The 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Championship was a triathlon competition held in Clearwater, Florida on November 8, 2008.
The race was sponsored by Foster Grant and organized by the World Triathlon Corporation.
The championship race is the culmination of the Ironman 70.3 series of events that took place from October 2007 to September 2008.
[2] Some 70.3 events also acted as qualifiers for the full Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.
Those events added included races at Geelong, Australia, Penha, Brazil (replacing the race in Brasília), Huntsville, Ontario, Pucón, Chile, Haikou, China, Buffalo City, South Africa, Boise, Idaho, Lawrence, Kansas, and Providence, Rhode Island.