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British Triathlon can today announce that Zara Hyde Peters has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer.
Zara, the current Director of Athlete Development at UK Athletics, is a former elite endurance athlete who is still active in Masters competitions. Zara has held both elite performance and athlete development roles at UK Athletics in addition to being a Board Director as well as also sitting as a member on the UK Sports Council. She is ideally suited to running British Triathlon having acquired an MBA in addition to her prior experience in marketing and innovation in a global engineering and technology company.
On appointing Zara Hyde Peters, Dr Sarah Springman OBE, President of British Triathlon said: "We are thrilled that we have managed to attract Zara at this exciting time for our sport as we approach the Olympic Games in Beijing and look forward to London 2012. She is an ideal choice, both in supporting the performance team in bringing home Olympic medals as her team did successfully in Athens, and to work closely with our members, the Home Nations.”
Jem Lawson JP, Chairman of Triathlon England, added:“I am delighted by the appointment of Zara Hyde Peters; she has the experience and appreciation of the national and international sporting scenes, which will serve Triathlon England well in the next stage of our sports development. Zara is taking over at a key time, and has the business experience and acumen to lead the consolidation, development and delivery of member services in England.”
On accepting the appointment, Zara Hyde Peters said: “I am looking forward to the challenge offered by my new role as Chief Executive of British Triathlon. Leading an Olympic sport in the current British sporting climate is a fantastic opportunity; triathlon, with a fast growing participant base and some exciting young talent emerging is a vibrant and motivated sport.”
British Triathlon is pleased to have attracted such a high calibre individual to lead the sport following a professional lead search and recruitment process which was supported at several levels by UK Sport.
Zara will be taking up her position as from 1 March 2008.
About the British Triathlon Federation
The British Triathlon Federation is the National Governing Body for triathlon, the UK’s fastest growing sport. At elite level Great Britain boasts a strong squad of world ranked triathletes and duathletes who regularly achieve international success, and has some outstanding young talent emerging from its youth programmes. Since becoming an Olympic sport in 2000, British Triathlon has seen large annual membership increases and now totals over 11,000 members throughout its Home Nation Associations. There are over 600 triathlon events conducted in Great Britain each year including the Mazda London Triathlon, the largest triathlon event in the World.
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