Brad Beven

0 Brad Beven
Personal information
Date of birth	18th September 1969 (age 50)
place of birth	Mirriwinni, Australia
Nickname	The Croc
societies
successes
1990, 1994, 1995	3 × vice world champion triathlon short distance
1992-1995	4 × Winner ITU Triathlon World Cup
'	7 × National Triathlon Champion
status
resigned

Brad Beven (born September 18, 1969 in Mirriwinni ) is a former Australian triathlete . He was one of the best triathletes of the 1990s on the short distance, is a four-time World Cup winner and three-time vice world champion.

Career

Brad Beven started triathlon when he was 13. In August 1989 he started at the first edition of the Triathlon World Championship and finished sixth in Avignon .

In 1990 he finished second at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland (New Zealand) (behind Rick Wells ).

Brad Beven was able to win 19 World Cup races during his playing days and from 1992 to 1995 won the ITU Triathlon World Cup four times in a row .
He is five-time Australian champion and was runner-up in the triathlon short distance in 1990, 1994 and again in 1995 (Olympic distance: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

In 2006 he finished fifth at his last international start in Singapore at the ITU Triathlon Asian Cup .

Today he leads the BBT (Brad Beven Triathlon) team in Brisbane .

Awards

• Triathlon Australia Hall of Fame 2013
• Brad Beven was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) in 2016 in recognition of his athletic achievements (together with Loretta Harrop ).

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Brad Bevan Triathlon
• Brad Beven's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 9, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BRAD BEVEN INDUCTED INTO TRIATHLON AUSTRALIA'S HALL OF FAME (March 7, 2013)
2. ↑ Loretta Harrop, Brad Beven receive triathlon's highest accolade with Hall of Fame induction (December 11, 2016)
3. ↑ ITU Hall of Fame Inductees 2016