Katrina Matthews

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Triathlon
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 0 Katrina Rye
Personal information
Date of birth 1991
place of birth Exmouth (Devon) , United Kingdom
societies
Current Team Freespeed
successes
2015 ETU European triathlon champion middle distance
status
active

Katrina Matthews (* 1991 as Katrina Rye in Exmouth ) is a British duathlete and triathlete . She is included in the best list of British triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Katrina Rye is a physiotherapist with the British Armed Forces in the Royal Army Medical Corps .

In July 2018, she won the Ironman 70.3 Calgary in her first start in the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) .

She has been a professional athlete since the 2019 season and came third in her first elite start in the Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire in June . In July, the 27-year-old was then in Romania at her third start with the professionals ETU European champion in the triathlon middle distance.

She got married in November 2019 and has since started as Katrina Matthews . At her first start on the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) she finished fourth in Ironman Western Australia after 8:53:59 h in December 2019 - and carried herself as tenth fastest British female athlete in the leaderboard .

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
22 Sep 2019 3 Ironman 70.3 Weymouth United KingdomUnited Kingdom Weymouth behind her compatriot India Lee
07th July 2019 1 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships RomaniaRomania Târgu Mureș 04:07:35 ETU European champion on the half distance
June 29, 2019 2 Ironman 70.3 Lahti FinlandFinland Lahti
0June 9, 2019 3 Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire United KingdomUnited Kingdom Staffordshire 04:29:20 first start as a professional
27 Apr 2019 Challenge Gran Canaria SpainSpain Mogan 04:41:13 Winner of the age group 25–29 with the second fastest time of the day
29th July 2018 1 Ironman 70.3 Calgary CanadaCanada Calgary 04:25:15 no professional athletes at the start
Long distance triathlon
Date / year space competition venue time comment
0Dec. 1, 2019 4th Ironman Western Australia AustraliaAustralia Busselton 08:53:59 first start on the Ironman distance

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meet Kat Rye - Physio & Elite Triathlete (June 7, 2019)
  2. ↑ Previewing the upcoming 2019 Ironman 70.3 Calgary (August 7, 2019)
  3. ↑ Top Kat - Katrina Rye wins ETU Middle Distance European Champs (July 8, 2019)
  4. ↑ Alistair Brownlee, Teresa Adam win a record-breaking IRONMAN Western Australia (December 2, 2019)
  5. ↑ Army Physio Wins Bronze In Pro Triathlon Debut (June 10, 2019)
  6. ↑ Emma Pallant, Pieter Heemeryck take Challenge Gran Canaria 2019 (April 29, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Matthews, Katrina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rye, Katrina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British duathlete and triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Exmouth