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Rachel Joyce

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Rachel Joyce is an English professional triathlete, born on 16 June 1978 in Mexico City and raised in Woodbridge, Suffolk. She read politics and law at the University of Birmingham, worked as a construction solicitor for the law firm Taylor Wessing in London, and resigned from the firm in 2008 to race professionally. She won the 2011 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships, Challenge Roth and the European Long Distance Triathlon Championship in 2012, Ironman Texas in 2013 and Ironman Mont Tremblant in 2017, and she finished second at the Ironman World Championship in 2013 and 2015. In 2013 she led the marathon before Mirinda Carfrae overtook her, and her finishing time was then the fifth fastest by a woman in the championship's history.

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Rachel Joyce (born 16 June 1978) is an English professional triathlete.
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    Rachel Joyce (born 16 June 1978) is an English professional triathlete.
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    She is the winner of the 2011 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships and the second-place finisher at the 2013 Ironman World Championship and 2015 Ironman World Championship.
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    She is the winner of the 2011 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships and the second-place finisher at the 2013 Ironman World Championship and 2015 Ironman World Championship.
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