Patricia Puntous

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Personal information
Date of birth 1963 (age 57)
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
societies
successes
1983, 1984 2 × Second Ironman Hawaii
1983 National champion triathlon short distance
1989 Third triathlon Longue Distance de Nice
status
resigned

Patricia Puntous (* 1963 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian triathlete . Together with her twin sister Sylviane Puntous , she was one of the dominant North American triathletes, especially on the short distance .

Career

Patricia Puntous was born two minutes after her identical twin sister. Both grew up in Montreal as the children of French emigrants and began swimming as children and adolescents , then switched to athletics , where both belonged to the Canadian elite over 1,500 and 3,000 m. In 1982 they switched to triathlon and were the first to start professional triathletes.

Patricia Puntous started her first triathlon competition in Seattle in August 1982 and was able to win there straight away.

Patricia Puntous had her greatest successes together with her sister on the short distance. In the six years from 1982 to 1988 alone, the twins were able to win first and second place in alternating order in 68 of the 86 competitions in which they started. Her focus was on the competitions of the U.S. Triathlon Series. While Sylviane was able to win more often over shorter distances - as long as they did not share first place hand-in-hand - she had to let her sister Patricia go first over longer distances.

Second at the Ironman Hawaii 1983 and 1984

In 1983 and again in 1984 Patricia Puntous was second behind her sister at Ironman Hawaii. In 1985 the Puntous twins, like most top triathletes, preferred a start at the Longue Distance de Nice triathlon to a title defense in Hawaii, where Sylviane came third behind Erin Baker and Dave Scott's girlfriend at the time , Linda Buchanan.

In 1986, the Puntous Twins started again at Ironman Hawaii, where this time Patricia Puntous was ahead and was the first woman to cross the finish line - but was subsequently disqualified with the charge of drafting on the bike. Since the judges were not sure which of the two twins was affected by the measure, they only implemented it at the finish. Sylviane Puntous took second place behind Paula Newby-Fraser, who was honored as the winner .

After retiring from professional sports, she continued to be active in running.

Awards

  • In 2003, the Canadian Triathlon Association Triathlon Canada , which measures their influence on the sport against the above-average number of top female triathletes from Canada, honored Sylviane and Patricia Puntous with the induction into the Hall of Fame.

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
1985 4th USA Triathlon Elite National Championships United StatesUnited States Hilton Head 02:11:01 Fourth behind Linda Buchanan in South Carolina
1983 1 USA Triathlon Elite National Championships United StatesUnited States Bass Lake (California) 02:48:18 Patricia Puntous wins at the same time as her twin sister Sylviane ahead of third-placed Julie Moss
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
June 14, 1992 Triathlon Longue Distance de Nice FranceFrance Nice behind Paula Newby-Fraser , Donna Peters and Sylviane Puntous
June 17, 1990 5 Triathlon Longue Distance de Nice FranceFrance Nice 4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 32 km running; behind Paula Newby-Fraser , Kisten Hansen, Théa Sybesma and Sylviane Puntous
Oct 14, 1989 DNF Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii DNF The race was stopped on the running track after swimming 57:15 minutes and cycling 5:08:46 hours
May 28, 1989 3 Triathlon Longue Distance de Nice FranceFrance Nice 07:01:08 behind Paula Newby-Fraser and Sylviane Puntous
Oct 10, 1987 DNF Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii DNF The race was stopped on the bike course after swimming 57:59 minutes
Oct 18, 1986 DSQ Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii DSQ Patricia Puntous was the first to cross the finish line, but was subsequently disqualified for drafting - mix-ups with Sylviane, who was second behind Paula Newby-Fraser , are said to have been the reason why the disqualification was not carried out during the competition
Oct 13, 1985 Triathlon Longue Distance de Nice FranceFrance Nice
Apr 20, 1985 2 Ironman Australia AustraliaAustralia Ranger 10:34:36
  1984 2 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii Second behind her twin sister Sylviane Puntous
  1983 2 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii Vice world champion behind her twin sister Sylviane Puntous

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sylviane and Patricia Puntous Team Up to Trample Competitors in the Torturous Triathlon
  2. ↑ Doug Robinson: Puntous Twins still holding two way races . In: The Deseret News . July 2nd, 1988.
  3. ↑ Picture of the Puntous twins - 1984 at the Ironman Hawaii in Kona
  4. ↑ Puntous disqualified after apparend victory . In: The Gazette (Montreal) . October 20, 1986.
  5. ↑ Kevin Mackinnon: Sylviane and Patricia Puntous Set The Pace In The Early Ironman Days . World Triathlon Corporation . July 8, 2003.
  6. ↑ Patricia Puntou's results on Raceresults ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ^ Patricia & Sylviane Puntous . In: triathloncanada.com . 2003. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Puntous, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada