Beth Potter

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Beth Potter at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Personal information
Date of birth	27th December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Glasgow, UK
size	168 cm
Weight	48 kg
societies
Current	Shaftesbury Barnet and Shaftesbury Barnet
successes
2019	ETU European champion triathlon short distance
2020	ETU Vice European Champion Duathlon Short Distance
status
active

Beth Potter (born December 27, 1991 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish long-distance runner, duathlete and triathlete . She is an Olympian (2016), reigning European triathlon champion (2019) and European duathlon champion (2020).

Career

Beth Potter started running in 2004. She graduated from Loughborough University .

Born in Scotland, she was fifth in the 3000 m at the European Athletics Junior Championships in 2009 . In December of that year she was runner-up European junior champion in the British team in Dubai at the European Cross Country Championships . She was coached by John Nuttall until 2012 and by Mick Woods from 2012 to 2018 .

At the Commonwealth Games 2014 she was fifth over 10,000 m.

2016 Summer Olympics

In August 2016 at the Summer Olympics , she finished 34th over 10,000 m in 33: 04.34 minutes.

At the 2017 World Athletics Championships , she finished 21st in the women's 10,000 m on August 5 in London in 32: 15.88 minutes.

Duathlon and triathlon since 2017

Since 2017 she has also been active in the duathlon and triathlon. In 2018, Beth Potter started as the first Scottish female athlete in two sports at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast (Australia) : in athletics and in triathlon: She finished 18th over 10,000 m. In the triathlon , she finished seventh in the team for Scotland together with Marc Austin, Erin Wallace and Grant Sheldon.

In 2019, the then 27-year-old became European champion in the triathlon short distance in the Netherlands (1.5 km swimming, 37.8 km cycling and 9.9 km running).

In March 2020 she became vice-European duathlon champion in Spain behind the Austrian Lisa Perterer . Beth Potter lives in Leeds .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish ; DSQ - Disqualified)

Web links

• Beth Potter - Triathlon Scotland
• Beth Potter's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 16, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Athletics - BETH POTTER
2. ↑ Beth Potter finishes 12th in Commonwealth triathlon (April 5, 2018)
3. ↑ Beth Potter wins European Elite Triathlon Championships in Weert (June 4, 2019)
4. ↑ Duathlon - Carinthian Lisa Perterer took EM gold (March 7, 2020)