Britta Martin

Britta Martin

First Place Female, Sunsmart Ironman West Australia Busselton Sunday 9 December 2012
Personal information
Nickname(s) Flying Kiwi[1]
Born (1978-09-02) 2 September 1978
Hannover
Residence Nelson, New Zealand
Height 1,62 m
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country Germany
Sport Triathlon
Turned pro 2008
Coached by John Hellemans,
Andy Adair
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 8:56:34 (2014)

Britta Martin (* 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).

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 Championchips two month 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 2007 switched into cycling 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] 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 month 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 spotlight with her first Ironman win at Busselton, Australia.[1][16] Together with finishs 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 was died and her mother had birthday on race day.[20] In September 2014, it 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 position in Ironman competitions all over the world between August, 31th and July, 31th are qualified to race the Ironman World Championchips 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

References

  1. 1 2 "A flying kiwi for the win at Ironman WA – the wrap up". witsup.com. December 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ Martin: So do I cope with the Ironman interview with Britta Martin at German television sport1 on 12 October 2013
  3. ↑ "Results City-Triathlon Munich (Elite) 2003". mikatiming.de. July 13, 2003.
  4. ↑ "Results Triathlon Karlsfeld 2003". mikatiming.de. July 20, 2003.
  5. 1 2 "Results Half-Iron Championchips Germany 2003" (PDF). moenchshof-triathlon.de. August 9, 2003.
  6. ↑ "Kona Files: Britta Martin ‹ Witsup.com". witsup.com. 2013-09-30.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Peter Gibbs (June 10, 2015). "Triathletes taking on the world at a fast clip". Nelson Mail.
  8. ↑ Murray Hills (2014-02-07). "Chance for Britta Martin to gauge her fitness". Taranaki Daily News.
  9. 1 2 "Results Half Ironman Taupo 2008" (PDF). December 13, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 24, 2009.
  10. ↑ "Results Ironman New Zealand 2009". ironman.com. March 3, 2009.
  11. ↑ "Results Ironman New Zealand 2010". ironman.com. March 3, 2010.
  12. 1 2 "Britta Martin 4th in Ironman France". tineli.com.
  13. ↑ "Felt gets first victory". tri-mag.de. June 26, 2011.
  14. 1 2 Nathan Burdon (January 21, 2012). "Crawford wins Wanaka ironman race". Nelson Mail.
  15. 1 2 "Results Challenge Roth 2012" (PDF). mikatiming.de. 2012-07-08.
  16. 1 2 "Johnsen and Martin Run Their Way to Their First Wins in Busselton". ironman.com.
  17. 1 2 "Results Australia 2013". ironman.com. March 24, 2013.
  18. 1 2 "Results Ironman Kalmar, Sweden". ironman.com. August 17, 2013.
  19. 1 2 Jonathan McKeown (October 30, 2013). "Martin unhappy with 21st finish". Nelson Mail.
  20. 1 2 "Britta Martin Takes Emotional Win at Challenge Taiwan". Women in Triathlon. 2014-04-21.
  21. 1 2 "Britta Martin Crowned Ironman Wisconsin Champion". Women in Triathlon. 2014-09-09.
  22. ↑ Peter Gibbs (September 12, 2014). "Sweet result after injury and bad weather". Nelson Mail.
  23. 1 2 "History Repeats For Lightning Fast Martin in Busso". Women in Triathlon. 2014-12-09.Dec 9th, 2014
  24. 1 2 Patrick Dawkins (February 9, 2015). "Reid runs off anxiety for easy ironman win". The Marlborough Express.
  25. ↑ Peter Gibbs (July 28, 2015). "Unlucky breaks leave Britta sweating on Kona". Nelson Mail.
  26. ↑ Peter Gibbs (July 31, 2015). "Stretching the limits of the self". Nelson Mail.
  27. ↑ "Kona Points Ranking System Women". ironman.com.
  28. ↑ "Training at 60: The Doctor Comes Full Circle". ironman.com. August 20, 2013.
  29. ↑ Jonathan McKeown (July 14, 2012). "Top coach bringing his talents to Tasman". Nelson Mail.
  30. ↑ "Results Auckland Half-Ironman 2012". aucklandhalf.co.nz. March 24, 2012.
  31. ↑ "Results Ironman 70.3 Port Macquarie 2012". ironman.com. October 27, 2012.
  32. ↑ "Tristar 111 Salzkammergut 2012 Austria Men and Women". tri2b.com. June 3, 2012.
  33. ↑ "Tristar 111 Worms Germany 2011". tri2b.com. May 29, 2011.
  34. ↑ "Results Challenge Wanaka Half 2011" (PDF). 2011-01-16.
  35. ↑ Murray Hills (February 10, 2014). "Watkinson stoked to notch her first half ironman win". Nelson Mail.
  36. ↑ "Results Allgäu Triathlon Classic 2006" (PDF). July 7, 2006.
  37. ↑ "Post-race bliss ends in despair". Nelson Mail. August 29, 2011.
  38. ↑ Peter Gibbs (June 29, 2010). "Nelson triathlete wins career best". Nelson Mail.
  39. ↑ "07/7/2013 Results: Norway". ironman.com. July 7, 2013.
  40. ↑ "Results Ironman New Zealand 2010". ironman.com. 2010-03-06.
  41. ↑ "Results Port of Tauranga Half-Ironman 2010". January 9, 2010.
  42. ↑ USANA ANZ. "USANA, word!". usanablognz.blogspot.com.au.
  43. ↑ "Results IRONMAN 70.3 Wiesbaden Germany". ironman.com. August 10, 2014.
  44. ↑ "Results Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens 2009". ironman.com. 2009-08-16.
  45. ↑ "Results New Zealand 2009". ironman.com. March 7, 2009.
  46. ↑ "Results Ironman World Championchips 2013". ironman.com. October 12, 2013.

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