Newby-Fraser's 1988 win was her second of eight Kona championships. Photo: Lois Schwartz
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Join Triathlete.com as we look back at the history of Ironman Hawaii with photo galleries from the past 28 years. Check back on Tuesday for images from the 1989 race.
Kailua Bay at sunrise, ready for a few thousand athletes to swarm into the water. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Gear bags lined up on the Pier ready for T1. Photo: Lois Schwartz
The start of the 11th running of Ironman Hawaii. Six-time champ Dave Scott wasn’t in the race for the first time in years. Photo: Lois Schwartz
With Scott out of the race, Mark Allen started the race hoping to finally break through and win. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Like the men’s field, the women were missing dominant players, Sylviane and Patricia Puntous. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Athletes streaming out of the bay. Big names like Scott Molina, Mike Pigg, Kenny Glah and Mark Allen and Erin Baker and Paula Newby-Fraser finished the first leg within seconds of each other. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Most athletes changed twice during the race in the eighties, so they swam in swim suits. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Finishing the 2.4 miles through the Pacific. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Mike Pigg out on the bike early, weaving through town before making his way up to the Queen K Highway. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Several of the top men were within a short distance of each other to start the race, but the gigantic pack that currently rolls down the Queen K didn’t exist in 1988. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Paula Newby-Fraser on the bike looking to add to her then-one Ironman title. She stamped the race her own by riding away from Erin Baker and the rest of the field. Photo: Lois Schwartz
The highway was lonely, even for athletes toward the front. This is a big difference to today’s race, which is much more tactical. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Nicholaus Martin on the bike toward the rear of the pro men. He finished 7th the year before. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Scott Molina had established himself as one of the very best short course athletes and came to Kona to earn respect in Ironman. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Pigg and Molina pulled away from the other top swimmers, including Mark Allen. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Scott Tinley lost time during the swim, but paced himself up through the field during the ride and split 4:44:37. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Kenny Glah kept himself in striking distance during the ride. And with his long-sleeve race top, he was more than two decades ahead of the trend. Some athletes in 2013 went back to long sleeves to reduce aero drag. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Pigg split 4:37:44 to get off the bike within a minute of Molina. The two short-course specialists proved they could handle the long ride, something today’s Olympic distance racers often struggle to do when they move up to Ironman Hawaii. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Newby-Fraser hit a level that no woman had reached before in the bike leg of Ironman Hawaii. She rode 4:57:13, nearly 30 minutes faster than the prior bike course record. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Glah rode 4:40:20. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Mike Pigg left T2 just a minute behind Scott Molina. With Mark Allen nearly out of the picture, these two were well positioned to run for the title. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Allen’s frustrations on the Big Island continued. He lost massive time to a pair of flat tires and started the run all but out of contention. Molina had an 18-minute advantage after the bike. Photo: Lois Schwartz
George Hoover came off the bike well positioned, but faded in the run and finished outside the top 15. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Scott Molina spent part of 1988 dealing with a positive PED test. He popped at the Nice Triathlon earlier in the year, but the test was expunged due to faulty chain of custody. Molina wasn’t convicted of a doping offense. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Allen took time out of Pigg, Molina and others in the marathon, but not enough to make a serious dent. He split a race-best 2:57 and took 5th place. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Molina slowly pulled away from Pigg, but the pair was still close together out on the Queen K Highway, separated by just hundreds of meters. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Molina alone in front on the marathon. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Tinley ran well and kept himself in the top 5 with a 3:02:26 run split, although he wasn’t able to challenge for the victory. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Newby-Fraser was considered either the first-, second- or third-best female triathlete in the world. It was this race in 1988 that started to establish herself as an all-time great. Photo: Lois Schwartz
In the foreground is Paul Huddle, Newby-Fraser’s then boyfriend. She was closing in on him quickly and about to pass him. Huddle finished 15th in 9:04:55. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Molina ticking away the final miles of the marathon. After surviving the lonely, challenging section in the Energy Lab he was close to earning his first Ironman world title. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Grabbing a drink at a marathon aid station. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Kenny Glah held Tinley at bay to finish 3rd, his best place ever in Ironman Hawaii, in 8:38:37. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Molina finished in 8:31:00, two minutes ahead of Pigg. It was his only career Ironman world title. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Newby-Fraser’s 1988 win was her second of eight Kona championships.
She took 34 minutes off Erin Baker’s course record from the year before. She would have finished 11th in the men’s professional race. Photo: Lois Schwartz
Newby-Fraser’s dad came to Hawaii to watch his daughter race and jumped into the finish area to embrace her after the race. Photo: Lois Schwartz
