Joanna Zeiger

Joanna Sue Zeiger, born on 4 May 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American triathlete who grew up in San Diego and lives in Boulder, Colorado. She began in swimming; she and her sister Laurie represented the United States at the 1989 Maccabiah Games, where Joanna won a gold, a silver and two bronze medals, she later held school freestyle records at Brown University, and she earned a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2001. At the first Olympic triathlon, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, she placed fourth in 2:01:25.74, and the same year she finished fifth at the Ironman World Championship. She won Ironman Brasil in 2005 and Ironman Coeur d'Alene in 2006, became Ironman 70.3 world champion at Clearwater in 2008, and wrote The Champions Mindset, an athlete's guide to mental toughness.