 Blummenfelt at the 2016 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 February 1994 Bergen, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79,2 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Triathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Viking, NOR Valence Triathlon, FRA[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Olav Aleksander Bu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kristian Blummenfelt (born 14 February 1994) is a Norwegian triathlete, Olympic and world champion, competing at short course (sprint and standard distance), 70.3 (half-Ironman) and 140.6 (Ironman) distances. He won the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[2] He is the 2021 Ironman World Champion at the first World Championship held at Saint George, Utah on May 7, 2022. On 5 June 2022, Blummenfelt became the first person to complete an Ironman-distance triathlon in under seven hours during the Pho3nix Sub-7 Sub-8 event at the Lausitzring race track in Germany. Blummenfelt set a new unofficial world record for the Ironman-distance triathlon, in a time of 6:44:25.[3]
- ^ "Kristian Blummenfelt". nbcolympics.com.
- ^ "Men's Triathlon Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ Carlson, Timothy (5 June 2022). "Two men go sub7, Two women go sub8". Slowtwitch.com. Retrieved 2 June 2022.