23	Choose to be well!	462	19
24	Iron driven lifestyle	435	18
25	Paralysis to Ironman - Brad Kelley	408	82
26	A race for the women in my life	378	12
27	The Opportunity	374	8
28	I am ... "Anything is possible" (Milan Dubravka)	361	14
29	Life Long Journey	336	15
30	Crash To Kona (TychoRiis Weiche)	332	6
31	my biggest dream (Christian Schon)*	300	10
32	Dean Kashlan Mantra (Dean Kashlan)	257	7
33	My thanks to ironman	240	31
34	Family strength	46	46

*received invitation through lottery spot

We have dropped again one spot from 9th to 10th.  Of course, a lot of the reason that this is happening is we are for some reasoning only getting around 100 views a day.  Of course this only accounts for desktop or laptop views.  Mobile views are not counted in the above daily views.

Thank all of you for doing your best to get the word out by voting and sharing daily.  I see your progress on Twitter and Facebook, and I am honored by it.  Please keep up the great work.  We are getting the views and votes the right way and there is something said about that.

We will be honored to represent your vote and honor those that families on the H.O.P.E. flag!  Let's come together and make this happen!

Oh, and the official winners of the lottery are below:

Lottery Winners

Name	Age	State	Country
Paul Hackett	44	QLD	AU
David Yang	29	UT	US
Pertti Tomminen	56	Intl State	SE
Cregg Nicol	44	AB	CA
Dan Bennett	43	CA	US
Bishop Leatherbury	61	GA	US
Fernando Carvalho	44	Intl State	BR
Tom Trill	42	CA	US
Glenn Rossitter	44	ON	CA
Andrew McMurray	46	NY	US
George Barth	51	MA	US
Frank Fiorello	51	NY	US
Lance Carter-Rodolph	43	WA	US
Matthew Phillips	45	IL	US
Linda Goeckner	30	CA	US
Shannon Ouellette	44	AB	CA
Jay Lakamp	56	OR	US
Dirk Sauer	47	Intl State	DE
Rich Simmons	39	ON	CA
Dirk Zager	55	Intl State	DE
Michael Haseldine	39	Intl State	AE
Arnaud Winter	44	FL	US
Beth Bluestein	44	GA	US
Curt Biddulph	45	CA	US
Mark Raymond	33	BC	CA
Hiroshi Matsumura	39	Osaka	JP
Jim Charapich	53	VA	US
Bob Zinkel	45	WI	US
Hugo Zelaya	37	TX	US
Takashi Shima	75	Intl State	JP
Rob Seaver	54	HI	US
Mark Conklin	50	Somerset	GB
Richard McLellan	41	FL	US
Shawn Toenyes	43	FL	US
Abdulla Al Shamlan	25	Intl State	BH
Warren Fraser	49	QLD	AU
Kyle Yurchak	33	WA	US
John Frasca	54	MA	US
Jodie Hein	42	NJ	US
Bill Best	54	ON	CA
Terry Szucsko	44	CA	US
Sebastian Bartel	38	Intl State	DE
Douglas Thompson	46	NC	US
Maik Graf	43	Intl State	DE
Maximiliano Gonzalez	43	Intl State	MX
Ly Phan	40	TX	US
Bryan Ogle	46	CA	US
Scott Sinatra	47	CA	US
Daniel Elsener	41	ZG	CH
Juergen Hilberath	47	Intl State	DE
Michael Pear	47	Intl State	SG
Dmitry Iakovlev	44	Intl State	RU
William Lane	52	PA	US
Nicole Swift	46	FL	US
Lucas Cabanillas	47	Intl State	AR
Kristian Fesel	40	Gauteng	ZA
Ernest Fisco	48	CA	US
Patricia Ball	45	NY	US
Michi Hange	49	Intl State	DE
David Desser	45	IL	US
Daniel Robins	34	NSW	AU
Steve Bryant	56	TX	US
David Emri	41	BC	CA
Mark Anderson	39	CA	US
Mike Bowers	54	TX	US
John Lewis	31	Intl State	DE
Philip Carroll	58	OK	US
Niel Beggy	45	MD	US
Corey McKenna	43	ID	US
Tony High	48	NSW	AU
David Stoll	53	CO	US
Paul Heyes	52	WA	AU
Albert Lichtenstern	35	Intl State	DE
Tim Suttles	36	NC	US
Daniel Aamodt	42	UT	US
Shane Bamford	34	VIC	AU
John Wright	37	UT	US
Timothy Suter	45	IL	US
Charles Keller	49	SK	CA
R. James McNaughton	37	ON	CA
Randall McCafferty	47	TX	US
Gus Ellison	38	CT	US
Carlos Lopez	36	VERACRUZ	MX
Allan Shields	41	FL	US
Peter Simms	36	TX	US
Heather Brien	36	CA	US
Christopher Gair	52	Intl State	GB
Blair Heath	46	FL	US
Ben Peresson	40	Intl State	GB
Christopher Mandelaris	41	TX	US
Tony Tapsall	41	Taiwan	TW
Jim Murphy Jr.	39	OH	US
Darwin Garces	38	FL	US
Ursula Chwalisz	54	Hessen	DE
Martin Spitznagel	35	Intl State	AT
Chris Phenicie	41	TX	US
Michael Young	42	TX	US
Joel Hughes	44	VA	US
Ronnie Martin	52	ON	CA
Tony Suters	57	NSW	AU

Legacy Winners (Have completed a minimum of 12 FULL IRONMAN events)

Name	Age	State	Country
Jerry Bartolome	40	HI	US
Greg Alverson	51	OH	US
Jose Carlos Barbagli	55	Intl State	BR
Detlef Bark	48	Intl State	CH
Kevin Becker	49	QC	CA
Chuck Billingsley	56	VA	US
Michael Bond	45	IL	US
Mick Bray	47	WA	AU
Andre Buteau	53	QC	CA
Katherine Calder-Becker	49	QC	CA
Mark Campbell	45	NS	CA
Luiz Cassemiro	55	Intl State	BR
Cecil Cheves	64	GA	US
Roland Cochinard	50	FR	FR
Troy Cundari	52	CA	US
Jack Daly	64	CA	US
Cam Dawes	44	BC	CA
Michael DeLang	53	GA	US
Richard Donnelly	50	NY	US
Oliver Dorigo	50	CA	US
Kent Dredge	47	SA	AU
Robert Dunbar	56	VIC	AU
Michael Dybala	38	QC	CA
Paul Eisenhuth	58	NSW	AU
Eddie Elsner	45	AZ	US
Michael Fawcett	49	VIC	AU
Forrest Fowler	57	SC	US
Federico Franchini	50	Intl State	IT
Paul Francis	57	QLD	AU
Stephen Fryirs	37	NSW	AU
Anna Fyodorova	32	NY	US
Keith Gatehouse	49	QLD	AU
Thomas Gloor	45	Intl State	CH
Carlos Gomez Espinosa	43	Intl State	MX
Gustavo Goren	52	Intl State	AR
Mark Graham	40	Intl State	JP
Michael Grier	47	OR	US
Shahin Hadian	51	TN	US
Hirofumi Hayama	55	Intl State	DE
Max Higgins	55	WA	AU
Scott Horns	42	FL	US
Kevin Houghton	39	CO	US
Richard Izzo	47	NY	US
Jim Jacko	68	OH	US
Andrew Jones	48	Intl State	GB
Lynn Karner	56	IL	US
Scott Karsen	47	ON	CA
Thomas Kilian	54	Baden	DE
Roger King	56	AUK	NZ
Dave Lampert	55	CA	US
Hubert Landry	52	QC	CA
Larry Lanza	45	WI	US
Graham Latta	57	NSW	AU
Peter Liebich	53	QLD	AU
Todd Losee	46	MI	US
Dean Luff	52	BC	CA
Bill Martin	52	CO	US
Steve McCormick	63	NY	US
Dana Merrihew	41	NE	US
Martin Merstallinger	48	Intl State	AT
Elizabeth Model	54	BC	CA
Holger Mueller	40	Intl State	DE
Jay Newey	46	OR	US
Johnathan Nielsen	45	AZ	US
Craig Olson	48	OR	US
Kunihiro Oya	43	Aichi-ken	JP
JP Julie Palmer-Schuyler	48	MO	US
Ian Pickett	48	UK	GB
Uwe Prein	57	Intl State	DE
Christopher Ratchford	41	VA	US
Lutz Richter	53	Intl State	DE
Joel Royston	54	FL	US
Jason Russell	44	CA	US
Milan Sallaba	44	Intl State	CH
Keith Sasser	49	AL	US
Christian Schoen	49	Intl State	DE
Stephan Schug	50	Intl State	DE
David Seckold	50	NSW	AU
Ed Siegal	54	MA	US
Tibor  Slezak	50	NSW	AU
Jerry Stevenson	54	ID	US
Vie Thierry	56	Intl State	FR
Jason  Tootell	37	VA	US
Hector Torres	35	FL	US
Jose Tuachi	56	Intl State	MX
Ricardo Urbina	34	PA	US
Wayne Vanderpool	49	NY	US
Kirk Vandeweghe	48	BC	CA
Enrico Varella	47	Intl State	SG
Isidro Villasenor	52	Intl State	MX
Victor Vuskalns	47	NJ	US
Matthew Wade	41	IL	US
christian wendenburg	41	TX	US
Peter Wheatley	57	TAS	AU
Paul Willis	51	West Midlands	GB
Craig Wilson	47	NSW	AU
Thomas Wood	47	CA	US
Arnd Zabka	45	Intl State	DE
Peter Zieris	49	Intl State	DE
Joel Zucco	63	ID	US

Physically Challenged Lottery Winners

Name	Age	State	Country
Memet Toygar	31	Intl State	DE
Jorge Cuartas	41	GA	US
Garry Jenkins	49	CA	US
James Cuizon	35	HI	US
Grande Ruben	52	Intl State	MX

Originally from: http://www.ironman.com/triathlon-news/articles/2013/04/2013-lottery-and-legacy-winners.aspx#ixzz2QTvVSBDN