Carrie Lester

0 Carrie Lester
Carrie Lester at Challenge Roth, 2016
Personal information
Date of birth	28th January 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Brisbane, Australia
societies
successes
2009	ITU world champion W25–29 triathlon short distance
2009	ITU world champion W25–29 long distance triathlon
2010-2019	6 × Ironman winner
2011-2019	3 × winner Ironman 70.3
2016, 2018	2 × winner Embrunman
2017	7th place Ironman World Championships
status
active

Carrie Lester (born January 28, 1981 in Brisbane ) is an Australian triathlete . She is triathlon world champion over the Olympic distance (2009) and long distance in the age group 25–29 (2009) as well as six-time Ironman winner (2010–2019) and is included in the best list of triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

In 2005 Carrie Lester started triathlon and in 2010 she won the Ironman Australia at her first start on the long distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) in Port Macquarie on the Australian east coast.

In September 2009 she became world champion in Australia over the Olympic triathlon distance in her age group 25-29 and in October she also achieved the same in the long distance. Lester has been a professional athlete since 2009 - mainly in the middle and long distance.

Ironman 2010 winner

In June 2012 she won her second gold medal on the Ironman distance on the Australian north coast. In 2015 she won the Ironman Chattanooga and in July 2016, as in the previous year, she finished second at the Challenge Roth .

In France, she won the Embrunman in the long distance triathlon in August 2016 . At the Ironman World Championships, she finished seventh in Hawaii in October 2017. In August 2018, she won the Embrunman long distance for the second time after 2016.

In June 2019, she won her fifth Ironman race with Ironman France . In November, the then 38-year-old won the eleventh edition of the Ironman Mexico after 8:38:41 h with a personal best and a new course record .

Carrie Lester lives in Queensland .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

• Official website of Carrie Lester
• Carrie Lester's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 30, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IRONMAN NEWS: BAKKEGARD WINS IN LAHTI, CUNNAMA IN NICE (June 30, 2019)
2. ↑ Tyler Butterfield, Carrie Lester win fast races at IRONMAN Cozumel (November 25, 2019)
3. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Caroline Steffen from Switzerland wins Ironman 70.3 Geelong Triathlon from Australia . In: 3athlon.de . February 7, 2010. Archived from the original on February 7, 2010.
4. ↑ 2009 Crowne Plaza Canberra Half Ironman Triathlon ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Sunshine Coast Tri Academy ( Memento from June 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Ironman Western Australia: Bozzone wins Duathlon (December 3, 2017)
7. ^ Ironman Cairns: McCormack's longest training day
8. ^ Challenge Cairns . Archived from the original on May 7, 2012.
9. ↑ Ironman Australia 2010: Carrie Lester wins at the first attempt
10. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Abu Dhabi International Triathlon: rendezvous of the Ironman stars in the land of the sheikhs . In: 3athlon.de . March 10, 2010. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010.
11. ↑ Alexander and Lester in Huskisson
12. ↑ 2009 Huskisson OTU Long Distance Triathlon Oceania Championships - 25-29 Female AG - Results