{"id":1138,"date":"2009-11-22T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-07-24T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:40:09","slug":"ironman-triathlon-world-championship-considers-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ironman-triathlon-world-championship-considers-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironman Triathlon World Championship considers switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1139\" title=\"ChrissieWellington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ChrissieWellington-219x219.jpg\" alt=\"ChrissieWellington\" width=\"233\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ChrissieWellington-219x219.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ChrissieWellington.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><strong>Britain&#8217;s three-time ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington is set to try out road race cycling in time for the London 2012 Olympics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Triathlete from Norfolk who is the world record holder for ironman-distance triathlon races is keen on a new challenge, but insists her main priority remains a fourth world crown.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington said: &#8220;I love triathlon and the challenges it affords me. Having said that I would be foolish not to consider trying other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wellington is the current and three-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion, having won the World Championship consecutively in 2007, 2008 and 2009. She is noted for having won the World Championship less than a year after turning professional, an achievement which has been described as &#8220;a remarkable feat, deemed to be a near impossible task for any athlete racing as a rookie at their first Ironman World Championships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is also the first British athlete to hold the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, and remains undefeated over the Ironman distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s three-time ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington is set to try out road race cycling in time for the London 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,150],"tags":[1837,1842,1836,77199,1839,1840,1841],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-water-sports","tag-chrissie-wellington","tag-ironman-triathlon-world-champion","tag-ironman-world-champion","tag-london-2012-olympics","tag-triathlete","tag-triathlon","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}