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 Hamish Carter has been a stalwart of the Triathlon circuit, and one of New Zealand’s most successful triathletes to date. He’s been an Orca athlete since Orca’s inception – the left showing our very first and most recent photo shoots with Hamish covering this fantastic 11 year partnership.
Hamish grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and his initial passion was for rowing. He rowed competitively for six years during his school years, until he swapped his passion for triathlon in 1992, realising he wasn’t big enough to take rowing to the next level.
Over his 15 years in Triathlon; he’s achieved 12 World Cup golds; three World Championship podiums; 21 World Cup podiums; one Commonwealth Games podium; 31 professional triathlon victories; is the  present Xterra World Champion; and of course is the incumbent Olympic Champion. Outstanding!
After so many years in the sport, his passion for winning still keeps him going. He overcame his Sydney Olympic demons with an Athens gold, which Hamish says is definitely his greatest achievement in triathlon to date. And outside of the sport he’s proud of being able to have made a living in such a tough sport, with the support of his fantastic family (wife Marissa and two children), and the assistance of some great sponsors. He spends a lot of his year training in Boulder, Colorado – which has become one of his favourite places (outside of New Zealand of course!).
Outside of triathlon he’s a passionate surfer, sale boarder and is also into pottery and the two-step tango (who knew!). In five years he thinks he’ll likely be ‘unemployed’ – but his recent guest appearances on sports programmes show his ability to enter into the quirky presenter fold. > READ FULL ARTICLE
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Orca’s research and development team has designed a number of innovative new products that helped improve the performance of athletes at major sporting events over the last few weeks. 
As we countdown to the Olympics, Orca has asked the athletes it sponsors who have qualified for the Olympics to give us an insight into what life is like as they prepare for the sports event of a lifetime. 
In this edition of Orca Echo we talk to the latest athlete to join the Orca team, Australian Ironman distance triathlete Kate Major. She tells us about how she got into the sport, her goals for 2008 and how she brought cartoons to Ironman.
2007 has been all about representing Australia at the 2008 Olympics for Courtney Atkinson. But his “early nomination” for the team is just the beginning of the journey, according to the man from the Gold Coast.
New Zealand triathlete Kris Gemmell has had a fantastic start to 2007, and as of early July currently sits in third place in the ITU World rankings.
When Vicki Jones began training for her first triathlon in 2003, it was a way for the then 32 year old to regain fitness after the birth of her second child. But very quickly Vicki realised a passion for triathlon and just four years later she is Ironman World Champion for the 35-39 age group.
Chris McCormack is Australia’s most successful Ironman, having won the Australian Ironman five times, the only man to have won World ITU Championships and the ITU World Cup in the same year, and was just last December named the Triathlete of the Year for the third time. He’s been an Orca athlete for many years, and we recently caught up with him to find out his best and worst moments, and greatest influences during his illustrious career.
Craig’s had one heck of a season – he’s been an Orca athlete for four years now; and we caught up with him recently to get some tips on his success:
Debbie’s been an Orca athlete for eight years, and this year has been her most successful season yet with a gold at the Ishigaki World Cup; silver at the Hamburg World Cup; and fourth at the Commonwealth Games – so closely pipped for bronze by her Kiwi team mate, Andrea Hewitt. Orca caught up with Debbie recently to find out what makes this New Zealand triathlon star tick:
