Lucy Gossage

Gossage studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, with her PhD focusing on kidney cancer, and she is a trained cancer doctor.[1][2] In April 2012, Gossage won the European Women's duathlon title,[3] and she retained the title in 2013,[4] finishing the Powerman duathlon World Series in second place in 2012.[5] Aged 34, she decided to become a full-time Ironman Triathlon competitor.[1] She won her first Ironman event in 2013 in the United Kingdom, and later in the year won the Wales Ironman event;[6] that year, she won the British Triathlon Federation award for female Long Distance Triathlete of the Year.[1] Her other victories in Ironman Triathlons have been in 2014 in Lanzarote, and in the UK in 2015 and 2016.[6][7][8] She qualified for the 2016 Ironman World Championship,[2] and finished ninth, despite breaking her collarbone eight weeks prior to the race.[9]