Andrea Whitcombe
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Nationality | English | |||||||||||||
Born | London | 8 June 1971|||||||||||||
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Club | Parkside Harrow AC | |||||||||||||
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Andrea Whitcombe (born 8 June 1971) is a female former British International distance runner and triathlete.
Athletics career[]
Whitcombe won the English National Cross Country Championships three times (1990, 1991, 1997) and competed at the World Cross Country Championships seven times.
She won a silver medal in the 5,000 metres representing England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,[1][2][3] and represented Great Britain in the same event at the 2000 Summer Olympics, before switching to the triathlon in 2001.[4]
Triathlon career[]
She finished in the top 10 at the World Triathlon Championships three times, and was the 2004 British Olympic reserve. In 2005, she won a bronze medal at the World Duathlon Championships, and won the ITU Triathlon World Cup event in Corner Brook, Canada.
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Great Britain / England | |||||
1989 | World Cross Country Championships (junior women) | Stavanger, Norway | 14th | 4 km | 16:22 |
1990 | World Cross Country Championships (junior women) | Aix-les-Bains, France | 29th | 4.4 km | 15:02 |
World Junior Championships | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | 4th | 3000 m | 9:13.81 | |
1991 | World Cross Country Championships | Antwerp, Belgium | 104th | 6.4 km | 22:44 |
1993 | World Cross Country Championships | Amorebieta, Spain | 110th | 6.4 km | 22:05 |
1996 | World Cross Country Championships | Cape Town, South Africa | 64th | 6.4 km | 22:14 |
1997 | World Cross Country Championships | Parco del Valentino, Italy | 104th | 6.6 km | 23:23 |
1998 | Commonwealth Games | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 2nd | 5000 m | 15:56.85 |
1999 | World Cross Country Championships (short race) | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 45th | 4.2 km | 16:37 |
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 41st (h) | 5000 m | 16:15.82 |
Triathlon / Duathlon | |||||
2003 | European Triathlon Championships | Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic | 4th | — | |
World Triathlon Championships | Queenstown, New Zealand | 6th | — | 2:09:17 | |
2005 | World Triathlon Championships | Gamagori, Japan | 7th | — | 2:01:08 |
World Duathlon Championships | Newcastle, Australia | 3rd | — | ||
2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 7th | — | 2:09 |
European Triathlon Championships | Autun, France | 4th | — | ||
World Triathlon Championships | Lausanne, Switzerland | 6th | — | 2:05:46 | |
2007 | European Triathlon Championships | Copenhagen, Denmark | 4th | — | 2:03:29 |
References[]
- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Andrea Whitcombe". ITU World Triathlon Series. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- 1971 births
- Living people
- British female middle-distance runners
- British female triathletes
- Olympic athletes of Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Triathletes at the 2006 Commonwealth Games