Bevan Docherty

0 Bevan Docherty
at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Personal information
Date of birth	29th March 1977 (age 43)
place of birth	Taupo , New Zealand
societies
successes
2004	World champion triathlon short distance
2004	2nd place Olympic Games
2008	3rd place Olympic Games
2008	Vice world champion triathlon short distance
2012, 2013	2 × winners Ironman 70.3
2013, 2014	2 × Ironman winner
status
Resigned in 2015

Bevan Docherty , MNZM (born March 29, 1977 in Taupo ) is a former triathlete from New Zealand . He is triathlon world champion (2004), has made two medals at the Olympic Games and is Ironman winner (2013, 2014). He is on the best list of New Zealand triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

In 2004 Bevan Docherty became triathlon world champion in Madeira on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

He competed in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games and was able to win a silver and a bronze medal. At the 2008 World Championships in Vancouver, Bevan Docherty was second on the Olympic distance.

In March 2013, when he won the long distance for the first time, he won the Ironman title in New Zealand. Bevan Docherty was trained by Mark Elliot .

In January 2015 he declared his time as a professional athlete over.

Private

His older sister Fiona Docherty (* 1975) was also active in the duathlon and triathlon until 2008: She won the Powerman Zofingen in Switzerland in 2003 and was a runner on the marathon distance for a few years after her triathlon career.
Bevan Docherty lives in Santa Cruz with his wife.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Bevan Docherty
• Profile for Bevan Docherty at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 2, 2014
• Profile and results of Bevan Docherty in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 9, 2018 (English).
• Bevan Docherty in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Lowe retires from triathlon (January 20, 2015)
2. ↑ 26 years of Powerman Zofingen An event with a unique impact all over the world . In: powerman.ch . Archived from the original on January 9, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 9, 2016. 
3. ↑ Columbia Triathlon (May 19, 2013)
4. ^ Sven Riederer in Beijing on the podium
5. ↑ Don Wins With Impressive 10 km Run At Hy-Vee Triathlon ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon: Leanda Cave and Hunter Kemper top . In: 3athlon.de . May 2, 2010. Archived from the original on May 7, 2010.
7. ↑ Start of the season: Chrabot and Haskins win in Miami
8. ↑ Docherty, Sweetland win New Plymouth Oceania Cup titles
9. ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )