Nicola Spirig set to Retire
Switzerland’s Nicola Spirig has announced that she will be retiring from professional triathlon competition after the 2022 season at the age of 40.
The Swiss star has had an illustrious career over the years which has seen her pick up multiple major medals, including seven European Championship Individual titles and several World Championship medals.
She most notably reached the highest accolade in triathlon when she won a gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games in a race probably immortalised for her part in the ‘million to one odds’ of an Olympic women’s triathlon race ending in a photo finish. She then backed this up four years later taking silver in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
The mother of three won her first half distance triathlon in 2007, and from 11 races she has never finished off the podium with 11 wins, 3 seconds and a third which include being a seven-time Half-Iron distance champion and at her first attempt at the full distance, she won Ironman Cozumel, one of the hottest and toughest Ironman races in the world.
Legends of Triathlon: Nicola Spirig – Making the impossible possible!
The 2022 season is still to come, and we are looking forward to witnessing Spirig play her part in the Pho3nix Foundation Sub8 project around DEKRA Lausitzring Race Circuit where she will attempt to become the first-ever female to go under the 8-hour mark for the Ironman distance.
