Jo-Anne Ritchie

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CanadaCanada 0 Jo-Anne Ritchie
Personal information
place of birth Kelowna, Canada
societies
successes
1991, 1992 2 × national champion triathlon short distance
1991 World champion triathlon short distance
1992 Vice world champion triathlon short distance
status
resigned

Jo-Anne (Joanne) Ritchie (* in Kelowna ) is a former Canadian triathlete and triathlon world champion (1991).

Career

Jo-Anne Ritchie studied at Simon Fraser University .

She became Canadian triathlon champion in 1991 and was able to successfully defend this title in 1992.

Triathlon world champion 1991

In 1991 she became triathlon world champion on the short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). She started five times at triathlon world championships and was able to place three times on the podium.

In 1993 she was also able to win the Triathlon World Cup - this racing series was the predecessor of today's world championship racing series of the International Triathlon Union (ITU).

In February 2000 she was honored with the "Triathlon Canada's Hall of Fame" for her sporting success.

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
22 Aug 1996 27 ITU Triathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Cleveland 01:58:21 Triathlon World Championship (short distance)
Nov 12, 1995 8th ITU Triathlon World Championships MexicoMexico Cancun 02:07:07
  1993 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup ITU Triathlon World Cup winner
22 Aug 1993 3 ITU Triathlon World Championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Manchester 02:08:46
Sep 12 1992 2 ITU Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Huntsville 02:03:21 Triathlon vice world champion (short distance), behind the Australian Michellie Jones
Oct 13, 1991 1 ITU Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Queensland 02:02:04 Triathlon world champion (short distance)

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

  • Profile and results of Jo-Anne Ritchie in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on November 9, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jo-Anne Ritchie
  2. ↑ Triathlon Canada - Jo-Anne Ritchie ( Memento of the original from October 12, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.triathloncanada.com
personal data
SURNAME Ritchie, Jo-Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritchie, Joanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian triathlete and duathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelowna