Kitchen Spy: fitness coach and former Ironman Guy Leech

By Peter Barrett
Updated September 28 2014 - 10:08am, first published July 29 2014 - 3:00am

Guy Leech was 19 when he won Australia's first professional ironman race, a ''ridiculous'' 46-kilometre swim-run-paddle from Surfer's Paradise to Coolangatta and back, dubbed the Coolangatta Gold and manufactured entirely to shoot a movie of the same name, starring Grant Kenny. ''It was surreal,'' recalls Leech of his $50,000 win in 1984.

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