Melanie Burke is an athlete from New Zealand. She has been a national champion or New Zealand representative in rowing, road running, cycling, duathlon, and Ironman triathlon.[1]

Burke grew up on a farm in near Whanganui, New Zealand. She moved to Auckland in 2001.[2]

In her early sports career Burke specialised in rowing. By age 24, she had placed fourth and fifth in the coxless fours at consecutive world championships. She was invited to trial for the 2004 Summer Olympics team, however in the absence of a coxless fours event, she decided to move into athletics and running instead.[1]

Burke ran, and won, a number of marathons before Bike New Zealand approached her to trial as a road cyclist. Burke was immediately successful, but, because she didn't want to travel overseas for cycling events, she changed her focus again, to multisports.[1]

In 2011 Burke competed in the ITU Powerman Long Distance Duathlon World Championships in Switzerland and won the event.[3] In 2012 she competed again, finishing seventh.[4] In 2013 she won the New Zealand national women's duathlon title.[4] In 2014 she competed in the World Ironman Triathlon Championships in Kona, Hawai`i.[1]

DateEventPositionTime
Jan 2013IRONMAN 70.3 Auckland144:50:12
Mar 2013IRONMAN New Zealand610:09:02
Sep 2013IRONMAN 70.3 Sunshine Coast54:38:24
Nov 2013IRONMAN 70.3 Mandurah74:27:28
Dec 2013IRONMAN Western Australia59:27:08
Jan 2014IRONMAN 70.3 Auckland94:42:24
Mar 2014IRONMAN New Zealand89:51:41
May 2014IRONMAN Australia39:32:53
Jun 2014IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Cairns29:22:53
Aug 2014IRONMAN Mont-Tremblant59:54:21
Oct 2014IRONMAN World Championship269:54:04
Jan 2015IRONMAN 70.3 Auckland64:42:12
Mar 2015IRONMAN New Zealand39:41:51
Oct 2015IRONMAN 70.3 Port Macquarie74:43:42
Dec 2015IRONMAN 70.3 Taupo84:41:35
Feb 2016IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong124:41:16
Mar 2016IRONMAN New Zealand119:49:12
May 2016IRONMAN Australia39:56:54
Feb 2018IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong54:34:47
May 2018IRONMAN Australia29:29:50
Jun 2018IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Cairns59:12:31
Jul 2018IRONMAN Switzerland79:38:51
Oct 2018IRONMAN World Championship239:25:02
Mar 2019IRONMAN New Zealand69:41:36
May 2019IRONMAN Australia49:26:54

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Taylor, Phil (4 October 2014). "Triathlon: Superwoman and Ironman". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Melanie Burke". www.horleys.com. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Melanie Burke: NZ World Champion". Totally Tri: New Zealand Triathlon. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  4. 1 2 Union, International Triathlon. "Triathlon.org". Triathlon.org. Retrieved 4 March 2018.


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