Britta Martin

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Britta Martin
Personal information
Nickname(s)Flying Kiwi [1]
Born (1978-09-02) 2 September 1978 (age 45)
Hannover
Height1,62 m
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country Germany
Sport Triathlon
Turned pro2008
Coached byJohn Hellemans,
Andy Adair
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)8:56:34 (2014)

Britta Martin (born 2 September 1978 in Hannover, Germany) is a German born, New Zealand based professional triathlete and multiple winner of Ironman distance races all over the world (2012, 2014).

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Career

Britta Martin studied sports science at the Technical University Munich. In the beginning she has been a cyclist. [2] In her first triathlon season 2003 she won her first two competitions in the Munich region together with Faris Al-Sultan, winner of the Ironman World Championships two years later, as the fastest man on the podium. [3] [4] At the German half-iron Championships 2003 in Kulmbach, Bavaria, she finished seventh in the individual standings 36 min behind the winning Nina Kraft, who reached third at the Ironman World Championships two months later. Together with her team of her Munich triathlon club MRRC she became honored as runner-up. [5] After two years of injury without competitions Britta Martin competed together with her team from MRRC Munich in the 2006 season of the Bavarian team circuit, where they became Bavarian team champion. Constantly injured from running, Britta Martin switched into cycling in 2007 and became member of the professional female cycling team Team Stuttgart. [6]

In 2007, she found herself racing in the Tour de Pakistan , where she met former New Zealand time trial champion and Olympic cyclist, Robin Reid. Both won the male and female sections of the event and have been together ever since. [7] At the end of the year, she moved to her partner Robin Reid and is now living in Nelson, New Zealand. Since 2008 Britta Martin competes as a professional triathlete mainly at the Ironman distance [8] for Nelson Triathlon Club and her main sponsor Tineli, a local manufacturer of cycle clothing.

Her victory in December at the Half-Ironman Taupo [9] follows three months later on the same place her debut on the Ironman distance 2009 with the eighth place. [10] One year later, same race, she is about ten minutes faster and reaches fifth place. [11] Again three month later at the Mediterranean Sea she reaches fourth at the Ironman France, [12] the next try at the same event one year later in 2011 then - with stress fracture in her foot during the race - third place at Ironman France in Nice. [13] Again six months later Britta Martin is second about three minutes behind Gina Crawford at Challenge Wanaka. [14]

2012 Britta Martin does her final jump into world class: at the ETU Long-Distance Triathlon Championships in July 2012, hosted at Challenge Roth, there were only 69 seconds missing to break the nine-hours-border, Britta Martin became fifth overall. [15] In December 2012, she definitely came into the spotlight with her first Ironman win at Busselton, Australia. [1] [16] Together with finishes at Ironman Melbourne [17] and Ironman Sweden [18] Britta Martin is qualified for the first time to compete as a pro at the Ironman World Champion Chips in Kailua-Kona. Britta finished - however unhappy with her performance - 21st. [19]

In April 2014, her second iron distance victory at Challenge Taiwan was a doubly emotional moment: only a few days before her father died and her mother's birthday was on the race day. [20] In September 2014, she picked up in Wisconsin her second Ironman victory. [21] [22] In December 2014 Britta Martin won the Ironman Western Australia for the second time. Finishing in 8:56:34 she was the fiftieth woman in the history of the Ironman among nine hours in a race and lowered the female course record for this race. [23] It was the fastest ever Ironman by a New Zealand woman. [7]

In February 2015 Britta Martin celebrated her victory at the 'Marlborough Sounds Half Ironman together with her friend Robin Reid, who was fastest man in this competition. [24] In an effort to add to her qualifying points for the Ironman World Championships 2015, Britta Martin competed at Ironman 70.3 Racine, Wisconsin in July. (Primarily her plan was to race at Ironman Korea, which had been canceled.) Due to two technical defects (punctures) on the first five kilometers of the bike leg she finished as 97th women. [25] Nevertheless Britta Martin received just a few days later her confirmation letter, that she got her entry slot as 23rd highest ranked woman in the Kona Points Ranking System. [26] The top 35 professional female triathletes, who earned the most points correlating to their finish positions in Ironman competitions all over the world between August, 31st and July, 31st are qualified to race the Ironman World Championships in October, hosted at Kailua Kona. [27]

Britta Martin is coached by John Hellemans, a physician, multiple age-group world champion and head coach of the Dutch triathlon team, who coached many stars like Erin Baker, Andrea Hewitt and others. [7] [28] Her swimming coach is Andy Adair, who is specialised on open water and long distance swimming, and was open water coach and manager for the New Zealand team that went to the Oceania Swimming Championships in 2012. [7] [29]

Notable results

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References

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  2. ↑ Martin: So do I cope with the Ironman Archived 2015-07-25 at the Wayback Machine interview with Britta Martin at German television sport1 on 12 October 2013
  3. ↑ "Results City-Triathlon Munich (Elite) 2003". mikatiming.de. 13 July 2003. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Results Triathlon Karlsfeld 2003". mikatiming.de. 20 July 2003.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. 1 2 "Results Half-Iron Championships Germany 2003" (PDF). moenchshof-triathlon.de. 9 August 2003.
  6. ↑ "Kona Files: Britta Martin ‹ Witsup.com". witsup.com. 30 September 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Peter Gibbs (10 June 2015). "Triathletes taking on the world at a fast clip". Nelson Mail .
  8. ↑ Murray Hills (7 February 2014). "Chance for Britta Martin to gauge her fitness". Taranaki Daily News .
  9. 1 2 "Results Half Ironman Taupo 2008" (PDF). 13 December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2009.
  10. ↑ "Results Ironman New Zealand 2009". ironman.com. 3 March 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Results Ironman New Zealand 2010". ironman.com. 3 March 2010.
  12. 1 2 "Britta Martin 4th in Ironman France". tineli.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Felt gets first victory". tri-mag.de. 26 June 2011. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  14. 1 2 Nathan Burdon (21 January 2012). "Crawford wins Wanaka ironman race". Nelson Mail.
  15. 1 2 "Results Challenge Roth 2012" (PDF). mikatiming.de. 8 July 2012.
  16. 1 2 "Johnsen and Martin Run Their Way to Their First Wins in Busselton". ironman.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  17. 1 2 "Results Australia 2013". ironman.com. 24 March 2013.
  18. 1 2 "Results Ironman Kalmar, Sweden". ironman.com. 17 August 2013.
  19. 1 2 Jonathan McKeown (30 October 2013). "Martin unhappy with 21st finish". Nelson Mail.
  20. 1 2 "Britta Martin Takes Emotional Win at Challenge Taiwan". Women in Triathlon. 21 April 2014.
  21. 1 2 "Britta Martin Crowned Ironman Wisconsin Champion". Women in Triathlon. 9 September 2014.
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  23. 1 2 "History Repeats For Lightning Fast Martin in Busso". Women in Triathlon. 9 December 2014.Dec 9th, 2014
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