Kathleen McCartney Hearst
Appearance
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Medal record | ||
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Women's triathlon | ||
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Ironman World Championship | ||
1982 (Feb) | Individual |
Kathleen McCartney[1] is an American triathlete who won the Ironman World Championship in February 1982.[2] She passed Julie Moss, who collapsed less than 10 yards from the finish line, and won the race. The New York Times credited the race with "raising the levels of enthusiasm and participation for the sport".[3]
Results
[edit]Date | Position | Event | Swim time |
Bike time |
Run time |
transition time |
Total time |
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February 6, 1982 | 1st | Ironman World Championship | 1:32:00 | 5:51:12 | 3:46:28 | 11:09:40 | |
October 9, 1982 | 4th | Ironman World Championship | 1:14:05 | 5:51:43 | 4:05:05 | 11:10:53 | |
October 22, 1983 | 15th | Ironman World Championship | 1:09:31.8 | 6:10:53.1 | 4:14:16.7 | 11:34:40.8 |
Personal life
[edit]Kathleen McCartney has three children, Patrick Hearst, Madeline de La Serna and Carter Hearst, and is living in San Diego, California in 2024.[citation needed] Her daughter, Madeline, earned a rowing scholarship at University of California, Berkeley.[citation needed] McCartney’s nephew, Kevin Love, is a basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Chapple, Steve (January 25, 2004). "Famous for dragging her worn-out body across the Ironman finish line in 1982, Julie Moss gives it another go 22 years later". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011.
In fact, Ironman 2003 is sort of a "Battle of the Moms," in Moss' view, because McCartney has three children and lived in La Jolla, only miles from where Moss grew up, in Oceanside.
- ^ "Statistics from the Ford Ironman World Championship". ironman.com. World Triathlon Corporation. October 7, 2007. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved June 29, 2008.
- ^ Mallozzi, Vincent (October 18, 2003), "TRIATHLON; Winner Who Didn't Finish First", The New York Times, retrieved February 23, 2011,
As Moss lay writhing in the darkness, she was passed by Kathleen McCartney, who was unaware that she passed Moss and had won the race.
- ^ "Player Bio: Kevin Love". UCLABruins.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2009.