Cameron Brown (triathlete)

0 Cameron Brown
Cameron Brown at Ironman Germany 2005
Personal information
Date of birth	20th June 1972 (age 48)
place of birth	Auckland , New Zealand
societies
successes
1992	ITU Vice World Champion Triathlon Juniors
1992	Team world champion triathlon
2001, 2005	2 × Second Ironman Hawaii
2001-2016	14 × Ironman winner
status
active

Cameron Brown , ONZM (born June 20, 1972 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand triathlete . He became vice world champion in the juniors (1992) and is a multiple Ironman winner. He is on the best list of New Zealand triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Cameron Brown studied at Pakuranga College in Auckland. In the summer of 1987 he started his first triathlon in Devonport.

Brown achieved his first international success in 1992 at the World Triathlon Championships in Canada, where he finished second and won the world title in the team standings together with Paul Amey and Bryan Rhodes . He has been competing in the elite class since 1993.

Second Ironman World Championships 2001

In 2001 and again in 2005 Brown was vice world champion at the Ironman in Hawaii and he has already won bronze medals there twice.

Another highlight was winning the Ironman Germany in Frankfurt am Main in 2006 .

In June 2014 - just two weeks before his 42nd birthday - he won the gold medal in Australia at the Ironman Cairns as the oldest athlete and set a new course record there with 8:20:14 h.

14th Ironman victory as a 43-year-old in 2016

In March 2016, the then 43-year-old managed to beat his own record as the oldest Ironman winner of all time. To date, he has won the Ironman New Zealand twelve times in his home country. His compatriot Joanna Lawn can already look back on seven victories there in the women.
At the end of 2016 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his successes . In March 2017 he finished second in Taupo.

In April 2018 the 45-year-old was able to successfully defend his title from the previous year at the Strongman All Japan Triathlon and won the title for the second time in Miyako-jima after 7:52:06 h. In March 2020 he finished sixth in the Ironman New Zealand.

Cameron Brown is married and lives in Auckland with his wife and two children.

Awards

• In 2001 he was named “Sportsman of the Year” in New Zealand.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Cameron Brown
• Profile for Cameron Brown at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science , accessed June 1, 2014
• Cameron Brown's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 18, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brown sets record, Blatchford repeats at IRONMAN Cairns (June 8, 2014)
2. ↑ Timeline Of A Legend: A Look At Cameron Brown's Career ( Memento of the original from March 12, 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. 
3. ↑ NEW YEAR HONOURS 2017 - CITATIONS FOR OFFICERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT (December 31, 2016)
4. ↑ Cameron Brown  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Portrait)  
5. ↑ Brown, Lawn win Port of Tauranga Half (Jan. 7, 2012)
6. ↑ Tauranga: Lawn wins, Brown narrowly defeated
7. ↑ Ironman Western Australia: Bozzone wins Duathlon (December 3, 2017)
8. ↑ Cameron Brown to win the Miyakojima Strongman Triathlon (April 27, 2017)
9. ^ Ironman Cairns: McCormack's longest training day
10. ↑ Title 10 : Cameron Brown defends Taupo
11. ↑ Brown wins Ironman in Frankfurt - Zäck under suspicion
12. ↑ IRONMAN New Zealand: Strong wind prevents regular races ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2010 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.  
13. ↑ 2006 Race Report