Bella Bayliss

0 Bella Bayliss
Bella Bayliss at Ironman New Zealand , 2009
Personal information
Date of birth	1st November 1977 (age 42)
place of birth	Norwich, UK
societies
Until 2010	TeamTBB
successes
2002-2009	12 × Ironman winner
2003	3rd place World Championship Powerman Duathlon long distance
2006	ITU world champion triathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 2013

Bella Bayliss (* 1. November 1977 in Norwich as Bella Comerford ) is a former Scottish duathlete and triathlete . She is world champion on the long distance triathlon (2006), multiple Ironman winner and is included in the best list of British triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Bella Comerford started as a teenager in the tetrathlon (modern pentathlon: swimming, running, shooting, riding), switched from horse to bike for the first time at the age of 17 and started her first triathlon.

She has been a professional athlete since 2000 and started in 2002 for Scotland in the triathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Salford - together with Stephanie Forrester and Catriona Morrison ; she finished 14th.

Triathlon world champion long distance 2006

In November 2006 Comerford became triathlon world champion on the long distance in Australia. Since November 2008 she has been married to the British triathlete Stephen Bayliss (* 1979).

The multiple Ironman winner started as a professional athlete for four years in TeamTBB until 2010, she was trained by Brett Sutton and mainly started in competitions over the long distance.

In January 2011, Belly Bayliss announced that she was expecting her first child in the summer and would take a break from competition. In May 2012 she celebrated her comeback with a second place at the Ironman in Lanzarote and in September 2013 she won the long distance Challenge Henley-on-Thames .

The then 34-year-old declared her professional career over in September 2013 and then started as an amateur in competitions over the short or middle distance.

Bella Bayliss lives with her family in Leysin , Switzerland.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Stephen and Bella Bayliss website
• Profile for Bella Bayliss at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 13, 2014 (data set still empty)
• Bella Comerford's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 18, 2019.
• Profile and results of Bella Bayliss in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on June 7, 2020 (English).
• Portrait of Bella Bayliss. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013 ; Retrieved March 22, 2013 .  (Team TBB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ A fund farewell to Team Bayliss. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012 ; Retrieved December 14, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Bayliss leave team TBB
3. ↑ Stephen and Bella Bayliss are expecting a baby (January 18, 2011)
4. ↑ Final Word with Bella Bayliss - A look back at a stellar career (September 14, 2013)
5. ↑ Challenge Aarhus: Hug before Vittrup-Pedersen (June 16, 2012)
6. ^ Graves and Morrison take Ironman 70.3 UK
7. ↑ Luc van Lierde and Bella Bayliss victorious in the Volcano Triathlon
8. ^ Cartmell and Comerford rule 70.3 UK
9. ↑ Mr. and Mrs. Bayliss take Ibiza
10. ↑ Ironman Florida 2009: Outsider on the podium
11. ^ Bayliss and Graves take Ironman UK
12. ↑ Bert and Bella Blast Lanzarote
13. ↑ Vanhoenacker and Zelenkova on top in South Africa (April 5, 2009)
14. ^ European Championships Long Distance: presentation and medal winners
15. ↑ IN UK: New Zealander Bryan Rhodes and Australian Rebecca Preston win in Great Britain