Kristian Blummenfelt is a Norwegian triathlete and Olympian, competing at both short course and 70.3 distance. He is the current world record holder for the 70.3 distance, setting a time of 3:29:04 in 2018 and both repeating the feat and bettering his own mark in 2019 with a time of 3:25:21. This was the third victory for him in as many years at the Ironman 70.3 Middle East Championships held in Bahrain. Despite competing in the ITU World Triathlon Series for a number of years, his highest finish was second place until the 31st August 2019 when he took the gold at the Grand Final in Lausanne. Notably, he was part of a 1-2-3 Norwegian finish at WTS Bermuda in 2018, finishing second to his compatriot Casper Stornes and ahead of their third team mate Gustav Iden. This was the first time this feat had been achieved in the ITU. A similar feat was achieved at the 70.3 Middle East Championships in Bahrain in 2018, with Blummenfelt finishing first ahead of Iden with Stornes in third place. As a track runner, he represented the clubs Fana IL and TIF Viking and competed in the junior race at the 2011 European Cross Country Championships. In the triathlon he won a bronze medal at the 2015 European Championships and placed 13th at the 2016 Olympics. Blummenfelt trains up to eight hours a day, swimming up to 45 km, cycling about 400 km and running up to 120 km per week.
2020 Season
Due to the events of the Covid-19 outbreak the 2020 World Triathlon Series was put on hold with no races being contested at the time of writing.
2019 Season
Blummenfelt achieved his first career gold at ITU World Triathlon Series level at the Grand Final in Lausanne on the 31st August. He finished the year with an ITU WTS ranking of 10th overall, capping off a year where he failed to make the podium in any other ITU WTS races, and registered a DNF three times. He raced the 70.3 Ironman Middle East Championships for the third year running, beating his previous world record time to win and set a new mark of 3:25:21.
2018 Season
In the ITU WTS, Blummenfelt achieved 4 podium places with three silvers and a bronze, together with registering two DNFs at Yokohama and Abu Dhabi. He finished the season ranking 5th overall in the ITU WTS. He raced the 70.3 Ironman Middle East Championships for the second year running, finished in the top spot and in doing so set a new world record for the distance of 3:29:04
2017 Season
Blummenfelt achieved 3 silvers, a bronze and registered one DNF in the ITU WTS, He finished the season ranking 3rd overall in the ITU WTS, a career-best placing in the competition to date. He raced the 70.3 Ironman Middle East Championships for the first time and finished in the top spot, registering a time of 3:40:24.
