Sheila Taormina

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Personal information
Date of birth 18th March 1969 (age 51)
place of birth Livonia (Michigan), USA
size 1.60 m
Weight 54 kg
societies
successes
1996 Winner of the Olympic Games 4 × 200 m swimming
2000 6th place Olympic Games Triathlon
2004 ITU world champion triathlon short distance
2005 World champion aquathlon
status
resigned

Sheila Christine Taormina (born March 18, 1969 in Livonia ) is a former American swimmer, triathlete and pentathlete.

Career

Sheila Taormina attended the University of Georgia . She took part in the Olympic Games four times - and as the first woman in the world in three different sports: swimming , triathlon and modern pentathlon . In 1996 she won gold at the Olympic Games in swimming (women's 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay).

In 1999 she started triathlon and in 2000 and 2004 she started at the Olympic Games - where she finished 6th and 23rd.
In 2004 she became triathlon world champion over the Olympic distance.

In September 2005 she also became aquathlon world champion in Japan.

In 2008 she took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing for the fourth time - now in the modern pentathlon.

Today Sheila Taormina works as a trainer and motivational speaker.

Awards

  • In 2008 she was awarded the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame for her achievements .

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Sep 11 2005 12 ITU Triathlon World Championships JapanJapan Gamagōri 02:01:59
Aug 25, 2004 23 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 02:09:21 Triathlon
0May 9, 2004 1 ITU Triathlon World Championships PortugalPortugal Madeira 01:52:17 Triathlon world champion over the Olympic distance
0Dec 6, 2003 13 ITU Triathlon World Championships New ZealandNew Zealand Queenstown 02:10:11
Aug 10, 2003 2 Pan American Games United StatesUnited States Santo Domingo 02:00:11
0Nov 9, 2002 24 ITU Triathlon World Championships MexicoMexico Cancun 02:07:00
0Sep 2 2001 5 Goodwill Games AustraliaAustralia Brisbane 02: 03: 52.79
July 22, 2001 24 ITU Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Edmonton 02:04:39 World Championship
16 Sep 2000 6th 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney 02: 02: 45.91 Triathlon
Apr 30, 2000 6th ITU Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Perth 01:54:43 World champion in the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
Modern pentathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
  2008 19th 2008 Summer Olympics China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing Modern pentathlon (pistol shooting, epee fencing, swimming, show jumping and a cross-country run)
Aquathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
08 Sep 2005 1 ITU Aquathlon World Championship JapanJapan Gamagōri Aquathlon World Champion (2.5 km run, 1 km swim and 2.5 km run)
swim
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
1996 1 1996 Summer Olympics United StatesUnited States Atlanta 07:59:87 4 × 200 m freestyle (together with Jenny Thompson , Trina Jackson and Cristina Teuscher)

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Publications

  • Sheila Taormina: Freestyle swimming like the professionals: the secrets of the swimming technique of the best swimmers in the world Spomedis, Hamburg 2013 ISBN 978-3-936376-82-1
  • Sheila Taormina: Kraul, butterfly, back, chest: the secrets of top swimmers Spomedis, Hamburg 2015 ISBN 978-3-95590-060-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sheila Taormina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  2. ↑ Profile of Olympic Athlete Sheila Taormina ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / detroit.about.com
  3. ↑ Jens Hungermann: Stalking victim lost his way to pentathlon. In: The world . August 21, 2008, accessed June 27, 2014 .
  4. ↑ USA Triathlon Hall of Fame Class of 2008 Biographies ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usatriathlon.org
  5. ↑ US federation founds triathlon hall of fame
  6. ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

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personal data
SURNAME Taormina, Sheila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taormina, Sheila Christine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Livonia