Alex Yee
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| Full name | Alexander Amos Yee[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 February 1998[2] Lewisham, London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Amos Yee or Alex Yee (born 18 February 1998) is a British professional triathlete and distance runner. He won the Silver medal in the Mens' Triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Monday 26 July 2021.
Early life
Education
Yee completed his A levels at Kingsdale Foundation School in Dulwich and then went on to study for a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science at Leeds Beckett University.[3][4][better source needed]
Personal life
Alex is in a relationship with fellow triathlete Olivia Mathias.[5]
Career
2021 season
Alex Yee won the Silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021.
2020 season
Athletics
On 8 August, Yee ran the second fastest 5km time ever by a British athlete behind winner Marc Scott.[6] Later in the month, Yee ran a personal best of 7:45.81 over 3000 metres at the Bromley Twilight Meeting. [7]
Triathlon
Yee started his 2020 race programme as one of four male GB athletes at the ITU World Cup race at Mooloolaba, recording the fastest run time of 14:55 but only achieving a 37th place finish overall due to a mechanical prior to T2.[8][9]
2019 season
Alex made his debut in the ITU World Triathlon Series at Abu Dhabi with a sprint-distance race on 8 March 2019. After a strong swim and bike he recorded the second-fastest 5 km run of the race to finish second to Mario Mola in a race that saw 9 DNFs.[10]
In the build-up to the race, Alex confirmed his view that he was a triathlete first and foremost, despite being a nationally ranked runner, and stated his intentions to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[11]
Following this he took on his first ITU World Triathlon Series Standard Distance event at Yokohama in Japan, finishing in 5th overall.[12]
Later the same year, he went on to record a Gold in Nottingham in the Mixed Team relay in June in less-than-ideal weather conditions, resulting in the race being altered to a duathlon format (run, bike, run).[13] Georgia Taylor-Brown took the first leg, followed by Ben Dijkstra, Sophie Coldwell in leg 3 and Yee on the anchor leg to seal the victory ahead of Switzerland in Silver and France in Bronze.[14]
Team GB recorded a Silver two months later in the same discipline in Tokyo[15] with Yee being beaten at the line on the final leg by Dorian Coninx.[16] The line-up was altered from that fielded at Nottingham, with Jess Learmonth, Gordon Benson, Sophie Coldwell and Yee on the final leg.[17]
This success followed a disappointing result in July in Hamburg where the team finished 10th overall, with the team comprising Jess Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Yee on the final leg. Learmonth encountered problems on the swim, resulting in Team GB entering T1 in 15th place and unable to make up the deficit on subsequent legs.[18][19]
Individually, Yee finished the season recording a 13th place finish at the Grand Final in Lausanne[20] and an overall ITU WTS ranking of 12th, recording 2521 points from 5 races.[21]
2018 season
Athletics
On 19 May 2018 Yee set a PB in the 10,000m of 27:51.94.[22]
Earlier in the year, Yee set the second quickest ever Parkrun time to date, clocking 13:57 at Dulwich.[23]
Triathlon
Alex started his 2018 triathlon season off with a 6th place at the Gran Canaria ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup, following this with an 8th place at the Cagliari ITU World Cup, returning to the site of his accident a year prior.[citation needed]
June saw him compete at Antwerp, registering a disappointing 49th place (despite producing the fastest run split),[24] and then in September he competed in the U23 category at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Gold Coast, coming home 10th.[citation needed]
Later the same month he made it onto the podium for the first and only time in 2018, taking bronze at the ITU World Cup in Weihai.[25]
2017 season
At the ITU Triathlon World Cup race in Cagliari on 4 June 2017 Alex tangled with another competitor on the bike and crashed into a concrete bollard, suffering broken ribs, vertebrae and a pneumothorax (collapsed lung).[26]
2016 season
On 4 June 2016 Alex won the ITU World Junior Duathlon Championships in Aviles[27]
As a result he was shortlisted for the SportsAid "One to Watch" award[28] which he went on to win, receiving his award from Sir Mo Farah at the ceremony in November.[29]
ITU World Triathlon Series Competitions
Yee's ITU World Triathlon Series race results are:[25]
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ITU Triathlon World Cup Competitions
Yee's ITU Triathlon World Cup Series race results are:[25]
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References
- ^ "home | Dulwich parkrun | Dulwich parkrun". www.parkrun.org.uk.
- ^ "Alex Yee". British Athletics.
- ^ "Alex Yee Award News | Kingsdale Foundation School". kingsdalefoundationschool.org.uk.
- ^ "Leeds Beckett Student claims silver medal in World Triathlon Series debut | Leeds Beckett University". www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk.
- ^ "Triathlon rising star Mathias utilising past experiences en route to the top". uk.sports.yahoo.com.
- ^ "UKresults and UKtimers - Race Results Service - Results for Podium 5k Elite Male Race, Barrowford, Lancashire held on 8th August 2020". www.ukresults.net.
- ^ "6 - Male 3000". data.opentrack.run.
- ^ Triathlon, World. "Results: Elite Men | 2020 Mooloolaba ITU Triathlon World Cup". World Triathlon.
- ^ "Vicky Holland, Ryan Sissons secure Mooloolaba ITU World Cup victories | Elite News". Tri247.com. 14 March 2020.
- ^ "Results: Elite Men - 2019 Daman World Triathlon Abu Dhabi". World Triathlon Championship Series.
- ^ "Yee eyes Olympics spot in triathlon rather than switch to athletics". www.shropshirestar.com.
- ^ "Brownlee & Coldwell win in Cagliari" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Watch: Triathlon - Nottingham Mixed Relay". 14 June 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "GB win Nottingham Mixed Relay" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Triathlon, World. "Results: Mixed Relay | 2019 ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Tokyo". World Triathlon.
- ^ "Watch: GB pipped in thrilling triathlon photo-finish" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Catch-up: World Triathlon Olympic Test Event - Mixed Relay Race". 16 August 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Triathlon, World. "Results: Mixed Relay | 2019 Hamburg ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championships". World Triathlon.
- ^ "Britain battle back as France defend title". www.britishtriathlon.org.
- ^ Triathlon, World. "Results: Elite Men | 2019 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Lausanne". World Triathlon.
- ^ "2019". World Triathlon Championship Series.
- ^ "Results". www.thepowerof10.info.
- ^ "Alex Yee clocks second-quickest ever parkrun". 29 December 2018.
- ^ "Summer Cook wins, Beth Potter second at Antwerp ITU World Cup | Elite News". Tri247.com. 17 June 2018.
- ^ a b c Triathlon, World. "World Triathlon". World Triathlon.
- ^ "Alex Yee suffers big bike crash at Cagliari ITU World Cup | Elite News". Tri247.com. 5 June 2017.
- ^ "London triathlete Alex Yee - World Junior Duathlon Champion!". www.britishtriathlon.org.
- ^ "SportsAid - SportsAid announces 2016 One-to-Watch Award shortlist". sportsaid.org.uk.
- ^ "SportsAid - Triathlete Alex Yee receives SportsAid's One-to-Watch Award from Olympic hero Mo Farah CBE". www.sportsaid.org.uk.