Sarah True
  Sarah True
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 Sarah Groff after her victory in Stockholm, 2014
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 27th November 1981 (age 38) |
| place of birth | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States |
| size | 172 cm |
| Weight | 61 kg |
| societies | |
| Current | Charleville Tri Ardennes and Scott Triathlon Team |
| successes | |
| 2007 | ITU world champion aquathlon |
| 2011, 2015 | 3rd place world championship triathlon short distance |
| 2012 | 4th place Olympic Games |
| 2014 | Vice world champion triathlon short distance |
| 2017 | National champion triathlon sprint distance |
| 2018 | 2nd place Ironman European Championships |
| 2018 | 4th place Ironman World Championships |
| status | |
| active | |
Sarah True (* 27. November 1981 in Hanover as Sarah Brooke Groff ) is an American triathlete . She is aquathlon world champion (2007), two-time Olympian (2012, 2016) and national champion in the triathlon sprint distance (2017). She is included in the best list of American triathletes on the Ironman distance .
Career
The strong swimmer started at the Grand Prix de Triathlon in France for the Charleville Tri Ardennes club .
Aquathlon world champion 2007
In May 2007, the then 25-year-old became Aquathlon World Champion in Mexico (2.5 km run, 1 km swim and 2.5 km run). In 2011 she was third in the world championship on the short distance triathlon (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).
Olympic Games 2012
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , she finished fourth as the best American woman.
In the Triathlon World Championship racing series in 2014 , she was second and thus triathlon runner-up world champion on the Olympic distance.
In September 2015 she finished seventh in the final “Grand Final race” in Chicago for the second time after 2011, third in the Triathlon World Championship racing series .
Olympic Games 2016
She qualified again for a place at the Summer Olympics in 2016. Sarah True started for the USA on August 20th in Rio de Janeiro, but was lapped and not counted. In the 2016 World Championship racing series, she finished ninth after nine races.
In March 2017 she became the US champion on the triathlon sprint distance. In June she started the middle distance for the first time and came second in the Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running). At the Ironman 70.3 World Championship, she finished fourth in September.
Long distance triathlon since 2018
At her first start on the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) she finished second at the Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt am Main in July 2018. In October she was fourth at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships).
Sarah True lives in Cooperstown . She was trained by Darren Smith and today by Dan Lorang .
Private
She has been married to long-distance runner Ben True since October 2014 and has been running as Sarah True ever since .
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 8 Apr 2017 | 34 | ITU World Championship Series 2017 |
 Gold coast
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01:02:57 | |
| Apr 2, 2017 | 10 | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
 New Plymouth
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01:00:27 | |
| 11th Mar 2017 | 1 | USA Sprint Triathlon National Championship |
Sarasota
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00:55:58 | National champion sprint distance |
| Sep 18 2016 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2016 |
 Cozumel
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01:59:58 | |
| 4th Sep 2016 | 2 | ITU World Championship Series 2016 |
 Edmonton
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00:56:52 | |
| Aug 20, 2016 | LAP | 2016 Summer Olympics |
 Rio de Janeiro
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| Sep 18 2015 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
Chicago
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01:57:19 | Grand Final - Triathlon World Championship on the Olympic distance |
| 22 Aug 2015 | 1 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
 Stockholm
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02:01:05 | |
| Aug 2, 2015 | 4th | ITU World Olympic Qualification Event |
Rio de Janeiro
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01:59:46 | |
| Apr 25, 2015 | 13 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
 Cape Town
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01:50:52 | |
| Apr 11, 2015 | 2 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
Gold coast
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01:58:17 | Second behind Gwen Jorgensen |
| 29 Mar 2015 | 8th | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
Auckland
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02:12:22 | |
| 7th Mar 2015 | 9 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
 Abu Dhabi
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00:59:51 | in the first race of the season on the sprint distance |
| 23 Aug 2014 | 1 | ITU World Championship Series 2014 |
Stockholm
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01:03:00 | on the sprint distance |
| May 31, 2014 | 2 | ITU World Championship Series 2014 |
 London
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00:55:12 | Second on the sprint distance |
| 9 Mar 2013 | 1 | ITU Sprint Triathlon Pan American Cup |
Clermont
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01:00:17 | |
| 3rd Mar 2013 | 2 | Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon |
San Francisco
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02:18:37 | Second behind Heather Jackson |
| Aug 4, 2012 | 4th | 2012 Summer Olympics |
London |
02:00:00 | |
| July 21, 2012 | 3 | ITU World Championship Series 2012 |
 Hamburg
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00:56:21 | on the sprint distance |
| June 23, 2012 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2012 |
 Kitzbühel
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02:06:20 | |
| Sep 10 2011 | 10 | ITU World Championship Series 2011 |
 Beijing
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02:00:37 | |
| Aug 20, 2011 | 7th | ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championship |
 Lausanne
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00:59:06 | World championship on the sprint distance |
| Aug 6, 2011 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2011 |
London |
02:00:58 | |
| July 17, 2011 | 13 | ITU World Championship Series 2011 |
Hamburg
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01:55:26 | |
| June 19, 2011 | 3 | ITU World Championship Series 2011 |
Kitzbühel
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02:06:27 | |
| June 5, 2011 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2011 |
 Madrid
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02:05:28 | behind the winner Paula Findlay |
| July 24, 2010 | 12 | ITU World Championship Series 2010 |
London |
01:53:35 | 5th race of the series |
| May 1, 2011 | 3 | 5150 St. Anthony's Triathlon |
St. Petersburg
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01:41:22 | |
| Sep 12 2009 | 28 | ITU World Championship Series 2009 |
Gold coast
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01:53:51 | |
| Apr 4, 2009 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 California |
Oceanside
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| Nov 8, 2008 | 1 | ITU Triathlon Pan American Cup |
San Francisco
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02:05:49 | Winner ahead of Julie Ertel |
| June 5, 2008 | 7th | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championships |
Vancouver
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02:04:08 | Triathlon World Championship on the short distance |
| Aug 30, 2007 | 16 | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championships |
Hamburg
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01:56:19 | Triathlon World Championship on the short distance |
| Nov 1, 2006 | 2 | ITU Triathlon Team World Championships |
Cancun
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01:06:03 | in a team with Mary Beth Ellis and Michelle Lindsay (3 × 250 m swimming, 6.67 km cycling and 1.67 km running) |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 15th Mar 2020 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 Campeche |
Campeche
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| Sep 1 2018 | 10 | Ironman 70.3 World Championships |
Port Elizabeth
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04:16:00 | |
| 8 Apr 2018 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 California |
Oceanside
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04:21:53 | |
| Oct 29, 2017 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Austin |
Austin
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04:21:18 | |
| Sep 9 2017 | 4th | Ironman 70.3 World Championships |
Chattanooga
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04:21:40 | |
| June 25, 2017 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant |
Mont-Tremblant
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04:18:21 | first start on the middle distance |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Oct 12, 2019 | DNF | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii
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- | Race stopped on the bike course |
| June 30, 2019 | DNF | Ironman Germany |
Frankfurt am Main
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- | Sarah True had to be withdrawn from the race due to dehydration while in the lead 900 meters from the finish . |
| Oct 13, 2018 | 4th | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
08:43:43 | |
| July 8, 2018 | 2 | Ironman Germany |
Frankfurt am Main |
09:05:19 | First start on the long distance - second at the Ironman European Championships |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| May 12, 2007 | 1 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships |
Ixtapa |
00:32:52 | Aquathlon world champion (2.5 km run, 1 km swim and 2.5 km run). |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 22 Sep 2018 | 1 | Kukio Blue Water Swim |
Kukio, Hawaii
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26:34 | Open Ocean Swim (1.2 miles) |
(DNF - Did Not Finish ; LAP - Rounded)
Web links
- Homepage of Sarah Groff ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile of Sarah Groff ( memento from October 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the USA Triathlon
- Profile for Sarah True at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 17, 2014
- Sarah True's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 12, 2020.
- Sarah True in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF: Ben True | Profiles. Retrieved April 16, 2017 .
- ↑ TAKING THE PLUNGE (March 12, 2014)
- ↑ Joy and Anguish: Hanover's True Has Mixed Feelings Heading Into Rio
- ↑ Surprise Surprise: Findlay Wins Again ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2011 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.
- ↑ World Cup series in London: Paula Findlay surprisingly wins, Emma Moffatt only in 9th place
- ↑ Ironman 70.3
- ↑ 2006 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships - Cancun (Mexico) ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Trues Trainer on her collapse at Ironman Frankfurt - "The wounds will gape even longer" (July 1, 2019)
- ↑ Imonen fastest at Kukio Blue Water Swim (September 23, 2018)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | True, Sarah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Groff, Sarah Brooke (maiden name); Groff, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover, New Hampshire |