Kristian Blummenfelt
Blummenfelt at the 2016 Summer 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Olav Aleksander Bu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. 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.