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BACKGROUND:
Paula’s introduction to the sport of triathlon began first as a swimmer which she been doing since she was 10 years old. She added the running component to her skillset during high school when she joined a track club at age 15. Paula tried her first triathlon a few years later and has been hooked ever since.

Her development in the sport has been steady, and she wasted little time in making a statement to the world about her arrival onto the international scene. In her first competitive season in 2006, she competed at the World Junior Championships and made Canada’s Junior squad in both the 2007 and 2008 seasons where her best international performance was a sixth-place finish. Paula won the junior and senior national championships in 2008. She took another major step forward in 2009 when she finished third at the Under-23 World Championships.

But Paula’s official entrance onto the world stage came three years ago on the 2012 Olympic course at the historic Hyde Park in London, England. 

Paula shocked the world becoming the first Canadian triathlete to win a World Triathlon Series event. She then matched that performance and was the only woman athlete to win back-to-back in 2010 when she hopped onto the top step of the podium at the next race in Kitzbuhel, Austria. The Edmontonian carried her success into the pre-Olympic season where she won the first three World Championship Series races of the season.

Paula battled back from a nagging hip injury to achieve her Olympic dream when she hit start line in London last summer in a heart-breaking race where she courageously fought her way to the finish.

With her first taste of the Olympics now stored in her memory bank, Paula is now healthy and regaining her fitness in the long rebuild to elite form both mentally and physically.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
• 2012 Olympian
• First Canadian athlete to win a World Championship Series event, and only woman to win back-to-back in 2010
• Won gold medal at 2011 World Championship Series event in Sydney, Australia
• Won gold medal at 2011 World Championship Series event in Kitzbuhel, Austria
• Won gold medal at 2011 World Championship Series event in Madrid, Spain
• Won gold medal at 2010 World Championship Series event in London, England
• Won gold medal at 2010 World Championship Series event in Kitzbuhel, Austria
• Finished fifth at 2010 World Championship Series Grand Final in Budapest, Hungary
• Won gold medal at 2010 World Cup in Monterrey, Mexico
• Won 2010 Canadian Championships
• Won bronze medal at 2009 Under-23 World Championships
• Won the 2008 Junior, Under-23 and Senior Canadian Triathlon Championships in 2008
• Finished ninth at 2008 World Junior Triathlon Championships
• Won 2009 ITU Premium Pan Am Cup in Coteau-du-lac
• Won the Junior PATCO Triathlon Championships in 2007
• Finished sixth at the World Junior Triathlon Championships 2007
• Winner of the 2006 Canadian Junior Triathlon Development Series
• Finished 23rd at the World Junior Cross-Country Championships in 2008
• Finished second at the CIS National University Championships in 2008  (Cross country & 3000m)

2012 Results:
2012 – Olympic Summer Games, London, England: 52

2011 RESULTS:
2011 – World Cup, Mooloolaba, Australia: 4
2011 – World Championship Series, Sydney, Australia: 1
2011 – World Championship Series, Kitzbuhel, Austria: 1
2011 – World Championship Series, Madrid, Spain: 1
2011 – Pan American Cup, Kelowna, B.C.: 2
2011 – World Championship Series, London, England: 29
2011 – World Championship Series Grand Final, Beijing, China: DNF

2010 Results:
2010 – World Cup, Monterrey, Mexico: 1
2010 – World Cup, Des Moines, Iowa: 4
2010 – Canada Cup, Coteau du Lac, Que.: 1
2010 – World Championship Series, London, England: 1
2010 – World Championship Series, Kitzbuhel, Austria: 1
2010 – Canadian Championships, Kelowna, B.C.: 1
2010 – World Championship Series Grand Final, Budapest, Hungary: 5

2009 Results:
2009 – ITU Premium Pan Am Cup, Coteau-du-lac: 1
2009 – World Cup, Des Moines, U.S.A.: DNF
2009 – World Championship Series, Kitzbuhel, Austria: 16
2009 – World Championship Series, Hamburg, Germany: 15
2009 – National Championships, Kelowna, B.C.: 3
2009 – Under-23 World Championships, Gold Coast, Australia: 3

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