Jonathan Brownlee

0 Jonathan Brownlee
at the French Club Championship Series Triathlon in Nice, 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	30th April 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Leeds, UK
Nickname	Jonny
size	181 cm
Weight	70 kg
societies
2010	EC Sartrouville
Current	Olympic Podium (BTF)
successes
2009	European Champion Triathlon Juniors
2010	World champion triathlon U23
2010–2012	3 × world champion triathlon sprint distance
2011	World Champion Mixed Relay
2012	World champion triathlon short distance
2012	3rd place Olympic Games
2014	2nd place Commonwealth Games
2016	2nd place Olympic Games
2016	2nd place world championship triathlon short distance
status
active

Jonathan Callum "Jonny" Brownlee (born April 30, 1990 in Leeds ) is a British triathlete . He is U23 world champion (2010), triathlon world champion on the sprint distance (2010, 2011 and 2012), triathlon world champion on the short distance (2012), two-time Olympic athlete (2012, 2016) and Olympic runner-up (2016).

Career

In France, Jonathan Brownlee started as part of the club championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux in 2010 for the club EC Sartrouville as an elite legionnaire and proved his class at the opening triathlon in Dunkirk on May 23, 2010 - he won the gold medal in the Individual ranking and secured his club 2nd place in the club ranking.

U23 world champion triathlon 2010

With his older brother Alistair Brownlee , the winner of the ITU World Championship Series in 2009 and 2011 , he was BT (British Telecom) Ambassador of the Olympic 2012 project.

In August 2010 he became triathlon world champion on the sprint distance and he was able to repeat this success twice in 2011 and 2012.

Brownlee attended Bradford Grammar School and is studying history at the University of Leeds .

2012 Summer Olympics

In August 2012, he finished third at the Olympic Games in London. In October he secured the 2012 Olympic distance world title in New Zealand with second place in the last race of the 2012 season .

In 2014, Jonathan Brownlee finished second in the Commonwealth Games.

He finished the 2015 Triathlon World Championship racing series in eleventh place after ten races.

2016 Summer Olympics

Jonathan Brownlee qualified again for a starting place at the Olympic Games in 2016 and he competed for Great Britain in Brazil - together with Helen Jenkins , Non Stanford and Vicky Holland , Gordon Benson and his brother Alistair . On August 18, he won the silver medal behind his brother in Rio de Janeiro. In September he finished second in the last race of the World Cup racing series (“Grand Final”) in Mexico and was runner-up in the triathlon world championship.

He finished sixth in the 2017 world championship racing series. He starts in the national team of the British Triathlon Federation .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Publications

• Swim, Bike, Run: Our Triathlon Story with Alistair Brownlee, Penguin (May 22, 2014), ISBN 978-0-241-96584-9

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Brownlee  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Jonathan Brownlee in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile for Jonathan Brownlee at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science , accessed May 23, 2014
• Jonathan Brownlee's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 18, 2019.
• Profile Jonathan Brownlee at the British Triathlon Federation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Triathlon de Dunkerque. GP D1 Hommes, results of the race ( memento of the original from February 9, 2016 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. , accessed May 24, 2014  
2. ↑ Jonathan Brownlee: Moving up and setting my sights on my brother. In: Inside the Games 2012. 2010, accessed May 24, 2014 . 
3. ^ Johnny Brownlee at the University of Leeds ( Memento October 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on August 11, 2011
4. ↑ Spivey, Luis win Super League Mallorca (November 4, 2018)
5. ↑ Beijing International Triathlon - BROWNLEE WINS BEFORE BLUMMENFELT AND SCHOEMAN (September 24, 2018)
6. ↑ Super League Jersey // Blummenfelt rises as new Super League Triathlon champion (September 25, 2017)