Mary Beth Ellis

Mary Beth Ellis is a retired American long-distance triathlete, born on 12 July 1977. She holds the record for the fastest iron-distance race by an American woman, set at Ironman Austria in 2011 with a time of 8:43:34. She is the 2015 ITU Long Distance Triathlon champion and took second place at both the 2008 and the 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. USA Triathlon named her its Non-Olympic and ITU Female Athlete of the Year for both 2011 and 2012, which placed her among the leading American women of the long-course era of the sport.