Francois Jacobs, Council’s own Ironman completed the 2012 Spec-Savers Ironman event on 22 April at 22:18:25.

Francois' times for the different sections are as follows:

Swimming: 01:45:47

Cycling: 06:32:38

Running: 06:43:51

We are so proud of this totally blind athlete who completed this gruelling event – showing the world what blind people can do, and raising funds for Council in the process - even though Francois became ill during the second lap of the running. He stuck it out and even had to walk for long times, but he kept going and showed that he is truly an Ironman!

Francois, we are very proud of you and are honoured to be associated with you.

We hope you and your guide, Kevin, will have a well deserved rest in the next few days. Thank you so much for what you have done!

We want to say a huge THANK YOU to HumanWare who sponsored Francois and Kevin with clothes to participate in – thank you for investing in blind South Africans!

Also a big THANK YOU to everyone who sponsored Francois on the Do it 4 Charity website and those people who paid their donations into our bank account. We really appreciate it and I know Francois does as well.
 

Click here to see the eNews video about the whole campaign