Ryan Bolton is an athlete from the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. He competed in cross country, swimming and track for Campbell County High School

Campbell County High School (Gillette, Wyoming)

Campbell County High School is a public secondary institution located in Gillette, Wyoming.-Community Background:Gillette is located in Northern Campbell County, in the Northeast corner of Wyoming. It is located on the plains between the Black Hills of South Dakota and the Big Horn Mountains of...

 in Gillette, Wyoming

Gillette, Wyoming

Gillette is a city in and the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 29,087 in 2010. Gillette is a city centrally located in an area involved with the development of vast quantities of American coal, oil, and coal bed methane gas...

. He ran cross country and track for the University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...

. He now competes in triathlon

Triathlon

A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...

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Bolton competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

. He took twenty-fifth place with a total time of 1:50:52.95. Bolton won the 2002 Ironman Triathlon

Ironman Triathlon

An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation consisting of a swim, a bike and a marathon run, raced in that order and without a break...

 at Lake Placid. Bolton was coached by Joe Friel

Joe Friel

Joe Friel is an endurance sports coach best known as an elite triathlon and cycling coach as well as the author of The Triathlete's Training Bible, The Cyclist's Training Bible, The Mountain Biker's Training Bible, Going Long: Training for Ironman-Distance Triathlons, and Your First Triathlon.Friel...

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Bolton now coaches a group of elite runners in Santa Fe, NM with the Harambee Track Club.

External links

• Ryan Bolton at ITU's Triathlon.org