COAST professional triathlete Luke McKenzie finished 27th at the gruelling Hawaii Ironman today.

The Sunshine Beach athlete never troubled the leaders on a record-breaking day in usually calm conditions as part of the Ironman World Championship on the Big Island.

German Patrick Lange trounced the field on his way to setting a new race record and going well under eight hours, finishing in 7hr 52 min and 39 sec for the 3.8km swim, 180km bike and 42.2km run. He was the first athlete to break the eight-hour barrier at Hawaii, beating his own previous record by nine minutes.

McKenzie produced a solid day out, completing the swim in 50min 46sec, was fast on the bike with an effort of 4hr 27min 26sec and then produced a 3hr 7min 29sec marathon.

Fifth place-getter, Braden Currie spent much of his time preparing for the race at Noosa. Currie was pushing for the lead at the early stages of the run, but faded to finish 12 minutes behind Lange.

McKenzie's wife Beth also raced and finished 22nd in the women's professional division. She completed the race in 9hr 18min 8sec (1:04:06, 5:04:10, 3:04:50).

As expected, the women's race was dominated by Daniela Ryf who also smashed her own Hawaii record by more than 20 minutes with a time of 8hr 26min 18sec.

In the amateurs, former Coolangatta Gold winner and surf ironman star Josh Minogue finished 50th in the men's 30-34 age group in 9hr 16min 28 sec.

Minogue was first out of the water in his division with an effort of 49min 48sec, but dropped back on the bike after getting out of the saddle after 4hr 52min 13sec. He then came back with a 3hr 31min marathon.

New Coast resident Caleb Noble was seventh in the men's 18-24 age group after hitting the finishing arch in 9hr 22min 33sec (50:19, 4:46:17, 3:38:33).

Beerwah's Ashleigh Hunter made her Hawaii debut and was 16th in the women 25-29. She finished in 10hr 27 11min (1:08, 5:11:12, 4:00:39).

It was also a successful day out for Gympie vet Anne Alford, who was 21st in women 35-39 with an effort of 10hr 29min 35sec (58:42, 5:10:36, 4:14:27).

More to come on the Coast age group athletes.

Top pro men

1 7:52:39 Patrick Lange

2 7:56:41 4:03 (time gap) Bart Aernouts

3 8:01:09 8:31 David McNamee

4 8:03:17 10:39 Tim O'Donnell

5 8:04:41 12:03 Braden Currie

6 8:04:45 12:07 Matt Russell

7 8:05:54 13:16 Joe Skipper

8 8:09:34 16:56 Andy Potts

9 8:10:32 17:54 Cameron Wurf

10 8:11:04 18:26 Michael Weiss

11 8:11:41 19:03 Javier Gomez Noya

12 8:13:47 21:09 Tim Van Berkel

13 8:14:02 21:24 Andreas Dreitz

14 8:14:31 21:53 Ruedi Wild

15 8:15:58 23:20 Philipp Koutny

16 8:17:54 25:16 Mike Phillips

17 8:18:18 25:40 James Cunnama

18 8:19:13 26:35 Tim Reed

19 8:19:40 27:02 Maurice Clavel

20 8:21:52 29:14 Giulio Molinari

21 8:23:33 30:55 David Plese

22 8:25:30 32:52 Cameron Brown

23 8:26:01 33:23 Kyle Buckingham

24 8:27:03 34:24 Jan Van Berkel

25 8:27:52 35:14 Ivan Rana

Top women

1 8:26:18 Daniela Ryf

2 8:36:34 10:17 Lucy Charles

3 8:41:58 15:41 Anne Haug

4 8:43:43 17:26 Sarah True

5 8:50:45 24:28 Mirinda Carfrae

6 8:52:30 26:13 Sarah Crowley

7 8:54:28 28:11 Kaisa Sali

8 8:57:36 31:18 Angela Naeth

9 8:57:55 31:38 Corinne Abraham

10 8:58:58 32:41 Linsey Corbin

11 9:01:57 35:40 Sarah Piampiano

12 9:06:20 40:03 Liz Blatchford

13 9:06:35 40:18 Mareen Hufe

14 9:09:16 42:58 Heather Jackson

15 9:10:23 44:06 Maja Stage Nielsen

16 9:11:52 45:35 Helle Frederiksen

17 9:12:09 45:52 Laura Siddall

18 9:12:53 46:36 Teresa Adam

19 9:16:31 50:14 Asa Lundstrom

20 9:16:36 50:19 Jodie Robertson