Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys

0 Isabelle Mouthon
Personal information
Date of birth	14th June 1966 (age 54)
place of birth	Annecy, France
size	170 cm
Weight	60 kg
societies
successes
1990, 1994	2 × European triathlon middle distance champion
1990-2000	9 × National Triathlon Champion
1991	European champion triathlon short distance
1994, 2000	2 × world champion triathlon long distance
1995	2nd place Ironman Hawaii
1997	Vice world champion triathlon long distance
2000	7th place Summer Olympics
status
Resigned in 2000

Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys (* 14. June 1966 in Annecy as Isabelle Mouthon ) is a former French triathlete who at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney took part. She is two-time long-distance world champion (1994, 2000) and two-time European champion in the Olympic distance (1991, 1995) and in the middle distance (1990, 1994). She is included in the best list of French triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Isabelle Mouthon grew up with her twin sister Béatrice and four other siblings in the French Alps. A TV report on the Longue Distance de Nice triathlon , at that time the most prestigious triathlon in the world alongside the Ironman Hawaii , motivated her to start triathlon herself. Before that, she and her twin sister were already active in swimming and running . They completed their first triathlon in Annecy on bikes borrowed from their father and brother. While Béatrice was studying in Paris, Isabelle Mouthon enrolled at the University of Lyon so that both could only train together during the holidays. Triathlete magazine recognized Isabelle Mouton as the best young triathlete, the prize was a trip to Ironman Hawaii, where she came into contact with Mark Allen , Paula Newby-Fraser , Scott Tinley and Dave Scott .

European champion triathlon middle distance 1990

After graduating in 1990, Isabelle and Béatrice Mouthon decided to take a year off to focus on sports and moved to San Diego . With her successes at the Ironman Hawaii, the Triathlon International de Nice and the Olympic distance, Isabelle Mouthon was one of the athletes who was equally successful in the short and long distance.

Second at Ironman Hawaii 1995

In second place in the world rankings and as the reigning European champion on the Olympic distance and second at the Ironman Hawaii in 1995, she wanted to complete her sports career and started working for the French railway company SNCF . After a short time, however, she revised her decision in order to get a place at the Olympic Games in Sydney. She reduced her job at SNCF to a part-time job.

She successfully managed the necessary change to the now tactically completely different orientated competitions at the Olympic distance. Since 1995 there has been a drafting approval for World Cups and World Championships (cycling in the slipstream is allowed). Isabelle Mouthon achieved third place in the world rankings in both 1997 and 1998.

2000 Summer Olympics

The goal of the “Olympic Games” did not prevent her from further long distance starts: In 1997 she finished second at the World Championships in Nice and in 2000 she was honored there as world champion.
Two months later, the time had come: Both Isabelle Mouton and her sister Béatrice had been nominated for the premiere of triathlon at the Games , alongside Christine Hocq, by the French National Olympic Committee (NOK). Isabelle Mouton managed to be in the top group right from the start; she switched to the running track in a group of fifteen and finally crossed the finish line in seventh place as the third-best European. In 2000 she was able to win the triathlon national champion title for the ninth time.

While her twin sister Béatrice Mouthon continued as a professional triathlete for a year, Isabelle Mouton resumed her full-time job at the SNCF, where she works as a physiotherapist with the analysis of occupational accidents and illnesses.

Sporting successes

literature

• Isabelle and Béatrice Mouthon with Dominique Bouchet: Le triathlon: du débutant à l'Ironman Minerva 2001 ISBN 2830706102

Web links

• Profile for Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed May 13, 2014
• Profile for Isabelle Mouthon at the Institute of Applied Training Science , accessed May 13, 2014
• Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys, ou la souffrance de la triathlète In: L'Humanité November 18, 1997
• Profile and results of Isabelle Mouthon-Michellys in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 4, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Triathlon World Rankings 1995 ( Memento from February 3, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Triathlon World Rankings (Women) 1997 ( Memento of February 3, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) (November 18, 1997)
3. ↑ Triathlon World Rankings (Women) 1998 ( Memento from February 3, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) (November 12, 1998)
4. ↑ Amy White: Isabelle Mouthon ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2008 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. In: Slowtwitch.com April 23, 2001