 Vermeylen in 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 2 May 1994 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Triathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Jolien Vermeylen (born 2 May 1994) is a Belgian triathlete. [1]
In June 2023, she finished third in the women's event at the European Games in Poland. [2] [3] In 2024, she finished 24th in the women's triathlon at the Summer Olympics in Paris. After the event, she criticized the race organizers due to the water quality of the Seine. [4]
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Rachel Klamer is a Dutch professional triathlete and member of the National team. She placed third at the Junior World Championships in 2009.
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Non Rhiannydd Stanford is a British former professional triathlete, representing Great Britain and Wales at international level. Stanford was the ITU World Champion in 2013, part of the Great Britain world champion mixed relay team in 2012 and represented Team GB at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished fourth behind teammate and housemate Vicky Holland. Hindered thereafter by recurrent injuries, she struggled to repeat the dominant form of her early years. In her final year of competition, 2022, however she found an exceptional final flourish of form; she anchored Wales to silver in the team event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, her first Commonwealth medal and her first major championship medal since 2015 World Triathlon mixed relay bronze. One week later, in her final major Olympic distance triathlon race, Stanford won her first and only European championship.
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