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Edinburgh athlete to represent Team GB at Triathlon World Championships
02 September 2009
Corina Lunn, a Scottish Life employee, will be representing the Great Britain Age Group team at the Triathlon World Championships, which will be held on the Gold Coast in Australia this month.
Corina is an Analyst Programmer who works in the Customer Service Support team within Scottish Life projects.
Triathlon is a sport which Corina took up less than three years ago, although she has got a strong sporting background having represented Scotland in badminton and karate. Corina has been working with a coach since last summer in preparation for the event. Despite her training plans being disrupted by illness last winter, she still managed to shave 10 minutes off her personal best time in her last race, to achieve the Championship qualifying time.
Corina comments:
"The past few months have been tough, especially when it came to getting back to peak fitness, but I am really looking forward to representing Team GB in Australia. I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me raise money towards my kit and fees, and also the Royal London Group which has been generous in supporting me."
The competition is made up of three key disciplines: swimming 1.5 km, cycling 40 km and running 10 km. This takes the elite athletes just over 1 hour and 45 minutes to complete. Not only do competitors have to train for months in advance to be fit enough to take part, but they also have to manage the tricky changeovers between each discipline – touching their bike before they put their helmet on results in immediate disqualification.
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For further information please contact:
Scottish Life
Barbara Playfair, Communications Executive
0131 456 7298
Polhill Communications
Sally Biggs
020 7655 0520
Editor’s Notes:
Scottish Life was founded in 1881 in Edinburgh as a proprietary company, becoming a mutual company in 1968.
On 1 July 2001, Scottish Life demutualised and transferred its business to The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited. Scottish Life is a division of Royal London and is the specialist pensions business within the Group, providing individual and group pensions to the market via intermediaries.
Scottish Life and Royal London’s other intermediary businesses are based mainly in Edinburgh where 1,170 staff are employed, with 710 working in other parts of the UK and overseas.
Royal London Group, is a specialist financial service provider. Its businesses focus on those sectors of the market which value quality propositions, operating through a number of brands:
- Scottish Life – UK pensions market
- Bright Grey – UK protection market
- Scottish Provident – UK protection market
- Royal London 360° – offshore investment markets
- RLAM – fund management
- RLAS – life and pensions administration
- Fundsdirect / Ascentric – funds supermarket; Wrap platform
Royal London also distributes life and pensions products through Abbey’s national branch network.
Royal London is the largest mutual life and pensions company in the UK with Group funds under management of £33.5 billion. Group businesses serve around 3.6 million customers and employ 2,840 people. Figures quoted are as at 30 June 2009.
