Nicola Spirig

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Nicola Spirig

Nicola Spirig at the Sprint World Championships in Lausanne, 2011.
Medal record
Competitor for   Switzerland
Women's triathlon
Olympic Games
Gold 2012 London Individual
ITU Team Triathlon World Championships
Silver 2011 Lausanne Team

Nicola Spirig (born 7 February 1982) is a Swiss professional triathlete, Olympic champion, vice World Champion 2010, member of the Swiss National Team, double Olympian, Junior World Champion of the year 2001, Junior European Champion of the year 1999, and Elite European Champion of the years 2009 and 2010.

Spirig was born in Bülach. On 4 August 2012, Spirig won Gold in the Olympic Women's Triathlon,[1] winning a close race in a photo finish with Sweden's Lisa Nordén.

In the 13 years from 1998 to 2010, Spirig took part in 72 ITU competitions and achieved 39 top ten positions. In 2010, she won the European Championships and the World Championship Series triathlon in Madrid, and the silver medal at the World Championship Series triathlon in London. In the overall World Championship Series ranking she place second.

Nicola Spirig lives in Winkel and holds a degree in law (lic.iur.). Both her elder sister Kathrin and her elder brother Thomas were high-performance sports people before they started their academic career, and Nicola Spirig's parents Ursula and Sepp are PE teachers. She is married with former Swiss triathlete Reto Hug. They have a son, born 2013.[2]

ITU competitions

The following lists are based upon the official ITU rankings and the athlete's Profile Page.[3] Unless indicated otherwise, the following events are triathlons and belong to the Elite category.

Olympics

Date Competition Place Rank
  2012-08-04   Summer Olympics London, United Kingdom 1
  2008-08-18   Summer Olympics Beijing, China 6
  2004-08-25   Summer Olympics Athens, Greece 19

World Championships

Nicola Spirig and Helen Jenkins at the World Championship Series triathlon in Madrid, 2010.
Nicola Spirig at the World Championship Series triathlon in Kitzbuhel, 2010.
Date Competition Place Rank
  2012-06-23   World Triathlon Kitzbuehel, Austria 1
  2012-05-26   World Triathlon Madrid, Spain 1
  2012-04-14   Dextro Energy World Championships Series Sydney, Australia 5
  2011-08-21   Team World Championships Lausanne, Switzerland 2
  2011-08-20   Dextro Energy World Championship Series: Sprint World Championship Lausanne, Switzerland 16
  2011-08-06   Dextro Energy World Championship Series London, United Kingdom 8
  2011-07-16   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Hamburg, Germany 12
  2010-09-08   Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final Budapest, Hungary 3
  2010-08-21   World Championships (Sprint) Lausanne, Switzerland 6
  2010-08-14   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Kitzbuhel, Austria 18
  2010-07-24   Dextro Energy World Championship Series London, United Kingdom 2
  2010-06-05   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Madrid, Spain 1
  2010-05-08   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Seoul, South Korea 4
  2009-08-22   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Yokohama, Japan 10
  2009-08-15   Dextro Energy World Championship Series London, United Kingdom 1
  2009-07-11   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Kitzbuhel, Austria 2
  2007-08-30   BG World Championships Hamburg, Germany 19
  2005-09-10   World Championships (U23) Gamagori, Japan 3
  2004-05-09   World Championships Madeira DNF
  2003-12-06   World Championships Queenstown, New Zealand 33
  2002-11-09   World Championships (U23) Cancun, Mexico 3

World Cups

Gold medalist Spirig with Emmie Charayron and Helen Jenkins at the World Championship Series triathlon in Madrid, 2010.
Date Competition Place Rank
  2012-03-25   World Cup Mooloolaba, Australia 2
  2010-10-10   World Cup Huatulco, Mexico 2
  2008-09-27   BG World Cup Lorient, France 8
  2008-07-20   BG World Cup Kitzbuhel, Austria 1
  2008-04-26   BG World Cup Tongyeong, South Korea 8
  2008-04-13   BG World Cup Ishigaki, Japan 6
  2007-12-01   BG World Cup Eilat, Israel 1
  2007-10-07   BG World Cup Rhodes, Greece 6
  2007-09-15   BG World Cup Beijing, China 7
  2007-07-29   BG World Cup Salford, United Kingdom 10
  2007-07-22   BG World Cup Kitzbuhel, Austria 6
  2007-05-13   BG World Cup Richards Bay, South Africa 5
  2007-05-06   BG World Cup Lisbon, Portugal 8
  2007-04-15   BG World Cup Ishigaki, Japan 6
  2007-03-25   BG World Cup Mooloolaba, Australia 17
  2006-11-12   BG World Cup New Plymouth, New Zealand 12
  2006-11-05   BG World Cup Cancun, Mexico 17
  2006-07-23   BG World Cup Corner Brook, Canada DNS
  2006-06-11   BG World Cup Richards Bay, South Africa 8
  2006-06-04   BG World Cup Madrid, Spain 17
  2005-09-17   OSIM World Cup Beijing, China 32
  2005-08-06   World Cup Hamburg, Germany DNF
  2005-07-31   World Cup Salford, United Kingdom 12
  2005-06-05   World Cup Madrid, Spain 11
  2004-07-25   World Cup Salford, United Kingdom 13
  2004-04-25   World Cup Mazatlan, Mexico 11
  2004-04-11   World Cup Ishigaki, Japan 14
  2003-10-25   World Cup Athens, Greece 24
  2003-10-19   World Cup Madeira 17
  2003-09-21   World Cup Madrid, Spain DNF
  2003-09-06   World Cup Hamburg, Germany 15
  2003-07-20   World Cup Corner Brook, Canada 11
  2003-07-13   World Cup Edmonton, Canada 19
  2003-06-07   World Cup Tongyeong, South Korea 26
  2002-10-13   World Cup Madeira 20
  2002-09-21   World Cup Nice, France 21
  2002-08-31   World Cup Lausanne, Switzerland 15
  2002-07-21   World Cup Corner Brook, Canada 9
  2001-08-25   World Cup Lausanne, Switzerland 9

European Championships

Date Competition Place Rank
  2012-04-20   European Championships Eilat, Israel 1
  2010-07-03   European Championships Athlone, Ireland 1
  2009-07-02   European Championships Holten, Netherlands 1
  2008-05-10   European Championships Lisbon, Portugal 4
  2007-06-29   European Championships Copenhagen, Denmark 3
  2006-06-23   European Championships Autun, France 13
  2005-08-20   European Championships Lausanne, Switzerland 12
  2005-07-17   European Championships (U23) Sofia, Bulgaria 2
  2004-04-18   European Championships Valencia, Spain 14
  2003-06-21   European Championships Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic 12
  2002-07-06   European Championships Győr, Hungary 14

European Cups

Date Competition Place Rank
  2007-08-19   European Cup Geneva, Switzerland 2
  2002-06-08   European Cup Belgrade, Serbia 3

Junior results

Date Competition Place Rank
  2001-07-22   World Championships Edmonton, Canada 1
  2001-06-23   European Championships Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic 2
  2000-07-08   European Championships Stein, Netherlands 5
  2000-04-30   World Championships Perth, Australia 3
  1999-07-03   European Championships Funchal, Madeira 1
  1998-08-30   World Championships Lausanne, Switzerland 5
  1998-07-04   European Championships Velden, Austria 18

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Nicola Spirig". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 October 2012. 
  2. ↑ Jörg Greb: Der «schnelle» Sohn der Triathlon-Olympiasiegerin. In: Tages-Anzeiger vom 24. März 2013
  3. ↑ "Results for: Spirig, Nicola (SUI)". International Triathlon Union. Retrieved 4 October 2012. 

Further reading

  • Carlson, Timothy (12 September 2012). "Anatomy of Olympic gold - Part 1". slowtwitch.com. Retrieved 12 March 2013.  Part 2 The story of how Spirig trained for, and won, her 2012 London Olympic title.

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