Melanie McQuaid is a Canadian triathlete, born on 17 May 1973 and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. She swam in high school and ran at the University of Victoria, where she studied biochemistry and chemistry, then raced professionally in road cycling and mountain biking and rode her first World Cup in 1998. After missing the Canadian mountain bike team for the 2000 Olympics she moved into XTERRA off-road triathlon, where she has won more than forty races since 2001, including three XTERRA World Championships and the ITU Cross Triathlon World Championship in 2011 and 2017. She also races half-iron and Ironman 70.3 events and has about half a dozen wins at that distance. Triathlon Canada named her its female offroad triathlete of the year four times.
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she has won three XTERRA World Championships
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she has won three XTERRA World Championships as well as the ITU Cross Triathlon World Championship in 2011 and 2017
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McQuaid was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia
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