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Andrea Whitcombe (born 8 June 1971) is a female former British International distance runner and triathlete.
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Whitcombe won the English National Cross Country Championships three times (1990, 1991, 1997) and competed at the World Cross Country Championships seven times.
She won a silver medal in the 5000 metres representing England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, [1] [2] [3] and represented Great Britain in the same event at the 2000 Summer Olympics, before switching to the triathlon in 2001. [4]
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.
Whitcombe has two children, a son Aeron and a daughter Willow.
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