Emma Bilham

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland 0 Emma Bilham
Personal information
Date of birth 27th December 1986 (age 33)
place of birth Switzerland
Size 158 cm
Weight 53 kg
societies
current Triviera , Tri Val de Gray , New Concept Sports and Swiss Triathlon National Team
successes
2012 3rd place in the Swiss Triathlon Championships
2015-2017 3 × winner Ironman 70.3
2015 10th place Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2019 Ironman winner
status
active

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Emma Bilham at Ventouxman (2017)

Emma Jane Bilham (born December 27, 1986 ) is a Swiss triathlete . She is included in the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Emma Bilham has both Swiss and British citizenship.

In 2012 she was third in the Swiss triathlon championships on the short distance in Murten (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

In April 2015 she won the Ironman 70.3 Putrajaya on half the Ironman distance (middle distance: 1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running). In August Emma Bilham was tenth in the triathlon middle distance at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Austria.

Ironman distance since 2016

She has been trained by Brett Sutton since 2016 . In June 2016 Emma Bilham finished second in Nice at her first start on the Ironman distance (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.2 km running) and thus won the first medal for a Swiss athlete at Ironman France , since this is carried out in Nice. In July, the then 29-year-old came second in Ironman Switzerland in Zurich .

In February 2017 she was third at the Challenge Wanaka in New Zealand and with her time of 9:16:11 h she was on the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance .

In 2018 she became the second Swiss woman to win the EDF Alpe d'Huez triathlon on the long distance in France after Nicola Spirig (2009) .

In June 2019, she won her first Ironman race at the inaugural Ironman Ireland . Emma Bilham lives in Montreux .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
June 11, 2017 2 Ironman 70.3 Switzerland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Rapperswil-Jona 04:27:17
04th June 2017 3 Ventouxman FranceFrance 06:04:31
20th May 2017 2 Bilbao triathlon SpainSpain Bilbao 04:38:37
May 14, 2017 1 Ironman 70.3 Pays d'Aix France FranceFrance Aix-en-Provence 04:29:36
April 16, 2017 1 Cannes International Triathlon FranceFrance Cannes 04:31:14
0Feb. 5, 2017 2 Hell of the West Triathlon AustraliaAustralia Queensland 04:05:13 Second behind the Australian Sarah Crowley
Jan. 27, 2017 12 Ironman 70.3 Dubai United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai 04:20:16
17 Sep 2016 1 Challenge Gran Canaria SpainSpain Mogan 04:42:30 Winner on the half distance
03rd Sep 2016 1 Triathlon de Gérardmer FranceFrance Gerardmer 02:28:37 Winner on the short distance
June 26, 2016 1 Challenge Galway IrelandIreland Galway 04:16:35 Winner on the half distance
May 22, 2016 1 Ironman 70.3 Barcelona SpainSpain Calella 04:38:42 Swimming 1.9 km, cycling 90 km and running 21.1 km.
23 Apr 2016 2 Challenge Fuerteventura SpainSpain Fuerteventura 04:30:59 Second on the half-distance - behind the German Anja Beranek
Apr 10, 2016 1 Triathlon de Portocolom SpainSpain Portocolom 04:08:13 1 km swimming, 100 km cycling and 10 km running
Aug 30, 2015 10 Ironman 70.3 World Championship AustriaAustria Zell am See 04:31:47 at Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun
July 11, 2015 17th ETU Short Distance Triathlon European Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva 02:12:24 European championship on the Olympic short distance
April 19, 2015 3 International Triathlon Wallisellen SwitzerlandSwitzerland Wallisellen 00: 50: 52.7
0Apr 5, 2015 1 Ironman 70.3 Putrajaya MalaysiaMalaysia Putrajaya 04:24:48
Oct 18, 2014 9 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships SpainSpain Peguera 04:54:21 European championship in the middle distance as part of the Challenge Peguera-Mallorca
0June 1, 2014 3 Ironman 70.3 Italy ItalyItaly Pescara 04:31:54
Sep 15 2012 3 Swiss triathlon championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Murten 02:12:28 Third behind Daniela Ryf and Céline Schärer
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 12, 2019 DNF Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii - Race stopped on the bike course
June 23, 2019 1 Ironman Ireland IrelandIreland Youghal 08:50:18 shortened course without the swimming distance
  2018 1 Triathlon EDF Alpe d'Huez FranceFrance Alpe d'Huez 06:51:21 Long distance winner
04th Mar 2017 5 Ironman New Zealand New ZealandNew Zealand Taupo 09:52:33
Feb. 18, 2017 3 Challenge Wanaka New ZealandNew Zealand Wanaka 09:16:11
04th Sep 2016 2 Triathlon de Gérardmer FranceFrance Gerardmer 05:01:10 on the long distance
15 Aug 2016 4th Embrunman FranceFrance Embrun 11:07:05
July 24, 2016 2 Ironman Switzerland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 09:23:48
05th June 2016 2 Ironman France FranceFrance Nice 09:28:55 at the first start on the Ironman distance second behind the Belgian Tine Deckers , who won the race for the fifth time
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
07 Aug 2016 2 St. Moritz Duathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland St. Moritz 01:29:43 Second behind Nicola Spirig

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Domenico Passuelo, Emma Bilham, crowned champions at Ironman 70.3 Putrajaya in Malaysia (April 5, 2015)
  2. ↑ Sebastian Kienle wins Cannes Triathlon (April 16, 2017)
  3. ↑ Emma Bilham second at the Hell-of-the-west-Triathlon ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (February 6, 2017)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swisstriathlon.ch
  4. ↑ Bilham defeats Riesler (April 11, 2016)
  5. ↑ DANIELA RYF AND RUEDI WILD ARE SWISS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012 (September 15, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Bilham, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bilham, Emma Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1986