Sarah True

Sarah True, born Sarah Groff on 27 November 1981 and raised in Cooperstown, New York, is an American triathlete who swam for Middlebury College before turning to triathlon. She began racing for the International Triathlon Union in 2005 and won the 2007 ITU Aquathlon World Championships. In 2011 she took third at the Kitzbühel round of the World Championship Series, the first podium finish for an American woman in the series, and at the 2012 Olympic Games she finished fourth, ten seconds behind the bronze medal and the highest American in the race. She won her first World Triathlon Series race in Stockholm in 2014 and ended that series second overall. She returned to the Olympics in 2016 but withdrew after a leg cramp, and after the Games she focused on long-distance racing, finishing fourth at the Ironman World Championship in 2018. She is married to the runner Ben True and is the sister of the writer Lauren Groff.