Mari Rabie
  Mari Rabie
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 Mari Rabie, 2008
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 10th September 1986 (age 33) |
| place of birth | Cape Town , South Africa |
| size | 171 cm |
| Weight | 59 kg |
| societies | |
| Until 2016 | EJOT Team TV Buschhütten |
| successes | |
| 2005, 2008, 2016 | 3 × national champion triathlon short distance |
| 2012 | 3rd place World Championship Xterra Crosstriathlon |
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| Resigned in 2017 | |
Mari Rabie (born September 10, 1986 in Cape Town ) is a former South African duathlete , professional triathlete , multiple national champion on the short distance triathlon (2005, 2008, 2016) and two-time Olympic athlete (2008, 2016).
Career
Mari Rabie has been a triathlete since 1995 and has started as a professional since 2002. In 2005 and again in 2008 she became triathlon state champion on the Olympic distance.
2008 Summer Olympics
In 2008 she started for South Africa at the Olympic Games, where she finished the race with technical problems in 43rd place.
In February 2010 she won the cross triathlon at Xterra South Africa and in 2015 she came second here. In cross triathlon, she was third at Maui in October 2012 at the Xterra World Championship.
In May 2015 she became Vice State Champion Triathlon for the third time.
Mari Rabie was able to secure her third national title in the short distance triathlon in spring 2016 after 2005 and 2008.
In June she was fourth for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten at the Bundesliga race in Düsseldorf, where the German championship was held on the sprint distance. She is trained by Darren Smith .
2016 Summer Olympics
Mari Rabie qualified for a place at the 2016 Summer Olympics and she competed in Rio de Janeiro for South Africa on August 20, where she finished eleventh. She started in Rio together with Henri Schoeman (3rd place), Richard Murray (4th place) and Gillian Sanders (23rd place).
In January 2017, the then 30-year-old declared her active time over. Mari Rabie now lives in Stellenbosch .
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Aug 20, 2016 | 11 | 2016 Summer Olympics |
 Rio de Janeiro
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01:59:13 | |
| June 26, 2016 | 4th | T3 Triathlon Düsseldorf |
 Dusseldorf
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00:58:29 | Sprint distance |
| May 14, 2016 | 15th | ITU World Championship Series 2016 |
 Yokohama
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01:58:40 | |
| Apr 3, 2016 | 4th | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
 New Plymouth
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00:59:28 | |
| 20 Mar 2016 | 1 | ATU Triathlon African Championships |
Buffalo City
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02:15:03 | State champion - before Gillian Sanders |
| May 10, 2015 | 2 | ATU Triathlon African Championships |
 Sharm El Sheikh
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02:08:24 | Second and thus vice state champion |
| Apr 12, 2014 | 3 | ATU Triathlon African Championships |
 Troutbeck |
02:21:38 | |
| 23 Sep 2012 | 4th | London triathlon |
 London
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02:03:18 | |
| Feb. 19, 2012 | 7th | ITU Sprint Triathlon African Cup |
Cape Town
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01:02:51 | 750 m swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running |
| 20 Mar 2011 | 3 | ITU Triathlon African Cup |
Port Elizabeth
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02:14:30 | |
| July 24, 2010 | DNF | ITU World Championship Series 2010 |
London
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- | in the 5th race of the series |
| June 5, 2010 | DNF | ITU World Championship Series 2010 |
 Madrid
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| May 9, 2010 | 2 | ATU Triathlon African Championships |
Durban
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| Aug 19, 2008 | 43 | 2008 Summer Olympics |
 Beijing
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02:09:27 | technical problems on the bike |
| March 8 2008 | 1 | ATU Triathlon African Championships |
 Hammamet
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| 31 Mar 2007 | 2 | ATU Triathlon African Championships |
 Le Coco Beach |
02:06:39 | |
| 2006 | 26th | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championships |
 Lausanne
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02:08:57 | |
| 18 Mar 2006 | DNF | Commonwealth Games 2006 |
 Melbourne
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- | Triathlon over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling, 10 km running) |
| Sep 10 2005 | 6th | ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women |
Gamagori
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01:02:41 | |
| Apr 3, 2005 | 1 | ATU Triathlon African Championships |
KwaZulu-Natal
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| 2003 | 7th | ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women |
Queenstown
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01:09:42 | |
| Nov 9, 2002 | 10 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women |
 Cancun
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01:02:49 |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Jan. 23, 2011 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 South Africa |
East London
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04:45:45 | |
| Jan. 17, 2010 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 South Africa |
East London |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 25 Feb 2017 | 2 | Xterra South Africa |
Grabouw
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02:45:31 | |
| Feb 22, 2015 | 2 | Xterra South Africa |
Waco |
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| Oct 28, 2012 | 3 | Xterra Triathlon World Championships |
 Maui
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03:01:43 | World championship cross triathlon |
| Feb. 26, 2010 | 1 | Xterra South Africa |
Grabouw
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02:47:17 |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Homepage Mari Rabie ( Memento from April 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile for Mari Rabie at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 20, 2014
- Profile and results of Mari Rabie in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 13, 2018 (English).
- Mari Rabie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ SA Olympic triathlete Mari Rabie retires (January 27, 2017)
- ↑ World Cup series in London: Paula Findlay surprisingly wins, Emma Moffatt only in 9th place
- ↑ Van Lierde and Swallow dominate the 70.3 South Africa
- ↑ Ironman 70.3: Van Lierde and Swallow win in South Africa
- ↑ 2017 XTERRA South Africa (February 27, 2017)
- ↑ Marais, Duffy crowned Xterra SA champs ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (February 23, 2015)
- ^ Hugo, Rabie Win XTERRA South Africa
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rabie, Mari |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Town |