Emma Moffatt

Emma Moffatt is a retired Australian professional triathlete, born on 7 September 1984 in Moree, New South Wales, and raised in Woolgoolga. She took up cross country, athletics and surf lifesaving young before turning to triathlon, as her parents and siblings also did. An Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder, she won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the world title at the ITU Triathlon World Championships in 2009 and 2010. Triathlon Australia named her athlete of the year in 2007 and 2012. At the London 2012 Olympics she did not finish after a heavy fall on the bike, and at the 2014 Commonwealth Games she won bronze in the mixed relay.