Catriona ("Cat") Morrison MBE (born 11 January 1977, in

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) is a

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and

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of Scottish origin.

Career

In 2005, she won the silver medal at the ITU Duathlon World Championships. In 2006, she followed this up with gold and took another silver medal at the Long Distance Duathlon World Championships. In 2007, she took the bronze medal at the Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in

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. She won the World

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Long Distance Championships in 2007 and 2008. In 2010 in Edinburgh she took gold for a second time at the Duathlon World Championships in a time of 2:02:48. Catriona's triathlon career wins include numerous

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events including St Croix (4 times), UK, Galveston and Ironman titles including Ironman Texas and Ironman Lanzarote where she famously battled back from a 45min mechanical to win the event. Catriona retired from professional triathlon and duathlon in January 2015. Since then she has completed the prestigious Saltire Fellowship - a fast track entrepreneurial programme based in Scotland and at

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in Boston. She is a lay member of court at the

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. Catriona is an athlete role model for "Winning Scotland Foundation" visiting schools and junior sports clubs to encourage, inspire and motivate young people through sport. In the

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, Morrison was appointed

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(MBE) for services to Sport and voluntary service in Scotland.United Kingdom: Catriona is co-founder of "Everactiv"Everactiv website
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a sports clothing brand for young people whose philosophy is to empower, motivate and inspire young people to be physically active.

References

External links

Catriona Morrison official website
1977 births Living people Scottish female triathletes Duathletes Sportspeople from Glasgow Members of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-triathlon-bio-stub