Ana Burgos
Ana Burgos Acuña (born December 26, 1967 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish duathlete and triathlete . She is a two-time Olympic athlete (2004, 2008) and a European short-distance triathlon champion (2003).
Career
Cycling until 1997
Ana Burgos grew up with six siblings.
She was active in cycling in her youth. Burgos started at the UCI Road World Championships in 1996 in Lugano and in two Giros in Italy. At the age of 30 she quit cycling and also criticized the support from the association (INEF).
She started triathlon in 1999.
In 2000 she became vice world champion in aquathlon (2.5 km running, 1 km swimming and 2.5 km running). She was trained by her husband Alberto García Bataller .
In 2003 she became European triathlon champion on the short distance in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, and in the same year she was also runner- up in Ibiza in May behind her compatriot Virginia Berasategui in the long distance (4 km swimming, 130 km cycling and 30 km running).
2004 Summer Olympics
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she finished seventh.
In 2005 and again in 2006 Ana Burgos was vice European champion in the duathlon.
In August 2008 she started for the second time at the Olympic Games and in Beijing, despite a fall on the bike course, reached 20th place.
In April 2013, the then 45-year-old Spanish champion became duathlon.
In May she declared her active time over. Since then she has competed in isolated races every now and then.
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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June 11, 2011 | 3 | TriGrandPrix | Zarautz | Middle distance over 2.5 km swimming, 76 km cycling and 20 km running | |
27 Mar 2011 | DNF | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Mooloolaba | - | |
Aug 18, 2008 | 20th | 2008 Summer Olympics | Beijing | 02:02:42 | despite a fall on the bike course |
2006 | 3 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Team | Cancun | 01:07:14 | in a team with Zurine Rodriguez and Ainhoa Murúa (3 × 250 m swimming, 6.67 km cycling and 1.67 km running) |
2006 | 2 | ITU Premium European Cup Triathlon | San Remo | 02:15:54 | Second behind the Swiss Magali Di Marco Messmer |
Aug 20, 2005 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Lausanne | 02:08:27 | Vice European Champion behind Vanessa Fernandes |
Aug 25, 2004 | 7th | 2004 Summer Olympics | Athens | 02: 06: 02.36 | |
2003 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Carlsbad | 02:10:11 | Victory and European champion over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
Sep 7 2002 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Cup | Madrid | 02:08:22 | |
2001 | 31 | ITU Triathlon World Championships | Edmonton | 02:06:26 | at the 2001 ITU Short Distance World Championships |
2000 | 17th | ETU Triathlon European Championships | stone | 02:13:15 | European championship on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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May 11, 2003 | 2 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Ibiza | 06:20:14 | Vice world champion over the long distance triathlon, behind Virginia Berasategui |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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April 27, 2013 | 1 | ESP Duathlon National Championships | 02:10:01 | ||
2009 | 3 | ITU Duathlon World Championships | Concord | ||
2008 | 3 | ITU Duathlon World Championships | Rimini | ||
2006 | 2 | ETU Duathlon European Championships | Rimini | 02:05:20 | Vice European champion in the duathlon behind Vanessa Fernandes from Portugal |
2005 | 2 | ETU Duathlon European Championships | Debrecen | Vice European Champion Duathlon |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Oct 28, 2000 | 2 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships | Cancun | 33:23 | Aquathlon Vice World Champion (2.5 km run, 1 km swim and 2.5 km run) |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Website Ana Burgos (Spanish)
- Profile for Ana Burgos at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 20, 2014
- Ana Burgos' profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 5, 2020 (English).
- Ana Burgos in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ La despedida más dulce de Ana Burgos (April 27, 2013)
- ↑ win Clemente Alonso and Catriona Morrison: TriGrandPrix in Zarautz
- ↑ Olympics Day 10 - Triathlon
- ↑ 2006 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships - Cancun (Mexico) ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ ITU Premium European Cup San Remo (ITA) ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Duathlon EM: Fernandes unstoppable
- ↑ AQUATHLON WORLDS HIT BEACHES OF THE YUCATAN ( Memento from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Burgos, Ana |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Acuña |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |