Leanda Cave - World Champion Triathlete

Victory Over Injury Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Michael Ryan takes a deep dive into the life, career and experience of Leanda Cave, World Champion Triathlete.

Leanda began competing in triathlons in 1993 as a 14 year old. From that early age, Leanda found pleasure and strength in pushing herself to the limit in a multidisciplinary sport, and form that point experienced a progressively ascendant trajectory in her career, eventually landing her as one of the greatest athletes to ever compete in the sport of triathlon.

Leanda won the European U23 Championship in 2001 and from the moment, she continued to amass accolades and improve as a triathlete. She won the Olympic distance world title in 2002, and eventually progressed into longer distance Ironman races. Her first Ironman victory came in 2012 in Arizona. Only a few months after that, she capped off an incredible racing year by winning Ironman 70.3 World Championship and the Ironman World Championship only 5 weeks apart, becoming only the second human and first woman to complete "The Double" by winning both world championships in the same year.

She continued to accumulate wins after this and completed her racing career in 2018, solidifying herself as a future hall of fame triathlete.