Glenn Cook

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Triathlon
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Personal information
Date of birth 1963
societies
successes
1987, 1992 2 × ETU European Champion Triathlon middle distance
1989 ITU vice world champion triathlon short distance
status
resigned

Glenn Cook (* 1963 ) is a former British triathlete and two-time European triathlon champion in the middle distance (1987, 1992).

Career

Glenn Cook was active as a swimmer in his youth and came to triathlon at the age of 21.

He is a three-time British triathlon champion (1986, 1989 and 1990).
In 1987 he became European triathlon champion over the middle distance in Roth.

At the first edition of a world championship on the short distance triathlon (Olympic distance: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) he was runner-up in Avignon in August 1989.

In May 1992 he was again European triathlon champion over the middle distance in Finland and was able to repeat his success from 1987. A month later in June he finished third with the British men's team at the Duathlon World Championships in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2012 he was in charge of the British women's national team for the British Triathlon Federation at the Summer Olympics in London .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
July 30, 1995 23 ETU Triathlon European Championships SwedenSweden Stockholm 01:50:16 European championship on the Olympic distance
1992 3 ETU Triathlon European Championships BelgiumBelgium Lommel ETU European Championship
Sep 15 1990 71 ITU Triathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Orlando 02:02:59 ITU World Championship on the short distance triathlon
Aug 26, 1990 15th ETU Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Linz 01:52:59
0Aug 6, 1989 2 ITU Triathlon World Championships FranceFrance Avignon 02:00:03 First edition of a world championship on the short distance - vice world champion behind Mark Allen
Aug 28, 1988 1 Uster triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Uster 01:49:53 Short distance (1.2 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 12 km running)
0Sep 7 1987 1 Grand Prix Triathlon United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bournemouth 01:50:14
Triathlon middle distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Aug 1, 1992 1 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships FinlandFinland Joroinen 03:37:58 European champion on the half distance
  1987 1 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships GermanyGermany Roth 03:57:19 European champion in the half-distance (3 km swimming, 92 km cycling and 20 km running)
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0June 7, 1992 3 ITU Duathlon World Championship Team Men GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 02:35:42

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

  • Glenn Cook's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 10, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glenn Cook (British Triathlon)
  2. ↑ UNIVERSITY STAFF PROFILE - Glenn Cook
  3. ↑ British triathlon's medal favorites "expecting to be ganged up on" (August 3, 2012)
  4. ↑ Uster Triathlon - WALL OF FAME
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1963