Jo-Anne Ritchie
(Athlete Category)
Jo-Anne Ritchie’s run to success in the early 1990s helped grow the sport of triathlon in Canada. She captured the World Championship in 1991 in Australia and followed that performance with a second and third place showing at the next two World Triathlon Championships. Jo-Anne was the overall World Cup points champion in 1993. She was the first inductee into the Triathlon Canada Hall of Fame and is also enshrined in the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.
• First place: 1991 World Triathlon Championships (Australia)
• First place: 1991 Canadian Triathlon Championships (Muskoka, ON)
• First place: 1992 Canadian Triathlon Championships (Kelowna, BC)
• Second place: 1992 World Triathlon Championships (Muskoka, ON)
• Third place: 1993 World Triathlon Championships (England)
• First inductee into Triathlon Canada Hall of Fame (February 2000)
• Inducted into B.C. Sports Hall of Fame (2001)
• Retired, 1996
