COEUR d’ALENE — Both winners in the men’s and women’s pro division set course records in the Ironman Coeur d’Alene race here on Sunday.

Ben Hoffman, 29, of Boulder, Colo., broke the finish line tape on Sherman Avenue with a time of 8 hours, 17 minutes and 13 seconds. The previous best time for the Coeur d’Alene Ironman race was set in 2011 by Craig Alexander at 8:19:48.

In the women’s pro division, Heather Wurtele, 33, of Kelowna, British Columbia, finished in 9 hours, 16 minutes and 2 seconds. The previous women’s record for the Coeur d’Alene course was also set in 2011 by Julie Higgens, who finished it in 9:16:40.

Wurtele is no stranger to Coeur d’Alene. In 2006 she ran her first Ironman in Coeur d’Alene, winning first place in the amateur division, and she came back in the pro division in 2007 and won it again.

“Coeur d’Alene holds a really special place in my heart,” she said after crossing the finish line. “All the people yelling my name was very special.”

Hoffman, a former University of Montana athlete, said the turning point in the race was during the bike ride when he passed eventual third-place finisher, 32-year-old TJ Tollakson of Des Moines, Iowa.

“I got out on the run and took the lead,” he said. “That gave me a cushion in the run.”

Tollakson came in behind second-place finisher and three-time Ironman Coeur d’Alene champion Viktor Zyemtsev, 40, of Ukraine with a time of 8:32:09. Zyemtsev’s time was 8:26:01.

Tollakson said he was having a bad day because he wasn’t at the top of his game. He ran a race about three weeks ago with a pretty serious virus, and felt he had not quite recovered from that.

Zyemtsev said he started out strong, but may have pushed himself a little too hard.

“I had a pain in my liver,” he said, adding that he backed off because of the pain. He wound up falling 11 minutes behind.

Third-place women’s finisher Uli Bromme, 32, of Boulder, Colo., nearly passed out at the end of the race. She collapsed into a wheelchair at the finish line for a few minutes before getting up to be escorted to the medical tent.

Her time, 9:33:02, was just five minutes behind second-place finisher Catlin Snow, 31, of Brockton, Mass., who finished in 9:28:36.

Snow wasn’t sure what to expect heading into Sunday’s race.

“Two months ago I crashed pretty hard, so I didn’t know how today was going to go,” she said.

The crash landed her in the hospital with a lacerated liver and four cracked ribs. While her training went well, she said, she just didn’t know if she had recovered enough to finish as well as she did.

“I tried not to dwell on that,” she said. “I didn’t want that negative in the back of my head.”

Wurtele said she looked at this year’s race as retribution from last year, when she was disqualified. Her bike encountered mechanical problems, and she finished on another bike, a USA Triathlon no-no.

“My crank fell off my bike last year, so I wanted a do-over” she said, adding everything went a lot smoother this year except for a flat front tire.

She said the swim in Lake Coeur d’Alene went nice because the lake wasn’t as choppy as she expected it to be, In fact, all of the athletes commented that the weather was perfect for this year’s race.

When asked if winning Ironman Coeur d’Alene ever gets old, she said no way.

“It’s special feeling to know you did your best,” she said. “The day it gets old is the day to retire.”