Desiree Ficker

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**Desirée Ficker**

Country	USA
Club	Tri Dubai
Date of birth	December 9, 1976 (1976-12-09) (age 31)^[1]
Place of birth	Potomac, MD
Height	5'7"
Titles
Highest World Ranking:	2nd Place, 2006 Hawaii Ironman World Championship

Desirée Ficker is a professional American triathlete. She competes for Tri Dubai triathlon team.

1 Personal life
2 Athletic History
3 Kailua-Kona Career
4 2008 Olympic Trials
5 Personal bests
6 External links
7 Notes

[edit] Personal life

Ficker was born in Potomac, Maryland to Annette and Robin Ficker. She has two younger brothers, Robby and Flynn. She currently resides in Austin, Texas with her puppy, Pandora. Outside of training, she likes snowboarding, shopping for vintage clothing, camping, sewing, photography, and reading.

[edit] Athletic History

Ficker began running with her father at a very young age. Her parents were big track and field fans. She traveled with her parents to places like France and Italy to go to track and field races. She started competing in the cross country/track and field Junior Olympics when she was nine. She continued running throughout high school and college but became interested in triathlon from watching Ironman Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. She bought her first triathlon bike in March of 1999 and qualified for Kailua-Kona that summer.

[edit] Kailua-Kona Career

In 1999 Ficker completed Kona with a time of 11:15, and 2nd in her age group. In 2000 she took home a time of 10:45, and 2nd in her age group again. In 2006, she came in 2nd place overall at Kona, behind Michellie Jones. In 2007, Ficker was diagnosed with strep throat before the race, but was feeling optimistic and started the race. Her swim time was 1:01:02. Her bike time was 5:14:30. Her marathon was 4:19:42. Overall, her time was 10:40:43. Her place was 643.

[edit] 2008 Olympic Trials

On 20 April 2008, Ficker competed in the Women's Marathon 2008 U.S. Olympic Team trials in Boston, racing for club ASICS. She finished but did not make the Olympic team, placing 79th out of 161 entrants in 2:48:11 (6:25/mile pace)^[2].