Michellie Jones

Michellie Jones, born on 6 September 1969, is an Australian triathlete who won the ITU Triathlon World Championships in 1992 and 1993 and the inaugural XTERRA Triathlon World Championships in 1996. She took the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, two seconds behind the gold medalist Brigitte McMahon. In 2006 she won the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, becoming the first Australian woman to do so. In 2016 she won a Paralympic gold medal as the guide of Katie Kelly in the women's PT5 event at Rio.