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Triathlon by the Numbers – Rio 2016 Olympic Games
- Updated: August 8, 2016
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games will host the fifth edition of the triathlon competition at the Olympics. Here is your preview, stats-style.
173 – Seconds. The biggest deficit that any Gold medallist has had to make up from T2. Austria’s Kate Allen was this far behind the leader when she started the run in Athens, but surged ahead of Australia’s Loretta Harrop in the final few hundred metres to claim gold.
67 – Seconds. The biggest winning margin in Olympic history, recorded by Australia’s Emma Snowsill in the women’s triathlon at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
57 – Athletes in the triathlon events in Rio will be making their Olympic Games debut. There will be 36 heading to their second Olympic Games, and 13 to their third. There are four headed to their fourth Olympics.
49 – National Olympic Committees that have been represented in the triathlon event at the Olympic Games so far. Rio will take that number to 54, as it marks the first time for Azerbaijan (Rostislav Pevtsov), Barbados (Jason Wilson), Israel (Ron Darmon), Jordan (Lawrence Fanous), Norway (Kristian Blummenfelt) and Puerto Rico (Manuel Huerta).
40 – The average time in seconds that the women’s eventual winner was behind in the swim. Skewed slightly by the times of Kate Allen (who finished the swim leg 121 seconds behind the leader) and Nicola Spirig (67 seconds behind), but it indicates that the race might not be over after the first leg.
30-39 – If you are looking for an omen as to who might podium at Copacabana, look to athletes with start numbers in the thirties. So far five gold medals have come from start numbers between 30 and 39. These include Emma Snowsill (34), Brigitte McMahon (35), Kate Allen (39), Jan Frodeno (32) and Alistair Brownlee (30).
34 – Is the most successful start number so far. It was worn by Emma Snowsill (Gold in Beijing), Magali di Marco Messmer (Bronze in Sydney), and Susan Williams (Bronze in Athens). 27 has also been a successful number, with Bevan Docherty claiming both his medals, silver in Athens and bronze in Beijing, in that start number.
32 – The amount of ITU race wins from Great Britain’s Alistair Brownlee, from a total of 65 ITU race starts, or a winning record of 49%. In the World Triathlon Series, the London …
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