The Greg Bennett Show Chris McCormack - 4 x World Champion Triathlete 🥇 🥇 🥇 🥇
Jan 2, 2023
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In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg chats with Chris McCormack (aka: Macca).
With four World Championship titles to his name and countless more international race wins, Chris McCormack is one of the most successful athletes in the history of triathlon. The only male athlete to conquer every triathlon distance with World Championship gold, Macca is considered the most complete multisport athlete ever and the catalyst of the emerging new age triathlon talent that is flawless at swimming, biking and running.
Winning ITU World Championships titles in both Olympic and long distances and two Ironman World Championship titles. Add to those world titles he won 100’s of events around the world in his remarkable career. Macca has been as prevalent in the business world as he was racing.
He’s the CEO and co-founder of MANA Sports and Entertainment Group, One of the founders of the Super League Triathlon series, sits on the board of the Pho3nix Foundation, is the consultant and spokesperson for Bahrain Endurance, and he launched MX Endurance online training platform and community over 10 years ago.
He has been on the show twice before, but not for 2 years now. You can find those previous episodes Ep. 8 - Feb 17, 2020, Ep. 55 - Jan 11, 2021. Over 100 episodes ago.
His biography I’m Here to Win was a New York Times bestseller and has also gone on to bestseller status in Germany, Australia, Russia, and France.
As a passionate scholar of the sport with a keen eye for athletic talent and an understanding of what pathways would bring it to its fullest potential, Macca accurately predicted the rise of German athletes to the top of long-distance triathlon, and how ITU athletes moving into Ironman racing would change the game.
Here are some of Macca's career stats:
- Won 76% of career events.
- Finished on the podium 88% of the time.
- Won 200+ races around the world since 1993.
- Olympic Course + Ironman World Champion.
- Twelve Ironman Victories, more than any other male.
- Broken 8 hrs in Ironman distances 4 times. (Only man to do so)
- Five-time International Triathlete of the Year.
- Five-time Competitor of the Year.
- ESPN World’s Fittest Man.
- One book you would recommend? Shoe Dog - Phil Knight, 12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson
- Two most-used apps on your phone?
- Toughest race?
- First job?
- Out of 10, how cool are you?
- Who would you want to play a movie of your life?
- Which decade of music is the best?
- Favorite race?
- Where is somewhere you haven’t been, you’d like to go?
- Greatest movie of all time?