Lucy Gossage (born 25 December 1979) is a British doctor and former

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and

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, who currently works at

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. As an athlete, Gossage competed in

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events, was twice European duathlon champion, and won multiple Ironman Triathlon events.

Sports career

In April 2012, Gossage won the European Women's

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title, and she retained the title in 2013, finishing the

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World Series in second place in 2012. Aged 34, she decided to become a full-time

competitor. She won her first Ironman event in 2013 in the

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, and later in the year won the

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Ironman event; that year, she won the

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award for female Long Distance Triathlete of the Year. Her other victories in Ironman Triathlons have been in 2014 in

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, and in the UK in 2015 and 2016. She qualified for the 2016

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, and finished ninth, despite breaking her

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eight weeks prior to the race. Gossage retired from professional sport to focus on her job; 2020 was scheduled to be her last year.

Academic career

Gossage studied medicine at the

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, with her

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focusing on

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, and she is a trained cancer doctor. Gossage started working as a

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in 2009, and now works as an oncology

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. From 2014 to 2016, she took two years away from her academic career to focus on her sports career.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gossage, Lucy 1979 births Living people British female triathletes Alumni of the University of Cambridge 21st-century British medical doctors British oncologists Women oncologists Duathletes