1. Vicky Holland was born on 12 January 1986 and is a British former triathlete who was part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic team.
11 Facts About Vicky Holland
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Vicky Holland was the first female triathlete to win an Olympic medal for Great Britain, a bronze in 2016, holding off housemate, compatriot and fellow world champion Non Stanford.
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Vicky Holland has five wins in the World Triathlon Championship Series, four of them coming in her Championship-winning year of 2018.
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Vicky Holland didn't begin competing in triathlon until her second year at Loughborough University when she was approached by British Triathlon.
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Later the same month at the Madrid event Vicky Holland finished seventh, again beating Blatchford who placed tenth.
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Vicky Holland was selected ahead of Blatchford to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's triathlon alongside Helen Jenkins and Lucy Hall.
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Vicky Holland completed the course in two hours, two minutes, and 55 seconds, 26th in the field.
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In 2012 and 2014, Vicky Holland became World Champion as part of the British Mixed Team Relay squad, and on 24 July 2014, Vicki secured her first major individual medal, with Bronze at the Commonwealth Games.
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Vicky Holland took gold in the mixed triathlon team relay at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, with the Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonathan, and Jodie Stimpson.
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Vicky Holland followed this up with a second World Series victory in Edmonton and third place in the Grand Final in Chicago which gave her fourth position overall for the year and qualification for the British Olympic team in Rio 2016.
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In 2021 Vicky Holland completed an all British podium, at Super League Triathlon, London, alongside Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown.