Catriona Morrison
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Catriona ("Cat") Morrison MBE[2] (born 11 January 1977, in Glasgow)[1] is a British triathlete and duathlete of Scottish origin.
Career
In 2005, she won the silver medal at the ITU Duathlon World Championships. In 2006[citation needed], she followed this up with gold and took another silver medal at the Long Distance Duathlon World Championships[citation needed]. In 2007, she took the bronze medal at the Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Lorient.[citation needed] She won the World Powerman Duathlon Long Distance Championships in 2007 and 2008.[citation needed]
In 2010 in Edinburgh she took gold for a second time at the Duathlon World Championships in a time of 2:02:48.
Catriona's triathlon career wins include numerous Ironman 70.3 events including St Croix (4 times), UK, Galveston and Ironman titles including Ironman Texas[3] and Ironman Lanzarote[4] where she famously battled back from a 45min mechanical to win the event.
Catriona retired[5] from professional triathlon and duathlon in January 2015. Since then she has completed the prestigious Saltire Fellowship[6] - a fast track entrepreneurial programme based in Scotland and at Babson College in Boston. She is a lay member of court at the University of Stirling.[citation needed] Catriona is an athlete role model for "Winning Scotland Foundation"[7] visiting schools and junior sports clubs to encourage, inspire and motivate young people through sport.
Catriona is co-founder of "Everactiv"[8] [1] a sports clothing brand for young people whose philosophy is to empower, motivate and inspire young people to be physically active.
References
- ^ a b "Women of the year..." Evening Times. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Catriona Morrison Awarded MBE - Triathlon Scotland". www.triathlonscotland.org. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ Ironman Texas on YouTube
- ^ Article on tri247.com
- ^ Article on slowtwitch.com
- ^ Saltire Fellowship on Saltire Foundation website
- ^ Winning Scotland Foundation website
- ^ Everactiv website
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