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Volunteers
Electricians, carpenters and other skilled laborers construct the start and finish line areas. Computer specialists
time swim, bike and run splits and compile results. Computers with highly sophisticated timing mats are
set up at start, transition, turnaround and finish areas to ensure 1/100th second precision.
Approximately 65 doctors and 120 nurses and paramedics from all over the world donate their time to
staff two medical facilities, seven radio-equipped emergency vans and an ambulance. The Kona Community contributes
nearly its entire medical and massage community to support race day needs.
The Ford Ironman World Championship affords volunteers the opportunity to touch the world by helping
total strangers achieve their goals. Ironman not only brings people from all over the world to Kailua-Kona, it
brings the West Hawai’i Community together for a day of Aloha.
And then there is the cleanup! By the end of the race, volunteers at 44 aid stations will have handed out
46,600 bicycle bottles, 235,000 paper cups, 56 cases of oranges, 66 cases of bananas and more than 20,000 gallons
of fluid replacement, cola, water and soup. The leftover mess is picked up, swept, recycled and disposed of so,
by noon on Sunday, the streets of Kona are back to normal.
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