Brent McMahon

0 Brent McMahon
Personal information
Date of birth	17th September 1980 (age 39)
place of birth	Kelowna, Canada
societies
Since 2015	Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
2019	LifeSport
successes
2005, 2008	3rd place World Championship Cross Triathlon
2009-2019	5 × winners Ironman 70.3
2012	27th place Olympic Games
2014-2018	4 × Ironman winner
status
active

Brent McMahon (born September 17, 1980 in Kelowna , British Columbia ) is a Canadian triathlete , two-time starter at the Summer Olympics (2004, 2012) and Ironman winner (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018).

Career

2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , he finished 39th. In 2005 he was third at the World Cross Triathlon Championship and in 2008 he was able to repeat this success.

2012 Summer Olympics

In 2012 he was able to qualify again for a starting place at the Olympic Games and he finished 27th.

Winner Ironman 2014

In November 2014 he started the Ironman distance in Arizona for the first time and won the race after 7:55:38 h with a new course record. He was thus entered with the fastest time of any Canadian athlete on the list of the world's best times for men , until it was beaten again by Lionel Sanders in November .

Since the beginning of 2015 he starts for the newly founded Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team , which is led by Chris McCormack .

In May 2016 he won the Ironman Brasil, was able to improve the course record with his winning time of 7:46:10 hours and thus set the second fastest time ever achieved in an Ironman race.
In 2016 he was able to qualify again for a starting place at Ironman Hawaii , together with seven other athletes from his team: With the two defending champions Daniela Ryf and Jan Frodeno , with Jodie Swallow , David Pleše , James Cunnama , Terenzo Bozzone and Ben Hoffman . He finished 30th on October 8th. In November he was - as in the previous year - second at the Ironman Arizona .

At the Ironman USA in July 2017 in Lake Placid, he scored his third victory in an Ironman race. In July 2018, the then 37-year-old won Ironman Canada .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Brent McMahon
• Brent McMahon's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed November 30, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Triathlon man Brent McMahon clears brutal obstacles
2. ^ Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
3. ↑ 10 Things To Know About The All-Star Bahrain Endurance 13 Team ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2015 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. (May 6, 2015) 
4. ↑ Brave eight chasing Kona dreams (October 5, 2016)
5. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Bahrain: Ryf is now a triathlon millionaire