Mirinda Carfrae maintains Australia's winning streak in the Hawaiian Ironman Australian Mirinda Carfrae completes the bike ride in the Hawaii Ironman before the marathon leg that sealed her victory. AUSTRALIAN triathlon star Mirinda Carfrae has stormed to her second Hawaiian Ironman world title with a record performance. The 32-year-old unleashed her trademark phenomenal run to blitz the women's field in a course-record time of eight hours 52 minutes 14 seconds. That beats the old women's mark of 8:54:02 for the 3.8km swim, 180km cycle and marathon event at Kona on the Big Island. Carfrae's great rival, four-time winner Chrissie Wellington of Great Britain, set the previous record in 2009. The Australian also set the run course record with a blistering 2:50:35, beating the 2:52:09 of two years ago. Carfrae's outstanding performance continues an eight-year winning streak by Australian men and women at Hawaii. She is also the first Australian woman to win multiple Hawaiian Ironman titles. Her American fiance Tim O'Donnell, who finished fifth in the men's race, greeted her with a hug at the finish. Earlier, the Australian men's six-year domination ended, but Luke McKenzie had the performance of his career to finish second. Frederik Van Lierde became the second Belgian to win Hawaii when he passed the Australian in the marathon and finished in 8:12:29. McKenzie collapsed at the finish, but was ecstatic with his breakthrough 8:15:19 performance. His previous best at Kona was ninth, two years ago. McKenzie has six other Ironman titles and this confirms him as a genuine Hawaiian world title contender. Carfrae had a slow start to the year, but reunited with coach Siri Lindley mid-season as she steadily regained form. Starting the run eight minutes off the lead, Carfrae wasted no time picking off the women in front of her. The Australian stormed into the lead at 24km, effortlessly passing Rachel Joyce, who also had a great day for second place. There was no repeat of last year's stunning setback, when Carfrae was on the verge of taking the lead in the marathon. Then she suddenly ran out of energy and struggled to third place. At Carfrae's previous Hawaiian win, Wellington was a shock withdrawal before the start because of illness. Wellington is retired and this time there were no ifs or buts about Carfrae's win as she beat a top-quality field. Since Carfrae first raced at Kona, she has finished no worse than third. Michellie Jones started the Australian streak when she won in 2006. Then came two titles for Chris McCormack, three for Craig Alexander and Pete Jacobs was defending champion. McCormack did not race this year because of illness. Alexander, who might have raced for the last time at Hawaii, and Jacobs dramatically fell off the pace during the bike ride and were never factors this year.