Andrea Whitcombe
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 June 1971 London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 47 kg (104 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long-distance | ||||||||||||||
| 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.
Whitcombe became the British 5,000 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships titles at the 1997 AAA Championships[1] and 1998 AAA Championships.[2][3]
Whitcombe won a silver medal in the 5000 metres representing England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,[4][5][6] and represented Great Britain in the same event at the 2000 Summer Olympics, before switching to the triathlon in 2001.[7]
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]- ^ "Athletics". Birmingham Daily Post. 26 August 1997. Retrieved 1 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ "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
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- 20th-century English sportswomen