Ritchie Nicholls

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ScotlandScotland 0 Ritchie Nicholls
Personal information
Date of birth 12th July 1987 (age 33)
place of birth Montrose (Angus) , Scotland
size 172 cm
Weight 65 kg
societies
Current Team TBB
successes
2005 Junior Vice World Champion Duathlon
2007 U23 European triathlon champion
2013 Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championship
2013-2015 3 × winners Ironman 70.3
status
active

Ritchie Nicholls (born July 12, 1987 in Montrose , Scotland ) is a triathlete from the United Kingdom . He is U23 European Champion (2007), Vice World Champion Duathlon in the Juniors (2005) and won the Ironman 70.3 European Championship in 2013 .

Career

In September 2005 Nicholls was Duathlon Vice World Champion in the Juniors.

U23 European Triathlon Champion 2007

In 2007 he was U23 European triathlon champion in July and fourth in the triathlon world championship on the Olympic distance in the U23 class in Hamburg.

In May 2013 he finished fifth at the European Triathlon Championships on the middle distance in Barcelona. On August 11, 2013 he won the Ironman 70.3 Germany in Wiesbaden with a new course record of under 4 hours for the first time. With his winning time of 3:56:55 h he undercut the previous record of last year's German winner Michael Raelert, who did not start after an injury, by 7 minutes.

He is trained by Brett Sutton and starts for the TBB team . In May 2015 he was tenth at the European Championships on the triathlon middle distance.

Private

Ritchie Nicholls has been married to Irish triathlete Eimear Mullan (* 1982) since March 2016 . The two live in Portstewart.

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
19th Feb 2017 2 Bangsaen triathlon ThailandThailand Bangkok Second behind Michael Raelert (1.5 km swimming, 75 km cycling and 15 km running)
05th July 2015 1 Ironman 70.3 Norway NorwayNorway Haugesund 03:52:03
May 24, 2015 10 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships ItalyItaly Rimini 04:16:50 European championship on the middle distance as part of the Challenge Rimini
Apr 25, 2015 2 Challenge Fuerteventura SpainSpain Fuerteventura 04:03:10 Second on the half distance
Oct 26, 2014 2 Challenge Sardinia ItalyItaly Forte Village 03: 57: 13.00 Second on the half distance
06 Sep 2014 3 Triathlon de Gérardmer FranceFrance Gerardmer Third in the Vosges
31 Aug 2014 2 Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl AustriaAustria Walchsee 03:51:55
15th June 2014 3 UK Ironman 70.3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Somerset 04:26:32
May 10, 2014 3 Challenge Rimini ItalyItaly Rimini Third on the half distance
Aug 11, 2013 1 Ironman 70.3 Germany GermanyGermany Wiesbaden 03:56:55 Winner of the Ironman 70.3 European Championship with a new course record
July 24, 2013 1 Triathlon EDF Alpe d'Huez FranceFrance Alpe d'Huez 05:40:01
0July 7, 2013 2 Ironman 70.3 Norway NorwayNorway Haugesund
June 16, 2013 1 UK Ironman 70.3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Somerset 04:15:04 Victory at the first start on the Ironman 70.3 distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running)
May 19, 2013 5 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships SpainSpain Barcelona 04:15:20 European Championship in the middle distance as part of the Half Challenge Barcelona
July 30, 2011 1 London triathlon United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
Aug 31, 2007 4th ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championship U23 GermanyGermany Hamburg 01:49:44 Triathlon World Championship on the Olympic distance in the U23 class (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
July 21, 2007 1 ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 FinlandFinland Kuopio 01:48:57 U23 European Champion
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
26 Sep 2015 5 Ironman Mallorca SpainSpain Alcúdia 08:32:47
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Jan. 22, 2017 2 Powerman Thailand ThailandThailand Nakhon Nayok 02:46:46
Jan. 19, 2013 1 International Lanzarote Duathlon SpainSpain Lanzarote 00:58:13
05th Sep 2010 5 ITU Duathlon World Championship U23 ScotlandScotland Edinburgh 01:57:43 Duathlon World Championship U23
25 Sep 2005 2 ITU Duathlon World Championship Junior Men United KingdomUnited Kingdom Newcastle 01:01:58 Silver in the juniors (5 km run, 20 km bike ride and 2.5 km run)

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Almost barefoot. August 11, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Alpe D'Huez Triathlon: Mountains fed up! (July 25, 2013)
  3. ↑ 70.3 UK: Mullan and Nicholls win, Möller third (June 17, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Nicholls, Ritchie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British triathlete and European champion on half the Ironman distance
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Montrose , Scotland