Lucy Gossage
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| Birth name | Lucy Gossage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 December 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lucy Gossage (born 25 December 1979) is a British doctor and former triathlete and duathlete, who currently works at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. As an athlete, Gossage competed in Ironman Triathlon events, was twice European duathlon champion, and won multiple Ironman Triathlon events.
Sports career
[edit]In April 2012, Gossage won the European Women's duathlon title,[1] and she retained the title in 2013,[2] as well as finishing the Powerman Duathlon World Series in second place in 2012.[3] Aged 34, she decided to become a full-time Ironman Triathlon competitor.[4] She won her first Ironman event in 2013 in the United Kingdom, and later in the year won the Wales Ironman event;[5] that year, she won the British Triathlon Federation award for female Long Distance Triathlete of the Year.[4] Her other victories in Ironman Triathlons have been in 2014 in Lanzarote, and in the UK in 2015 and 2016.[5][6][7] She qualified for the 2016 Ironman World Championship,[8] and finished ninth, despite breaking her collarbone eight weeks prior to the race.[9] Gossage retired from professional sport to focus on her job;[10] 2020 was scheduled to be her last year.[11]
Academic career
[edit]Gossage studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, with her PhD focusing on kidney cancer, and she is a trained cancer doctor.[4][8] Gossage started working as a specialist registrar in 2009, and as of 2020, she worked as an oncology consultant at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.[11] From 2014 to 2016, she took two years away from her academic career to focus on her sports career.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "2012 Horst ETU Powerman Long Distance and Sprint Duathlon European Championships : Apr 29 2012 : Elite Women : Results". International Triathlon Union. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "2013 Horst ETU Powerman Long Distance and Sprint Duathlon European Championships : Apr 20 2013 : Elite Women : Results". International Triathlon Union. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Home". powerman.org.
- ^ a b c Murray, Helen (27 March 2014). "Cancer doctor turns full-time Ironman competitor at 34". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Triathlon - Lucy Gossage" (in French). Les Sports. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ Speed, Dan (18 July 2016). "Lucy Gossage successfully defends her title as Kirill Kotsegarov celebrates maiden IRONMAN UK victory". Triathlete Europe. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ Saul, Rosalind (17 July 2016). "Three times a champion Lucy: 'I love Bolton'". The Bolton News. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ a b Majendie, Matt (7 October 2016). "Pain no obstacle for Ironwoman Lucy Gossage". CNN. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ Levison, John (25 October 2016). "Lucy Gossage: don't write me off yet!". Tri247. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Lucy Gossage talks Goal Setting". Triathlon 24/7. 19 January 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ a b c o'Dowd, Adrian (2020). "Why I . . . Do triathlons". BMJ. 368: l6891. doi:10.1136/bmj.l6891. PMID 31915127. S2CID 210121648.