Jacqueline Allen

0 Jacqueline Allen
at the Triathlon World Championship, 2010
Personal information
Date of birth	17th June 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Nickname	Jacqui
societies
Current	Lurbel team
successes
2015	4th place ITU World Championship Cross Triathlon
2016	ETU Vice European Champion Cross-Triathlon
2016	7th place ITU World Championship Cross Triathlon
2017	ITU Vice World Champion Cross-Triathlon
2017	3rd place World Championship Aquathlon
status
active

Jacqueline Allen (born June 17, 1983 in Stoke-on-Trent ; as Jacqueline Slack; short form Jacqui ) is a British triathlete , Vice-European Cross-Triathlon Champion (2016) and reigning Vice-World Cross-Triathlon Champion (2017).

Career

Jacqui Slack came to the triathlon at the age of 21, she started in 2010 in Lausanne at the first edition of the Triathlon World Championship on the sprint distance and finished 17th.

Today she is mainly active in cross triathlon - in races in the Xterra series. In 2012 she came second in the European Tour classification of the Xterra racing series.

In September 2015 she was fourth in Sardinia at the ITU World Championship Cross Triathlon.

Vice European Champion Cross Triathlon 2016

In June 2016 she became Vice-European Cross-Triathlon Champion in Switzerland. She finished seventh at the Xterra World Championships in Hawaii in October. In November she finished seventh at the World Cross Triathlon Championships in Australia.

Vice-World Champion Cross-Triathlon 2017

She has been married to the Australian triathlete Ben Allen since March 2017 and they both live in their birthplace, Stoke-on-Trent.
In August she was runner-up in the cross triathlon world championship. Two days later she also started at the Aquathlon World Championship and finished third in Canada.

In April 2018 Jacqueline Allen won the Xterra New Zealand for the third time after 2012 and 2017 .

Jacqui Allen is trained by Alex Hall and she starts for the Lurbel team.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Jacqui Allen
• Official blog site of Jacqui Allen
• Jacqueline Allen's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 7, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacqui Allen | From Fire-Fighter to World Class Professional Triathlete
2. ↑ The triathletes Jacqueline Slack (UK) and Ben Allen (Australia) join the Lurbel team (May 29, 2014)
3. ↑ Allen and Slack win Eastbourne Tri (June 14, 2016)
4. ↑ Osborne, Allen win XTERRA New Zealand (April 7, 2017)
5. ↑ Jacqui Slack wins XTERRA Malaysia ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2016 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. 
6. ↑ Ruzafa, Redelsperger win XTERRA Portugal ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 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. (June 1, 2014) 
7. ↑ BC's Melanie McQuaid crowned first ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion