Andrea Hewitt

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Andrea Hewitt at the Grand Prix de Triathlon in Nice, 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	4th April 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Christchurch , New Zealand
Nickname	Ange
size	160 cm
Weight	51 kg
societies
Until 2010	Beauvais triathlon
Since 2011	Poissy triathlon
2020	EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
successes
2005	World champion triathlon U23
2009	3rd place world championship triathlon short distance
2014	3rd place world championship triathlon long distance
2016	7th place Summer Olympics
2016	6th place world championship triathlon short distance
status
active

Andrea Hewitt MNZM (born April 4, 1982 in Christchurch ) is a New Zealand triathlete . She is a three-time Olympian (2008, 2012 and 2016) and was third in the World Championships on the short distance (2009) and long distance (2014).

Career

Successful as a swimmer from an early age, Andrea Hewitt only switched to triathlon in early 2005, i.e. at the age of 22, but immediately won bronze in the New Zealand U23 national championship and was immediately accepted into the New Zealand national team.

2005 World Champion Triathlon U23

In autumn 2005, after just six months in triathlon, Hewitt won the world championship title in the U23 class in Gamagori. In 2006 she continued her streak of success, but now only in the elite class, so she finished third in the first World Cup competition of her life in Mooloolaba. A year later she won her first World Cup in Kitzbühel and in 2008 she took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing, finishing eighth.
Andrea Hewitt graduated from Canterbury University in New Zealand with a Bachelor of Commerce and Economics .

In 2009, Hewitt took part in seven out of eight competitions in the world championship series and, after a failed start in Korea, was able to achieve top positions throughout. She won gold in Madrid, bronze in Kitzbühel and silver in Yokohama. Overall, Hewitt was third in the world championship and, even after five years in triathlon, was still one of the world's best.

Up to and including 2010, Hewitt appeared in France - together with Anja Dittmer , Hollie Avil and Vickie Holland - in the French club championship series as a foreign reinforcement for the northern French triathlon club Beauvais Triathlon, which only has three French elite triathletes: Charlotte Morel (Boulouris) , Delphine Py (Montpellier) and Delphine Pelletier (Saint Laurent du Var).

In 2009, Hewitt won the triathlons in Dunkirk (May 24, 2009: 3rd), Beauvais (June 14, 2009: 1st) and the grand final in La Baule (September 26, 2009: 3rd) for Beauvais , in Tours (July 19, 2009) and Paris (August 30, 2009) she was not at the start. Beauvais also won the French Club Championship (Coupe de France des Clubs) in Gruissan on October 3, 2009 in the well-known line-up of Hewitt, Dittmer, Avil, Pelletier and Morel.

Oceanic Triathlon Champion 2010

In 2010, Beauvais Triathlon also won the club championship series - for the last time before the boycott in 2011. Hewitt won gold in Dunkirk and Tourangeaux and silver at the Grand Final in La Baule. Hewitt did not run in Beauvais and Paris. The club owes its Lyonnaise victory in 2010 almost exclusively to the legionnaires Hollie Avil , Anja Dittmer and Vickie Holland . In La Baule, there were no French triathletes for Beauvais at all after Charlotte Morel was not registered as a regular club triathlete due to an injury and also dropped out.

From 2007 to 2010, Hewitt took part in 15 French Club Championship triathlons and won seven gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals. Hewitt thus dominated the French triathlon for years. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Hewitt finished sixth.

World Triathlon Long Distance Championship 2014

In September 2014 she started the long distance triathlon for the first time and came third at the World Championships in China.

Andrea Hewitt qualified for a place in the 2016 Summer Olympics and competed for New Zealand on August 20 in Rio de Janeiro - together with Tony Dodds , Ryan Sissons and Nicky Samuels . She finished seventh as the best New Zealander. In September she finished 17th in the last race of the season, sixth place in the annual ranking of the ITU World Championship on the short distance triathlon.

Personal

Andrea Hewitt lived with her trainer and partner, the French triathlete Laurent Vidal , until his death in April 2014 from May to December in Sète on the Mediterranean and spent the remaining four months in her native Christchurch. Hewitt's sisters are also successful athletes: Tina , the older, won the New Zealand national championship in “Surf Life Saving” and Sara represented New Zealand in water polo.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Andrea Hewitt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Andrea Hewitt
• Andrea Hewitt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile for Andrea Hewitt at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 2, 2016
• Profile and results of Andrea Hewitt in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 19, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. http://beauvais-triathlon.onlinetri.com/index.php?page_id=3050&news_id=24084 . Retrieved September 19, 2010.
2. ↑ Triathlon team named to Rio Olympic Games (May 25, 2016)
3. ↑ Hewitt wins women's race in Santo Domingo (November 11, 2019)
4. ↑ Lindemann storms onto the podium in Hamburg (July 15, 2017)
5. ↑ Triathlon splitter: Böcherer third in Alpe d'Huez
6. ↑ Alexander, Swallow take Singapore 70.3 wins
7. ↑ Andrea Hewitt wins Christchurch half marathon in tough conditions (June 4, 2017)