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
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
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
Personal life
Whitcombe has two children, a son Aeron and a daughter Willow.
References
- ^ "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
- Andrea Whitcombe at World Athletics
- Andrea Whitcombe at World Triathlon
- Andrea Whitcombe at Olympics.com
- Andrea Whitcombe at Olympedia (archive)
- Andrea Whitcombe at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Andrea Whitcombe at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
