Emma Pooley

0 Emma Pooley
Emma Pooley at Ventouxman, 2017
Personal information
Date of birth	3rd October 1982 (age 37)
place of birth	London , UK
size	157 cm
Weight	48 kg
societies
Since 2014	Lotto Soudal Ladies (Belgium)
successes
2004	World champion duathlon short distance F20–24
2008	2nd place Olympic Games individual time trial
2009	Winner Grande Boucle Féminine
2010	British road racing champion
2011, 2012	2 × world champion individual time trial
2014-2017	4 × world champion duathlon long distance
2017	European champion Duathlon middle distance
status
inactive

Emma Jane Pooley (born October 3, 1982 in London ) is a former British cyclist , long-distance runner , duathlete and triathlete . She is a two-time Olympian (2008, 2016), a European duathlon champion (2017) and a four-time long-distance duathlon world champion (2014-2017).

Athletic career

Emma Pooley was born in London, grew up in Norwich and later studied in Cambridge . She began her career as a long-distance runner and triathlete until she switched to cycling due to an injury.

World Champion Duathlon short distance 2004

In 2004 she became the duathlon world champion in her age group (women 20–24). Emma Pooley has lived in Switzerland since 2005, in Hausen am Albis in the canton of Zurich.

In 2007 she was nominated for the road world championships and finished with eighth place in the individual time trial and tenth in the road race.

2008 Summer Olympics

In 2008 Emma Pooley won the World Cup race for the Trofeo Alfredo Binda . At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , she was 23rd in the road race after successfully helping her teammate Nicole Cooke to win the race. In the individual time trial, Pooley achieved her greatest success to date, winning the silver medal behind the American Kristin Armstrong .

In 2009 Pooley became British Champion in the individual time trial and was able to achieve several important victories, such as the Grande Boucle Féminine . In 2010 she won the Flèche Wallonne . In the same year she won the world champion title in the individual time trial in Geelong . This makes her the first British woman to win a gold medal in a world road championship time trial.

In 2010 and 2011 she rode for the Cervelo Test Team or its successor Garmin-Cervélo and after its dissolution in 2012 she moved to the Dutch cycling team AA Drink-leontien.nl . At the Giro d'Italia Femminile 2011 and 2012, she finished second in the overall ranking.

Emma Pooley studied geotechnical engineering . In 2013 she received her doctorate, which is why she did not have a contract with a team that year. She switched to the Swiss Bigla Cycling Team , where she started as an amateur in 2013. In addition to cycling races, she also competed very successfully in long-distance triathlons in 2013: in June she won the premiere of the Swissman Xtreme Triathlon , starting in Ascona and finishing on Kleine Scheidegg. Five weeks later she finished fifth at Ironman Switzerland and in October she won the Lausanne Marathon .

World Champion Duathlon Long Distance 2014

In May 2014 she finished second at Ironman 70.3 Switzerland on half the Ironman distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running). During the 2014 Commonwealth Games , Emma Pooley announced that the street race there would be her last as an elite cyclist. But she will continue to take part in hobby races and duathlon events.

She finished the last races by winning the silver medal in road races and individual time trials.

In September 2014 she set a new course record in 6:47:27 h at the Duathlon World Championship in Zofingen and was crowned world champion at her first start on the long distance duathlon. In 2015 she won the World Cup again.

2016 Summer Olympics

In August at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she finished 14th in the individual time trial and was 53rd in the road race. In September 2016, she became the duathlon world champion in the long distance for the third time in a row.

European Champion Duathlon Middle Distance 2017

In May 2017, Pooley won the European Duathlon Championship in the middle distance and in September she became Duathlon World Champion at Powerman Zofingen for the fourth time in a row. It has not appeared internationally since 2017.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Teams

• 2006 Team FBUK
• 2007 Team Specialized Designs for Women
• 2008 Specialized Designs for Women
• 2009 Cervélo Test Team
• 2010 Cervélo Test Team Women (Netherlands)
• 2011 Garmin-Cervelo
• 2012 AA Drink-leontien.nl
• 2013 Bigla Cycling Team (start as an amateur)
• 2014 Lotto Belisol Ladies (until August 3)
• 2016 Lotto Soudal Ladies (from June 22nd)

Web links

Commons : Emma Pooley  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Emma Pooley in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Emma Pooley in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Emma Pooley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile and results of Emma Pooley in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 10, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dave Schneider: The Special Story of Emma Pooley. In: zuonline.ch. August 8, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2016 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Felix Mattis: Pooley ended her career as a professional cyclist. radsport-news.com, July 29, 2014, accessed July 29, 2014 . 
3. ↑ cyclingnews.com of November 5, 2012: Britain's Emma Pooley joins Bigla Cycling for 2013
4. ↑ Emma Pooley wins inaugural Swissman Triathlon on beyondgoinglong.co.uk v. June 24, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2013 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. ↑ Lizzie Armitstead and Emma Pooley in England one-two at Glasgow 2014. The Guardian, August 3, 2014, accessed August 6, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Two fantastic premieres at Powerman Zofingen (September 7, 2014)
7. ↑ Pooley and Odeyn Triumph (September 4, 2016)
8. ↑ Illes takes bronze at the European Duathlon Championship (May 21, 2017)
9. ↑ Pooley and Kuzmin win (September 3, 2017)
10. ↑ ALP D´HUEZ TRIATHLON: CHRISTIAN KRAMER IS THE FIRST GERMAN TO WIN THE L-DISTANCE (July 27, 2017)
11. ↑ Ryf Smashes Switzerland (June 1, 2014)
12. ↑ Schildknecht Remains Unbeatable in Switzerland (July 28, 2013)