Carol Montgomery

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Triathlon
CanadaCanada 0 Carol Montgomery
Personal information
Date of birth 24th August 1965 (age 55)
place of birth Sechelt
size 160 cm
Weight 56 kg
societies
successes
1990, 2000 2 × vice-world champion triathlon short distance
1993 Duathlon world champion
2002 Commonwealth Games winner
status
active

Carol Montgomery (born August 24, 1965 in Sechelt ) is a former Canadian triathlete , duathlete and long-distance runner . She is a two-time Olympic starter (2000, 2004).

Career

Carol Montgomery studied at Simon Fraser University in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the 1980s and came here to athletics. In 1990 and again in 2000 she was runner-up in the triathlon short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). In 1993 Montgomery became Duathlon World Champion.

In 1995 she won silver over bronze over 10,000 m and bronze over 5,000 m at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata and was eliminated at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg over 10,000 m in the preliminary run.

Carol Montgomery started in the 2000 triathlon for the first time as part of the Olympic Games, but could not finish the race after falling on his bike. She was also registered for a start over the 10,000 m, but had to cancel it after the fall.

In 2004 she started again at the Summer Olympics in triathlon and finished 35th in Athens.

She was nominated by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) for induction into the Hall of Fame in 2014 .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Aug 25, 2004 35 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 02: 15: 25.62
  2003 1 Laguna Phuket Triathlon ThailandThailand Phuket 02:53:14
0Aug 4, 2002 1 Commonwealth Games 2002 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Salford 02:03:17
  2002 1 Laguna Phuket Triathlon ThailandThailand Phuket 02:50:59
  2002 1 Noosa triathlon AustraliaAustralia Noosa
0Sep 2 2001 10 Goodwill Games AustraliaAustralia Brisbane 02: 05: 58.49
16 Sep 2000 DNF 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney -
Apr 30, 2000 2 ITU Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Perth 01:54:49 Vice-world champion on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
0May 4, 1999 2 St. Croix Triathlon United StatesUnited States Saint Croix 02:53:46
  1999 3 Pan American Games CanadaCanada Winnipeg
0Nov 3, 1996 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup AustraliaAustralia Noosa 01:58:42
Aug 24, 1996 3 ITU Triathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Cleveland 01:52:06 World championship on the short distance
  1996 3 ITU Triathlon World Cup JapanJapan Gamagori 01:58:43
  1995 2 St. Croix Triathlon United StatesUnited States Saint Croix Second behind Michellie Jones
0May 2, 1991 1 St. Croix Triathlon United StatesUnited States Saint Croix ITU Triathlon World Cup: 2 km swimming, 50 km cycling and 12 km running
Sep 15 1990 2 ITU Triathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Orlando 02:03:47 Vice world champion
0Aug 6, 1989 7th ITU Triathlon World Championships FranceFrance Avignon 02:15:45
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 17, 1993 1 ITU Duathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Dallas 01:38:35 Duathlon world champion

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Personal bests

  • 5000 m : 15: 46.80 min, March 24th 1995, Mar del Plata
  • 10,000 m : 32: 11.79 min, April 14, 2000, Walnut

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ITU Hall of Fame
  2. ↑ Laguna Phuket Triathlon . Archived from the original on January 13, 2008.
  3. ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Montgomery, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian triathlete, duathlete and long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Sechelt