Paul Amey

0 Paul Amey
Personal information
Date of birth	27th July 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Dunedin , New Zealand
Nickname	Amos
societies
successes
1992	Team world champion triathlon
1998	Vice world champion triathlon short distance
1999	Aquathlon Vice World Champion
2005, 2007	2 × duathlon world champions
2008	Vice European champion long distance triathlon
2013	Ironman winner
status
inactive

Paul Amey (born July 27, 1973 in Dunedin , New Zealand) is a former British duathlete and triathlete . He is triathlon vice world champion on the short distance (1998), two-time duathlon world champion (2005, 2007) and Ironman winner (2013).

Career

Paul Amey started swimming when he was ten. He achieved his first success in 1992 at the World Triathlon Championships in Canada, where he won the world championship title in the team standings together with Cameron Brown and Bryan Rhodes . He has been a professional athlete since 1996.

Paul Amey was runner-up in triathlon on the short distance in 1998 and runner-up in aquathlon the following year.
Amey started for New Zealand until 2000 and then moved to the British team. He qualified for a start at the Olympic Games in 2004, but was unable to start because of an injury.

In September 2005 and again in 2007 he became duathlon world champion.
In 2008, after a legal decision in Italy, Paul Amey became duathlon vice world champion: he crossed the finish line in second place and after a disqualification of Belgian Rob Woestenborghs he was awarded the world title. This was only revised in 2009 after new negotiations.

In France, he was runner-up in the European long-distance triathlon in 2008 (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running). In November 2011 he finished second on the Ironman distance in Arizona with a personal best and set a new British record with 8:01:29 h.

In May 2013 he won his first Ironman victory in Texas . At the Ironman Hawaii 2013 he finished 17th.

He has not appeared internationally since 2013. His nickname is Amos and Paul Amey lives in Gold Coast, Australia .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish ; DNS - Did Not Start)

Web links

• Paul Amey's website ( Memento from January 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Profile for Paul Amey at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on March 17, 2015
• Paul Amey's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 17, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiwi Paul Amey set to switch to Britain ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (October 4, 2000)
2. ↑ Amey takes Duathlon World Champs (September 28, 2008)
3. ↑ British Triathlon ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Ironman 70.3: Title defense in San Juan (March 18, 2012)
5. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 St. Pölten: The anniversary edition is in the starting blocks
6. ↑ Ironman 70.3: Timothy O'Donnell wins in San Juan
7. ↑ Results Ironman World Championship 2013 (October 14, 2013).
8. ^ Gold and Silver at European Long Distance Champs