India's Rohan Jangam completes triathlon event at Ironman Cascais Portugal

Mumbai, Oct 23 (PTI) India’s Rohan Jangam has completed the triathlon event at Ironman Cascais, Portugal with a time of 14 hours and 40 minutes.

Jangam had been training for the event at the Longford Triathlon Club in Ireland for the past year.

He achieved the feat on October 17.

A full-distance Ironman triathlon includes a distance of 180 km on bicycle, 3.8 km of swimming, and 42.2 km of running, adding up to a total of 226 km.

The 27-year-old Jangam, who works with SLB (Schlumberger) in R&D as a product engineer, completed his primary education in Bengaluru, and secondary and college in Pune. He post-graduated in Ireland.

Nearly 5,500 participants competed in Ironman Cascais, Portugal, including 3,000 in half Ironman and about 2,000 in full Ironman.

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