Bárbara Riveros Díaz

Chile 0 Bárbara Riveros
at the Triathlon de Paris, 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	3rd August 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Santiago de Chile
size	157 cm
Weight	47 kg
societies
Current	Club Deportivo Universidad Católica
successes
2011	ITU world champion triathlon sprint distance
2014, 2015, 2017	3 times vice world champion cross triathlon
2018	ITU vice world champion triathlon long distance
status
active

Bárbara Catalina Riveros Díaz (born August 3, 1987 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean triathlete . She is a two-time Olympian (2008, 2016), world champion in the triathlon sprint distance (2011) and runner-up world champion in the triathlon long distance (2018).

Career

Bárbara Riveros' father, Augustin Riveros, is a doctor and it was he who got Bárbara Riveros enthusiastic about the sport from an early age.
In 2002, at the age of 15, she competed in the Junior Triathlon World Championships for the first time.

Olympic Games 2008

In August 2008 at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Riveros finished 25th.

Until 2010 Bárbara Riveros took part in France in the club championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux . She was trained by Brett Sutton .

World champion triathlon sprint distance 2011

In 2011 she competed for Tri Val de Gray . She won the opening triathlon in Nice (April 24, 2011) in the individual standings and at the second triathlon in Dunkirk (May 22, 2011), Riveros was third behind Andrea Hewitt and Emma Moffatt . In August she became ITU world champion on the triathlon sprint distance in Lausanne .

Riveros competes in Chile for the Club Deportivo Universidad Católica . Riveros studies nutritional sciences at the Medical Faculty of the Universidad de Chile . She was trained by Jamie Turner until 2010 , when he was hired by the Australian elite center NSWIS - since then Darren Smith Riveros' new coach. In October 2013 she finished fourth in the Xterra World Championship (Cross Triathlon).

Olympic Games 2016

Bárbara Riveros Díaz qualified for a place at the 2016 Summer Olympics; she competed for Chile on August 20 in Rio de Janeiro and finished fifth.

She started the 2017 season in January with a win at the Ironman 70.3 Pucón and in September she won the Triathlon de Gérardmer on the middle distance.

In July 2018, Bárbara Riveros was runner-up on the ITU long distance world champion in Denmark. At her first start on the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running), the then 31-year-old finished second in Ironman Western Australia in December .

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint and short distance

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
78148628050 ♠May 18, 2019	DNF	ITU World Championship Series 2019	Japan Yokohama	-
78143883775 ♠31 Mar 2019	6th	ITU Triathlon World Cup	New Zealand New Plymouth	01:04:03
78122395000 ♠Sep 24 2018	4th	Beijing International Triathlon	China People's Republic Beijing
78079045350 ♠06 Aug 2017	2	St. Moritz Triathlon	Switzerland St. Moritz		500 m swimming, 20 km cycling and 6.6 km running
78041649300 ♠Aug 20, 2016	5	2016 Summer Olympics	Brazil Rio de Janeiro	01:57:29
78001276450 ♠0Aug 2, 2015	5	ITU World Olympic Qualification Event	Brazil Rio de Janeiro	02:00:08
77986857575 ♠07th Mar 2015	4th	ITU World Championship Series 2015	United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi	00:59:37	in the first race of the season on the sprint distance
77977276000 ♠ 2015	1	Pan American Games 2015	Canada	01:57:18
77918577225 ♠0June 9, 2013	1	5150 Klagenfurt	Austria Klagenfurt	02:05:00
77892809300 ♠Oct 20, 2012	2	ITU World Championship Series 2012	New Zealand Auckland	02:11:00	Second in the Grand Final
77887320825 ♠25 Aug 2012	3	ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championships	Sweden Stockholm	01:00:55
77881181175 ♠June 23, 2012	4th	ITU World Championship Series 2012	Austria Kitzbühel	02:05:45
77878483450 ♠May 26, 2012	3	ITU World Championship Series 2012	Spain Madrid	02:06:41
77854389975 ♠Oct 23, 2011	2	Pan American Games 2011	Mexico Puerto Vallarta	02:00:23	Second behind Sarah Haskins-Kortuem in Guadalajara
77848157300 ♠Aug 20, 2011	1	ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championships	Switzerland Lausanne	00:58:35	World champion on the triathlon sprint distance
77846854950 ♠0Aug 6, 2011	12	ITU World Championship Series 2011	United Kingdom London	02:01:29
77844808400 ♠July 16, 2011	5	ITU World Championship Series 2011	Germany Hamburg	01:54:32
77842017650 ♠June 18, 2011	5	ITU World Championship Series 2011	Austria Kitzbühel	02:06:41
77840715300 ♠0June 4, 2011	5	ITU World Championship Series 2011	Spain Madrid	02:04:43
77835226825 ♠0Apr 9, 2011	2	ITU World Championship Series 2011	Australia Sydney	02:01:23
77811319400 ♠08 Sep 2010	21st	ITU World Championship Series 2010	Hungary Budapest	01:53:09	in the seventh and final race of the season - with a personal best on the Olympic distance
77799412200 ♠0May 8, 2010	2	ITU World Championship Series 2010	Korea South Seoul	02:01:02	Second behind the Swiss Daniela Ryf
77796714475 ♠Apr 11, 2010	1	ITU World Championship Series 2010	Australia Sydney	02:04:19	Winner of the opening race of the 2010 season
77772714025 ♠0Sep 9 2009	35	ITU World Championship Series 2009	Australia Gold coast	02:08:13	"Grand Final"
77770295375 ♠Aug 15, 2009	40	ITU World Championship Series 2009	United Kingdom London	02:01:12	in the sixth race of the season
77768248825 ♠July 25, 2009	5	ITU World Championship Series 2009	Germany Hamburg	01:58:02
77764899925 ♠June 21, 2009	16	ITU World Championship Series 2009	United States Washington, DC	02:03:43
77762853375 ♠May 31, 2009	20th	ITU World Championship Series 2009	Spain Madrid	02:09:31
77760155650 ♠0May 2, 2009	18th	ITU World Championship Series 2009	Korea South Tongyeong	02:06:02
77754109025 ♠01st Mar 2009	3	OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships	Australia Gold coast	02:01:15
77731876050 ♠Aug 18, 2008	25th	2008 Summer Olympics	China People's Republic Beijing	02:03:42
77724713125 ♠0June 5, 2008	5	ITU Triathlon World Championship U23	United States Vancouver	02:13:02	U23 triathlon world championship
77655967650 ♠0Sep 2 2006	41	ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women	Switzerland Lausanne	01:11:32
77618013450 ♠Sep 10 2005	9	ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women	Japan Gamagōri	01:03:23
77507778825 ♠0Nov 9, 2002	45	ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women	Mexico Cancun	01:11:43	Junior World Championship

Triathlon middle distance

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
78119604250 ♠26 Aug 2018	2	Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun	Austria Zell am See	01:48:53	shortened course without the bike distance
78097650350 ♠Jan. 14, 2018	1	Ironman 70.3 Pucón	Chile Pucón	04:18:59	fourth success in a row
78081650050 ♠0Sep 2 2017	1	Triathlon de Gérardmer	France Gerardmer	04:59:45
78065370675 ♠19 Mar 2017	1	Ironman 70.3 Taiwan	Taiwan Kenting	04:13:21
78062393875 ♠19th Feb 2017	2	Ironman 70.3 Geelong	Australia Geelong	04:26:30
78059044975 ♠Jan 15, 2017	1	Ironman 70.3 Pucón	Chile Pucón	04:32:08	successful title defense
78019881450 ♠Jan. 10, 2016	1	Ironman 70.3 Pucón	Chile Pucón	04:37:02	successful title defense
77981276075 ♠Jan. 11, 2015	1	Ironman 70.3 Pucón	Chile Pucón	04:30:12
77919228400 ♠June 16, 2013	1	Ironman 70.3 Berlin	Germany Berlin	04:16:10	Winner at the first edition in Berlin

Long distance triathlon

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
78129278850 ♠0Dec 2, 2018	2	Ironman Western Australia	Australia Busselton	09:08:09	first Ironman start
78115511150 ♠July 14, 2018	2	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	Denmark Fyn	05:51:22	Vice world champion on the long distance triathlon

Cross triathlon

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
78087138525 ♠Oct 29, 2017	2	Xterra World Championships	United States Maui	02:56:12	Xterra Vice World Champion
78050486675 ♠Nov 19, 2016	2	ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships	Australia Snowy Mountains	02:58:05	ITU vice-world champion cross triathlon for the second time in a row
78006485850 ♠26 Sep 2015	2	ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships	Italy Orosei	02:29:46	ITU Vice World Champion Cross-Triathlon
77932158875 ♠Oct 27, 2013	4th	Xterra Triathlon World Championships	United States Maui	03:01:43	World championship cross triathlon

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Web links

Commons : Bárbara Riveros Díaz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Barbara Riveros Diaz's homepage
Bárbara Riveros Díaz in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Profile for Bárbara Riveros Díaz at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 14, 2014
Profile and results of Bárbara Riveros Díaz in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 5, 2020 (English).
Chilean Triathlon Federation in Spanish

Individual evidence

↑ Birth dates on Facebook.com
↑ Beijing International Triathlon - BROWNLEE WINS BEFORE BLUMMENFELT AND SCHOEMAN (September 24, 2018)
^ Frodeno Sprints to Victory in Seoul
↑ IRONMAN 70.3 PUCON: SANDERS THE SOLE ENTREPRENEUR IN CHILE (January 14, 2018)
^ Raelert without resistance, Riveros Diaz before Konschak (June 16, 2013)
↑ Xterra Maui: Nicky Samuels and Ruben Ruzafa win the world title (October 2013)

personal data
SURNAME	Riveros Díaz, Bárbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Riveros Díaz, Bárbara Catalina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd August 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Chile

[1] Birth dates on Facebook.com

[2] Beijing International Triathlon - BROWNLEE WINS BEFORE BLUMMENFELT AND SCHOEMAN (September 24, 2018)

[3] Frodeno Sprints to Victory in Seoul

[4] IRONMAN 70.3 PUCON: SANDERS THE SOLE ENTREPRENEUR IN CHILE (January 14, 2018)

[5] Raelert without resistance, Riveros Diaz before Konschak (June 16, 2013)

[6] Xterra Maui: Nicky Samuels and Ruben Ruzafa win the world title (October 2013)