Taylor Knibb (born February 14, 1998) is an American
triathlete who is the 2022 and 2023
Women's Ironman 70.3 World Champion. She competed in the
women's event at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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, held in Tokyo in 2021, finishing sixteenth. Later that same Olympics, she won a silver medal in the
mixed relay event. Knibb is the youngest woman ever to qualify for the US Olympic triathlon team.
Knibb earned her spot on the Olympic team after she won gold in the season opener of the 2021
World Triathlon Championship Series
The World Triathlon Championship Series is World Triathlon's annual series of triathlon events used to crown an annual world champion since 2008. There are multiple rounds of competitions culminating in a Grand Final race. Athletes compete head- ...
, held on May 15, 2021, in
Yokohoma, Japan.
In October 2022 Knibb won the
Women's Ironman 70.3 World Championship, held in
St George, Utah. One year later, Knibb successfully defended her title, winning the Ironman 70.3 World championship for the second year in a row.
Knibb began participating in triathlons as a young girl, inspired by watching her mother, Leslie Knibb, compete in the
Ironman triathlon
An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a swim, a bicycle ride and a marathon run completed in that order, a total of . It is widely consider ...
. She joined the national team in 2017, and remains the youngest athlete on the team.
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1998 births
Living people
American female triathletes
Olympic triathletes for the United States
Triathletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in triathlon
21st-century American women