Barbara Lindquist

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Barbara Lindquist
Medal record
Women's Triathlon
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ITU World Championships
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ITU World Cup
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Barbara ("Barb") Metz Lindquist (born July 1, 1969, in Wilmington, Delaware) is a swimmer and triathlete from the United States. [1] [2]

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She competed as a swimmer at Stanford University, and was on the swimmers' U.S. National Team, leaving the U.S. team in 1991. [2]

She became a professional triathlete in 1996. [2]

From February 2003 through 2004, she was ranked first in the world as a triathlete. [2]

Lindquist competed at the Olympic triathlon in 2004, [3] placing ninth. [2]

She was on the U.S. world championship triathlon team ten times. [3]

Lindquist retired as a triathlete in 2005. [2] She later served as the coach of the Under-23 National [Triathlon] Team and as the USAT Collegiate Recruitment Program Coordinator. [2]

Recognition

On Feb. 13, 2010, Lindquist was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame. [2]

She was number ten on the publication Inside Triathlon's 10 Most Influential People For 2012. [3]

In 2017 she was inducted into the International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Barbara Lindquist - Athlete Profile". Triathlon.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Hall of Fame". www.usatriathlon.org.
  3. 1 2 3 "Inside Triathlon's 10 Most Influential People For 2012: #10 Barb Lindquist". Triathlete. December 10, 2012.
  4. ↑ Flynn, Sarah Wassner (March 31, 2022). "Recalled: The Great Equalizer". Triathlete.
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