Kenny Souza

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Personal information
Date of birth 1st December 1964 (age 55)
place of birth United States
Nickname Ken or Rockfish
societies
successes
1980s 8 × American duathlon champion
1990 ITU world champion Duathlon short distance
1990 ITU world champion duathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 1999

Kenny Souza (born December 1, 1964 ) is a retired American duathlete and triathlete . He is the duathlon world champion on the short and long distance (1990).

Career

Kenny Souza began his athletic career as a triathlete before moving to the duathlon. Swimming was his weakness, which earned him the nickname "Rockfish". In the 1980s and 1990s, Kenny Souza was known as the “most dazzling person” of the duathlon due to his effective advertising. During this time he was eight times American duathlon champion.

He achieved his greatest success in 1990 by winning the ITU Duathlon World Championship, which was held for the first time, and by winning the Powerman Zofingen . In 1999 he resigned as an athlete after a three-year ban, retroactive to 1998, had been imposed on him for starting without a valid license.

In the following years he worked as a representative for the sports nutrition manufacturer Clif Bar . Kenny Souza returned to duathlon in 2005 and has since participated in various long-distance and ultra-long distance sports events , such as the Race Across America (2006).

Kenny Souza lives in Boulder, Colorado . He has four children with his former partner Darla Harnly and his daughter Shanoah Souza is also an athlete.

Sporting successes

Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
  1993 1 Powerman Kauai United StatesUnited States Kauai Winner next to Maddy Tormoen in the women
0June 7, 1992 67 ITU Duathlon World Championships GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 02:45:46
 May 1992 2 ITU Long Distance Duathlon World Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zofingen at Powerman Zofingen
 May 1990 1 ITU Long Distance Duathlon World Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zofingen Long distance world championship at the “Zofinger Run & Bike” (10 km run, 150 km bike ride and 30 km run).
  1990 1 ITU Duathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Palm Springs

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

literature

  • Ken Souza, Bob Babbitt: Biathlon: training and racing techniques . Contemporary Books, 1989, ISBN 0809243695 .

Web links

  • Kenny Souza's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 28, 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life After Baring It All (ish) For Runner's World - Kenny Souza is still proud of his flashy cover, 26 years later (June 16, 2016)
  2. ^ Kenny Souza suspended for three years . Archived from the original on November 25, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  3. ^ Following Up: Kenny Souza at Powerman Zofingen . Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  4. ^ The San Diego Union-Tribune: Former duathlon champ Kenny Souza is primed to pedal in grueling Race Across America . Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ SHANOAH SOUZA
  6. ↑ Shanoah Souza Never Stops Competing (September 26, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Souza, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Souza, Ken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American duathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1964