Josiah Middaugh

0 Josiah Middaugh
Personal information
Date of birth	28th July 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Michigan, United States
societies
since 2004	First Endurance Team
successes
2002	World Champion Xterra Cross Triathlon 20–24
2004	3rd place in Xterra Cross-Triathlon
2011	National champion winter triathlon
2014, 2016	2 × vice world champion cross triathlon
2014	Vice World Champion Xterra Cross Triathlon
2015	World champion Xterra cross triathlon
2017	3rd place world championship snowshoe run
status
active

Josiah Middaugh (born July 28, 1980 in Michigan ) is a triathlete from the United States. He is two-time ITU Vice World Champion Cross-Triathlon (2014, 2016) and World Champion Xterra Cross-Triathlon (2015).

Career

Josiah Middaugh became world champion in the Xterra-Cross-Triathlon (1 km swim, 29.5 km mountain bike and 9.6 km run) in 2003 at the age of 22.

In October 2004, after several national titles, he was also third at the World Cross Triathlon Championships. He has been part of the First Endurance Team since 2004 .

In 2011 he started the triathlon at half the Ironman distance (Ironman 70.3: 1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) and took third place at the Ironman 70.3 Buffalo Springs . In that year he also became national champion in winter triathlon (5 km running, 10 km mountain bike and 8 km cross-country skiing).

In October 2014, he became Vice World Champion Xterra Cross Triathlon in Hawaii.
On Maui, he became the first US American since 2000 (Michael Tobin) to become Xterra World Champion in November 2015.

In November 2014 he became ITU Vice World Champion Cross Triathlon for the second time after 2014 in Australia.

World champion Xterra Cross-Triathlon 2015

In November 2015 he became world champion cross triathlon on Hawaii Xterra.

In February 2017 he finished third at the World Snowshoeing Championships in the USA . The 37-year-old finished 8th in the Xterra World Championship in Hawaii in October 2017.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Josiah Middaugh
• Josiah Middaugh's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 19, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ First Endurance Names 2018 Triathlon Team (February 5, 2018)
2. ^ Tissink and Williamson take Buffalo Springs Lake
3. ↑ Xterra Maui: Nicky Samuels and Ruben Ruzafa win the world title (October 2013)
4. ↑ Xterra WM Maui ( Memento of the original from October 24, 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.  
5. ↑ Josiah Middaugh Third at XTERRA Nationals ( Memento from October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Josiah Middaugh, Melanie McQuaid defend their titles at the Xterra Canada Championship in Whistler ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ McQuaid and Middaugh win at the start of the Xterra America Tour
8. ↑ GARRARD, MIDDAUGH TAKE USA TRIATHLON WINTER NATIONALS ( Memento of the original from September 19, 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.