Alistair Brownlee

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Alistair Brownlee

Alistair Brownlee after the Triathlon de Paris, 2011
Personal information
Nickname(s) Al
Born 23 April 1988 (1988-04-23) (age 23)[1]
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England
Residence Leeds, Yorkshire, England[1]
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)[2]
Sport
Country Great Britain
Club Bingley Harriers[3]
Leeds Metropolitan University
Team Corus
Coached by Malcolm Brown
Jack Maitland[4]
Medal record
triathlon
Competitor for  Great Britain
ITU Triathlon World Championships
Gold 2006 Lausanne Junior
Gold 2008 Vancouver U23
Gold 2009 Gold Coast Elite
Gold 2011 Lausanne Team
Gold 2011 Beijing Elite
Silver 2007 Hamburg Junior
Bronze 2011 Lausanne Sprint
ETU Triathlon European Championships
Bronze 2006 Autun Junior
Gold 2007 Copenhagen Junior
Silver 2009 Holten Elite
Gold 2010 Athlone Elite
Gold 2011 Pontevedra Elite
Duathlon
ITU Duathlon World Championships
Silver 2006 Corner Brook Junior

Alistair Edward Brownlee (born 23 April 1988) is an English triathlete who is the reigning, and back-to-back, ETU European Triathlon champion and a two time Triathlon World Champion having regained the title he first won in 2009 in 2011 in Beijing.

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[edit] Early life and education

Alistair was educated at Bradford Grammar School[2] before he started a medicine degree at Girton College, at the University of Cambridge.[5] After just the first eight-week term, Brownlee decided to leave and instead went to the University of Leeds, where he gained a Physiology and Sport degree in 2009.[5][6][7] He is now studying for an MSc in Finance at Leeds Metropolitan University.[6][8]

Brownlee was introduced to triathlon at a young age by his uncle, Simon Hearnshaw, who regularly competed in the sport. As a junior, he was a successful fell[9] and cross country runner, coming second in the Junior English Cross Country Championships[10][11] and winning the Yorkshire County title on several occasions.[12][13]

In 2006, Brownlee left Girton College, Cambridge where he was reading medicine,[14] to move back to Yorkshire, focus on triathlon and study at University of Leeds. He is a member of the triathlon club based at Leeds Metropolitan University's Carnegie High Performance centre,[4] and is coached by Carnegie Director of Sport Malcolm Brown, and in swimming by Jack Maitland.[4]

Brownlee has two brothers, Edward and Jonathan. His younger brother Jonathan Brownlee is also a triathlete. He finished 2nd to Alistair at the world championships in 2011. He has won European Junior Championships and finished 2nd at the 2009 World Junior Championships.

[edit] Triathlon career

Brownlee represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the triathlon event, finishing in 12th place and first British competitor. During the 2008 season, his best world cup finish was 3rd place in Madrid and he also won the under-23 world championship.

Brownlee won the 2009 ITU Triathlon World Championship – winning all five of the season's ITU World Championship Series events in which he competed. He was victorious in Madrid, Washington D.C, Kitzbühel and London before winning the 2009 season Grand Final, held on Australia's Gold Coast on 12 September[15][16] and thereby became the first person ever to win the ITU world Triathlon titles for Junior Men (2006), Under 23 Men (2008) and Senior Men (2009).[17]

During the 2010 off season, Brownlee sustained a stress fracture of the femur and wasn't able to return to competition until June, which made defence of his ITU title almost impossible.[18] He did however mark his return to competitive triathlon with a convincing win in Madrid, followed a month later with the European Triathlon Union (ETU) Championships title.[19] Collapsing with exhaustion at the London race,[20] in late July, meant that despite also going on to win the final race of the 2010 ITU Series, in Budapest, he lost his overall World Championship title to Javier Gómez.

In the April opening event of the 2011 ITU Championship season in Sydney, Brownlee suffered a heavy fall while in the lead which brought early disappointment and a 29th place finish.[21] This was contrasted with outstanding success when, in the space of just twenty-one days during June 2011, Alistair Brownlee convincingly won the next two ITU series events (in Madrid[22] and Kitzbühel[23]) and, following a puncture whilst in the lead and having to make up more than 30 seconds on the new leaders, successfully defended his European title at the 2011 Pontevedra ETU Triathlon European Championships and shared the podium with his brother Jonathan, who took the silver medal.[24][25]

Alistair Brownlee wins the Hyde Park Triathlon, London, August 2011

Alistair went on to also win the 2011 ITU world title after winning the Grand Final in Beijing.

[edit] Titles

  • 7 Times Yorkshire Cross Country Champion U13 – Senior
  • 7 Times Yorkshire fellrunning champion
  • 2006 Junior European Duathlon Champion
  • 2006 Junior World Champion[4][26]
  • 2007 Junior European Champion[27]
  • 2007 Junior World Vice-Champion[28]
  • 2008 U23 World Champion[29][30]
  • 2009 Hyde Park Triathlon Champion[31]
  • 2009 British National Elite Duathlon Champion.
  • 2009 ITU World Champion[15]
  • 2010 ETU European Champion[19]
  • 2011 ETU European Champion[25]
  • 2011 ITU World Champion[15]

[edit] ITU competitions

In the six years from 2005 to 2010, Alistair Brownlee took part in 31 ITU competitions and achieved 24 top ten positions, among which 13 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 2 bronze medals.

  • 2008, won the U23 World Championship and placed 12th at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
  • 2009, won the Dextro Energy World Championship Series placing first in almost all of the circuit's triathlons (i.e. Madrid, Washington DC, Kitzbühel, London, and Gold Coast).
  • 2010, opened the season with the European Championship gold medal but subsequently had to put up with a stress fracture of the femur.
  • 2011, won the World Championship Series triathlons in Madrid and Kitzbühel, leading the ITU World Championship ranking, and crowned himself again European Elite Champion.

The following list is based upon the official ITU rankings and the ITU Athlete's Profile Page.[32] Unless indicated otherwise, the following events are triathlons (Olympic Distance) and refer to the Elite category.

Date Competition Place Rank
  2005-07-23   European Championships (Junior) Alexandroupoli(s)[33] 19
  2005-07-24   European Championships (Junior Relay) Alexandroupoli(s)[34] 6
  2005-09-10   World Championships (Junior) Gamagori 41
  2006-06-23   European Championships (Junior) Autun 3
  2006-07-08   Junior European Cup Rijeka 1
  2006-07-29   Duathlon World Championships (Junior) Corner Brook 2
  2006-09-02   World Championships (Junior) Lausanne 1
  2006-10-07   Duathlon European Championships Rimini 1
  2007-05-19   Duathlon World Championships (Junior) Győr 2
  2007-06-16   Duathlon European Championships (Junior) Edinburgh DNS
  2007-06-29   European Championships (Junior) Copenhagen 1
  2007-07-29   BG World Cup Salford 20
  2007-08-30   BG World Championships (Junior) Hamburg 2
  2007-10-07   BG World Cup Rhodes 2
  2008-03-30   BG World Cup Mooloolaba 43
  2008-04-06   BG World Cup New Plymouth 49
  2008-05-10   European Championships Lisbon 15
  2008-05-25   BG World Cup Madrid 3
  2008-06-05   BG World Championships (U23) Vancouver 1
  2008-06-22   World Cup Hy-Vee 7
  2008-08-18   Olympic Games Beijing 12
  2009-05-31   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Madrid 1
  2009-06-21   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Washington DC 1
  2009-07-02   European Championships Holten 2
  2009-07-11   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Kitzbühel 1
  2009-08-15   Dextro Energy World Championship Series London 1
  2009-09-09   Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final Gold Coast 1
  2010-06-05   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Madrid 1
  2010-07-03   European Championships Athlone 1
  2010-07-24   Dextro Energy World Championship Series London 10
  2010-08-14   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Kitzbühel 40
  2010-09-08   Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final Budapest 1
  2011-04-09   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Sydney 29
  2011-06-04   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Madrid 1
  2011-06-18   Dextro Energy World Championship Series Kitzbühel 1
  2011-06-24   European Championships Pontevedra 1
  2011-08-07   Dextro Energy World Championship Series London Triathlon 1
  2011-09-10   Dextro Energy World Championship Grand Final Beijing 1

DNF = did not finish · DNS = did not start · BG = the sponsor British Gas

[edit] French Club Championship Series

In 2010, only the femur fracture could slow Brownlee's dominance for some time. At the opening triathlon in Dunkirk (23 May 2010), Alistair was not present, his brother Jonathan won the gold medal. At Beauvais (13 June 2010) Alistair placed 9th. At the Triathlon de Paris (18 July 2010), however, and at Tourangeaux (29 August 2010), Brownlee won the gold medals again. At the Grand Final in La Baule (Triathlon Audencia, 18 September 2010), Alistair placed 2nd, Jonathan 3rd, and their rival Javier Gómez Noya could win gold.

In 2011, Brownlee took part in the French Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux representing the club EC Sartrouville, which, thanks to the Brownlee brothers and Javier Gómez Noya, had already won the Club Championship in 2010. At Nice (24 April 2011), Dunkirk (22 May 2011), and Paris (9 July 2011) Brownlee was the winner.

[edit] References

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  3. ^ "Top results for multisporters at Regional Cross Country Champs". UK: British Triathlon. 26 January 2009. http://www.britishtriathlon.org/news/article.php?id=10071. Retrieved 16 September 2009. "Alistair Brownlee (Bingley Harriers) started his year strongly with a tenth place position at Sherdley Park" 
  4. ^ a b c d "Alistair Brownlee World Champion". Leeds Metropolitan University. http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/ept/9539.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-15. [dead link]
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  7. ^ "Alistair Brownlee's student profile". University of Leeds Olympic Programme. http://olympics.leeds.ac.uk/athlete-profiles/profile.php?profile_id=3. Retrieved 2009-09-15. 
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  27. ^ "2007 Copenhagen ETU Triathlon European Championships : Junior Men : Results". European Triathlon Union (ETU). http://etu.triathlon.org/en/results/result/2007_copenhagen_etu_triathlon_european_championships/1723/. Retrieved 27 June 2011. 
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  32. ^ See http://archive.triathlon.org/zpg/zresults-ath-dtl.php?id=MjU5Nw==#. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  33. ^ The 2005 European Championships are missing in the profile pages of all participating athletes but the results can be found in this hidden place: http://www2.triathlon.org/etu-website/ns/events/2005/alexandroupoli/results-alexandroupolis2005-jm.pdf. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  34. ^ The 2005 European Championships are missing in the profile pages of all participating athletes but the results can be found in this hidden place: http://www2.triathlon.org/etu-website/ns/events/2005/alexandroupoli/results-alexandroupolis2005-jtm.pdf. Retrieved 12 July 2011.

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