Jodie Cunnama

0 Jodie Cunnama
at Ironman Germany , 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	23rd June 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Loughborough, UK
size	172 cm
Weight	61 kg
societies
Until 2013	Abu Dhabi Triathlon Team
Since 2015	Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
successes
2000	Junior European triathlon champion short distance
2009, 2016	2 × world champion triathlon long distance
2010	World Champion Ironman 70.3
2010	Vice European champion long distance triathlon
2012	Vice world champion triathlon long distance
2013	2nd place Ironman European Championship
2013, 2015, 2016	3 × Ironman winner
2014	2nd place Ironman 70.3 World Championship
status
inactive

Jodie Cunnama (* 23. June 1981 in Loughborough as Jodie Ann Swallow ) is a former triathlete from the United Kingdom . She is student world champion (2000), junior European champion (2000), Olympian (2004) and two-time and world champion in the long distance triathlon (2009, 2016). She won the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in 2010 .

Career

Jodie Swallow was active in swimming in her youth.
She has been practicing triathlon since 2000 and after her junior European championship title in 2000 she was named “Most Successful Athlete of the Season” by the ETU in 2001.

2004 Summer Olympics

In 2004 she started in Athens at the Olympic Games, where she finished 34th.
In 2005 she had to sit out for a year due to an injury. Jodie Swallow graduated from Loughborough University . She was trained by Brett Sutton .

World champion triathlon long distance 2009

In October 2009 she became world champion in the ITU long distance (3 km swimming, 80 km cycling and 20 km running).

In June 2010 Jodie Swallow was second behind the winner Virginia Berasategui at the European Long Distance Championship and in November she won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Florida .

From 2011 she started for the TBB team . In St. George, she started the Ironman distance for the first time in May 2011 (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) - but could not finish the race after a foot injury.

In July 2012 she was third at the world championship on the long distance triathlon in Spain and in August she was fourth at the Ironman 70.3 European Championship in Wiesbaden. She was a member of the Abu Dhabi Triathlon Team until it was dissolved in January 2013 . In July 2013 she finished second at the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt am Main and in August she won her first Ironman victory in Sweden.

At Ironman Germany , she finished seventh in June 2014, giving her the required number of points to qualify for Ironman Hawaii in October in the Kona Pro Ranking System of the organizing company WTC . In September 2014 she finished second in Canada at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship and at Ironman Hawaii, Swallow finished fourth in October. In December she was third in the Challenge Bahrain . In this race, which was held for the first time, the highest prize money to date was paid out and Swallow secured USD 25,000 in third place in a very strong field.

Since the beginning of 2015 she starts for the newly founded Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team , which is led by Chris McCormack . In March, she took her second victory in an Ironman race in South Africa.

World champion triathlon long distance 2016

In June 2016 she won her third Ironman race in Cairns and in September she won the world championship long distance triathlon for the second time after 2009.
In 2016 she was able to qualify again for a starting place at Ironman Hawaii, together with seven other athletes from her team: With the two defending champions Daniela Ryf and Jan Frodeno , with her fiancé James Cunnama , David Pleše , Terenzo Bozzone , Brent McMahon and Ben Hoffman . She finished 22nd in October.

In January 2017 she won the Ironman 70.3 South Africa for the seventh time in a row .

Jodie Swallow was engaged to triathlete James Cunnama since March 2016 and the two married in December 2016. She has since started as Jodie Cunnama and now lives in Brentwood . In April 2017, the 35-year-old announced that she was expecting a child in November.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Jodie Swallow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile for Jodie Cunnama at the Institute of Applied Training Science , accessed May 20, 2014
• Jodie Cunnama in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photo series from the success at the 2009 World Cup
• Profile and results of Jodie Cunnama in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 9, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ETU distributes award . In: 3athlon.de . Archived from the original on March 10, 2004.
2. ↑ Swallow and Raelert take Clearwater
3. ↑ Introducing ... Jodie Swallow ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ Portrait Paul Ambrose - Abu Dhabi Triathlon Team ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ The world's best athletes will be at the start of the Challenge Bahrain (August 22, 2014)
6. ^ Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
7. ↑ 10 Things To Know About The All-Star Bahrain Endurance 13 Team ( Memento from May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (May 6, 2015)
8. ↑ Brave eight chasing Kona dreams (October 5, 2016)
9. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Bahrain: Ryf is now a triathlon millionaire
10. ↑ German victories in Wiesbaden, Wutti in tenth place  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 12, 2012)  
11. ↑ Van Lierde and Swallow dominate the 70.3 South Africa
12. ↑ Strong Dittmer . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Archived from the original on September 11, 2012.
13. ↑ World Cup series in London: Paula Findlay surprisingly wins, Emma Moffatt only in 9th place
14. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Singapore: Victories for Steffen and Alexander
15. ↑ Meet Jodie Swallow
16. ^ First Japanese success at the World Cup in Eilat / Israel
17. ↑ Swallow and Van Berkel Claim Asia-Pacific Honors (June 12, 2016)
18. ↑ Broken elbow in Jodie Swallow's (April 14, 2016)
19. ↑ Ironman Hawaii: Andreas Raelert moves up (September 1, 2014)
20. ^ Joyce and Blatchford podium in Kona ( Memento of March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ Christine Waitz: Ironman Sweden: Gomez and Swallow in front. triathlon.de, August 17, 2013, accessed on October 12, 2013 . 
22. ↑ Triathlon long distance EM: Home wins for Llanos and Berasategui
23. ↑ Tim O'Donnell and Jodie Swallow new ITU world champions on the long haul . In: 3athlon.de . Archived from the original on November 1, 2009.
24. ↑ ITU World Championship long distance: Title to Timothy O'Donnell and Jodie Swallow