Silvia Pepels

Silvia Maria Johannes Pepels, born on 6 January 1975 in Stein, in the Dutch province of Limburg, is an athlete from the Netherlands who competes in triathlon. She took part in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twenty sixth with a total time of 2:07:05.01. That appearance in the inaugural Olympic triathlon is the principal documented achievement of her career, which places her among the pioneering generation of Dutch women who raced the sport when it first entered the Olympic programme.