2011 Top-10 Triathletes Of The Year: The Women
- By Sarah Wassner Flynn
- Published Dec 28, 2011
Triathlete.com honors the women who wowed us all season long. Read through the list below and then head over to today’s Triathlete.com Poll to tell us who you think had the best 2011 season. Also check out our picks for the top-ten male triathletes of 2011.
1. Chrissie Wellington
Everything was going just right for Wellington in the months leading up to the Ironman World Championship. An undefeated streak over four races. A new world record of 8:18:13 set at Challenge Roth in July. Then, just two weeks before the world champs, Wellington suffered a vicious bike crash in Boulder that left her sinewy frame covered in a wicked road rash—and her chances for another victory in Kona in jeopardy. But the 34-year-old Wellington dug deep that day, overcoming a massive deficit on the swim and bike with a 2:52 marathon to earn her fourth Ironman World Championship crown. After the race, the Brit admitted she had torn her pectoral and intercostal muscles in the bike crash, making her 13th overall iron-distance win that much more of an amazing feat.