Carolyn Hayes recorded 17 podiums and seven wins across her World Triathlon career, and represented Ireland in the women's triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where she finished 23rd.
She reached those Games on the back of a breakthrough season, taking silver at the World Triathlon Cup in Lisbon in May 2021 and placing 10th at WTCS Leeds the following month in only her third World Triathlon Championship Series race. Her first World Cup podium had come two years earlier, with silver in Nur-Sultan in 2019.
She came to elite triathlon while studying medicine at the University of Limerick, and in 2018 put her career as a full-time doctor on hold to pursue Olympic qualification.
She is from Newcastle West, County Limerick.
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