Eimear Mullan

Eimear Mullan

Irish triathlete
Personal information
Nickname	Emu
Nationality	Irish
Born	21 May 1982 Portstewart
Occupation	Athlete
Height	1.69
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Spouse	Ritchie Nichols
Sport
Event	Triathlon
Updated on 18 May 2017

Eimear Nicholls née Mullan (born 21 May 1982) Portstewart is an Irish former professional triathlete who competes and wins Ironman competitions. She is now a para triathlon guide and competed at the Paris 2024 Paralympics in the PTVI category. She now lives and trains in Portstewart, Co Derry and has 2 children.

Life

Early career

Before taking up the triathlon Eimear Mullan practiced at the tetrathlon. At university, she studied sports psychology. She graduated in 2007 as a physical education teacher and then she spent some time traveling. She then started to cycle as a sport and this led her to the triathlon. As an amateur, she had already won some national competitions at both sprint and Olympic distance.

Triathlon

Eimear Mullan began her professional career in 2011. In 2012, she won Ironman UK in Bolton and the Ironman 70.3 in Somerset. She became the first Irish winner on Ironman and is the current Irish Ironman record holder with a time of 8.56.51 (Ironman Barcelona 2015). In 2013, she suspended her teaching career to devote herself fully to her sporting career and joined the TBB team where she was coached by Bella Bayliss and Brett Sutton. In 2014 after representing Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow she went on to claim the top stop of the Embrunman podium in France. after a third place acquired the year before. In September 2014 she won a fourth victory at an XXL distance when she won the inaugural Ironman of Mallorca. She was elected Irish triathlete of the year in 2014. After a long injury break Eimear returned to racing in November’s 2017 with a victory at Ironman 70.3 Xiamen in China.

Results

2015	Ironman Barcelona	Spain	4th	8h 56'  51"
2015	Ironman 70.3 Budapest	Hungary	First	4h 14'  56"
2014	Ironman Majorque	Spain	First	9h 14'  17"
	Embrunman	France	First	11h 29'  36"
	Challenge Sardinien XL	Italy	First	4h 27'  47"
	Triathlon de Gérardmer XL	France		timing
	Ironman 70.3 Somerset	United Kingdom	First	4h 52'  07"
	Challenge XL Rimini	Italy	First	timing
	Challenge XL Fuerteventura	Spain		4h 36'  08"
	Triathlon XL Internacional Portocolom	Spain	First	3h 59'  27"
2013	Ironman 70.3 Miami	United States		4h 12'  39"
	Ironman 70.3 Salzburg	Austria	First	timing
	Ironman 70.3 Somerset	United Kingdom	First	4h 56'  59"
	Challenge XL Fuerteventura	Spain		timing
	Embrunman	France		11h 27'  29"
	Triathlon EDF Alpe d'Huez XL	France		6h 41'  39"
	Ironman Klagenfurt	Austria	First	9h 05'  46"
2012	Iromamn Pembrokeshire	United Kingdom		10h 01'  32"
	Ironman Royaume-Uni	United Kingdom	First	10h 08'  44"
	Ironman 70.3 Somerset	United Kingdom	First	4h 53'  33"
	TriStar111 Portocolom	Spain	First	4h 19'  49"
2011	TriStar111 Monaco	Monaco		timing
	Ironman 70.3 Somerset	United Kingdom		timing
	TriStar111 Portocolom	Spain	First	4h 10'  27"

References

External links

• Eimear Mullan at World Triathlon
• Eimear Mullan at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 January 2023)