Triathlete Flora Jane baggs first gold medal in Tokyo Olympics for Bermuda

Bermuda: Flora Jane Duffy, triathlete of Bermuda island, has made history on Tuesday by winning a gold medal in women's triathlon in Tokyo Olympics. This is Bermuda's first-ever gold medal in Olympics.

Bermuda island's only previous Olympic medallist was boxer Clarence Hill, who won a bronze medal in the Olympic games of 1976.

Flora Jane won the ITU World Triathlon Series World Champion in the year 2016 and 2017. She is also the winner of the - 2015 & 2016 ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion and a 5-time winner (2014-2017, 2019) of the XTERRA World Championships.

Flora Jane also competed for Bermuda at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro & at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she has won gold.

In the achievement list of Flora Jane, she has also bagged a gold medal in 2018 April at the XXI Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. She also won the women's sprint triathlon by a 43-second lead and became the first female Commonwealth gold medalist of Bermuda island.

Flora Jane is the only one to win 3 triathlon world titles in the same year in 2016, bagging the - WTS, ITU Cross Triathlon and Xterra titles in close succession.

She is also the only triathlete in the history of WTS to post the - fastest swim, bike and run portions in the same race. The triathlete of Bermuda also holds the record for the most significant winning margin in both the Olympic and Sprint distance races in a WTS event. Despite this, after winning the inaugural WTS Bermuda in April 2018, she launched the Flora Fund in hopes to empower youth in Bermuda to pursue their potential, eventually contributing to a healthier, more ambitious community.

Additionally, in the year 2018 Birthday Honours, Flora Jane was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire - OBE for her services to sports in Bermuda.