The 2022 Intermountain Healthcare IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship presented by Utah Sports Commission returned to St George, Utah, at the weekend. The first of two days of racing featured nearly 100 professionals and 5,500 registered age-group athletes on Friday, October 28 as professional and age-group women took to the course.
Taylor Knibb (USA) turned in a strong performance, with a time of 4:03:20, to better her third-place finish from a year ago and earn the 2022 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship title.
At the other end of the race, with just over a minute to spare to the cut off, athlete Zeinab Razaie was the final finisher during the women’s day at the 2022 Intermountain Healthcare IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship. By finishing she became the first woman from Afghanistan to ever start or complete the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.
“I did it not for myself but for the women and girls of my country who do not have the basic rights of education, work, travel, or sport,” said Razaie. “Not only was this for the women of my country but for the minorities and all the women across the world who do not have access to their basic rights.”
