Brown Takes On Best In The World In Germany

New Zealand Ironman legend Cameron Brown races Ironman Europe in Germany on Sunday morning local time and yet again comes up against a stellar field of the best Ironman competitors in the world for the European Championship event.

2007 World Ironman Champion Chris McCormick leads the charge along with 2x European Ironman Champion Timo Bracht of Germany, Former 70.3 Half Ironman world Champion and 3rd place at Hawaii last year Andreas Raelert, 6x Ironman Australia winner Patrick Vernay from New Caledonia and a whole host of other talented Europeans.

The temperatures have slowly risen over the last week, the water temp was 19 degrees last week in the Langen Waldsee lake but after 10days of heat it hit 24 degrees this morning and with a maximum of 35 degrees expected on Saturday wetsuits may be banned.

Race coverage is on www.ironmanlive.com with great TV coverage of the race at certain stages of the bike and run.

The elite man will start at 4:45pm NZ time on Sunday with the winner expected to cross the line some 8 and a half hours later in the early hours of Monday morning NZT.