Chrissie Wellington

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Christine Ann Wellington (born 18 February 1977) is an English former professional triathlete and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She held both world and championship records relating to ironman-distance triathlon races: firstly the overall world record and secondly the Ironman World Championship course record (from 2009 until Mirinda Carfrae lowered it in 2013). She won the Ironman World Championship in three consecutive years (2007–2009), but did not start the 2010 Ironman World Championship race because of illness. Then – while suffering from injuries so severe that her former coach Brett Sutton said she should "not even be on the start line" – she regained the title in 2011. She was the first British athlete to win the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, and remained undefeated in all thirteen of her races over the ironman distance. She is the only triathlete, male or female, to have won the World Championship less than a year after turning professional, an achievement...

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