Emma Snowsill

Infobox Triathlete
athletename = Emma Snowsill


caption = At the 2008 Summer Olympics.
country = Australia
New Zealand (dual nationality)
residence = Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Boulder, Colorado, USA
nickname = "Snowy"
date-birth = birth date and age|1981|06|15|df=y
place-birth = Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
height = 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
weight = 49 kg (108 lb)
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coach = Craig Walton
Denis Cottrell (swimming)
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Emma Snowsill (born 15 June 1981) is an Australian professional triathlete and multiple gold medalist in the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. She won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2008 Olympics.

Professional career

Snowsill won the 2000 International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Championship in the 16-20 years age category plus the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Youth Olympic Festival Triathlon at age 19. She was awarded a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and was voted 16-19 years female Triathlete of the Year 2000. She is studying for a degree in health science (currently deferred).

In 2003, Snowsill became ITU World Champion for the first time in Queenstown, New Zealand. [cite news | url =http://www2.triathlon.org/world-champs/wch-2003/events/queenstown-triathlon/women.htm | title =Emma Snowsill is the 2003 Triathlon World Champion | publisher = ITU Press Release|]

She was the 2004 ITU World Cup Champion and ranked first in the world but was not selected for the Australian team for the 2004 Athens Olympics.

In 2005, Snowsill took her second world crown in Gamagori, Japan, in 35-degrees Celsius heat and 90 percent humidity. [cite news | url =http://www.triathlon.org/zpg/znews-dtl.php?src=http://www.triathlon.org/images/news/newsSnowsillwinsworldchamontq_image_0.jpg&keep=sh&nwsid=479&title=Large+picture | title =Snowsill wins world championships!| publisher = Triathlon.org|]

She has won the "Grand Slam" of Chicago, City of Los Angeles, London and New York Triathlons plus multiple ITU World Cup events. She was also the winner of the 2005 and 2006 Lifetime Fitness Triathlons in Minneapolis, and won the Noosa International Triathlon winner three times.

She is the current Australian Olympic distance champion; she won the gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. [cite news | url =http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Sports+and+Venues/Triathlon/News/20060318+Canadian+emerges+first+from+swim.htm | title =Snowsill's debut Games glory | publisher = Melbourne 2006|]

She won another gold medal at the 2006 World ITU Championships in Lausanne, where she finished 45 seconds in front of Portuguese triathlete Vanessa Fernandes. This made her the first female triathlete to win three world titles. [cite news | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/triathlon/5318664.stm | title =Record triathlon win for Snowsill | publisher = BBC Sport|] The following year in Hamburg, Fernandes gained revenge for the defeat by winning her first world title, beating Snowsill by over a minute. [cite news | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/triathlon/6974452.stm | title =Fernandes claims triathlon gold | publisher = BBC Sport|]

In 2008,she kicked of to a great start, winning the Mooloolaba World Cup season opener, beating her olympic rival Vanessa Fernandes. Over the year there has been much speculation as to which one of the two athletes would win in Beijing. Snowsill sat out the World Champs out in order to devote all of herself to the Beijing Olympics. When Snowshill's olympic day finally dawned, she reigned supreme. with a good swim and bike, staying with the leaders and in true Snowshill style, blasted the run, opened up a huge gap. Snowsill won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 1:58:27, 1 minute 7 seconds ahead of Fernandes. Fellow Australian Emma Moffatt won the bronze medal. [cite web
url = http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/TR/C73B/TRW001101.shtml#TRW001101
title = Triathlon: Official Results - Women's Final
date = 2008-08-18
publisher = Beijing 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-23]

External links

* [http://www.emma-snowsill.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.triathlon.org/ International Triathlon Union]

References