Andrea Whitcombe

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| nationality = British (English)

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|6|8|df=yes}}

| birth_place = London, England

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| sport = Athletics

| event = Long-distance

| height = 164 cm

| weight = 47 kg

| club = Parkside Harrow AC

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Andrea Whitcombe (born 8 June 1971) is a female former British International distance runner and triathlete.

Athletics career

Whitcombe won the English National Cross Country Championships three times (1990, 1991, 1997) and competed at the World Cross Country Championships seven times.

Whitcombe became the British 5,000 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships titles at the 1997 AAA Championships{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19970826/020/0020 |title=Athletics |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=26 August 1997 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 April 2025 }} and 1998 AAA Championships.{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=30 March 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=30 March 2025 }}

Whitcombe won a silver medal in the 5000 metres representing England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kuala-lumpur-1998/athletes|title=1998 Athletes|website=Team England}}{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3044/19/all|title=England team in 1998|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-date=30 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330125318/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3044/19/all|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40834|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}} and represented Great Britain in the same event at the 2000 Summer Olympics, before switching to the triathlon in 2001.{{cite web|url=http://wts.triathlon.org/athletes/profile/5424/andrea_whitcombe |work=ITU World Triathlon Series |title=Andrea Whitcombe |accessdate=17 December 2015}}

Triathlon career

She finished in the top 10 at the World Triathlon Championships three times, and was the 2004 British Olympic reserve. In 2005, she won a bronze medal at the World Duathlon Championships, and won the ITU Triathlon World Cup event in Corner Brook, Canada.

International competitions

{{AchievementTable\|Event=yes}}
colspan=6\|Representing {{GBR2}} / {{ENG}}
1989 \|World Cross Country Championships (junior women) \|Stavanger, Norway \|14th \|4 km \|16:22
rowspan=2\|1990 \|World Cross Country Championships (junior women) \|Aix-les-Bains, France \|29th \|4.4 km \|15:02
World Junior Championships \|Plovdiv, Bulgaria \|4th \|3000 m \|9:13.81
1991 \|World Cross Country Championships \|Antwerp, Belgium \|104th \|6.4 km \|22:44
1993 \|World Cross Country Championships \|Amorebieta, Spain \|110th \|6.4 km \|22:05
1996 \|World Cross Country Championships \|Cape Town, South Africa \|64th \|6.4 km \|22:14
1997 \|World Cross Country Championships \|Parco del Valentino, Italy \|104th \|6.6 km \|23:23
1998 \|Commonwealth Games \|Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia \|bgcolor=silver\|2nd \|5000 m \|15:56.85
1999 \|World Cross Country Championships (short race) \|Belfast, Northern Ireland \|45th \|4.2 km \|16:37
2000 \|Olympic Games \|Sydney, Australia \|41st (h) \|5000 m \|16:15.82
colspan=6\| Triathlon / Duathlon
rowspan=2\|2003 \|European Triathlon Championships \|Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic \|4th \|— \|
World Triathlon Championships \|Queenstown, New Zealand \|6th \|— \|2:09:17
rowspan=2\|2005 \|World Triathlon Championships \|Gamagori, Japan \|7th \|— \|2:01:08
World Duathlon Championships \|Newcastle, Australia \|bgcolor=cc9966\|3rd \|— \|
rowspan=3\|2006 \|Commonwealth Games \|Melbourne, Australia \|7th \|— \|2:09
European Triathlon Championships \|Autun, France \|4th \|— \|
World Triathlon Championships \|Lausanne, Switzerland \|6th \|— \|2:05:46
2007 \|European Triathlon Championships \|Copenhagen, Denmark \|4th \|— \|2:03:29

colspan=6|Representing {{GBR2}} / {{ENG}}

1989

|World Cross Country Championships (junior women)

|Stavanger, Norway

|14th

|4 km

|16:22

rowspan=2|1990

|World Cross Country Championships (junior women)

|Aix-les-Bains, France

|29th

|4.4 km