Sara Gross

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Sara Gross at Ironman Canada in Penticton, 2011
Sara Gross at Ironman Canada in Penticton, 2011
Personal information
Date of birth 26th March 1976 (age 44)
place of birth Sarnia , Canada
societies
Since 2016 Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
successes
2003 ITU world champion triathlon long distance 25-29
2005 ETU European Champion Triathlon Long Distance Elite
2014 2 × Ironman winner
status
Resigned in 2016

Sara Gross (born March 26, 1976 in Sarnia ) is a former duathlete and triathlete from Canada who started for the United Kingdom until 2007. She is the European long-distance triathlon champion (2005) and Ironman winner (2014).

Career

In 1991, when she was 14 at the time, Sara Gross moved with her parents to the United Arab Emirates and lived in Dubai for a few years . She later attended the Dollar Academy in Scotland .

Sara Gross has been practicing triathlon since 1999 and in 2003 she became world champion in the long distance in Ibiza in Spain at the age of 27 in her age group (25-29 years).

In 2005 she was European triathlon champion over the long distance in Sweden (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running). In 2006 she graduated from the University of Edinburgh . It started for the United Kingdom until 2007 and has been for Canada since then.

In May 2014 she won the Ironman Brasil . In August she won the North American Championships and won the race in Canada with a new course record.
In the 2016 season she started for the Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team and at the end of the year the 40-year-old declared her professional career over.

Sara Gross lives in Penticton, British Columbia with her partner, Clint Lien , who used to train her .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
July 31, 2011 2 Ironman 70.3 Calgary CanadaCanada Calgary 04:34:27
27 Sep 2009 6th Ironman 70.3 Augusta United StatesUnited States Augusta 04:26:33
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
17th Aug 2014 1 Ironman Mont-Tremblant CanadaCanada Quebec 09:40:26
May 25, 2014 1 Ironman Brazil BrazilBrazil Florianópolis 08:56:35 personal best Ironman time
May 26, 2013 2 Ironman Brazil BrazilBrazil Florianópolis 09:08:37
Nov 27, 2011 6th Ironman Mexico MexicoMexico Cozumel 09:56:29
28 Aug 2011 Ironman Canada CanadaCanada Penticton 09:46:56
  2008 20th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 10:06:10
Aug 26, 2007 2 Ironman Canada CanadaCanada Penticton 10:42:08
June 24, 2007 5 ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships BelgiumBelgium Brasschaat 04:14:37 European championship on the long distance
  2007 4th Ironman Austria AustraliaAustralia Klagenfurt
  2007 5 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships FranceFrance Lorient
  2007 5 Ironman Brazil BrazilBrazil Florianópolis
  2006 5 Ironman Canada CanadaCanada Penticton
Nov 19, 2006 6th ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Canberra 07:06:46
0Dec 3, 2006 2 Ironman Western Australia AustraliaAustralia Busselton 09:15:34 second place behind the Danish Lisbeth Kristensen
  2005 3 Ironman South Africa South AfricaSouth Africa Port Elizabeth
0July 3, 2005 1 ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships SwedenSweden Later 06:40:49 European champion over the long distance (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running)
  2005 11 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships DenmarkDenmark Fredericia
Aug 28, 2005 5 Ironman Canada CanadaCanada Penticton 10:03:55
  2004 DNF Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii -
  2004 6th ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships SwedenSweden Later
  2004 4th Ironman Switzerland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 09:43:29
  2004 4th Ironman Canada CanadaCanada Penticton 09:54:27
  2003 1 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championship 25-29 SpainSpain Ibiza 06:51:11 Victory and world champion in the age group 25–29

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ironman Champion Sara Gross joins Bahrain Endurance 13 (January 14, 2016)
  2. ^ O'Donnell Wins Another - Hoogland Wins Her First in Calgary
  3. ^ Team Bennett takes Augusta
  4. ^ Ironman Cozumel 2011: Tajsich and Thomschke are best Germans
  5. ↑ IRONMAN Western Australia: Heat Battle Down Under
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Sara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnia