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    Q&A SWISS PRECISION NICOLA SPIRIG

    Nov 26, 2021 4 minutes
    Interview Liz Barrett

    Nicola Spirig: GOAT? The 39-year-old Swiss star faces some tough competition among the pantheon of multisporting greats, but for one-day feats of endurance she has to be in with a shout. The mother-of-three and qualified lawyer has competed at five Olympic Games since she started ITU racing in 1998, aged 16. In Athens she finished 19th, Beijing sixth, London first, Rio second and Tokyo sixth. In that time, she’s also won six European standard-distance titles and her first Ironman on debut. This year alone she’s finished second in the 10,000m at the Swiss National Athletics Champs and won the European Middle-Distance Champs in June. It begs the question: how does she do it…?

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