Kate Allen (triathlete)

Kate Allen, born on 25 April 1970 in Geelong, Australia, is an Australian-Austrian triathlete who won the gold medal in the women's triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She grew up on a sheep-farming property at Teesdale, Victoria, trained as a nurse at Ballarat University and began triathlon in 1996 after meeting the Austrian triathlete Marcel Diechtler, whom she married in 1999. She received Austrian citizenship in 2002 and started racing in the World Cup. At Athens she was 44th of 51 after the swim and 28th after the bike, then overtook 27 competitors on the run, passing the Australian leader Loretta Harrop about 150 metres from the finish.