'I couldn't eat solid food for about a month.

'I broke my nose, had to get a splint in my mouth to hold my teeth in place,' she added. She woke up hours later in the emergency room with a long list of injuries. I hit it head on and obviously I don't remember anything,' Henry recalls to ESPN. 'So here I am absolutely flying about four miles into the race at about 25mph and another competitor didn't bother to look behind when they were passing and I pretty much hit the giant orange cone in the middle of the road that separated us from traffic. She was a role model and a source of inspiration for children without even realising it. Her dream of becoming professional hung in the balance, but it was only during her recovery that it dawned on her how important representation was as one of few Black athletes in the sport aiming to turn professional. Henry crashed out midway through the half ironman in Texas and was taken to hospital with severe injuries from a bike collision with another competitor.

In 2019, Sika Henry started Ironman 70.3 Texas in peak form following months of intense training with the sole objective of being fast enough to secure her license to become a professional triathlete.īut the path to reach her goal was not exactly what she had in mind, and following months of recovery from a major setback, she would later discover she had succeeded in more ways than one. Sika Henry: USA's first Black female pro triathlete on how community support after horror accident stopped her from quitting You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser

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