Hamish Carter

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Triathlon
New ZealandNew Zealand 0 Hamish Carter
at the Chicago Triathlon (2005)
at the Chicago Triathlon (2005)
Personal information
Date of birth 28th April 1971 (age 49)
place of birth Auckland, New Zealand
societies
successes
1997, 2006 2 × vice world champion triathlon short distance
2004 Olympic champion triathlon
2006 World champion Xterra Cross Triathlon
status
Resigned in 2007

Hamish Carter , ONZM (born April 28, 1971 in Auckland ) is a former New Zealand triathlete and two-time Olympian (2000, 2004).

Career

Hamish Carter finished his first triathlon in Whangamata in 1991 in the top ten and he started as a professional triathlon in 1993. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he finished 26th.

Olympic champion triathlon 2004

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , he won the gold medal in a time of 1: 51: 07.73 h. At the Commonwealth Games in 2002 he won the bronze medal. He was also able to record a total of twelve World Cup victories. Hamish Carter was trained by Brett Sutton .

In September 2006 he became vice world champion on the short distance triathlon for the second time after 1997. In October he was also cross-triathlon world champion (1.5 km swimming, 32 km mountain bike and 12 km cross-country running) in Hawaii as part of the Xterra world series.

On March 6, 2007 he announced the end of his active career after 14 years. He named motivation problems as the reason. He lives with his wife Marisa , also a former triathlete (as Marisa Pentecost ) and their two children in Mt. Eden, Auckland.

Awards

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Sep 2 2006 2 ITU Triathlon World Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 01:51:49 Vice world champion on the short distance triathlon
June 12, 2005 2 Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon United StatesUnited States San Francisco 02:05:05
  2005 1 Chicago triathlon United StatesUnited States Chicago 01:49:55 Olympic distance victory
Aug 26, 2004 1 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 01: 51: 07.73
Apr 15, 2003 1 OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships AustraliaAustralia Queenstown 01:51:15 Winner of the Oceanic Triathlon Championship
0Aug 4, 2002 3 Commonwealth Games 2002 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Manchester 01:52:04
0Sep 2 2001 2 Goodwill Games AustraliaAustralia Brisbane 01:47:46 Second behind the Australian Chris McCormack
16 Sep 2000 26th 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01:50:56
0May 9, 1999 2 OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships AustraliaAustralia Mooloolaba 01:55:10 Second in the Oceanic Triathlon Championship
Nov 16, 1997 2 ITU Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Perth 01:48:42 Vice world champion on the short distance triathlon
22 Aug 1993 3 ITU Triathlon World Championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Manchester 01:53:28
Cross triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 29, 2006 1 Xterra Triathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 02:42:36 Xterra cross triathlon world champion
0Apr 1, 2005 1 Xterra New Zealand Championships New ZealandNew Zealand Rotorua

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Famous New Zealanders
  2. ↑ Triathlon Olympic Champion listens to Focus Online
  3. ↑ Olympic champion Carter retires BBC Sport
  4. ↑ Whatever happened to ... the 1994 World Champs team?
  5. ↑ HAMISH CARTER JOINS HPSNZ ( Memento of the original from June 23, 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. (December 20, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hpsnz.org.nz
  6. ^ ITU Hall of Fame
  7. ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Hamish
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland