Paula Findlay

Paula Findlay is a Canadian triathlete from Edmonton, Alberta, born in 1989, whose career has run in two distinct chapters. As a short-distance racer she took third place in the under-23 women race at the 2009 world championship grand final in Gold Coast, won the first three World Championship Series events of 2011 and was ranked first in the world by the International Triathlon Union. A hip injury then interrupted her season, and she finished 52nd in the triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She returned to the sport in 2018 as a longer-distance specialist and won the Ironman 70.3 North American Championships that year. Later victories include Challenge Daytona in 2019 and 2020, Ironman 70.3 Oceanside in 2021 and Ironman 70.3 Mont-Tremblant in 2024, and she also won Canadian national time trial cycling titles.