Kristian Blummenfelt

Kristian Blummenfelt, born on 14 February 1994, is a Norwegian triathlete, Olympic and world champion, who races at short course, 70.3 and Ironman distances. He won the gold medal in the men's triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo and is the 2021 Ironman World Champion, at the first world championship held at St George, Utah, on 7 May 2022. On 5 June 2022 he became the first person to complete an Ironman-distance triathlon in under seven hours, in 6 hours 44 minutes 25 seconds, at the Sub7 Sub8 Project at the Lausitzring in Germany. He set the world record for the 70.3 distance of 3 hours 29 minutes 4 seconds in 2018 and bettered it in 2019 with 3 hours 25 minutes 21 seconds.