There were just 25 new entries - 19 male and six female - in the top 10 lists of best times for each age group in the 13-year history of Ironman Texas.
Keller's Aubrie Yarbrough almost became the first 18-24 female to crack 10 hours as she was just three seconds away from doing so. Last year, she won the age group in 10:31:58 at IMTX and finished third last October at Kona.
Local athlete Jana Richtrova's top female age group time on Saturday of 9:33:52 put her second all-time in the 40-44 division. Her four top age group times are as follows:
W35-39
9:34:28 - Jana Richtrova, Watertown, MA, 2018 (1st)
9:37:48 - Jana Richtrova, Spring, TX, 2019 (2nd)
W40-44
9:29:04 - Sharon Schmidt-Mongrain, Lafayette Hill, PA, 2018 (1st)
9:33:52 - Jana Richtrova, Spring, TX, 2024 (2nd)
9:47:46 - Jana Richtrova, Spring, TX, 2023 (8th)
She's just one spot from holding the best time in two different age groups for women. The only female to do that is another local athlete, Peggy Yetman.
In addition to top times from 2018 and 2023, respectively, in the 50-54 and 55-59 divisions with marks of 9:44:58 and 10:44:01, Yetman also has the tenth best time in the 45-49 division - for now - in 10:18:55 from 2017.
No one in this year's 45-49 women's division came close of cracking the top ten with The Woodlands' Ana Andrade winning the age group - by less than two minues - in a time of 10:55:14.
Farmington, New Mexico's Cathy Tibbetts also became the only other female besides Yetman to have a time in the top 10 of three different age divisions as she won the female 70-74 age group on Saturday in a time of 14:39:55.
Tibbetts has the fifth best time of 60-64 women in 12:11:29, back in 2014, and the seventh best time ever in the 65-69 age group with a mark of 13:55:06 two years ago.
Her time Saturday was the second best ever in the 70-74 age group and it was only the fifth time in Ironman Texas history that a woman in that division finished the race.
Two new age group marks were set in the men's field on Saturday.
Doornenberg, The Netherlands' Mitch Wismans won the 18-24 age group with a time of 8:56:08, that eclipsed by 20 seconds the former mark held by Wheaton, Illinois' Parker Kerth from last year. It was one of four new marks in the 18-24 division this year.
Meanwhile, Charlotte, North Carolina's Barry Edwards became the first male ever to go sub-10 in the 60-64 age group with a showing of 9:57:14, dislodging Texas' Steven Mudgett from the top spot and his 2017 time of 10:03:23.
Closer to home, The Woodlands dentist Michael S. Dwyer - with his 14:52:57 finish - is now only the fourth man in the 75-79 or 80-84 age groups to finish Ironman Texas.
All times in the 25-29 division through to and including the 45-49 age group requires a sub 9-hour time to make an entry into the top 10 lists.
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