Groff Daughter Wins Berth

For 2016 Triathlon In Rio

Cooperstown Olympian Sarah Groff – now Sarah True – and her London Games teammate Gwen Jorgensen today became the first U.S. triathletes to make the 2016 Olympic team with fourth- and first-place finishes respectively at the ITU World Olympic Qualification Event in Rio de Janeiro.

Next summer’s Games will also be in Rio, and True and Jorgensen will be looking to become the second and third Americans to win an Olympic triathlon medal, joining Susan Williams, who took bronze at Athens 2004. Triathlon debuted at the Sydney 2000 Games, according to a report on NBC’s OlympicTalk.

In 2012, True – the daughter of Jeannine and Gerald Groff of Cooperstown married U.S. distance runner Ben True last year – finished fourth in the London Games.  Jorgensen finished a disappointing 38th after her bike got a flat tire.