Samantha McGlone

0 Samantha McGlone
at the Wildflower Triathlon , 2008
Personal information
Date of birth	19th July 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	St. Catharines, Canada
Nickname	Sam
size	170 cm
Weight	54 kg
societies
successes
2006	Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2007	Second at the Ironman World Championships
2007	Second in the Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2009	Ironman winner
status
Resigned in 2013

Samantha McGlone (born July 19, 1979 in St. Catharines ) is a former Canadian triathlete . She is an Olympian (2004), won the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in 2006 and the Ironman Arizona in 2009 .

Career

As a teenager, Samantha McGlone started rowing for the Canadian national team and took part in a triathlon for the first time in 1997.

2004 Summer Olympics

In 2004 she started for Canada at the Olympic Games in Athens, where she finished 27th.

In 2006 she won the Ironman 70.3 World Championships.
In the following year she came in only four weeks after finishing second at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii only six minutes behind the British Chrissie Wellington , and also at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in second place. At the Ironman Hawaii 2008, she canceled her start at short notice due to an injury.

In November 2009 she won the Ironman Arizona with a new course record. In the same year she was fifth at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. Then McGlone, who had previously been coached by Cliff English since 1999 , announced that her new coach was now Matt Dixon , who also looked after Chris Lieto , Luke Bell , Meredith Kessler , Linsey Corbin , James Cotter and Rachel Joyce .

After struggling with injuries for several years, she began studying at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2012 and declared her professional career ended in January 2013.

Awards

• The American Triathlete Magazine named her in 2007 "US Triathlete of the Year".

Sporting successes

Web links

• Homepage of Samantha McGlone
• Samantha McGlone's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 10, 2018.
• Samantha McGlone's blog (until 2007)
• Profile for Samantha McGlone at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science , accessed June 23, 2015
• Samantha McGlone in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of Samantha McGlone In: tri2b.com .
2. ↑ Samantha McGlone To Be Coached By Matt Dixon In: triathlon.competitor.com. 5th November 2010
3. ↑ Samantha McGone officially retires from Triathlon
4. ↑ Samantha McGlone retires from triathlon (January 25, 2013)
5. ^ Bozzone and McGlone win Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas
6. ↑ Alexander and Tisseyre win in Boise
7. ↑ Feelin 'Hot, Hot, Hot (Dawn Henry recaps the day of racing at Ironman 70.3 Hawaii)
8. ^ Rapp and McGlone take Arizona