Kona Gear: Second Generation Swimskins

Wetsuits have always been illegal at the Ironman World Championship but swimskins—thin suits worn explicitly to make the swimmer faster—have helped decide the race once before, and they might influence the race again this year.

Normann Stadler has been one of the strongest cyclists in triathlon for more than a decade and he has the Kona bike split record (4:18:23, 26 mph) to prove it. He has placed in the top-4 at the Ironman World Championship on five different occasions, but he has lost significant time to the leaders during the swim every year, except one.

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