Vicky Holland
Vicky Holland | |
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at the World Triathlon Series Tour in Edmonton, 2015
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Personal information | |
Date of birth | 12th January 1986 (age 34) |
place of birth | Gloucester , UK |
Nickname | Vicky |
size | 168 cm |
Weight | 58 kg |
societies | |
Current | Olympic podium |
Since 2019 | Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team |
successes | |
2011 | Oceanic Champion Triathlon |
2012, 2014 | 2 × world champion triathlon sprint distance team |
2013 | Vice-European triathlon champion short distance |
2016 | 3rd place Olympic Games |
2018 | National champion triathlon short distance |
2018 | ITU world champion triathlon short distance |
status | |
active |
Victoria Frances "Vicky" Holland (born January 12, 1986 in Gloucester ) is a British triathlete . She is triathlon vice-European champion (2013), two-time Olympian (2012, 2016) and ITU world triathlon champion (2018).
Career
Vicky Holland was active in swimming as a teenager and studied at Loughborough University from 2005 to 2008 , where she discovered triathlon for herself.
In 2010 she was eighth in the Triathlon World Cup on the short distance in the "Triathlon World Championship Series" and in March 2011 she won the Oceanic Triathlon Championship. In 2012 she started at the Summer Olympics in London in August, where she was able to achieve 26th place out of 55 women who started after falling on the bike course.
Vicky Holland became European triathlon champion on the Olympic short distance in June 2013 in Turkey (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). In September 2015 she finished third in the final “Grand Final race” in Chicago, fourth in the 2015 World Championship racing series.
2016 Summer Olympics
Vicky Holland was able to secure a starting place at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and she started on August 20, 2016 alongside Helen Jenkins and Non Stanford , where she was the fastest British woman to win bronze.
Holland starts in the national team of the British Triathlon Federation , is trained by Darren Smith and she lives in Swansea in South Wales. She has also been part of the Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team since 2019 .
Triathlon World Champion 2018
In the ITU World Cup race series in 2018 she was able to September 15, with the second spot in the last race in Gold Coast (Australia) secured the world title
As part of the ITU World Championship Series 2019 , she was fourth-best Briton behind Jessica Learmonth (2nd), Georgia Taylor-Brown (3rd) and Non Stanford (7th) in twelfth place.
Awards
- 2019: ETU athlete of the year
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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14 Mar 2020 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Mooloolaba | 00:57:46 | |
July 27, 2018 | 1 | ITU World Championship Series 2018 | Edmonton | 00:56:51 | |
April 5, 2018 | 4th | Commonwealth Games 2018 | Gold coast | 00:57:42 | |
Feb 11, 2018 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Cape Town | 00:58:18 | |
4th Sep 2016 | 5 | ITU World Championship Series 2016 | Edmonton | 00:57:15 | |
6 Sep 2015 | 1 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 | Edmonton | 00:58:55 | |
July 18, 2015 | 2 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 | Hamburg | 00:57:13 | Second behind the American Gwen Jorgensen |
July 13, 2014 | 1 | ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championship Team | Hamburg | 01:19:07 | World champion in the team - together with Lucy Hall , Jonathan Brownlee and Alistair Brownlee |
May 31, 2014 | 14th | ITU World Championship Series 2014 | London | 0:55:44 | on the sprint distance |
26 Aug 2012 | 1 | ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championship Team | Stockholm | 01:26:48 | World champion in the team - together with Non Stanford , Jonathan Brownlee and Will Clarke |
Aug 20, 2011 | 19th | ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championships | Lausanne | 01:00:00 | on the sprint distance |
Sep 10 2005 | 36 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women | Gamagori | 01:07:37 | among the juniors |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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15th Aug 2019 | 3 | ITU World Triathlon Olympic Qualification Event | Tokyo | 01:41:11 | behind Flora Duffy and Alice Betto |
Sep 15 2018 | 2 | ITU World Championship Series 2018 | Gold coast | 01:52:02 | |
25 Aug 2018 | 1 | ITU World Championship Series 2018 | Montreal | 01:59:29 | |
June 9, 2018 | 1 | GBR Triathlon National Championships | Leeds | 01:56:32 | National champion in the race of the ITU World Championship Series 2018 |
April 28, 2018 | 2 | ITU World Championship Series 2018 | Bermuda | 02:03:25 | |
Aug 20, 2016 | 3 | 2016 Summer Olympics | Rio de Janeiro | 01:57:01 | |
Sep 18 2015 | 3 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 | Chicago | 01:56:20 | Grand Final - Triathlon World Championship on the Olympic distance |
Aug 2, 2015 | 3 | ITU World Olympic Qualification Event | Rio de Janeiro | 01:59:27 | |
Apr 25, 2015 | 1 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 | Cape Town | 01:49:51 | Swimming distance shortened to 750 m |
July 24, 2014 | 3 | Commonwealth Games 2014 | Glasgow | 01:59:11 | |
Apr 26, 2014 | 8th | ITU World Championship Series 2014 | Cape Town | ||
14th of June 2013 | 2 | ETU Short Distance Triathlon European Championships | Alanya | 01:55:45 | Vice European Champion - just two seconds behind Rachel Klamer from the Netherlands |
Aug 4, 2012 | 26th | 2012 Summer Olympics | London | 02:02:55 | after a fall on the bike course |
19 Sep 2011 | 12 | ITU World Championship Series 2011 | Yokohama | 02:00:39 | The result of the race should be taken into account for the 2012 season. |
March 12 2011 | 1 | OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships | Wellington | 02:05:12 | Oceanic Triathlon Championship |
Sep 12 2010 | 6th | ITU World Championship Series 2010 | Budapest | 01:51:31 | in the seventh and final race of the season |
Aug 15, 2010 | 13 | ITU World Championship Series 2010 | Kitzbühel | 02:05:50 | in the 6th race of the series |
July 24, 2010 | 6th | ITU World Championship Series 2010 | London | 01:52:39 | 5th race of the series |
July 18, 2010 | 5 | ITU World Championship Series 2010 | Hamburg | 01:53:57 | in the 4th race |
Aug 2, 2009 | 4th | London triathlon | London |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Official website of Vicky Holland
- Profile for Vicky Holland at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 24, 2014
- Vicky Holland's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 14, 2020 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jenkins vs. Stimpson for Olympic selection (April 6, 2016)
- ↑ Rio 2016: Helen Jenkins secures third GB triathlon spot (April 22, 2016)
- ^ Oceania: Gemmell wins, Hewitt fails
- ↑ Vicky Holland, Kris Gemmell triumphs in Wellington
- ↑ Surprise at the Kitzbühel Triathlon ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ World Cup series in London: Paula Findlay surprisingly wins, Emma Moffatt only in 9th place
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Holland, Vicky |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holland, Victoria Frances (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gloucester , England |