Andy Potts

0 Andy Potts
Personal information
Date of birth	28th December 1976 (age 43)
place of birth	Hershey, USA
societies
successes
2007	World Champion Ironman 70.3
2007	National champion triathlon short distance
2010-2019	8 × Ironman winner
2014	National champion triathlon middle distance
2014, 2015	4th place Ironman World Championship
2017	4th place in the ITU World Championship on the long distance triathlon
status
active

Andrew Robert "Andy" Potts (born December 28, 1976 in Hershey , Pennsylvania ) is an American triathlete , seven-time Ironman winner (2010-2016) and US champion in the short distance (2007) and middle distance (2014). He is included in the best list of American triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Potts originally began his athletic career as a swimmer . From 1995 to 1997 he was a member of the US national swimming team. His greatest success was in 1995 when he won the bronze medal in the 400 meter medley at the Summer Universiade in Fukuoka . In 1996, he just missed qualifying for the Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta in the national elimination matches - the so-called "Trials" - finishing fourth over the same distance . In 1998/99 he was the captain of the University of Michigan swimming team , where he studied English . For reasons of age, he then turned to athletics and finally to triathlon in 2003 with the aim of still being able to compete in the Olympic Games.

In his first season he made it into the top 100 of the ITU's world rankings with good placements at World Cup events .

Andy Potts at Eagleman Ironman 70.3 , 2013

2004 Summer Olympics

With an eleventh place at the world championships held in Madeira , he qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens . At the Olympic competition in Vouliagmeni he was in the lead after swimming, but then fell back and finished the race in 22nd place. The post-Olympic year he finished ninth in the World Cup ranking.

In 2006 he became a team world champion as a member of the US national triathlon team.

State champion triathlon short distance 2007

The 2007 season began with winning the US championship for the first time. In July 2007 he won the competition at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and two months later he was the best US American in eleventh place at the World Cup in Hamburg . He ended the season by winning the Ironman 70.3 World Championship .

With his victory at the Pan American Games, Potts was automatically qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , where he did not start.

Ironman winner 2010

In 2010, he scored his first long-distance win at the Ironman in Idaho (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

In May 2014 he became the US national champion in the triathlon middle distance. He finished fourth at the Ironman Hawaii in October. In October 2015 he finished fourth at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, as in the previous year.

Fourth world championship long distance 2017

In August 2017, the then 40-year-old finished fourth in the world championships on the long-distance triathlon (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running). At the Ironman Hawaii in October , he finished seventh behind the winner, the German Patrick Lange , 13:03 minutes . He was named the strongest long distance swimmer in June 2018. At the Ironman Hawaii 2018, he finished eighth.

In May 2019 the 42-year-old won the [Ironman Brazil] in Florianópolis with a new personal best in 8:02:58 h on the long distance .

Potts has been married to former Canadian gymnast Lisa Simes since January 30, 2004 and they both live in Colorado Springs .

Awards

• In 2006 and again in 2007 Andy Potts was voted "Triathlete of the Year" in the USA.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Andy Potts  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andy Potts website ( Memento from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile for Andy Potts at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 25, 2014
• Andy Potts' profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 24, 2020.
• Andrew Robert Potts in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles and Potts Voted the "Fish" of Long-Course Tri (June 18, 2018)
2. ↑ Challenge Dubai: Time additions change Poduim (February 28, 2015)
3. ↑ McQuaid surprised, start-to-finish victory for Potts (April 2, 2012)
4. ^ Potts and Rollison Take Vineman 70.3
5. ^ Potts and Carfrae Sprint to Oceanside Titles
6. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon: Leanda Cave and Hunter Kemper top . In: 3athlon.de . May 2, 2010. Archived from the original on May 7, 2010.
7. ↑ Ironman 70.3 New Orleans: Potts wins superior, Warriner manages to catch up
8. ↑ 2006 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships - Cancun (Mexico) ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
9. ^ Potts and Corbin win their first Ironman titles