Lesley Paterson

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Triathlon
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 0 Lesley Paterson
Personal information
Date of birth 12th October 1980 (age 39)
place of birth Stirling, UK
Nickname The Scottish Rocket
size 152 cm
societies
Current LIV Cycling
successes
2000 Junior Vice World Champion Duathlon
2009-2019 5 x Vice World Champion Xterra Cross-Triathlon
2011-2018 3 × World Champion Xterra Cross-Triathlon
2012, 2018 2 × ITU world champion cross triathlon
2013 Vice world champion cross triathlon
2015 European champion Xterra Cross-Triathlon
status
active

Lesley Paterson (born October 12, 1980 in Stirling ) is a Scottish duathlete and triathlete . She is two-time ITU world champion cross triathlon (2012, 2018), Xterra European champion (2015) and world champion (2011, 2012, 2018) as well as vice world champion in the ITU and Xterra racing series (2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019).

Career

Lesley Paterson became a Scottish triathlon champion at the age of 14.

Junior Vice World Champion Duathlon 2000

In 2000 she became duathlon vice world champion in the junior division. Paterson moved from Scotland to the USA in 2001 and now lives in San Diego . She has been married to Simon Marshall since August 2002. In October 2011 she became Xterra world champion in cross triathlon, after having won the runner-up world title here in 2009.

ITU world champion cross triathlon 2012

In 2012 she was able to repeat this success and also win the World Championship of the International Triathlon Union (ITU). In July 2013 she was second in the Netherlands at the ITU Cross Triathlon World Championship and in August she was also second at the Xterra World Championship.

Xterra European Cross Triathlon Champion 2015

In September 2015 she became Xterra European Champion in England. In October 2016, after 2009, 2013 and 2015, she became Vice World Champion Cross-Triathlon Xterra for the fourth time in Hawaii. At the Xterra World Championships in Hawaii in October 2017, she finished fifth.

In July 2018 she became ITU world champion cross triathlon for the second time and in October the 38-year-old became Xterra world champion for the third time.

Sporting successes

Triathlon middle distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
30th Mar 2013 3 Ironman 70.3 California United StatesUnited States Oceanside 04:17:46
0May 1, 2011 4th Ironman 70.3 St. Croix United StatesUnited States Saint Croix
0June 5, 2011 1 Ironman 70.3 Mooseman United StatesUnited States Newfound Victory in front of the American Caitlin Snow
Nov 13, 2010 6th Ironman 70.3 World Championship United StatesUnited States Clearwater World Championship in Florida
27 Mar 2010 2 Ironman 70.3 California United StatesUnited States Oceanside 04:24:31
June 14, 2009 5 UK Ironman 70.3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Somerset
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
  2000 2 ITU Duathlon World Championship Junior Women FranceFrance Calais Duathlon Vice World Champion Juniors - behind the Swiss Nicola Spirig
Cross triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct. 27, 2019 2 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 03:03:36 Xterra Vice World Champion
April 30, 2019 5 ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships SpainSpain Pontevedra 02:13:38
Oct 28, 2018 1 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 03:29:07 Xterra world champion
July 10, 2018 1 ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships DenmarkDenmark Fyn 02:27:10 ITU world champion cross triathlon for the second time
Oct 29, 2017 5 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 03:06:02 Xterra World Championship
Oct 23, 2016 2 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 03:25:02 Xterra Vice World Champion
03rd July, 2016 1 Xterra France FranceFrance Xonrupt 03:38:30
0Nov 1, 2015 2 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 02:59:16 Vice world champion cross triathlon
0Sep 1 2015 1 Xterra European Championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Cranleigh 02:54:26 Xterra European Champion - at Xterra England
May 16, 2015 1 Xterra Southeast Coast Championships United StatesUnited States Pelham, Alabama
Oct 27, 2013 2 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 03:00:14 Vice world champion cross triathlon
July 13, 2013 2 ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships NetherlandsNetherlands The hague 02:27:25 Vice world champion cross triathlon - behind the Czech Helena Erbenová
Apr 13, 2013 1 Xterra West Coast Championships United StatesUnited States Las Vegas 02:30:04
02nd Mar 2013 1 Xterra Philippines PhilippinesPhilippines Liloan
Oct 28, 2012 1 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 02:44:12 World champion in cross triathlon
22 Sep 2012 1 Xterra USA National Championships United StatesUnited States Ogden
May 19, 2012 1 ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Shelby County 02:24:39 World Champion Cross Triathlon - as part of the Xterra Southeast Coast Championships
Oct 23, 2011 1 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 02:45:59 World champion in cross triathlon (1.5 km swimming, 29.5 km mountain bike and 9.8 km cross-country run)
May 15, 2011 1 Xterra Pacific Championships United StatesUnited States Santa Cruz (California) 02:33:13
Oct 25, 2009 2 Xterra World Championships United StatesUnited States Maui 03:04:16 Vice-world champion cross triathlon, behind Julie Dibens

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Costa Rica & Scotland claim top spots at 23rd annual XTERRA World Championship (October 28, 2018)
  2. ↑ Mendez, Duffy win XTERRA Worlds (October 23, 2016)
  3. ↑ Xterra Maui: Nicky Samuels and Ruben Ruzafa win the world title (October 2013)
  4. ↑ Lesley Paterson crowned 2012 ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion (May 20, 2012)
  5. ^ Stoltz, Paterson win 2011 XTERRA Pacific Championship
  6. ↑ 2009 XTERRA World Championship Results, Dibens Three-peats!
personal data
SURNAME Paterson, Lesley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Stirling