About Us

Dr. Sharon L. Svensson

Dr. Sharon L. Svensson has finished over 20 marathons and ultramarathons, with sub-2:50 marathons to her credit. She is a two-time age group winner and a five-time finisher of the Ironman World Championship in Kona-Hawaii, having always placed in the top ten in her age group. She has repeatedly gained All-American status as a runner and a triathlete. She is also a "Svensk Klassiker" Swedish Classic) having finished the 3 km Vansbro swim, the 30 km Lidingö Run, the 90 km Vasaloppet cross-country ski race and the 300 km Vätternrundan bike race.

Sharon has a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic West. She is also an Esalen trained massage therapist, a coach for local athletes and a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. Based in Los Angeles, she now flies to three destinations: Sydney-Australia, Tokyo-Japan and the Hawaiian islands (Honolulu-Oahu, Kahului-Maui, Kona-Hawaii and Lihue-Kauai)...somebody has to do it. She is a popular motivational speaker and writes on sports, health and fitness topics for publications in Europe and the United States.

Tony "B" Svensson

Tony "B" Svensson fell into triathlons. In the October 1982 Hawaii Ironman, he watched, transfixed, Julie Leach's eyes roll up into her head on the run and thought: "I gotta do this."

Born in Göteborg, Sweden, he graduated from Hvitfeldtska and served in the military as an airborne ranger ("fallskärmsjägare") with Winter training by the Arctic Circle. Tony has an MSCE from Chalmers Tekniska Högskola and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He completed six consecutive Hawaii Ironman races in 1983 to 1988, has finished in the top 100 in Kona and was a member of the Swedish National Triathlon Team for several years. The team's best finish was sixth in the Team World Championship, also in Kona.

Tony and Eric Lars Bakke have been photographing the Ironman World Championship for many years and are better known as Bakke-Svensson/Ironman for those efforts. In recent years, they have been amply assisted by camera phenom Ben Hays of Colorado and Taiwan.

A photographer and publisher in his spare time, he has been a Silicon Valley high technology executive for many years. He recently finished a 5 1/2 year assignment for His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf as the Executive Director of Invest Sweden based in New York City. Now back within earshot of Stanford and Facebook in Palo Alto, he is President & CEO of Cirrato Technologies Inc., responsible for North American operations of Cirrato Technologies AB. The company offers Cirrato Single Server Printing software to large organizations worldwide.

Kayleigh Svensson

Kayleigh Kalona Millan Svensson is the daughter of Sharon and Tony. Now age 13, she swims for PASA (Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics) and enjoys tremendously leaving both mom and dad in the bubbles in any and all strokes and distances. In fact, under her feet are sometimes written "Eat My Bubbles."

In recent years, she has been seen way out on the Ironman swim course in Kailua Bay showboating some 400 to 500 m fly and asking dad to keep up. He couldn't.

She recently acquired a graphite racing bike. We have no clue where this might lead...