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This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:English female triathletes and Category:Scottish female triathletes and Category:Welsh female triathletes The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
The women's triathlon was one of the triathlon events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. [1] It took place on 4 August 2012, featuring 55 women from 31 countries. [1] [2] It was the fourth appearance of an Olympic women's triathlon event since the first at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. [3]
In 2024, she won her first European Triathlon Championship at the age of 38, the eighth British woman to win that title. She has five wins in the World Triathlon Championship Series, four of them coming in her Championship-winning year of 2018. Holland also competed in Super League Triathlon. [2] She was born in Gloucester. [3]
In Rio 2016, the brothers both returned to the Olympic event, sweeping the podium with Alistar claiming gold and Jonathan silver. In the women's race, GB also made it to the podium with bronze for Vicky Holland, behind Nicola Spirig Hug claiming silver. The champion of the women's race that year was USA's Gwen Jorgensen.
Waugh's first major success came at the age of 15 at the Penza U23 Youth and European Championships Women Relay alongside Olivia Mathias and Sophie Alden. [14] She won the British Triathlon Female Elite Junior Triathlete of the Year award the following year, before coming 2nd and 3rd in the World Triathlon Junior Women's Grand Final in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
In 2022, she won individual bronze at the 2022 World Triathlon Sprint Championships, and silver with Team Great Britain in the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships. In 2023, she won the Elite championship in the World Triathlon Championship Series, becoming the sixth British women's world champion. Potter also competes in Super League ...
She enjoyed a number of successes in 2019 with a second-place finish at MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda [13] and third-place finishes at AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds [14] and Groupe Copley World Triathlon Montreal. [15] However, her greatest achievement of the year was a silver medal in the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final at Lausanne. [16]
Helen Rebecca Jenkins, née Tucker MBE (born 8 March 1984) is Two-time Triathlon World Champion (2008 & 2011) Helen Jenkins is one of Britain’s most celebrated triathletes having represented Team GB at the Olympic Games (2008, 2012 & 2016) and World Championships (since 2009) and Wales at the Commonwealth Games.