August Rising Star: Lucy Chittenden
Age: 19 From: Fleet Sport: Triathlon
In a month when 16 SportsAid athletes and 77 SportsAid supporters competed in the London Triathlon, we focus on the recent successes of the 19-year-old, rising triathlon star Lucy Chittenden from Fleet in Hampshire.
In June she won the Bleinheim leg of the British Triathlon Youth and Junior Super following a great run of results this year. This leaves her top of the junior women's rankings alongside her arch rival, and fellow SportsAid junior triathlete, Lucy Smith, who came in a close second behind Chittenden at the Blenheim event.
“To achieve all this has been hard, time consuming and, for someone about to start university, financially challenging,” Lucy told SportsAid between races this month.
Earlier in the year, after coming second in the British Elite Junior Duathlon Championships in Loughborough, she was selected to represent Great Britain for the first time at the 2010 Athlone ETU Triathlon European Championships in Ireland. She did not disappoint, and once again showed her potential by taking a silver medal in 1 hour, 2 minutes and 45 seconds.
"This has been a real breakthrough year,” Lucy said. “I was overjoyed with a silver in the European Junior Championships and have really set my sights on the World Junior Championships in September.
“In the meantime I'm also racing at a senior level in the European Cup in Geneva and representing GB at the World Senior Sprint Championships in Lausanne. Not only that but I'm now the South East Road Race champion!
“I want to thank SportsAid for helping me in my quest. Their grant has gone towards a race wetsuit, race shoes, training, nutrition, travel, race entries and what seem like a million other little things which have all added up to make me the best I can be."
Lucy has been supported by the Dave Aitchinson fund for the past two years through SportsAid.
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