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Athlete Announcement 2023 – Long Distance Triathletes

Athlete Announcement 2023 – Long Distance Triathletes — OTE Sports

Alistair Brownlee

Alistair has had an impressive grand total of 21 wins in the ITU World Triathlon Series, spanning from his first win in 2009. Brownlee represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics finishing in 12th place and went on to win that year’s U23 World Triathlon Championship. The following year he was unbeaten in the five races as part of the ITU World Championship series. Which in the process lead him to become the first person ever to win the men’s ITU Triathlon World Championships titles for Junior (2006), Under 23 (2008) and Elite (2009).

In the 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. 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 this same year he also successfully defended his European title at the 2011 Pontevedra ETU Triathlon European Championships where he shared the podium with his brother Jonathan, who took the silver medal. Alistair went on to also win the 2011 ITU world title after gold at the Grand Final in Beijing.

Since then, Alistair has gone on to secure Olympic glory with gold at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Sporadic ITU racing after Rio nevertheless saw victories at the 2017 WTS Leeds and the 2019 Cagliari World Cup, as well as another European title in Weert.

Alistair has now focused his attention on to the long-distance triathlons of 70.3 and Ironman distances. He dipped his toe into middle-distance racing in 2017, winning IRONMAN 70.3 St. George and Challenge Gran Canaria, and he had successive second places at the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in 2018 and 2019. He stepped up to full distance in 2019, taking the tape at IRONMAN Ireland (with a cancelled swim) and then finishing in a blistering 7:45:20 at IRONMAN Western Australia. He made his debut one the ‘Big Island’ in 2019, finishing in 21st place after fading from 3rd at the start of the run.  Now he is fully committed to long-course triathlon we can’t wait to see what he can achieve.

Career Highlights:

  • Olympic Gold Rio 2016
  • Gold individual Commonwealth games 2014
  • Gold Mixed team relay Commonwealth Games 2014
  • Olympic Gold London 2012
  • 2011 ITU World Champion
  • 2009 ITU World Champion
Lucy Byram indoor swimming.

Lucy Byram

Lucy has been involved in triathlon from the age of 8. She has competed at the shorter distances of Sprint and Olympic distance triathlon with great success at the youth and junior level. Claiming bronze at the British Duathlon Champs, and multiple medals at the British University championships.

After sustaining a serious hip injury which required surgery at the start of 2021, Lucy then came fighting back fit and decided to make the move to long distance Triathlon. Her very first 70.3 race was the British Triathlon Middle distance champs in Aberfeldy at the end of 2021, where she won the race to claim the British title along with her Professional race licence. The 2022 racing season was her first-year racing on the professional scene, where she very much held her own. Her successes include victory at Challenge Wales 70.3 and Ironman 70.3 Venice Italy where she claimed the win against top class athletes. Her successful 2022 has also qualified her for next year’s 70.3 World Championship in Finland. We look forward to watching Lucy progress in the long-distance racing and can’t wait to see what she can accomplish.

Career highlights:

  1. 1st Ironman 70.3 Venice 2022
  2. 1st Challenge Wales 70.3 2022
  3. 2nd Ironman 70.3 Vichy 2022
  4. 2nd Challenge Riccione 2022
  5. 3rd British Duathlon Champs 2018
Athlete Announcement 2023 – Long Distance Triathletes — OTE Sports

Will Draper

Will Draper is a long-distance Triathlete from the Isle of Man. We are very excited to welcome him to the OTE Fuelled team as he looks to improve on his continually developing career in middle distance triathlon. He recently relocated to the triathlon mecca and home of OTE headquarters, Leeds, now training alongside some of our very successful OTE athletes such as the Brownlee brothers, Beth Potter and Lucy Byram.

Will started competing in triathlon in 2018 before making his professional long-course debut in 2021. He competed at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games in Triathlon where he finished 24th in a highly competitive field! However, he is no stranger to one discipline in particular, as he has previously held cycling national titles in both Road and Track Cycling events as a youth. At age 17 he started racing internationally throughout Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and as a junior cyclist he competed in prestigious races such as the Tour of Flanders and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

Now 22 years old, Will’s focus over the coming season is to continue improving his swim so he can exit the water closer to the front allowing him to capitalise on his strong bike and run. We hope that with our support he will go from strength to strength and continue to improve all three disciplines.

Athlete Announcement 2023 – Long Distance Triathletes — OTE Sports

Thomas Davis

Tom came into triathlon when he started university, after playing water polo at a high level for a number of years as a junior. He competed in his first triathlon in 2014 and was hooked from then on! He went onto join the Performance Triathlon Squad at Loughborough university and focused on racing Sprint and Olympic Distance Triathlons racing at an international level. From 2019 Tom made the step up to the longer distance races and focused on 70.3 and Full Ironman Distance racing.

In 2023 he is looking to qualify and target both the 70.3 and Ironman World Championship events, alongside the PTO (Professional Triathlon Organisation) races. 2020 was a breakthrough year for Tom, as he finished in 12th place at the PTO Championships in Daytona, as well as 2nd place at Ironman 70.3 Poland. This same year he also made his full Ironman Distance debut at Challenge Anhui, where he finished in a very impressive 3rd place.

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