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- The triathlon is one of
- the most grueling sports
- events. Competitors must
- swim up to 2.4 miles,
- bicycle up to 112 miles,
- and run up to 26.2 miles -- all in the same
- day. Mark Allen won the World Triathlon
- Championship, held annually in Nice,
- France, 10 times in his first 10 tries. He also
- won the Ironman competition, held every year
- in Hawaii, five years in a row (1989-93).
-
- Mark was an All-America swimmer at the
- University of California at San Diego. He
- first became interested in the triathlon while
- watching the 1982 Ironman competition
- on televison. He was impressed by
- Julie Moss, who summoned all her
- courage to cross the finish line, after
-