SPORTS<\/p>\n
Published:\u00a0May 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM<\/p>\n
Tags:\u00a0sports<\/a>, justin barney<\/a>, pedro gomes<\/a>, jennifer sylva<\/a>, ironman<\/a>, ironman jacksonville<\/a>, donna deegan<\/a>, triathlon<\/a>, swim<\/a>, bike<\/a>, run<\/a><\/p>\n Nearly 2,000 athletes competed in the inaugural Ironman Jacksonville on Saturday. Scottsdale resident Pedro Gomes won the race with a 8:30:41 time. Jacksonville native Jennifer Sylva was the fastest female. The race will return to Jacksonville for the next two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPORTS Published:\u00a0May 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM Tags:\u00a0sports, justin barney, pedro gomes, jennifer sylva, ironman, ironman jacksonville, donna…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2351,5890,112818,113155,116,118,117,117068,117066,117067,7228,110,1552,109585],"class_list":["post-273929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-bike","tag-donna-deegan","tag-ironman","tag-ironman-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jennifer-sylva","tag-justin-barney","tag-pedro-gomes","tag-run","tag-sports","tag-swim","tag-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}