Sounds like a shut and closed case to me, man with heart problems and high bp jumps into cold water, body goes into shock, muscles cramp, and he dies.

More tests set on man who died during Louisville Ironman | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com

Further tests will be conducted to determine what caused the death of a 46-year-old who lost consciousness and died shortly after the start of the swim portion of Sunday’s Ford Ironman Louisville triathlon.

A preliminary autopsy Monday showed that Mark Wezka’s death was consistent with drowning complicated by underlying cardiac disease, said Jo-Ann Farmer, Jefferson County chief deputy coroner.

Wezka, of Lancaster, N.Y., was pulled from the Ohio River shortly after starting the competition. Athletes swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run 26.2 miles.

Farmer said initial test results show that Wezka had high blood pressure, but more testing will have to be done to determine whether he suffered a heart attack.

Farmer said Wezka had been in the water for less than eight minutes when a monitoring boat was alerted by other competitors yelling for help. The competitors were holding up Wezka, who was unconscious, and they helped get him in the boat.

Resuscitation efforts were started in the boat and continued as he was taken to University Hospital. Farmer said he never regained consciousness.

World Triathlon Corp. spokeswoman Jessica Weidensall declined to comment through an email, saying that WTC, which owns and operates the Ironman, is still awaiting the official coroner’s report.

Ironman athletes are required to sign a lengthy waiver listing an assortment of “risks, hazards and dangers.” Competitors also must assert that they are healthy enough to participate.

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Who the hell enters themselves for a traithlon if they've got heart problems? He didn't even make it through the swimming. Didn't he notice that he was having a bunch of heart attacks during the training?

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Someone who bleives they can beat their disease through an effort of will and refusing to give in?

ie your typical alpha male.

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Anyone who was remotely serious about it would have done training sessions harder than the real thing (yeah, I know I'm not the expert - I've got friends who go in for this sort of horror), so presumably he'd have died during them, not that it'll have mattered as he died when he was only a couple of minutes in. Either it was a complete fluke, his time was up, and he'd be just as dead had he spent the day sitting on the couch, or he was totally unprepared.

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you can't easily train for the crowd and big rush that happens at the start of an iron man when 100 very competitive top athletes hit the water all at the same time. It's like a churning whirl pool, or so I hear.

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Come on, let's face it, a guy who dies after swimming five minutes was never going to complete a triathlon.

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