Julie Leach
  Julie Leach
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 23rd February 1957 (age 63) |
| place of birth | Pasadena, United States |
| size | 167 cm |
| Weight | 59 kg |
| societies | |
| Rusty Pelican Club | |
| successes | |
| 1982 | Ironman Hawaii winner |
| status | |
| Resigned in 2001 | |
Julie Marie Leach (* 23. February 1957 in Pasadena , California as Julie Marie Jones ) is a former American canoeist , triathlete and Olympian (1976).
Career
Julie Leach was initially active in canoe racing since 1971 and started in 1974 at the Junior World Championships in Poland.
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , she finished seventh in a single kayak over 500 meters.
After the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were boycotted by the United States, she looked for a new challenge. In the late 1970s, she ran the marathon in 3:02 hours, placing it among the 20 fastest women in the nation.
She has been married to canoeist Bill Leach (* 1946) since 1975 , who started in a two-person kayak at the 1976 Olympic Games .
Her husband also started at the Ironman in Hawaii in 1981. Julie too soon turned to triathlon and she won this race in October 1982 at her first and only start at the Ironman Hawaii .
In May 1986 she was able to win the Moloka'i race in Hawaii in surf ski , the unofficial world championships in this sport.
In 2001 Julie Leach announced her retirement from professional sports. Today she lives in Turtle Rock with her husband and two children .
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Oct 9, 1982 | 1 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii
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10:54:08 | In October 1982 Julie Leach won the triathlon in Hawaii and thus the world championship over the long distance with a new record time on the bike course (5:50:36 hours). |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 1976 | 7th | 1976 Summer Olympics |
 Montreal
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02:06:92 | Single kayak over 500 meters - behind the winner Carola Zirzow from the GDR |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Julie Leach in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile for Julie Leach at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed September 4, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Portrait of Julie Leach
- ↑ Julie Leach, Millennium Hall of Fame (November 24, 1999)
- ^ Picture by Julie Leach - October 1982 in Kona
- ↑ RACE HISTORY
- ↑ Supervet Bill Leach pens a triathlon retrospective ( Memento from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ IRONMAN Hawaii 1982 - The Facts
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| SURNAME | Leach, Julie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leach, Julie Marie Jones (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American canoeist and triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pasadena , California |