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Britta Martin (born 2 September 1978 in
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,
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) is a German born,
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based professional
triathlete A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the ...
and multiple winner of Ironman distance races all over the world (2012, 2014).


Career

Britta Martin studied
sports science Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally i ...
at the
Technical University Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a Public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied science, applied and natural sciences. Est ...
. In the beginning she has been a
cyclist Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...
. In her first triathlon season 2003 she won her first two competitions in the
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region together with Faris Al-Sultan, winner of the
Ironman World Championship The Ironman World Championship is a triathlon held annually in Hawaii, United States from 1978 to 2022, with no race in 2020 and an additional race in 1982. It is owned and organized by the World Triathlon Corporation. It is the annual culminat ...
s two years later, as the fastest man on the podium. At the German half-iron Championships 2003 in
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,
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, 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. 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''. In 2007, she found herself racing in the '' Tour de Pakistan'', where she met former
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time trial champion and Olympic cyclist, Robin Reid. Both won the male and female sections of the event and have been together ever since. At the end of the year, she moved to her partner Robin Reid and is now living in
Nelson, New Zealand Nelson () is a List of cities in New Zealand, city and Districts of New Zealand, unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the oldest city in the South Island and the second-old ...
. Since 2008 Britta Martin competes as a professional triathlete mainly at the Ironman distance for ''Nelson Triathlon Club'' and her main sponsor Tineli, a local manufacturer of cycle clothing. Her victory in December at the ''Half-Ironman Taupo'' follows three months later on the same place her debut on the Ironman distance 2009 with the eighth place. One year later, same race, she is about ten minutes faster and reaches fifth place. Again three month later at the
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she reaches fourth at the Ironman France, 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. Again six months later Britta Martin is second about three minutes behind
Gina Crawford Gina Crawford is a former professional triathlete from New Zealand. She competes in World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) Ironman and Ironman 70.3 triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of Swimming (sport), swimming, ...
at Challenge Wanaka. 2012 Britta Martin does her final jump into world class: at the ETU Long-Distance Triathlon Championships in July 2012, hosted at
Challenge Roth Challenge Roth is a triathlon race organised by in and around Roth, Bavaria, Germany. It is held annually in July. The Ironman distance (140.6 miles / 226.2 kilometers) version of the race has been held since 1990, and the short distance versi ...
, there were only 69 seconds missing to break the nine-hours-border, Britta Martin became fifth overall. In December 2012, she definitely came into the spotlight with her first Ironman win at
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,
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. Together with finishes at Ironman Melbourne and Ironman Sweden 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. 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. In September 2014, she picked up in
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her second Ironman victory. 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.Dec 9th, 2014 It was the fastest ever Ironman by a New Zealand woman. 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. In an effort to add to her qualifying points for the Ironman World Championships 2015, Britta Martin competed at Ironman 70.3
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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. 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''. 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
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. 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 Erin Margaret Baker (born 23 May 1961) is a former New Zealand triathlete. She won many world championship and Ironman titles. Early life Baker was born in 1961 in Kaiapoi, New Zealand. Upon the suggestion by her mother, Mary, Baker began r ...
,
Andrea Hewitt Andrea Hansen (née Hewitt, born 4 April 1982) is a New Zealand triathlete who placed third at the 2009 ITU Triathlon World Championships and competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2008, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics. ...
and others. 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 The Oceania Swimming Championships are currently held every 2 years, in even years. They are organized by the Oceania Swimming Association, and feature teams representing countries and islands from that region.


Notable results

* First place ** Ironman Western Australia, 2012, 2014 ** Ironman Wisconsin, 2014 ** Challenge Taiwan, 2014 ** Auckland Half-Ironman, 2012 ** Ironman 70.3 Port Macquarie, 2012 ** TriStar111 Salzkammergut, Austria, 2012 ** TriStar111 Germany, 2011 ** Marlborough Sounds Half, 2015 ** Challenge Wanaka Half 2011 ** Half Ironman Taupo, 2008 * Second place ** Challenge Wanaka, 2012 ** Half Ironman New Plymouth, 2014 ** Allgäu Triathlon
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(half iron distance), 2006 * Third place ** Ironman Sweden, 2013 ** Ironman France, 2011 * Fourth place ** Ironman France, 2010 * Fifth place ** Challenge Roth ''ETU Long-Distance Triathlon European Championships'', 2012 ** Ironman 70.3 Haugesund, 2013 ** Ironman New Zealand, 2010 * Sixth place ** Port of Tauranga Half-Ironman, 2010 * Seventh place ** Ironman South Africa, 2015 ** Half-Iron Championships Germany 2003 * Eighth place ** Ironman 70.3 Germany (''Ironman 70.3 European Championships''), 2014 ** Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens, 2009 ** Ironman New Zealand, 2009 * Tenth place ** Ironman Melbourne (''Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship''), 2013 * Twenty-first place ** Ironman World Championships Hawaii, 2013


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Britta 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Hanover Sportspeople from Nelson, New Zealand German female triathletes New Zealand female triathletes