Andrea Whitcombe
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| Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 June 1971 London | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| 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
[edit]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 5000 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
[edit]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
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Personal life
[edit]Whitcombe has two children, a son Aeron and a daughter Willow.
References
[edit]- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Andrea Whitcombe". ITU World Triathlon Series. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
External links
[edit]- Andrea Whitcombe at World Athletics
- Andrea Whitcombe at World Triathlon
- Andrea Whitcombe at Olympics.com
- Andrea Whitcombe at Olympedia
- Andrea Whitcombe at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Andrea Whitcombe at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- 1971 births
- Living people
- English female middle-distance runners
- British female middle-distance runners
- British female triathletes
- Olympic athletes for 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
- Athletes from London
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games