Brigitte McMahon-Huber (born 25 March 1967 in Baar) is an athlete from Switzerland, who competed in triathlon.
McMahon competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal with a total time of 2:00:40.52, which until 2008 was the fastest time for a female in an Olympic triathlon. Her split times were 19:44.58 for the swim, 1:05:42.30 for the cycling and 0:35:13.64 for the run.
McMahon-Huber competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing tenth with a total time of 2:07:07.73.
McMahon tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) during an out of competition control in June 2005. She maintains that she did not take any doping until well after the 2004 Athens Olympics where she came 10th and that she did it for therapeutic reasons only. After the positive test she was immediately removed from the Swiss national team and was facing a two-year ban from triathlon. As a consequence she retired from the sport.
Brigitte McMahon is a teacher at Kollegi Schwyz.
BrigitteMcMahon-Huber (born 25 March 1967 in Baar) is an athlete from Switzerland, who competed in triathlon. McMahon competed at the first Olympic triathlon...
be contested during the Sydney Games, and crowned Swiss triathlete BrigitteMcMahon as the first Olympic champion, over the heavy-favorite Australians...
Ludwig von Moos 16 March – Heidi Zurbriggen, alpine skier 25 March – BrigitteMcMahon, triathlete 7 August – Albert Rösti, politician 14 January – Hans Walter...
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the women's race. Set in the surroundings of the Sydney Opera House, BrigitteMcMahon representing Switzerland swam, cycled and ran to the first gold medal...
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Laciga), professional wrestling (Claudio Castagnoli), and triathlon (BrigitteMcMahon, Reto Hug, Sven Riederer, Nicola Spirig, Daniela Ryf). In cycling,...
a total time of 2:00:42.55, only two seconds behind gold medalist BrigitteMcMahon. Her split times were 19:43.88 for the swim, 1:05:32.90 for the cycling...
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win a second gold medal in Olympic triathlon after Spirig followed BrigitteMcMahon (a gold medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics) in becoming an Olympic...
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