Wendy Ingraham

0 Wendy Ingraham
Personal information
Date of birth	31st January 1964 (age 56)
Nickname	Wingnut
societies
successes
1995-2001	5 × Ironman winner
status
resigned

Wendy Ingraham (born January 31, 1964 ) is a former American triathlete and multiple Ironman winner (1995-2001).

Career

The ex-swimmer from California dominated the first Ironman Austria competitions from 1998 to 2000 on the long-distance triathlon (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and later she was once again in Klagenfurt Second and third.

In Hawaii ( Ironman Hawaii : Ironman World Championships) she reached no less than nine top 10 places in fifteen participations: five times she finished the competition in the top five, three times in fourth. Her nickname is Wingnut .
In 1997, Wendy Ingraham and Sian Welch fought a gripping duel on the home stretch of Ironman Hawaii , when both of them fell over, dehydrated and exhausted, could only crawl to the finish and Ingraham reached fourth place just before Welch.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Profile for Wendy Ingraham at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 19, 2014
• Wendy Ingraham's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 11, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Long Road, And A Short Crawl, To Ironman History
2. ↑ Recalled: A Dramatic Duel ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 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. (22. July 2013)