Jonathan Brownlee

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Jonathan Brownlee
File:Jonathan Brownlee 1.jpg
Jonathan Brownlee, the winner of the first Grand Prix triathlon of the year 2010 at Dunkirk.
Personal information
Nickname(s) Jonny
Born (1990-04-30) 30 April 1990 (age 34)[1]
Bramhope, West Yorkshire, England[1]
Residence Leeds, West Yorkshire, England[1]
Education Bradford Grammar School
University of Leeds
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Country Great Britain
Club Bingley Harriers[2]
Leeds Metropolitan University[3]
Coached by Malcolm Brown[1]
Jack Maitland[1]

Jonathan Callum Brownlee[4] (born 30 April 1990) is an English professional duathlete and triathlete. He was the 2012 Triathlon World Champion, and the silver medalist in 2013.

Brownlee is also a two-time, and the reigning, World Sprint Triathlon Champion and is the former Under 23 Triathlon World Champion (2010). Brownlee won the bronze medal in the Olympic triathlon at the London 2012 Olympic Games. His brother, Alistair Brownlee, is also a triathlon champion, having won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.

Early years

Jonathan was educated at Bradford Grammar School before attending the University of Leeds, where he studied history.[5][6] He used to swim for Aireborough Swimming club and still holds the record for the A&W boys 9/10 yrs 2 lengths backstroke, which was set in 2000. He is a member of the Bingley Harriers and is coached by Malcolm Brown and Jack Maitland at the British Triathlon Federation's High Performance Centre, based at Leeds Metropolitan University's Carnegie Centre.

Jonathan's older brother Alistair Brownlee was the winner of the 2009 ITU Triathlon World Championships and the 2011 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series, and Edward Brownlee, his younger brother, is a promising schoolboy swimmer and runner.[7]

Jonathan Brownlee was the British youth champion in both triathlon and duathlon in both 2006 and 2007.[1] In 2008 he won bronze medals at both the ETU European Junior Triathlon Championships and ITU World Junior Championships, and placed 17th in his ITU World Championship Series début event in Kitzbühel.[8][9] During the 2009 season he also won gold in the triathlon at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival and competed in two races in the 2009 ITU World Championship Series, finishing 13th in Kitzbühel and 27th in London.[8][9]

In 2010, Jonathan Brownlee represented the French club EC Sartrouville and took part in the prestigious French Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux, also called Grand Prix. In Dunkirk, at the first triathlon of this circuit, Jonathan Brownlee won the gold medal in the individual ranking and thanks to him EC Sartrouville could win the silver medal.[10]

Despite a 15 second penalty, he took Bronze in the Triathlon event at the London 2012 Olympic Games, his brother taking the Gold.

Brownlee took gold in the mixed triathlon team relay at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, with brother Alistair, Vicky Holland and Jodie Stimpson.[11]

ITU Competitions

In the five years from 2006 to 2010, Jonathan Brownlee took part in 22 ITU competitions and achieved 14 top ten positions, among which were 5 gold medals.

The following list is based upon the official ITU rankings and the Athlete's Profile Page.[12] Unless indicated otherwise, the following events are triathlons (Olympic Distance) and belong to the Elite category.

Date Competition Place Rank
2006-07-30 European Cup (Junior) Salford 2
2006-09-02 World Championships (Junior) Lausanne DNF
2007-05-19 Duathlon World Championships (Junior) Győr 9
2007-06-16 Duathlon European Championships (Junior) Edinburgh DNS
2007-06-29 European Championships (Junior) Copenhagen 5
2007-08-30 BG World Championships (Junior) Hamburg 15
2008-05-10 European Championships (Junior) Lisbon 3
2008-06-05 BG World Championships (Junior) Vancouver 3
2008-07-20 BG World Cup Kitzbühel 17
2008-09-06 European Championships (U23) Pulpí 10
2008-09-27 Duathlon World Championships (Junior) Rimini 13
2009-01-14 Australian Youth Olympic Festival Sydney 1
2009-06-20 European Cup (Junior) Tarzo Revine 1
2009-07-02 European Championships (Junior) Holten 1
2009-07-11 Dextro Energy World Championship Series Kitzbühel 13
2009-08-15 Dextro Energy World Championship Series London 26
2009-09-09 Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final: World Championships (Junior) Gold Coast 2
2010-06-05 Dextro Energy World Championship Series Madrid 28
2010-07-03 European Championships Athlone 38
2010-07-25 Dextro Energy World Championship Series London 2
2010-08-21 Sprint World Championships Lausanne 1
2010-08-28 European Championships (U23) Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto) 2
2010-09-08 Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final: U23 World Championship Budapest 1

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

File:Jonathan Brownlee Hyde Park 2011.jpg
Jonathan Brownlee runs the Hyde Park Triathlon, London, August 2011

Gallery

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. GRO reference: May 1990, Vol. 5, Page 108
  5. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. IPITOS, RĂŠsultats. Ipitos.com. Retrieved on 9 August 2012.
  11. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. Triathlon.org – Results Page. Archive.triathlon.org. Retrieved on 9 August 2012.

External links