Brigitte McMahon

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Triathlon
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 0 Brigitte McMahon-Huber
at the Zurich Marathon, 2015
at the Zurich Marathon , 2015
Personal information
Date of birth 25th March 1967 (age 53)
place of birth Baar, Switzerland
Size 170 cm
Weight 55 kg
societies
until 2005 Swiss Triathlon national team
successes
1990 Swiss swimming champion
2000 Olympic champion triathlon
2004 Swiss champion Duathlon short distance
2014 Swiss champion triathlon middle distance
2015 Vice European champion triathlon sprint distance
2016 ETU European Champion Triathlon Sprintdistanz AG 45–49
2017 ITU world champion triathlon age group 50–54
status
active

Brigitte McMahon-Huber (born March 25, 1967 in Baar , Canton Zug ) is a Swiss triathlete . She is Swiss Duathlon Champion (2004), Triathlon Middle Distance (2014), Olympic Champion and Sportswoman of the year 2000 .

Career

Brigitte McMahon studied biochemistry at the ETH Zurich until 1991 and worked as a research assistant at the University of Zurich and in Hawaii in the following years .

In 1990 she became Swiss champion in swimming over 100 and 200 m back. From 1999 McMahon started as a professional triathlete.

Olympic champion triathlon 2000

On September 16, 2000, she won at the Summer Olympic Games of Sydney , the Gold Medal at the first Olympic triathlon of women and was honored as Swiss Sportswoman of the Year. At the Summer Olympics in Athens four years later , she finished tenth.

In 2004 she became Swiss Duathlon Champion.

2005 doping ban

McMahon tested positive for the doping agent EPO in June 2005 and was excluded from the national team. She admitted to using it and was banned for two years. Brigitte McMahon then resigned with immediate effect.

In September 2011 she was involved in a traffic accident with her bicycle and injured.

In June 2014 in Kitzbühel she became triathlon European champion in the 45-49 age group, both in the sprint distance and in the Olympic short distance. At the Swiss Championships in Locarno in September, she was able to secure the title in the middle distance.

In July 2015, she was runner-up in the European triathlon sprint distance (0.75 km swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running) in Geneva . In May 2016 she became European champion on the sprint distance in the AG 45–49 in Lisbon.

Age group world champion 2017

In September 2017, the 50-year-old became triathlon world champion in the age group 50-54 in Rotterdam.

Today she works as a teacher, among other things at the Kantonsschule Kollegium Schwyz . She also offers coaching in the area of ​​training planning and training support for companies and private customers.

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
01st July 2018 1 URI triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Seedorf 01:57:52 1.5 km swimming, 37 km cycling, 10 km running
16 Sep 2017 1 ITU Triathlon World Championship 50–54 NetherlandsNetherlands Rotterdam 02:15:32 ITU world champion triathlon age group 50–54
May 27, 2016 1 ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championship 45–49 PortugalPortugal Lisbon 01:08:04 ETU European champion sprint distance in AG 45–49
July 10, 2015 2 ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva 01:12:52 Vice European champion sprint distance
0Sep 7 2014 1 Swiss Triathlon Championships middle distance SwitzerlandSwitzerland Locarno 04:19:28
20th June 2014 1 ETU Short Distance Triathlon European Championship 45–49 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel 02:22:02 European champion Olympic distance in the age group 45–49
20th June 2014 1 ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championship 45–49 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel 01:14:29 European sprint distance champion in the 45–49 age group
Aug 25, 2004 10 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 02:07:07 behind the winner Kate Allen from Austria
0Dec 7, 2003 23 ITU Triathlon Short Distance World Championship New ZealandNew Zealand Queenstown 02:11:46 behind the winner Emma Snowsill
  2001 6th Goodwill Games AustraliaAustralia Brisbane 02:04:03
16 Sep 2000 1 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney 02:00:40 Olympic champion
Aug 12, 2000 2 ITU Triathlon World Cup SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 02:05:58
Sep 11 1999 41 ITU Triathlon Short Distance World Championships CanadaCanada Montreal 02:01:16 World championship on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
July 26, 1998 9 ITU Triathlon World Cup GermanyGermany Frankfurt 02:01:57
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
  2004 1 Swiss Duathlon Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zofingen Swiss Duathlon Champion

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Brigitte McMahon
  2. ↑ Stefan Eberli, Marcel Süess, Yves Zellweger: Brigitte McMahon doping case
  3. ↑ Pia Wertheimer: "It pulled the skin off like a sock" interview: Tages-Anzeiger .net / Newsnet of 30 November 2011th
  4. ↑ AGE GROUP WM IN ROTTERDAM: VICTORY FOR BRIGITTE MCMAHON OVER THE OLYMPIC DISTANCE (September 18, 2017)
  5. ↑ Urner Sonnenschein and Swiss Champion (July 1, 2018)
  6. ↑ BILL AND WIDMER AND KOUTNY AND MCMAHON NEW SWISS CHAMPIONSHIPS (September 7, 2014)
  7. ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Brigitte McMahon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME McMahon, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McMahon-Huber, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Baar , Canton of Zug