Five people will be inducted Feb. 13 into USA Triathlon's Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The five honorees represent the second class to be inducted into the hall since its 2008 inception. They are: Jim Curl, Barb Lindquist, Paula Newby-Fraser, Valerie Silk and Carl Thomas.

Skip Gilbert, CEO of USA Triathlon, thanked the inductees “on behalf of everyone who has embraced the multisport lifestyle … for their accomplishments over the years.”

The Inductees

Jim Curl (contributor) – Curl, along with fellow inductee Carl Thomas, launched the U.S. Triathlon Series in 1982.  The USTS distance led Curl and Thomas to create what is now known as the Olympic distance (1.5k swim, 40k bike ride, 10k run). Curl has produced more than 150 triathlons, including the Reebok Women's Triathlon Series, the St. Anthony's Triathlon and the Accenture Chicago Triathlon.

Barb Lindquist (post-1999 elite athlete) – Lindquist, a swimmer at Stanford University, was a member of the U.S. National Team until 1991. In 1996, she began a professional triathlon career and was a member of the USA Triathlon World Championship team for 10 years. Of 134 career races, she won 33, stood on the podium 86 times and finished in the top 10 114 times.  She was ranked first in the world from February 2003 through 2004, and finished ninth at the 2004 Olympic Games. She retired f in 2005 to coach of the Under-23 National Team is the USAT’s collegiate recruitment program coordinator.

Paula Newby-Fraser (pre-2000 elite athlete) – Newby-Fraser has won more Ironman competitions than legends like Mark Allen, Erin Baker and Dave Scott. She won eight Ironman World Championships between 1986 and 1996 and has 24 total Ironman career wins.  The world record she set for the Ironman distance stood for nearly 15 years.  Newby-Fraser was named the Women's Sports Foundation’s Professional Sportswoman of the Year in 1990 and was selected as the “greatest triathlete in history" by Triathlete magazine in 1999. The Los Angeles Times honored her as Female Pro Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s, and the the United States Sports Academy included her among the top five professional female athletes from 1972 to1997.

Valerie Silk (contributor) – Silk was owner, president, CEO and race director for the Hawaiian Triathlon Corporation (now the World Triathlon Corp.) throughout the 1980s. She negotiated multi-year sponsorship agreements and attracted coverage of the event by ABC's “Wide World of Sports.” She increased the volunteer base by over 2,500 and developed merchandising and licensing divisions for Ironman products and services. Silk developed the IronKids Triathlon Series.

Carl Thomas, (contributor) – Thomas was vice president of marketing for Speedo Swimwear in 1982 when he joined Jim Curl to create the U.S. Triathlon Series. The series quickly spread from five cities to 12. Thomas predicted that by the time triathlon was an Olympic sport, "hundreds of thousands of athletes will have competed at the Olympic distance" worldwide. In 1984, he founded CAT Sports, Inc., which was responsible for televising more than 25 triathlons for ESPN, NBC and other national outlets. Thomas was the first treasurer of the International Triathlon Union.