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Karla Gilbert, born in Southport in 1975, grew up at Currumbin, and attended Palm Beach-Currumbin High School. Joining Greenmount and then Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Clubs, Gilbert quickly gained an enviable reputation in surf life saving competition. She gained the Queensland State Ironwoman Title in each year between1992 and 1996 and again in 1998; the first Ella Bache Ironwoman Series in 1993, and three gold medals in the 1992 World Titles. Gilbert gained first placing in the Devondale Ironwoman Series in 1997, the Meadow Lea Ironwoman Series in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and won the World Ironwoman Titles in 2000 and the Kelloggs Ironwoman Series in 2001 and 2002. (Photograph courtesy of Queensland Newspapers)
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