Luc Van Lierde won the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kailua-Iona, Hawaii, in record time on his first attempt at the 140.6-mile distance. His time was an unofficial 8 hours, 4 minutes and 11 seconds, breaking the record of 8:07:45 set by Mark Allen in 1993. … The NFL season officially ended for the San Francisco 49ers’ J.J. Stokes when coach George Seifert announced the wide receiver, after surgery on an injured right wrist, had been put on injured reserve. … Germany’s Katja Seizinger, last year’s overall world cup champion, won the women’s giant slalom race in the opening event of the season in Soelden, Austria.