Jacob Birtwhistle

0 Jake Birtwhistle
Personal information
Date of birth	4th January 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Launceston (Tasmania), Australia
Nickname	Jake
size	183 cm
Weight	68 kg
societies
Current	Launceston Triathlon Club
successes
2013	National champion triathlon juniors
2014	Junior world champion duathlon
2015	U23 world champion triathlon
2015	National champion triathlon short distance
2016, 2018	2 × Vice World Champion Mixed Relay
2017	World Champion Mixed Relay
2018	3rd place world championship triathlon
status
active

Jacob (Jake) Birtwhistle (born January 4, 1995 in Launceston ) is a duathlete and triathlete from Australia . He is multiple national triathlon champion and third in the 2018 World Championship racing series .

Career

Jacob Birtwhistle became Junior World Champion Duathlon in Spain in 2014.

In 2015 he became U23 world triathlon champion on the Olympic short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

In July 2016, he won the title of Vice World Champion in the Australian triathlon relay in Hamburg.
In 2017 he finished tenth in the ITU World Championship racing series as the best Australian and with the relay he became world champion.

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in April, he finished second behind the South African Henri Schoeman . In the 2018 World Championship racing series, the then 23-year-old finished third after the last race in Australia in September.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

• Official website of Jacob Birtwhistle
• Profile and results of Jacob Birtwhistle in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 8, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jake Birtwhistle wins triathlon bronze in Montreal - now for Gold Coast (August 27, 2018)
2. ↑ Richard Murray secures jackpot (March 19, 2017)