Cherie was inducted on October 8, 2025,
in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i.
Click below for some great moments!
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VIDEOS
Breakfast with Bob Interview in Kona IRONMAN Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Cherie greeting Natalie Grabow at the finish line
PHOTO GALLERY Memories of Kona and the Hall of Fame Video Tribute at Welcome banquet TriCanada article by Brit Cooper
ARTICLES IRONMAN Press Release Tri/247 article by Jonathan Turner
SlowTwitch article by Kevin MacKinnon ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
On October 5, 2022, Cherie won her 14th IRONMAN World Championship title in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i, becoming the oldest female ever to complete the race. She was featured on the annual NBC documentary of the race, along with a piece about the Exceeding Expectations kids.
Click below to see a video excerpt plus a photo montage
of the kids in action during 2022.
IRONMAN video (5 minutes)
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(Photo: J. Dodson)
USA Triathlon
Hall of Fame induction
Photos, video and more: Click Here
Media Appearances
Kona Week 2020:
“Fiercest Women of Kona” with MIke Reilly
Kona Week 2020:
Interview with Michael Lovato & Dede Griesbauer
With Mike “Voice of IRONMAN” Reilly for the IRONMAN VR Club
With Yuri Hauswald of GU Energy Labs
Chatting with
Bob Babbitt
Podcast with Molly Watts, Angela McDade of “Live HAPPIER Longer”
Desert Sun: EE kids at Tram Road Challenge.
“Hit Play, Not Pause”
with Selene Yeager
For more coverage, click MEDIA in the top menu, or HERE
BECOME AN IRONMAN
by Cherie Gruenfeld
An amateur’s guide to the world’s toughest endurance event
Become an IRONMAN is a treasure trove of deeply insightful training and racing wisdom hard-won during the course of triathlete Cherie Gruenfeld’s 28-year IRONMAN career, along with some great stories and reminiscences.
CHERIE’S BODYHEALTH COLUMNS
Cherie is a featured columnist on the BodyHealth website. Her writings cover a wide variety of topics of interest to triathletes.
Sample of Cherie’s Columns
The secret to [racing] success
An epic year in IRONMAN history
Triathlon training: 5 pitfalls to avoid
Key workout techniques for a successful IRONMAN
The benefits and drawbacks of the training race
Coming back from an injury: 5 tips for quicker healing
FEATURE ARTICLES
IRONMAN.com
“Cherie Gruenfeld: Kona’s Golden Girl”
The official IRONMAN website reports on Cherie after
her record-breaking World Championship race at the age of 70.
40 Stories by Mark Allen
2015: Cherie Gruenfeld
In 2018, to celebrate forty years of IRONMAN, six-time world champion Mark Allen wrote up his favorite stories from each year. His entry for 2015 described Cherie’s extraordinary come-from-behind win to capture her thirteenth Kona title.
“Great Expectations”
Triathlete Magazine — “A Southern California nonprofit called Exceeding Expectations introduces inner city kids to triathlon. What happens next is nothing short of life changing.”
“One From the Heart”
Inside Triathlon Magazine — Lee Gruenfeld’s story about his wife, Cherie, won Triathlon America’s “Article of the Year” award.
“Steely Resolve”
The Desert Sun — “When Cherie was enticed by the world of triathlon back in the early ’90s, she knew the one race she wanted to compete in was the prestigious IRONMAN World Championship on the lava fields of Kona.”
Click on the Wheaties box for more articles and videos,
including coverage of Cherie’s appearance on the
Wheaties Energy Crunch cereal box.
The EE Kids have their very own website
Exceeding Expectations, a program in San Bernardino that serves an inner-city population, is designed to encourage at-risk kids to move their lives in a positive direction, using the sport of triathlon as the vehicle.
The goal is not to develop the kids into elite athletes, but rather to offer them opportunities to participate in a lifestyle that is healthy, goal-oriented and very unlike that which they experience in their everyday lives. We strive to replace negative influences with positive role models and to instill in the kids a powerful new discipline of setting measurable goals and working hard to achieve them.
Our highest priority is education, and our ultimate objective is to ensure that every one of the kids graduates high school and goes on to college. We make this promise to all the EE kids: When you get into college, we’ll make sure money isn’t an obstacle.
