{"id":7623,"date":"2021-03-14T03:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2021-03-14T03:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:59:07","slug":"chrissie-wellington-placed-in-ironmans-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7623","title":{"rendered":"Chrissie Wellington placed in Ironman’s Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-time Ironman\u00a0World Champion and 220 favourite Chrissie Wellington, will be inducted into the Ironman Hall of Fame on October 11, during race week at the 2017 Ironman World Championship triathlon, in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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220 named Wellington 4th greatest female triathlete of all time\u00a0and 5th greatest Kona athlete of all time<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cChrissie\u2019s accomplishments in the sport are impressive and it is fitting that she should be inducted in her first year of eligibility,\u201d said Andrew Messick, Chief Executive Officer of Ironman. \u201cChrissie exemplifies the role of an Ironman World Champion and has defined what it means to be a professional triathlete in the modern era. Her achievements have furthered the sport and inspired many to become Ironman triathletes themselves. We are honoured to induct her into the IRONMAN Hall of Fame, joining the other elites of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Wellington won every full-distance Ironman triathlon and earned 10 Ironman wins and seven Ironman 70.3 wins during her career, and also still holds the women\u2019s world record for fastest Ironman triathlon finish time of 8:33:56, recorded in 2011 at Ironman South Africa<\/p>\n

Within a year of turning professional, Wellington captured her first Ironman World Championship in her debut at the event in 2007, becoming the first British athlete, male or female, to win the race. She would go on to win three additional Ironman World Championship titles in 2008, 2009 and 2011. She is one of only three women to win Ironman World Championships three consecutive times and set the Ironman World Championship course record of 8:54:02 (2009), which stood for five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you decide to leave the sport as a professional athlete you think your days of being awarded accolades are over\u2014I am truly humbled and excited to see my name featured among our sport\u2019s greats, whom I have so much admiration and respect for,\u201d said Wellington.<\/p>\n

\u201cI devoted five years to being the best athlete I could be. No short cuts, no stone left unturned,\u201d Wellington continued. \u201cI would rather have five years of excellence than 10 years of mediocrity. My life has changed for the better from being able to achieve and experience what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wellington joins an illustrious list that includes Dave Scott,\u00a0Paula Newby-Fraser and Mark Allen.<\/p>\n

Chrissie\u2019s latest book, To The Finish Line: A World Champion Triathlete\u2019s Guide to Your Perfect Race, is out now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Written in conjunction with 220, the book offers advice on everything, from planning your race season and fitting triathlon training into everyday life, to race nutrition strategies and coping with pre-race nerves, to exercising during pregnancy and how to budget for a triathlon.<\/p>\n

Drawing on Chrissie\u2019s own training and race experiences \u2013 both good and bad \u2013 and packed full of extras, such as recipes, a typical weekly training programme and pearls of wisdom from some of Chrissie\u2019s own advisors,\u00a0including her former coach and fellow Ironman legend, 220 Triathlon columnist Dave Scott<\/p>\n

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IRONMAN Hall of Fame:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Year\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Inductee(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1993<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dave Scott<\/p>\n

1994<\/p>\n

\u00a0Julie Moss<\/p>\n

1995<\/p>\n

\u00a0Scott Tinley<\/p>\n

1996<\/p>\n

\u00a0Paula Newby-Fraser<\/p>\n

1997<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mark Allen<\/p>\n

1998<\/p>\n

\u00a0John and Judy Collins<\/p>\n

1999<\/p>\n

\u00a0Valerie Silk<\/p>\n

2000<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tom Warren<\/p>\n

2001<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dr. Bob Laird<\/p>\n

2002<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bob Babbitt<\/p>\n

2003<\/p>\n

\u00a0John MacLean\/Gordon Haller \/ Lyn Lemaire<\/p>\n

2004<\/p>\n

\u00a0Greg Welch<\/p>\n

2005<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jim Maclaren<\/p>\n

2008<\/p>\n

\u00a0Team Hoyt \u2013 Rick and Dick Hoyt<\/p>\n

2011<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mike Reilly<\/p>\n

2012<\/p>\n

\u00a0Graham Fraser<\/p>\n

2013<\/p>\n

\u00a0Peter Henning<\/p>\n

2014<\/p>\n

\u00a0Georg Hochegger \/ Helge Lorenz \/ Stefan Petschnig \u00a0<\/p>\n

2015<\/p>\n

\u00a0Lori Bowden \/ Heather Fuhr<\/p>\n

2016<\/p>\n

\u00a0Lew Friedland \/ Peter Reid<\/p>\n

2017<\/p>\n

\u00a0Chrissie Wellington<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Four-time Ironman\u00a0World Champion and 220 favourite Chrissie Wellington, will be inducted into the Ironman Hall of Fame on October 11, during race week at the 2017 Ironman World Championship triathlon, in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Advertisement 220 named Wellington 4th greatest female triathlete of all time\u00a0and 5th greatest Kona athlete of all time \u00a0\u201cChrissie\u2019s accomplishments in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}