Lyn Lemaire

Eleanor Lynette Lemaire, known as Lyn Lemaire, is an American former triathlete and championship cyclist, born on 6 July 1951 in Santa Monica, California. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in biochemistry from UCLA in 1974 and won the US national 25 mile time trial championship in 1976 and 1977. In January 1979 she was the only woman among the 15 starters of the second Hawaii Ironman and finished fifth overall in 12:55:38, which made her the first woman to complete the race and, as the only woman entered, its first female winner. She entered Harvard Law School that September and in 1984 founded Ultrasport magazine, becoming its editor in chief.