Kristian Blummenfelt won the title at the Ironman World Championships in St. George, ending the German run of successes.
The Olympic champion and short-distance world champion of 2021 prevailed on Saturday at last year's catch-up world championship over 3.86 kilometers of swimming, 180.2 kilometers of cycling and 42.2 kilometers of running.
The 28-year-old Norwegian won in the unofficial time of 7:49:16 hours ahead of Lionel Sanders from Canada and Braden Currie from New Zealand.
The best German was Florian Angert from Weinheim in fifth place at his World Cup premiere.
With the triumph of Blummenfelt, who took the lead in the final marathon for the first time and stayed under 2:40 hours, the era of German title successes that had begun in 2014 ended.
However, at the first World Championships outside of Hawaii, Jan Frodeno, the champion of 2015, 2016 and 2019, as well as Patrick Lange, the world champion of 2017 and 2018, were missing Suffered a shoulder injury during winter training camp.
St. George's world title is officially held for the year 2021.
In 2020 and last year, the World Cup could not take place in Hawaii due to the corona pandemic.
In October of this year, however, the Mecca of triathletes will again be about the World Championship medals.