Courtney Atkinson

0 Courtney Atkinson
Courtney Atkinson, 2008
Personal information
Date of birth	15th August 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	Mackay, Australia
size	176 cm
Weight	66-68 kg
societies
successes
1999	World Champion Triathlon Juniors
2015	5th place in the Xterra Cross Triathlon World Championship
2015	Winner Cross Triathlon Oceania Championships
status
Resigned in 2016

Courtney Atkinson (born August 15, 1979 in Mackay ) is a former Australian duathlete and triathlete . He is the juniors triathlon world champion (1999) and double Olympic athlete (2008, 2012).

Career

Courtney Atkinson started triathlon as a 14-year-old. In Canada he was the 1999 World Junior Triathlon Champion.

In August 2008 he started in Beijing for Australia at the Olympic Games, where he finished eleventh as the best Australian. In 2009 he finished second in the team world championship on the sprint distance. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he finished 18th in his second Olympic start.

For many years Atkinson started mainly in competitions in the Olympic distance (short distance: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) and since 2012 he has also competed in longer distances and in cross triathlon. In August 2013 he won his first victory at half the Ironman distance ( Ironman 70.3 : 1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) in the Philippines.

In 2015 he won the Oceania Championships in cross triathlon. Courtney Atkinson was aiming for a start at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and then declared his playing time over.

Atkinson is married and lives in Gold Coast with his wife and two daughters (* 2006 and 2012) .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish; DSQ - Disqualified)

Web links

• Official website of Courtney Atkinson
• Courtney Atkinson's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 27, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic return - Triathlete Courtney Atkinson announces 2016 Rio Olympics comeback (January 12, 2015)
2. ↑ Courtney Atkinson: Doing a lot more than Triathlon (July 29, 2017)
3. ↑ Aussie athlete Courtney Atkinson's excellent Queensland adventure (April 16, 2018)
4. ↑ Kahlefeldt takes Third Mooloolaba title
5. ↑ Noosa Triathlon: Steffen beats the future
6. ↑ Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Final 2010 - Budapest, Hungary - Men ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2010 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.  
7. ^ Frodeno Sprints to Victory in Seoul
8. ↑ Laguna Phuket Triathlon ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2008 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.