Ana Burgos

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Ana Burgos at the Summer Olympics, 2008
Ana Burgos at the Summer Olympics, 2008
Personal information
Date of birth 26th December 1967 (age 52)
place of birth Madrid, Spain
size 163 cm
Weight 51 kg
societies
Until 2013 Club Triatlón Diablillos de Rivas
successes
2000 Vice-World Champion Aquathlon
2003 European champion triathlon short distance
2003 Vice world champion triathlon long distance
2005, 2006 2 × Vice European Champion Duathlon
2013 National Duathlon Champion
status
Resigned in 2013

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

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
June 11, 2011 3 TriGrandPrix SpainSpain Zarautz Middle distance over 2.5 km swimming, 76 km cycling and 20 km running
27 Mar 2011 DNF ITU Triathlon World Cup AustraliaAustralia Mooloolaba -
Aug 18, 2008 20th 2008 Summer Olympics China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 02:02:42 despite a fall on the bike course
  2006 3 ITU Triathlon World Championship Team MexicoMexico 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 ItalyItaly San Remo 02:15:54 Second behind the Swiss Magali Di Marco Messmer
Aug 20, 2005 2 ETU Triathlon European Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 02:08:27 Vice European Champion behind Vanessa Fernandes
Aug 25, 2004 7th 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 02: 06: 02.36
  2003 1 ETU Triathlon European Championships Czech RepublicCzech Republic Carlsbad 02:10:11 Victory and European champion over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
0Sep 7 2002 1 ETU Triathlon European Cup SpainSpain Madrid 02:08:22
  2001 31 ITU Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Edmonton 02:06:26 at the 2001 ITU Short Distance World Championships
  2000 17th ETU Triathlon European Championships NetherlandsNetherlands stone 02:13:15 European championship on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
May 11, 2003 2 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships SpainSpain Ibiza 06:20:14 Vice world champion over the long distance triathlon, behind Virginia Berasategui
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
April 27, 2013 1 ESP Duathlon National Championships SpainSpain 02:10:01
2009 3 ITU Duathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Concord
2008 3 ITU Duathlon World Championships ItalyItaly Rimini
2006 2 ETU Duathlon European Championships ItalyItaly Rimini 02:05:20 Vice European champion in the duathlon behind Vanessa Fernandes from Portugal
2005 2 ETU Duathlon European Championships HungaryHungary Debrecen Vice European Champion Duathlon
Aquathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 28, 2000 2 ITU Aquathlon World Championships MexicoMexico 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La despedida más dulce de Ana Burgos (April 27, 2013)
  2. ↑ win Clemente Alonso and Catriona Morrison: TriGrandPrix in Zarautz
  3. ↑ Olympics Day 10 - Triathlon
  4. ↑ 2006 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships - Cancun (Mexico) ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ ITU Premium European Cup San Remo (ITA) ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Duathlon EM: Fernandes unstoppable
  7. ↑ AQUATHLON WORLDS HIT BEACHES OF THE YUCATAN ( Memento from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Burgos, Ana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acuña
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid