Paula Newby-Fraser

0 Paula Newby-Fraser
Paula Newby-Fraser (1991)
Personal information
Date of birth	2nd June 1962 (age 58)
place of birth	Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Nickname	Queen of Kona
societies
successes
1986-2004	Ironman winner 24 times
1986-1996	8 × Winner Ironman Hawaii (World Championship)
1989-1992	4 × winner of the Triathlon International de Nice
1991	ITU world champion duathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 2006

Paula Newby-Fraser (born June 2, 1962 in Salisbury , South Rhodesia ) is a former duathlete and triathlete from Zimbabwe and the world's most successful long-distance athlete.

Career

Paula Newby-Fraser was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and her family moved to South Africa when she was four. In her youth she was successful in swimming actively and as a 23-year-old, she moved in March 1986 from Durban to San Diego in the US state of California , where they are on triathlon concentrated.
In 1993 she became a citizen of the United States .

Winner of the Ironman World Championships 1986

Newby-Fraser has won the two triathlon events of the 1980s and 1990s with the greatest media attention, the Triathlon Longue Distance de Nice and the Ironman Hawaii , more than any other woman : from 1989 to 1992 she won four times in a row in Nice and is only surpassed in this by Mark Allen . At Ironman Hawaii, she was able to win eight times (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996), which no other person in the world has achieved and earned her the nickname "Queen of Kona" . In October 1986, Paula Newby-Fraser was the second woman to cross the finish line 92 seconds behind Patricia Puntous , but Patricia Puntous was disqualified at the finish for drafting on the bike course and Fraser won the first Ironman Hawaii at the age of 24, with the prize money Winner was distributed. She undercut Sylviane Puntous' best time (1984) by almost another 36 minutes.

Paula Newby-Fraser and her coach John Howard (1991)

She also holds the record for the most consecutive victories in women (four times between 1991 and 1994) together with Daniela Ryf (four times between 2015 and 2018), but is surpassed here in men by Mark Allen (five times between 1989 and 1993 ). In 1993, 1994 and 1996 she was listed in the Ironman Hawaii results lists as a US state. Newby-Fraser's greatest competitor was Erin Baker from New Zealand .

Ironman world record 1994

For over 14 years Paula Newby-Fraser was the reigning world record holder over the Ironman distance with a time of 8:50:53 h, set up in 1994 at the Ironman Europe in Roth . On July 13th, 2008 she lost this crown to Yvonne van Vlerken (8:45:48 h) in Roth and Sandra Wallenhorst (8:47:25 h) at Ironman Austria in Klagenfurt. Newby-Fraser has won a total of 24 Ironman races since 1986.

In order to start running with as little pre-stress as possible on the calf muscles, Paula Newby-Fraser used cycling shoes as early as 2000, the contact of which on the pedals is further back towards the ankle and the reduced lever reduces the stress when cycling from under to over Shifted thighs ( see also: Triathlon # Material ).

In October 2005, Paula Newby-Fraser married Paul Huddle - a former US professional triathlete who also worked as her trainer.

Awards

• In 1996 Newby-Fraser was honored by the organizer World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) with the inclusion in its Hall of Fame .
• In addition to many other awards, she was selected by the United States Sports Academy in the top 5 professional athletes for the past 25 years (1972–1997).

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Publications

• Paula Newby-Fraser, John Mora: Peak Fitness for Women Human Kinetics Champaign (Illinois) 1995 ISBN 9780873226721
• Mark Allen , Paula Newby-Fraser, Diane Buchta: Strength training for total body fitness Bult-Wendle Ventures Beverly Hills, California OCLC 38849889

Web links

Commons : Paula Newby-Fraser  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Paula Newby-Fraser in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Paula Newby-Fraser's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 20, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Paula Newby-Fraser at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 24, 2014
• Ken McAlpine: Ironwoman - Nobody is tougher than Paula Newby-Fraser when the going gets tough . In: Sports Illustrated . October 6, 1997. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paula Newby-Fraser ( Memento of the original from September 20, 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. 
2. ↑ Ironman Triathlon: Scott Wins for 5th Time, Breaks Record In: Los Angeles Times October 19, 1986
3. ↑ Ironman Triathlon to Offer Prize Money ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . July 20, 1986.
4. ↑ Ironman.ch Results
5. ^ Paula Newby-Fraser and Erin Baker: They Made Each Other Better (May 14, 2003)
6. ↑ Christian Friedrich: Test: Biomac Y³ - More travel is the goal. In: triathlon.de. July 10, 2008, accessed January 30, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Katja Schumacher : Wedding ( Memento from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (recovered at archive.org)
8. ^ Ironman Hall of Fame
9. ^ Newby-Fraser and Vernay win Ironman Korea
10. ^ Newby-Fraser and Vernay win Ironman Korea
11. ^ Ironman Hawaii 2003 - Kona, Hawaii
12. ↑ Results Ironman Canada 1996 ( Memento from August 2, 1997 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Herbert Krabel: few thoughts from Mark Allen ( English ) In: slowtwitch.com . April 13, 2009.
14. ↑ Summer of '92 (November 18, 2013)