{"id":12969,"date":"2025-07-21T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12969\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:53:08","slug":"world-championship-level-marquardt-says-bike-bar-was-raised-at-lake-placid-elite-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12969\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World Championship level&#8217; &#8211; Marquardt says bike bar was raised at Lake Placid &#8211; Elite News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Marquardt said he hit new levels when he won his second IRONMAN race on the trot at Lake Placid on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The American star, who combines his training with medical studies and won IRONMAN Cairns in June, went one better than last year when he had been overhauled late on the run in in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>That day it was Trevor Foley who proved strongest but there was a complete reversal this time as Marquardt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri247.com\/triathlon-news\/elite\/ironman-lake-placid-2025-results-report-men\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">powered to a record-breaking success<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marquardt set a new course best in Lake Placid of 7:50:08, overtaking Foley\u2019s time of 7:55:23 from 12 months earlier, which was the first time anyone had gone under eight hours at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Power was just incredibly high\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The race was shaped by the bike leg and Marquardt said afterwards: \u201cAll the guys, Trevor (Foley), Kristain (H\u00f8genhaug), Robert (Kallin), and Leon (Chevalier) are all some of the top cyclists in the sport right now. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had all five of us together at one period during the bike. Whether they were initially attacking or not, it was fireworks, after fireworks, after fireworks. The power was just incredibly high. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a high intensity I wasn\u2019t sure I could put together a marathon after that. That was a world championship level bike ride. I\u2019m really proud of the fitness I have right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His 2:39:51 marathon split carried him to victory over H\u00f8genhaug and Foley and he added on Instagram: No words for this one. Can\u2019t believe two wins in a row. Incredible racing from everyone today that pushed me to find a new level that I didn\u2019t know I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foley \u2018wouldn\u2019t have done it different\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And there were no regrets for Foley, who battled well to take third, after hitting the wall midway through the run when in the lead following a course-record bike split of 4:10:45.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMWOCjkMyVm\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">on Instagram<\/a>: \u201cI raced for the win &amp; wouldn\u2019t have done it any different\ud83e\udd8d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong swim, for me. A career best bike. An okay run. (hit a really dark patch 14-23mi. very proud of myself for putting one foot in front of the other &amp; finding the podium).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Marquardt Hogenhaug Foley IRONMAN Lake Placid 2025\" class=\"wp-image-89518 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Marquardt-Hogenhaug-Foley-IRONMAN-Lake-Placid-2025.jpg\"  data-\/>The men\u2019s podium at Lake Placid [Photo credit: IRONMAN]<br \/>\n\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Marquardt said he hit new levels when he won his second IRONMAN race on the trot at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,8468,8748,8469,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-12969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-ironman","tag-ironman-lake-placid","tag-ironman-world-championship","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}