Victoria’s Brent McMahon stung by jellyfish, pulls out of Ironman World Championship

Brent McMahon announced today via Facebook, post-race, that he had pulled out of the 2017 Ironman World Championship due to a box jellyfish sting.  In the Facebook post, the 37-year-old said the sting “made it hard to breath, eat and pedal with any effort”.

It’s another year of disappointment in Kona for McMahon as last year the two-time Olympian was penalized for drafting and subsequently fell out of contention

Despite the unfortunate result, McMahon appears to be in good spirits. He ended his post with the following: “That?s life, it?s been a rough year but onward and upwards”.

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