Kris Gemmell

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Kris Gemmell at the Corner Brook Triathlon (2006)
Kris Gemmell at the Corner Brook Triathlon (2006)
Personal information
Date of birth 28th April 1977 (age 43)
place of birth Napier
societies
successes
2002 World champion aquathlon
status
Resigned in 2012

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Kris Gemmell (No. 55), Ivan Vasiliev (27), Courtney Atkinson (39) and Hunter Kemper at the 2012 Olympic Games

Kris Gemmell (born April 28, 1977 in Napier ) is a former triathlete and two-time Olympic athlete (2008, 2012) from New Zealand .

Career

Kris Gemmell started triathlon in 1995.

In 2002 he became Aquathlon World Champion in Mexico (2.5 km run, 1 km swim and 2.5 km run). At the Commonwealth Games in 2002 , he finished sixth. In March at the 2006 Commonwealth Games , he finished fifth.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he finished 39th.

In March 2011 he won the Oceanic Triathlon Championships.

2012 Summer Olympics

In 2012 he started for the second time at the Summer Olympics and finished 15th in London. He declared his active time ended in 2012.

Doping ban 2014

In December 2014, he was banned from New Zealand by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for 15 months. Although he never tested positive in his 17-year active career, he violated conditions three times between August 2012 and September 2013 (after his resignation). In January 2015, the ban was reduced to one year.

He lives in northern New Zealand, in Palmerston North .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. New Zealand triathlete Kris Gemmell banned for 15 months (December 10, 2014)
  2. Banned former New Zealand triathlete Kris Gemmell has doping ban reduced to a year (January 28, 2015)
  3. Ironman 70.3: Gemmell wins in Singapore
  4. ^ Oceania: Gemmell wins, Hewitt fails ( Memento of March 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. Vicky Holland, Kris Gemmell triumphs in Wellington
  6. Surprise at the Kitzbühel Triathlon ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. Dextro Energy Triathlon-ITU World Championship Yokohama: Jan Frodeno takes first victory
  8. Anja Dittmer: Victory at the start of the season
  9. DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )