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Today we are going to look into the 10 most famous triathlon couples.
We will tell you about who they are, their love story and how they met.
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Number 1 Chrissie Wellington and Tom Lowe.
Chrissie Wellington a four time Ironman world champion and Tom Lowe an ex-long course pro
met in 2009, in a club called La Santa where they started talking and planned to meet in
Sandown where the 220 awards took place at that time.
They met up and immediately clicked but forgot to exchange numbers.
Luckily a close friend of Chrissie ran back to Tom’s hotel room and exchanged their
numbers, after that it all went well for the 2.
They are now married and have a 3-year-old daughter named Esmee.
They both stopped competing, but sometimes they like to challenge themselves
and participate in endurance events for fun
Number two!
Jan Frodeno and his wife Emma Snowsill Emma Snowsill is an Australian Olympic gold
medalist and threefold world champion.
Many see her as the best female triathlete ever.
Jan Frodeno is a German triathlete who became Olympic champion in 2008 and is the world
record holder with a time of 7:35:39.
The two first met each other in 2006 during the world cup in South Africa.
But they never really had contact until 2010, they started talking, and it immediately clicked.
Snowsill said in an interview that they had an immediate connection.
“I could talk to him about anything and everything”.
In the summer the year after Emma went to Europe to visit Jan, and they spent a lot
of time together after that their relationship started evolving into, and they got married
in 2013 and have two children together Lucca Leo(5), and Sienna Sofia, (3).
Number 3 Marc and Helen Jenkins Helen Jenkins is one of the best British female
triathlete in history winning the world championship two times and she represented Britain on the Olympic
Games were she placed 5th is the highest place a British triathlete ever achieved on the Olympics.
She got married to Marc Jenkins in 2008 who was her coach and a British triathlete, he
however did not achieve as much success as his wife in the sport, his highest Olympic finish
was 14th in 1998.
They have both retired and together launched a coaching super team aimed at helping new
athletes train like a world champion.
Using their 25-years of experience in the sport.
Together they have 2 children, Max and Mali.
They met when Helen was 17, when they both were members of the same swimming club and had an
injury at the same time.
They got into contact and have been together since for over 15 years
Number 4 Scott Molina and Erin baker Scott Molina, A.K.A.
the terminator, is considered to be the best ever American Triathlete, winning 104 triathlons
in 13 years including the National championship 6 times and the 1988 Ironman World championship
in Hawaii.
Erin baker, who is a two-time Ironman world champion winning in 1987 and 1990, married
Scott Molina in 1990 after meeting each other in 1988.
Erin Baker wanting to quit the sport because of its demanding lifestyle.
When Molina invited her to breakfast, things started going good for the two.
Baker adopted Molina’s lifestyle and started to love the triathlon again.
She went on to become world champion one more time after that and got married in the same year
Number 5 Ashleigh Gentle and Joshua Amberger.
Ashleigh Gentle is 30 years old Australian triathlete who won two silvers medal at a
junior world championship one in Hamburg and 2 years later again in Vancouver.
2 years later in 2010 she finally won the gold medal at the junior world-championship.
During the 2016 Olympics in Rio she finished in 26th, one year later she finished in second
at the ITU world championship.
Joshua Amberger is a 32-year-old Australian triathlete who won the ironman in 2017 after
getting on the podium more than 11 times.
They met each other in high school and have been in love since, Ashleigh still regularly
posts on social media and still is an active triathlete being coached by her husband.
Number 6 Katie and Tommy Zaferes Katie and Tommy who are both American met
each other for the first time during the world cup in Hungary, they both went to the same
after party in a club and talked all night long, they stayed in touch and started
dating a month after, from there on they were inseparable and got engaged a year later and
married only three months after their engagement, Tommy said that in the 5 years they are married
they have not been separated more than seven days in a row.
Katie and Tommy both are very respectable triathletes where Katie won 4 of the 7 big
tournaments and placed second in one.
She ended that year first in the world ranking.
Tommy has retired professional triathlon in 2016 after a near-death experience and went
on to become a photographer instead.
Number 7 Non Stanford and Aaron Royle Non Stanford is a 32-year-old British ITU
world champion and represented team Britain during the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she finished fourth.
Aaron Royle is a 31-year-old Australian triathlete who made his Olympic debut in Rio and finished
in an impressive 6th place.
In 2018, he finished first place at the ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series in Edmonton.
The two got into good contact in 2013 at a French grand prix race in nice and stayed
close friends drinking coffee all over the world at various races, 3 years later when
Aaron finally had the courage to ask her to be his girlfriend they started dating.
2 years later in 2015 they got married
Number 8 on the list, we have Vicky Holland and Rhys Davey
Vicky Holland is a 35-year-old British triathlete born in Gloucester, who came in third place
in the Rio Olympics in 2016 before winning 3 World Triathlon series in 2018 finishing
second overall in the Grand finale.
She is one of the most known British triathlete because of her achievements.
Her lover is Rhys Davey is a 30-year-old British athlete, who became a triathlon coach after
competing for just 2 years because he fell out of love with racing.
He knew that he wanted to help others to reach their goal and still loves the sport.
This is why he became a coach at such a young age.
They don’t have any children yet because Vicky is still competing and planning to do
so for a few more years.
Number 9 on the list, we have Mirinda Carfrae and Timothy O’Donnell
Mirinda Carfrae one of the best female triathletes ever.
She is best known for outrunning men and winning the IRONMAN 3 times.
Her husband Timothy O’Donnell was a very successful long-distance runner, winning
ITU Long Distance and finishing second in the Ironman world championship in 2019.
He recently temperately quit racing because of a heart attack he had some months ago.
His doctor said that he could return to racing next year if he wants to, but we don’t know
if he will.
He and his Wife got married back in 2013, they are expecting their second child in 2021.
Number 10 Lucy hall and Mark Buckingham This British couple is one of the best duos
in the sport.
Mark being one of the best male British triathlete, being a four-time British champion and winning
medals in the European and World championships.
Lucy who competed for Britain on the Olympics having the fastest swimming relay but eventually
finishing 33rd.
Mark retired in 2020 and now works as a triathlon coach.
Lucy is still competing and actually almost got on the podium last year In a virtual ironman,
but her husband tripped over the bike wire and made her disconnect from the match.
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