18 Facts About Kristian Blummenfelt

Kristian Blummenfelt was born on 14 February 1994 and is a Norwegian triathlete, Olympic and world champion, competing at short course, 70.3 and 140.6 distances.

Kristian Blummenfelt won the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Kristian Blummenfelt is the 2021 Ironman World Champion at the first World Championship held at Saint George, Utah on May 7,2022.

On 5 June 2022, Blummenfelt became the first person to complete an Ironman-distance triathlon in under seven hours during the Pho3nix Sub-7 Sub-8 event at the Lausitzring race track in Germany.

Kristian Blummenfelt set a new unofficial world record for the Ironman-distance triathlon, in a time of 6:44:25.

Kristian Blummenfelt is the world record holder for the 70.3 distance, setting a time of 3:29:04 in 2018 and both repeating the feat and bettering his own mark in 2019 with a time of 3:25:21.

In 2017, Kristian Blummenfelt achieved 3 silvers, a bronze and registered one DNF in the ITU WTS.

Kristian Blummenfelt finished the 2017 season ranking 3rd overall in the WTS, a career-best placing in the competition to date.

Kristian Blummenfelt raced the 70.3 Ironman Middle East Championships 2017 for the first time and finished in the top spot, registering a time of 3:40:24.

In 2018, in the WTS, Kristian Blummenfelt achieved 4 podium places with three silvers and a bronze, together with registering two DNFs at Yokohama and Abu Dhabi.

Kristian Blummenfelt finished the 2018 season ranking 5th overall in the WTS.

Kristian Blummenfelt raced the 70.3 Ironman Middle East Championships 2018 for the second year running, finished in the top spot and in doing so set a new world record for the distance of 3:29:04.

In 2019, Kristian Blummenfelt achieved his first career gold at ITU World Triathlon Series level at the Grand Final in Lausanne on 31 August.

Kristian Blummenfelt finished the year with a World Triathlon Series ranking of 10th overall, capping off a year where he failed to make the podium in any other ITU WTS races, and registered a DNF three times.

Kristian Blummenfelt raced the 70.3 Ironman Middle East Championships 2019 for the third year running, beating his previous world record time to win and set a new mark of 3:25:21.

Kristian Blummenfelt placed twelfth in the men's triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Later that year, Kristian Blummenfelt competed in the Ironman World Championships.

Kristian Blummenfelt placed thirty-fifth after projectile vomiting during the bike leg and completing the marathon run in 3:32.