Tom Warren (triathlete)

Since 2009, Warren has been co-owner of Schroeder's at Tango del Rey, a tango, salsa and jazz bar.

Warren's late wife, Barbara Warren, who was also a champion endurance athlete, died in 2008 at age 65 in Santa Barbara, Calif., three days after crashing during the bicycling portion of the Santa Barbara Triathlon. The couple had been married since 1995.

At the second Ironman in 1979 on Oahu, Warren arrived as an unknown quantity from San Diego. "No one thought to challenge the saloonkeeper," wrote Sports Illustrated's Barry McDermott. Warren ended up winning in 11 hours, 15 minutes, 56 seconds, beating out Gordon Haller, the first year's champion. McDermott's Sports Illustrated article featuring the three leaders in the competition, including Warren, "was Ironman’s spark," wrote The New York Times, prompting “ABC’s Wide World of Sports” to cover the third Ironman the following year, with 108 athletes competing. Warren, on July 25, 1979, appeared on "The Tonight Show" to talk with Johnny Carson about the win.

After serving in the Army, Warren opened Tug's Tavern, a sports bar and restaurant in San Diego's Pacific Beach that he owned for 17 years. The bar, beginning in 1975, sponsored the annual Tug's Swim-Run-Swim, an early multisport event that included a half-mile swim around Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach, a 5-mile run on the sand from the pier to the Mission Beach jetty and back, and another half-mile swim around the pier.

Tom "Tug" Warren (born November 11, 1943) is an American triathlete, an Ironman champion, an inductee of both the Ironman Hall of Fame and the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame, and a former sports bar owner from San Diego, California.