Shannon Eckstein (born 1983) is an Australian Ironman surf lifesaving champion with his brother Caine Eckstein.

Shannon is regarded as the greatest surf lifesaving ironman in history winning 8 Australian ironman titles, 6 world ironman titles and 9 Nutri-Grain series titles (with over 40 individual race wins).Pierce, Jeremy (17 April 2013) Shannon Eckstein says he will retire rather than beat Trevor Hendy's record of six Australian Ironman titles. The Courier-Mail

Shannon Eckstein won the junior and senior ironman races at the Queensland championships in 2002 at 19 years old.

He retired in 2019.

He is married and a father of two. He works part-time for a property development company.

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