Michelle Hayes
  Michelle Hayes
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 24th May 1973 (age 47) |
| place of birth | Wembley |
| size | 170 cm |
| Weight | 58 kg |
| societies | |
| since 2008 | Team Dillon |
| successes | |
| 1997-2007 | 3 times vice world champion duathlon |
| 2001 | European triathlon champion |
| 2004 | 6th place Olympic Games |
| 2005 | World champion duathlon |
| 2016 | National Vice-Champion Sprint Duathlon |
| 2018 | World Champion Triathlon AG 45–49 |
| status | |
| Resigned in 2008 | |
Michelle Hayes (* 24. May 1973 in Wembley as Michelle Margaret Dillon ) is a British - Australian long-distance runner , duathlete and triathlete . She is a two-time Olympian (2000, 2004).
Career
At the age of 8, Michelle Dillons and her family moved from London to Australia, where she now spent her childhood.
In 1993 she was the Australian runner-up in cross country . At the Commonwealth Games in Victoria in 1994 , the seventh starting for Australia was over 10,000 m . In 1997 she became vice world champion duathlon.
In 1998 she first took part in a World Cup race, now starting for the United Kingdom.
2000 Summer Olympics
In 2000 she started in Sydney in the triathlon at the Summer Olympics, but could not finish the race. In her career she won two World Cup races and in 2001 the Triathlon European Cup. In 2001 she became vice world champion duathlon for the second time.
In 2002 she took third place at the ITU World Championships . In 2004 she won the triathlon in Salford as part of the World Cup.
2004 Summer Olympics
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she was sixth in the triathlon (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). Her deficit on the winner, the Austrian Kate Allen, was just over a minute.
In 2005 she won the ITU World Championship in Duathlon (10 km running, 40 km cycling and 5 km running) and in 2007 she was second in the Duathlon World Championship.
Also in 2007 she won the London Triathlon on the Olympic distance.
Resignation in 2008
In November 2008 she ended her active sporting career and switched to the role of coach with the Dillon team . She has been married to triathlete Stuart Hayes (* 1979) since January 2012 .
Comeback 2016
In 2016 she started again in the duathlon and in April she became national runner-up in the sprint duathlon.
In June she started again at the Duathlon World Championship and finished eleventh in Spain - behind Emma Pallant , who is trained by her and who was able to successfully defend her world champion title from the previous year here.
In September 2018 she was triathlon world champion in Australia in the age group 45-49.
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 13 Sep 2018 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Championship 45–49 |
 Gold coast
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01:04:01 | |
| Aug 30, 2007 | 29 | ITU Triathlon World Championships |
 Hamburg
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01:58:10 | |
| Aug 5, 2007 | 1 | London triathlon |
London
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01:55:29 | |
| July 22, 2007 | 18th | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
 Kitzbühel
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01:56:50 | |
| May 6, 2007 | 2 | BG Triathlon Word Cup |
 Lisbon
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02:06:05 | |
| 3rd Sep 2006 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 Monaco |
 Monaco
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04:47:03 | behind the Swiss Karin Thürig |
| Sep 10 2005 | 10 | ITU Triathlon World Championships |
 Gamagōri
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02:01:27 | |
| Aug 25, 2004 | 6th | 2004 Summer Olympics |
 Athens
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02:05:59 | |
| July 25, 2004 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
Salford
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02:08:56 | |
| May 9, 2004 | 28 | ITU Triathlon World Championships |
Madeira
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01:57:34 | |
| June 8, 2003 | 1 | ITU Triathlon European Cup |
Swansea
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01:58:42 | |
| Nov 9, 2002 | 3 | ITU Triathlon World Championships |
 Cancun
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02:02:10 | |
| 21 Sep 2002 | 3 | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
 Nice
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02:02:48 | behind the American Sheila Taormina |
| July 6, 2002 | 12 | ETU Triathlon European Championships |
 Győr
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02:01:16 | European Triathlon Championship |
| Sep 2 2001 | 17th | Goodwill Games |
Brisbane
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02:08:30.90 | |
| July 22, 2001 | 22nd | ITU Triathlon World Championships |
 Edmonton
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02:03:45 | |
| June 23, 2001 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships |
 Carlsbad
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02:20:07 | European triathlon champion - five seconds ahead of runner-up Kathleen Smet from Belgium |
| May 13, 2001 | 2 | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
Rennes
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02:00:21 | |
| 16 Sep 2000 | DNF | 2000 Summer Olympics |
Sydney
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| July 8, 2000 | 9 | ETU Triathlon European Championships |
 stone
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02:10:52 | European championship on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
| Nov 7, 1999 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
Noosa
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01:55:03 | Winner of the Noosa Triathlon |
| Sep 12 1999 | 14th | ITU Triathlon World Championships |
Montreal
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01:57:57 | World championship on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
| Aug 1, 1998 | 11 | Alpine triathlon |
Schliersee
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02:32:01 |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 4th June 2016 | 11 | ITU Duathlon World Championships |
 Avilés
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02:03:22 | Duathlon World Championship |
| Apr 3, 2016 | 2 | GBR Sprint Duathlon National Championships |
Windsor |
01:04:02 | Second behind Emma Pallant |
| May 19, 2007 | 2 | ITU Duathlon World Championships |
Győr
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01:54:43 | Duathlon Vice World Champion on the short distance |
| 26 Sep 2005 | 1 | ITU Duathlon World Championships |
Newcastle
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02:11:25 | Duathlon world champion on the short distance |
| Sep 15 2001 | 2 | ITU Duathlon World Championships |
 Rimini
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02:01:03 | Duathlon Vice World Champion |
| 1997 | 2 | ITU Duathlon World Championships |
Gernica
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Duathlon Vice World Champion |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Aug 31, 1999 | 3 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships |
Noosa
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| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Aug 24, 1994 | 7th | Commonwealth Games |
Victoria
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33: 19.01 | over 10,000 m ; for Australia |
| Dec 16, 1993 |
Melbourne
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32: 35.40 | personal best over 10,000 m |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Best times
- 3000 m : 9: 08.68 min, January 28, 1994, Canberra
- 5000 m : 15: 52.13 min, November 19, 1995, Melbourne
- 10,000 m: 32: 35.40 min, December 16, 1993, Melbourne
Web links
- Team Dillon Coaching website with a short biography
- Entry on the ITU website
- Profile and results of Michelle Hayes in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 30, 2019 (English).
- Profile for Michelle Hayes at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science , accessed May 24, 2014
- Michelle Hayes in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Michelle Hayes in the database of World Athletics (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michelle Dillon resigns (November 24, 2008)
- ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Triathlon European Championship 2001: Filip Ospaly and Michelle Dillon become European champions in triathlon in Karlsbad / Czech Republic
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hayes, Michelle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dillon, Michelle Margret (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British duathlete and triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wembley |