Kristian Blummenfelt
Norwegian triathlete (born 1994) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kristian Blummenfelt (born 14 February 1994) is a Norwegian triathlete, Olympic and world champion, competing at short course (sprint and standard distance), 70.3 (half-Ironman) and 140.6 (Ironman) distances. He won the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[2] He is the 2021 Ironman World Champion at the first World Championship held at Saint George, Utah on May 7, 2022. On 5 June 2022, Blummenfelt became the first person to complete an Ironman-distance triathlon in under seven hours during the Pho3nix Sub-7 Sub-8 event at the Lausitzring race track in Germany. Blummenfelt set a new unofficial world record for the Ironman-distance triathlon, in a time of 6:44:25.[3]
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Nationality | Norwegian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1994-02-14) 14 February 1994 (age 30) Bergen, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Triathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Viking, NOR Valence Triathlon, FRA[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Olav Aleksander Bu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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