Lucy Gossage

In April 2012, Gossage won the European Women's duathlon title,^[1] and she retained the title in 2013,^[2] as well as finishing the Powerman Duathlon World Series in second place in 2012.^[3] Aged 34, she decided to become a full-time Ironman Triathlon competitor.^[4] She won her first Ironman event in 2013 in the United Kingdom, and later in the year won the Wales Ironman event;^[5] that year, she won the British Triathlon Federation award for female Long Distance Triathlete of the Year.^[4] Her other victories in Ironman Triathlons have been in 2014 in Lanzarote, and in the UK in 2015 and 2016.^[5][6][7] She qualified for the 2016 Ironman World Championship,^[8] and finished ninth, despite breaking her collarbone eight weeks prior to the race.^[9] Gossage retired from professional sport to focus on her job;^[10] 2020 was scheduled to be her last year.^[11]

She has since pursued ultra running, coming third in her debut entry of the 268-mile Montane Winter Spine Race in 2024,^[12] and winning the race in 2025.^[13]

Gossage studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, with her PhD focusing on kidney cancer, and she is a trained cancer doctor.^[4][8] Gossage started working as a specialist registrar in 2009, and as of 2020, she worked as an oncology consultant at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.^[11] From 2014 to 2016, she took two years away from her academic career to focus on her sports career.^[11]