Brigitte McMahon

Brigitte McMahon, known in full as Brigitte McMahon-Huber and born on 25 March 1967 in Baar, is a Swiss athlete who competed in triathlon. At the first Olympic triathlon, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in a total time of 2 hours 0 minutes 40.52 seconds, which until 2008 was the fastest time for a woman in an Olympic triathlon. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she finished tenth. In June 2005 she tested positive for erythropoietin in an out-of-competition control, was removed from the Swiss national team and retired from the sport, maintaining that she had taken it for therapeutic reasons only. She is a teacher at Kollegi Schwyz.