Hayley Bateup
Australian ironwoman
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Hayley Bateup is an Australian professional ironwoman, surf life saver and fire fighter. She won the Coolangatta Gold three times.[1]
Career
She joined the Nippers when she was 12.[2] She qualified for her first Ironwoman competition when she was 16.[3]
In 1998, Bateup won the Under 18 Ironwoman and Board Championships at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships at Kurrawa, and won both titles again in 2001.[4] In 2001, Bateup won the open Ironwoman.[5]
At the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships at Kurrawa, she won three silver medals in 2002. In 2003, she won two gold meals and two silver medals.[4] She was Australian board champion in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2009.[2]
In 2003, Bateup competed with three teammates to paddle from Florida to Cuba.[4] The 112-mile crossing on paddleboards took the team 25 hours and 44 minutes.[6]
Bateup appeared on the 2008 series of Australian Gladiators as 'Nitro'.[7]
She won her final Coolangatta Gold title in 2008, but was unable to compete in 2010 and during the 2010-2011 ironwoman season due shoulder and bicep surgery.[8] Bateup advocated to make the distance and prize money for women in the Coolangatta Gold the same as the men's.[1] Bateup stopped competing as a professional athlete in 2012.[9]
In 2012, she began Hayley Bateup's Body Blitz, a personal training business, with April Zekulich.[10] Bateup competed in the GC Celebrity Pro-Am in 2019.[11] In 2016, Bateup completed training with the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and was posted as a firefighter to Southport.[9]
