RIVEROS Barbara

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Individual
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5
2012	London, GBR	16
2008	Beijing, CHN	25

World Triathlon Series - Overview

Year	Event	Standings	Three best ranks per season
2018	Individual Ranking	70th	1 x 33rd
2016	Individual Ranking	30th	1 x 5th, 1 x 6th, 1 x 38th
2015	Individual Ranking	11th	1 x 4th, 1 x 7th, 1 x 10th
2014	Individual Ranking	23rd	2 x 8th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 25th
2013	Individual Ranking	28th	1 x 8th, 2 x 13th, 1 x 31st
2012	Individual Ranking	4th	3 x 3rd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 9th
2011	Individual Ranking	5th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 3 x 5th
2010	Individual Ranking	11th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th
2009	Individual Ranking	25th	1 x 5th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 18th

World Triathlon Series - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2011	Sprint	World Triathlon Championship Series	Lausanne, SUI	58:35
1	2010	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Sydney, NSW, AUS	2:04:19
2	2011	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Sydney, NSW, AUS	2:01:23
2	2010	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Seoul, KOR	2:01:02
3	2012	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Finals	Auckland, NZL	2:11:01
3	2012	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Madrid, ESP	2:06:40
3	2012	Sprint	World Triathlon Championship Series	Stockholm, SWE	1:00:55
4	2015	Sprint	World Triathlon Championship Series	Abu Dhabi, UAE	59:37
4	2012	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Kitzbuhel, AUT	2:05:45
5	2016	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Leeds, GBR	2:02:15
5	2011	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Hamburg, GER	1:54:32
5	2011	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Kitzbuhel, AUT	2:06:41
5	2011	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Madrid, ESP	2:04:43
5	2009	Individual	World Triathlon Championship Series	Hamburg, GER	1:58:03

Pan American Games

Year	Location	Individual
2019	Lima, PER	5

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Individual	Sprint
2021	-	1 x 7th
2020	-	1 x 8th
2019	-	1 x 6th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 15th
2018	1 x 4th, 1 x 9th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2018	Sprint	World Cup	Salinas, ECU	58:37
4	2018	Individual	World Cup	Lausanne, SUI	2:07:16
4	2018	Sprint	World Cup	Tongyeong, KOR	1:00:03
6	2019	Sprint	World Cup	New Plymouth, NZL	1:04:03
7	2021	Sprint	World Cup	Arzachena, ITA	1:01:52
8	2020	Sprint	World Cup	Mooloolaba, QLD, AUS	58:41
9	2019	Sprint	World Cup	Mooloolaba, QLD, AUS	58:49
9	2018	Individual	World Cup	Karlovy Vary, CZE	2:10:30
15	2019	Sprint	World Cup	Lima, PER	1:00:02

Legend
X - Mixed, IP - In Progress, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Chicka (fechitri.cl, 20 Mar 2020; latercera.com, 10 Jan 2016)

Spending time in nature. (Instagram profile, 03 Jul 2021)

Athlete

Nutrition - University of Chile, Santiago, CHI

English, Spanish

Tri Val de Gray [France]

She was a Chilean junior national champion in mountain biking and cross-country for two consecutive years. (fechitri.cl, 20 Mar 2020)

She fractured a rib after falling from her bike during the 2021 World Series event in Yokohama, Japan. She did not finish the race, but was able to compete at the World Cup event in Arzachena, Italy, two weeks later. (latercera.com, 19 Jun 2021)

She started competing in triathlon at age eight, and first competed internationally at age 12. (fechitri.cl, 20 Mar 2020; barbarariveros.cl, 19 Jun 2008)

Her father encouraged her to start jogging from a young age and would take her and her brother along with him. (barbarariveros.cl, 19 Jun 2008)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. After the Games, she plans to compete in long-distance triathlons and to develop a youth training centre in Pucon, Chile. (Instagram profile, 27 Jun 2021; latercera.com, 19 Jun 2021)

US triathlete Mark Allen. (barbarariveros.cl, Jul 2012)

"My role is to compete to give people joy and send a message. I think that being small as I am, maybe it would have been harder to earn respect if I had to talk my way through it, but in sport you don't have to talk. My performances and my philosophy speak by itself." (barbarariveros.cl, Jul 2012)

In 2015 she was named Best Athlete of Chile by the Chilean Olympic Committee. (emol.com, 04 Dec 2015)

She won a 2011 National Sport Award in Chile. (barbarariveros.cl, 01 Dec 2011)