For the second year in a row, paramedic students from Charles Sturt University (CSU) volunteered to provide valuable support as medical responders for the recent Toyota Ironman Australia event in Port Macquarie. Thirty first and second-year paramedic students and two paramedic academics from the CSU School of Biomedical Sciences worked closely with private paramedics, doctors, and nurses to care for spectators and any of the 1 700 athletes injured or requiring other medical care before, during and after the race. The paramedic students provided medical first response from motorcycles, assistance from three dedicated private ambulances, first aid to spectators and the public, and took care of athletes in the medical tent. Mr Joe Acker, senior lecturer in paramedics at CSU in Port Macquarie, said, "The students and staff contributed over 250 hours of medical volunteer time to Ironman, and I was so proud to see our students in their CSU paramedic uniforms willing to do anything and everything to make this event a success. This was an invaluable inter-professional learning experience for our paramedic students because they had the opportunity to work with experienced doctors and nurses in a complex team environment. Not only did they get to work behind the scenes at a world-class athletic event, but they were also able to see the tremendous value of volunteering in their community. They all gained hands-on experience while giving something back to their community." The paramedic students treated injuries and conditions that included oyster shell cuts, chest pains, dehydration, hypothermia, spectators who tripped and cut hands and face, bicycle crashes with abrasions and lacerations, strains and soft tissue injury, head injury, nausea and vomiting, muscle cramps, spectators who fainted, and a child with an allergic reaction.