Emma Carney
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| Full name | Emma Elizabeth Carney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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29 July 1971 Bourne End, England |
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emma Elizabeth Carney (born 29 July 1971) is an Australian professional triathlete and two time World Triathlon Champion. Emma is a Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee (athlete member) (2016), World Triathlon International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame Inductee (2014) and Triathlon Australia (2012) Hall of Fame inductee. Emma is one of the few triathletes in the world to have won two ITU world titles. She was the world number one triathlete according to ITU rankings in 1995, 1996 and 1997, and achieved 19 World Cup wins, faster than any other triathlete. With seven wins in 1996, she also holds the record for the greatest number of ITU World Series wins in a single season.
Carney was born in England, but moved with her family to Australia at an early age.
Carney began her sporting life as a runner: when she was in grade four, she was the only girl to win a medal in the school Wesley College (Victoria) cross-country mixed race. As a teenager Carney remembers jogging after school everyday. "From that time on there has hardly been a day when I haven't trained", she said. At 13 she set a Victorian record in her 3,000 m debut, and at 18 she was winning national school titles. She wanted to go to the Olympics, but realised she wasn't going to hit her peak as a middle-distance athlete until her late 20s. She reached the finals in the under-20 national championships in the 1,500 m and 3,000 m. As she thought running for another 10 years would be "boring", she decided instead to do some cross-training and triathlons. Emma quickly became one of the few athletes to represent Australia in two sports - Athletics and Triathlon.
In the spring of 1993, Carney tried her first triathlon, which she won after overcoming a 7-minute deficit from a 700 metre swim. Her accountant father, David, told her, "It’s 18 months until the world championship in Wellington. If you learn to swim and train, you’ll be the best triathlete in the world." She recalled, "My father went over everything I had to do point by point and it all made sense."
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