Miles Stewart

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Personal information
Date of birth 4th May 1971 (age 49)
place of birth Manly, Australia
societies
successes
1991 ITU world champion triathlon short distance
1996 Winner of the ITU Triathlon World Cup
2000 6th place Summer Olympics
status
Resigned in 2004

Miles Stewart (born May 4, 1971 in Manly , Australia ) is a former Australian triathlete . He is triathlon world champion on the short distance (1991), ITU world cup winner (1996) and Olympian (2000).

Career

Miles Stewart was active as a speed skater in the 1980s .

At the first triathlon world championships in 1989, the then 18-year-old narrowly missed the medal ranks in France and finished fourth.

ITU Triathlon World Champion 1991

Two years later, in October 1991, Stewart became world champion in the short distance triathlon (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) in his homeland in Queensland , Australia .

2000 Summer Olympics

In Australia, he started at the Summer Olympics in September 2000 and finished sixth.
In August 2002 he finished second at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, just 2 seconds behind Canadian Simon Whitfield .

In 2004 he declared his time as a professional triathlete over.

Awards

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

  • Miles Stewart's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 31, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ITU Hall of Fame