Iona Wynter

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Iona Wynter (born November 25, 1968) is an athlete from Jamaica.

Wynter competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She took thirty-fourth place with a total time of 2:10:24.69.

Wynter has since shifted her focus to cycling and aims to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. She rides on a professional U.S. cycling team sponsored by Italian olive oil company Colavita and headed by celebrated American cyclist Tina Pic. She was a member of the Autotrader.com team and then rode for Genesis-Scuba before entering into semi-retirement in order to balance her teaching career. She rode the 2005 season for Travel Girls and as a guest rider for the Quark Cycling Team. She won the Central American and Caribbean Road Race Championships in 2002 and in 2006 became the Scratch Race Champion in the same Games. She has competed in the Pan American Games and the Commonwealth Games on the road and the track. If she qualifies for the Beijing Olympic Games, she will be among a select few to have qualified for the Olympic Games in two separate sports (triathlon and cycling).