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Podcast: 515 : The Ultra Podcast
Episode: S5E3 -- The World’s first Ultraman : Kurt Madden
Description: Send us Fan MailAfter walking into Tug’s Tavern Swim, Run, Swim event and finishing 30th out of 400 – a young Kurt Madden thought, ”maybe I can hang with these people”. A few years later he was regularly travelling to Hawaii to compete in Ironman and Ultraman races. In fact, Kurt was the first winner of Ultraman in 1983. He shares some stories of the early days in Hawaii and how it was viewed as a fad.He has podiumed as an age grouper more times t...