Eimear Nicholls

0 Eimear Nicholls
at Ironman 70.3 Pays d'Aix France , 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	21st May 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Portstewart, United Kingdom
Nickname	Emu or Mully
size	167 cm
Weight	55 kg
societies
Since 2013	Team TBB
Current	Thanyapura Pro Triathlon Team
successes
2010	Vice European champion W25–29 triathlon short distance
2012, 2014	2 × Ironman winner
2012-2017	6 × winner Ironman 70.3
status
inactive

Eimear Nicholls (born Eimear Mullan on May 21, 1982 in Portstewart ) is a duathlete , triathlete and Ironman winner (2012, 2014) from the United Kingdom .

Career

Eimer Mullan competed in tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) for Ireland and Great Britain. She has been running triathlons since 2007.

Professional triathlete since 2011

Mullan has been competing for Ireland in the duathlon since 2008, finished eleventh at the 2010 World Cup and has been a professional triathlete since 2011.
In June 2012 she won the half Ironman distance ( Ironman 70.3 ) in Great Britain and in July she won the full Ironman distance in Bolton . Since 2013 she has been trained by Bella Bayliss and Brett Sutton and she starts for the team TBB .

In August 2014 she achieved first place at the Embrunman after the bronze medal in the previous year. With its mountainous route, this race in the French Alps is one of the toughest long-distance races in the world. At the end of September, she won her second Ironman victory on Mallorca.

In October she was the first Irish female athlete in Barcelona to undercut the 9-hour mark on the Ironman distance after 8:56:51 h (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

In 2015 and 2016, she struggled with injuries. Eimer Nicholls has been married to British triathlete Ritchie Nicholls (* 1987) since March 2016 and they both live in Portstewart.

In November 2017, the then 35-year-old took her sixth victory in an Ironman 70.3 race with her win at Ironman 70.3 Xiamen . Eimear Nicholls has not appeared internationally since 2017.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did not finish )

Web links

Commons : Eimear Mullan  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official homepage of Eimear Mullan
• Profile for Eimear Nicholls at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed May 15, 2014
• Profile and results of Eimear Nicholls in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 29, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ironwoman Eimear Mullan is going the full distance (February 4, 2016)
2. ↑ Meet Thanyapura's Newest Tri Couple: Ritchie Nicholls and Eimear Mullan (January 18, 2017)
3. ↑ Rainy ... and fun! Vansteelant and Mullan win TriStar111 Mallorca 2012 ( Memento from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (April 15, 2012)
4. ↑ Olivier Marceau and Eimear Mullan shine the brightest at TriStar111 Mallorca ( Memento from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (April 17, 2011)
5. ^ Eimear Mullan's report from the Ironman 70.3 World Championships
6. ↑ Short-distance European Championships Athlone: ​​Spirig defends title
7. ↑ Embrunman 2013: Zamora and Collogne win thanks to strong cycling performances (August 16, 2013)
8. ↑ Alpe D'Huez Triathlon: Mountains fed up! (July 25, 2013)
9. ^ Morrison, Aernouts Take Duathlon World Titles