2012 Summer Olympics / Triathlon - Singles (Men)

sport	Triathlon
discipline	singles
gender	Men
Attendees	55 athletes from 32 nations
Competition location	Hyde Park
Competition phase	August 7, 2012
Winning time	1:46:25 h
Medalist  Alistair Brownlee ( GBR )  Javier Gómez Noya ( ESP )  Jonathan Brownlee ( GBR )
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Triathlon competitions at the 2012 Olympics
singles	Women	Men

The Triathlon of men in the 2012 Olympics in London took place on 7 August 2012 at Park Hyde instead.

The race started with a 1.5 kilometer swim on the north side of The Serpentine . After the swim there was a 200 meter long transition area. This was followed by a circuit with seven laps, each 6.137 kilometers long, this had to be covered by bike, which resulted in a distance of 43 kilometers. The circuit led over the Serpentine Road in the direction of West Carriage Drive , before they passed Buckingham Palace and returned to the transition area. Finally, the athletes had to run 4 laps of 2.5 kilometers, i.e. a total of 10 kilometers, around The Serpentine.

Race course

The Slovak Richard Varga took the lead early on in swimming and was the first to switch with an intermediate time of 16 minutes and 56 seconds, four seconds ahead of the Spaniard Javier Gómez . Together with Iwan Wassiljew , Alessandro Fabian and the two Brownlees Alistair and Jonathan , they formed a six-man lead group with a gap of eleven seconds on the pursuers. As Jonathan Brownlee was already cycling in the transition area, he received a 15-second penalty. During the cycling, the pursuers caught up with the leading group. After the last switch to running, Briton Alistair Brownlee picked up the pace that only his brother and Javier Gómez could follow. Halfway through the run, Jonathan Brownlee couldn't keep up with the other two. With three kilometers to go, Gómez could not follow the eventual Olympic champion and ended up in second place with eleven seconds. Despite the time penalty that Jonathan Brownlee had to stop at the end of the penultimate lap, he could with an advantage of 18 seconds on the fourth-placed David Hauss secure the bronze medal. After crossing the finish line, the bronze medalist collapsed and was treated by paramedics on site. His brother criticized the time penalty very clearly and accused the International Triathlon Union of ruining the sport with such rules.

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  To go biking

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  Transition area with spectator area

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  To run

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  Finish

Results

rank	#	athlete	nation	swim	To go biking	To run	total	deficit
				Time (min)	Time (min)	Time (min)	Time (h)	Time (min)
1	30th	Alistair Brownlee	Great Britain	17:04	59:08	29:07	1:46:25
2	51	Javier Gomez Noya	Spain	17:00	59:16	29:16	1:46:36	+0: ​​11
3	31	Jonathan Brownlee	Great Britain	17:02	59:11	29:37	1:46:56	+0: ​​31
4th	11	David Hauss	France	17:24	58:50	29:53	1:47:14	+0: ​​49
5	14th	Laurent Vidal	France	17:27	58:42	30:01	1:47:21	+0: ​​56
6th	46	Jan Frodeno	Germany	17:20	58:46	30:06	1:47:26	+1: 01
7th	25th	Alexander Bryukhankov	Russia	17:22	58:51	30:10	1:47:35	+1: 10
8th	21st	Sven Riederer	Switzerland	17:22	58:52	30:23	1:47:46	+1: 21
9	17th	João Pedro Silva	Portugal	17:22	58:54	30:33	1:47:51	+1: 26
10	35	Alessandro Fabian	Italy	17:01	59:10	30:43	1:48:03	+1: 38
11	12	Vincent Luis	France	17:20	58:53	31:00	1:48:18	+1: 53
12	54	Bevan Docherty	New Zealand	17:26	58:51	31:12	1:48:35	+2: 10
13	27	Ivan Vasiliev	Russia	17:03	59:04	31:22	1:48:43	+2: 18
14th	43	Hunter Kemper	United States	17:25	58:44	31:20	1:48:46	+2: 21
15th	55	Kris Gemmell	New Zealand	17:26	58:48	31:31	1:48:52	+2: 27
16	47	Steffen Justus	Germany	18:07	59:36	30:16	1:49:12	+2: 47
17th	19th	Richard Murray	South Africa	18:11	59:38	30:25	1:49:15	+2: 50
18th	39	Courtney Atkinson	Australia	17:26	58:48	31:58	1:49:19	+2: 54
19th	52	Mario Mola	Spain	18:09	59:40	30:27	1:49:23	+2: 58
20th	38	Hirokatsu Tayama	Japan	17:24	58:45	31:57	1:49:24	+2: 59
21st	26th	Dmitri Polyansky	Russia	17:14	60:35	30:28	1:49:24	+2: 59
22nd	18th	Richard Varga	Slovakia	16:56	59:15	32:03	1:49:25	+3: 00
23	7th	Gavin Noble	Ireland	17:24	58:50	32:26	1:49:47	+3: 22
24	53	José Miguel Pérez	Spain	18:07	59:40	30:57	1:49:53	+3: 28
25th	3	Kyle Jones	Canada	18:31	59:17	31:03	1:49:58	+3: 33
26th	28	Simon De Cuyper	Belgium	17:58	59:45	31:10	1:50:00	+3: 35
27	4th	Brent McMahon	Canada	18:04	59:40	31:09	1:50:03	+3: 38
28	50	Crisanto Grajales	Mexico	18:10	59:36	31:11	1:50:08	+3: 43
29	36	Davide Uccellari	Italy	18:26	59:16	31:13	1:50:09	+3: 44
30th	44	Jan Čelůstka	Czech Republic	17:25	58:49	32:54	1:50:17	+3: 52
31	48	Maik Petzold	Germany	17:23	58:47	33:00	1:50:23	+3: 58
32	40	Brad Kahlefeldt	Australia	18:06	59:40	31:29	1:50:23	+3: 58
33	56	Ryan Sissons	New Zealand	18:05	59:45	31:31	1:50:27	+4: 02
34	6th	Tyler Butterfield	Bermuda	18:58	58:32	31:52	1:50:32	+4: 07
35	41	Brendan Sexton	Australia	18:53	58:51	31:41	1:50:36	+4: 11
36	33	Reinaldo Colucci	Brazil	18:56	58:47	32:07	1:50:59	+4: 34
37	32	Stuart Hayes	Great Britain	17:17	59:04	33:29	1:51:04	+4: 39
38	49	Gonzalo Tellechea	Argentina	18:59	58:48	32:11	1:51:07	+4: 42
39	22nd	Ruedi Wild	Switzerland	18:28	59:17	32:15	1:51:10	+4: 45
40	20th	Andreas Giglmayr	Austria	18:57	58:45	32:21	1:51:14	+4: 49
41	16	Bruno Pais	Portugal	18:57	58:44	32:30	1:51:22	+4: 57
42	23	Danylo Sapunov	Ukraine	18:08	59:35	32:38	1:51:32	+5: 07
43	37	Yuichi Hosoda	Japan	18:06	59:37	32:43	1:51:40	+5: 15
44	34	Diogo Sclebin	Brazil	18:10	59:36	32:53	1:51:51	+5: 26
45	45	Přemysl Švarc	Czech Republic	18:08	59:37	33:13	1:52:08	+5: 43
46	2	Bai Faquan	China	17:55	59:46	33:26	1:52:26	+6: 01
47	8th	Marek Jaskółka	Poland	17:58	59:45	33:45	1:52:38	+6: 13
48	1	Leonardo Chacón	Costa Rica	17:24	60:19	33:42	1:52:39	+6: 14
49	9	Hervé Banti	Monaco	18:55	58:51	33:44	1:52:42	+6: 17
50	24	Felipe Van de Wyngard	Chile	18:53	58:52	34:03	1:53:02	+6: 37
51	42	Manuel Huerta	United States	18:57	58:51	34:39	1:53:39	+7: 14
52	10	Christopher Felgate	Zimbabwe	18:09	59:36	34:51	1:53:53	+7: 28
53	29	Carlos Quinchara	Colombia	18:02	59:37	35:13	1:54:10	+7: 45
54	15th	Heo Min-ho	South Korea	18:02	59:46	35:36	1:54:30	+8: 05
	5	Simon Whitfield	Canada	17:23	DNF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alistair Brownlee wins gold for Britain in men's triathlon as brother Jonny takes bronze at London 2012 Olympic Games. The Daily Telegraph , August 7, 2012, accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ David Jones, Louise Eccles: Bond of brothers: How a fierce rivalry and boyhood of unbreakable friendship spurred the Brownlee boys on to Olympic glory. Daily Mail , August 7, 2012, accessed February 23, 2020 .