Chrissie Wellington

Christine Ann Wellington OBE is an English former professional triathlete and fourtime Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She holds, or held, all three world and championship records relating to ironmandistance triathlon races firstly, the overall world record, secondly, the Ironman World Championship course record , and thirdly, the official world record for all Ironmanbranded triathlon races over the full Ironman distance. She won the World Championship in three consecutive years , but could not start the 2010 World Championship race because of illness, thenwhile suffering from injuries so severe that her former coach Brett Sutton said she should not even be on the start line regained the title in 2011. She is the first British athlete to hold the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, and was undefeated in all thirteen of her races over the ironman distance. She is the only triathlete, male or female, to have won the World Championship less than a year after turning professional, an

Christine Wellington was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and grew up in Feltwell, a small village in Norfolk. She was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, when she swam for Thetford Dolphins, and went on to swim for her university. She describes herself as a sporty kid, swimming, playing hockey, running, but never excelling and always more interested in the social side of the sports scene. She was educated at her local comprehensive school, Downham Market High School and Sixth Form, where she was a member of most school sports teams, but focused more on my studies than I did on reaching my full potential on the pitch.

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