Lori Bowden

0 Lori Bowden
Personal information
Date of birth	13th June 1967 (age 53)
place of birth	Fergus
societies
successes
1997-2003	12 × Ironman winner
1998	World champion duathlon
1999, 2003	2 × winner of the Ironman World Championships
2003	Winner Ironman 70.3
status
resigned

Lori Bowden (born June 13, 1967 in Fergus , Ontario ) is a former Canadian professional triathlete , duathlon world champion (1998) and two-time winner of the Ironman World Championship (1999 and 2003).

Career

Lori Bowden grew up in the Toronto area . Her parents Sandra and Don were both avid triathletes. In 1987 Bowden also started triathlon and only two years later she completed her first long distance at Ironman Canada in Penticton in 1989. In the mid-1990s she moved to Victoria, where she found the opportunity to train all year round.

In 1998 Lori Bowden became Duathlon World Champion in Zofingen.
In 1999 and 2003 she won the Ironman Hawaii . In 1999 she became the first woman in the history of the event to complete the run in 2:59:16 hours under three hours. Her course record was only broken nine years later by Chrissie Wellington and Sandra Wallenhorst . With four second places (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001) and a third place in 2002, Bowden was one of the dominant women at this event around the turn of the millennium. Five wins at Ironman Canada from 1997 to 2002 made her Queen of Penticton .

In 1998 Lori Bowden married the triathlete Peter Reid . Both celebrated a double victory at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii in October 2003 as the first married couple, even though they had already agreed on their divorce a week before the event.

From November 2004 to February 2006 the Endurance Films Studio shot the documentary "What It Takes" about training and preparation for Ironman Hawaii by Lori Bowden and Luke Bell , Heather Fuhr and Peter Reid, the film came with a running time of 96 minutes 2006 in the USA and Canada.

With her new life partner Keith Simmons , owner of a manufacturer of wetsuits, Bowden had their son Tyson in September 2005 . In 2006 she started again successfully in triathlon competitions.

Awards

• In 2009 Lori Bowden (together with Les McDonald as founding president of the ITU ) was honored with the induction into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame .
• In 2015, the Canadian Triathlon Association honored Bowden with the inclusion in its hall of fame.
• Also in 2015, the organizer of the Ironman Hawaii Bowden , which is part of the Chinese Dalian Wanda Group (together with Heather Fuhr ), accepted into its Ironman Hall of Fame .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Homepage of Lori Bowden ( Memento from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Lori Bowden in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile for Lori Bowden at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed May 13, 2014
• Profile and results of Lori Bowden in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 20, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lori Bowden - Looked Great and Raced Even Better (October 27, 2003)
2. ↑ Think the Ironman is tough? Reid's Road to the start is tougher (July 10, 2012)
3. ↑ What It Takes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
4. ↑ Lori Bowden is mom (September 28, 2005)
5. ^ BC Sports Hall of Fame - Lori Bowden
6. ↑ Lori Bowden, Heather Fuhr and Lance Watson to be inducted into Hall of Fame
7. ↑ Lori Bowden, Heather Fuhr To Be Inducted Into Ironman Hall Of Fame ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 13, 2015) 
8. ↑ Ironman Hawaii 2008 Results (All Time Top-10 Runs, page 7)