Kirsten Sweetland

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Triathlon
CanadaCanada 0 Kirsten Sweetland
as U23 vice world champion in Budapest, 2010
as U23 vice world champion in Budapest, 2010
Personal information
Date of birth 24th September 1988 (age 31)
place of birth Nanaimo, Canada
size 163 cm
Weight 49 kg
societies
Current Tri Olympique Club Cessonnais
successes
2006 World Champion Triathlon Juniors
2006 Vice World Champion Duathlon Juniors
2010 Vice-World Champion Triathlon U23
status
inactive

Kirsten Sweetland (born September 24, 1988 in Nanaimo ) is a former Canadian duathlete and triathlete . She is an Olympian (2016).

Career

In the six years from 2005 to 2010, Sweetland took part in 26 ITU competitions and made it into the top ten 13 times.

In 2006 she became junior duathlon vice world champion and junior triathlon world champion and in 2010 also U23 vice world champion triathlon. In 2010 Sweetland also won silver at the Premium Pan American Cup in Kelowna.

In France, Sweetland represented the Tri Olympique Club Cessonnais in the Cub Championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux in 2010 , but only competed in the Grand Final in La Baule (Triathlon Audencia) on September 18, 2010 and finished eighth, thanks to her and her club Irish Aileen Morrison fifth.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she could not start due to an injury.

In July 2014 she finished second at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Kirsten Sweetland qualified for a starting place at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she started for Canada on August 20 in Rio de Janeiro (together with Amelie Kretz , Sarah-Anne Brault , Tyler Mislawchuk and Andrew Yorke ) and finished 41st. Rank. It has not appeared internationally since 2016.

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Aug 20, 2016 41 2016 Summer Olympics BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro 02:04:16
May 14, 2016 31 ITU World Championship Series 2016 JapanJapan Yokohama 02:00:09
July 24, 2014 2 Commonwealth Games 2014 ScotlandScotland Glasgow 01:59:01
July 12, 2014 3 ITU World Championship Series 2014 GermanyGermany Hamburg 00:57:00 Third on the sprint distance
June 28, 2014 7th ITU World Championship Series 2014 United StatesUnited States Chicago 01:57:08
Sep 11 2010 2 ITU Triathlon World Championship U23 HungaryHungary Budapest U23 vice world champion
29 Mar 2009 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup AustraliaAustralia Mooloolaba 02:01:59 Winner ahead of two-time world champion Emma Moffatt
03rd Sep 2006 1 ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 01:05:58 World champion in the youth class
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
July 29, 2006 2 ITU Duathlon World Championship Junior Women CanadaCanada Corner Brook Junior Duathlon Vice World Champion

Web links

Commons : Kirsten Sweetland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirsten Sweetland, Canadian triathlete, age training before Olympic push (March 2, 2016)
  2. ↑ Kirsten Sweetland's Olympic dream comes true (June 30, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Sweetland, Kirsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanaimo