Joanna Pointer

0 Joanna Pointer
at the Los Angeles Marathon , March 2013
Personal information
Date of birth	4th May 1970 (age 60)
place of birth	Baltimore , United States
size	163 cm
Weight	52 kg
societies
successes
1998-2003	3 × national champion triathlon short distance
2000	4th place Summer Olympics
2000	National champion triathlon short distance
2000	6th place Ironman World Championships
2001	3rd place ITU World Championship short distance
2005, 2006	2 × Ironman winner
2008	Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championships
status
Resigned in 2009

Joanna Sue Zeiger (born May 4, 1970 in Baltimore ) is a former American triathlete . She is an Olympian (2000), two-time Ironman winner (2005, 2006) and Ironman 70.3 world champion (2008).

Career

Joanna Zeiger studied at Brown University , later at Johns Hopkins University and she was successful in swimming. In 1992 she also started running and cycling.

In 1997 she was voted “Amateur Triathlete of the Year” and since 1998 she started as a professional triathlete. Zeiger was very versatile and was active in both short and long distance triathlon races.

2000 Summer Olympics

In September 2000, she went to the Summer Olympics in Sydney to the start, where she finished fourth. Six weeks later she was sixth on the long distance at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championship). In that year she was also the US American short distance champion and she was named "Triathlete of the Year" by the USOC ( United States Olympic Committee ).

In 2001 she was third at the ITU World Championships on the short distance triathlon.

In 2005 she was able to achieve her first victory over the Ironman distance (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running) in Brazil .

Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championships 2008

In November 2008, Joanna Zeiger became world champion over the Ironman 70.3 distance in Florida .

While preparing to defend her title in 2009, Zeiger was involved in a serious cycling accident and she ended her triathlon career.

After her active time in running and cross-country, she works and works as a coach. In 2014 and again in 2015 she won the USA Half Marathon Championships in the Masters class in Houston .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official homepage of Joanna Zeiger
• Profile for Joanna Zeiger at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 26, 2014
• Profile and results of Joanna Zeiger in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 13, 2018 (English).
• Joanna Zeiger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ How fast can Chrissie Wellington run? (March 16, 2012)