Andrew Johns

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom 0 Andrew Johns
Personal information
Date of birth 23rd September 1973 (age 46)
place of birth Peterborough, UK
Nickname AJ
size 186 cm
Weight 68 kg
societies
Until 2008 Team TBB
successes
1998, 2000 2 × ETU European champion triathlon short distance
status
Resigned in 2008

Andrew Johns (born September 23, 1973 in Peterborough ) is a former British triathlete . He is a two-time Olympic starter (2000, 2004) and two-time European triathlon champion on the short distance (1998, 2000).

Career

Andrew Johns started triathlon in 1992 and became triathlon European champion on the short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) in Velden am Wörthersee, Austria .

In 2000 he was able to successfully defend his title at the European Triathlon Championships. In the same year he started in September for Great Britain in the triathlon, which was held for the first time as part of the Olympic Games in Sydney, but could not finish the race. In 2002 he was third at the ITU World Championship and in 2004 he started again at the Olympic Games for the British team and finished 16th.

In 2006 he was third both at the European Triathlon Championships and in September at the World Championships on the short distance.

In February 2007 he finished second on the long distance at the Ironman Malaysia (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and in November third at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships . He was a professional athlete in Team TBB and was trained by Brett Sutton . In 2008 he declared his active time over.

“AJ” lives with the former Danish triathlete Lisbeth Kristensen (* 1972) and their daughter in Leysin , Switzerland.

Sporting successes

Triathlon short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Apr 6, 2008 3 BG Triathlon World Cup New ZealandNew Zealand New Plymouth 01:48:16
Aug 19, 2007 2 Triathlon de Genève SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva 01:59:32 behind the winner Maik Petzold (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
June 23, 2006 3 ETU Triathlon European Championships FranceFrance Autun 01:57:29 European Triathlon Championship
July 16, 2005 1 ITU Triathlon Premium European Cup NetherlandsNetherlands Rijssen-Holten 01:49:43
Aug 26, 2004 16 2004 Olympic Games GreeceGreece Athens 01:54:15
July 27, 2003 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup United KingdomUnited Kingdom Salford 01:53:50
0Nov 9, 2002 3 ITU Triathlon World Championships MexicoMexico Cancun 01:51:17 Third in the world championship on the short distance
June 23, 2001 4th ETU Triathlon European Championships Czech RepublicCzech Republic Carlsbad 02:04:56 European Championship
16 Sep 2000 - Olympic Games 2000 AustraliaAustralia Sydney DNF
0July 8, 2000 1 ETU Triathlon European Championships NetherlandsNetherlands stone 01:54:31 European triathlon champion
0Nov 9, 2002 14th ITU Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Perth 01:52:35 World championship on the short distance
04th July 1998 1 ETU Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Velden 01:51:09 European triathlon champion on the short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
Oct 15, 1995 4th ITU Triathlon World Cup AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01:49:30
Triathlon medium and long distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Nov 10, 2007 3 Ironman 70.3 World Championship United StatesUnited States Clearwater 03:43:11
0Aug 5, 2007 2 Antwerp Ironman 70.3 03:57:29
Feb 28, 2007 2 Ironman Malaysia 08:51:19 second place behind the Frenchman Xavier Le Floch
0July 2, 2006 1 Antwerp Ironman 70.3
Cross triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
04th July 2004 3 Xterra Italy Championships ItalyItaly Sardinia

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

  • Andrew Johns' profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 20, 2018.
  • Andrew Johns in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile and results of Andrew Johns in the ITU database at Triathlon.org (English)
  2. ↑ A true TRI Gentleman goes on leave ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Triathlon SM / European Cup Geneva (VW-circuit) ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swisstriathlon.ch
  4. ↑ Watson makes successful triathlon return (July 28, 2003)
  5. ↑ Triathlon European Championship 2001: Filip Ospaly and Michelle Dillon become European champions in triathlon in Karlsbad / Czech Republic
  6. ↑ IM 70.3 Antwerp: Vanhoenacker and Preston win
personal data
SURNAME Johns, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd September 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterborough