Kenny Souza is an American

duathlete Duathlon is an athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format similar to triathlons. The International Triathlon Union governs the sport internationally. Distance and format ...

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Born in 1964 or 1965 and raised in

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, Kenny Souza began his sporting career as a

triathlete A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the d ...

before moving to the duathlon. During the 1980s and 1990s he was US duathlon champion eight times, world duathlon champion once, and also, because of his photogenic appearance, the most prominent athlete in the sport. His greatest successes came in 1990, when he won the first

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Duathlon World Championship and also won the

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. In 1999 he withdrew from competition after receiving a three-year suspension, retroactive to 1998, for starting without a valid license. In the following years he worked as a representative of the sports nutrition manufacturer

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. Souza returned to the duathlon in 2005 and since then has participated in several long-haul and ultra-long-distance racing events, such as the 2006

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