Simon Whitfield

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Simon Whitfield at the World Triathlon Championship, 2008
Simon Whitfield at the
World Triathlon Championship, 2008
Personal information
Date of birth 16th May 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Kingston, Canada
societies
successes
2000 Olympic champion triathlon
2002 Commonwealth Games winner
2008 2nd place Summer Olympics
status
Resigned in 2013

Simon St. Quentin Whitfield (born May 16, 1975 in Kingston (Ontario) ) is a former Canadian triathlete . He is a four-time Olympic athlete and Olympic champion (2000).

Career

Simon Whitfield is a Canadian and Australian citizen. After playing soccer as a child, Whitfield began triathlon at the age of eleven.

Olympic champion triathlon 2000

At the Olympic Summer Games in Sydney in 2000 he won the first Olympic triathlon race in history (Olympic distance: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

2004 Summer Olympics

He won the gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and eleventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens .

2008 Summer Olympics

In Beijing in 2008 Simon Whitfield won the silver medal behind the German Olympic champion Jan Frodeno .

2012 Summer Olympics

Simon Whitfield as the standard bearer at the opening of the London 2012 Summer Olympics

In 2012 he and Kathy Tremblay , Paula Findlay and Kyle Jones secured a place at the Olympic Games in London. It was his fourth participation in the Olympics. However, he had to end the race after falling on his bike. Whitfield declared his professional career over in October 2013.

Simon Whitfield lives with his wife and two children on Vancouver Island in Victoria, British Columbia .

Awards

  • In January 2014 he was awarded the Canada's Hall of Fame Triathlon for his sporting success together with Lisa Bentley .
  • In 2015 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) .

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Aug 7, 2012 DNF 2012 Summer Olympics United KingdomUnited Kingdom London -
19 Sep 2011 4th ITU World Championship Series 2011 JapanJapan Yokohama 01:50:14 The result of the race should already be taken into account for the evaluation of the 2012 season.
Sep 10 2011 13 ITU World Championship Series 2011 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 01:49:18 Grand Final
0Aug 7, 2011 23 ITU World Championship Series 2011 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London 01:52:23
Apr 11, 2010 5 ITU World Championship Series 2010 AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01:51:42 Opening race of the 2010 season
0Sep 9 2009 8th ITU World Championship Series 2009 AustraliaAustralia Gold coast 01:45:31
July 26, 2009 9 ITU World Championship Series 2009 GermanyGermany Hamburg 01:44:49 5th race
June 28, 2009 3 ITU Triathlon World Championship Mixed Relay United StatesUnited States Des Moines Triathlon World Championship Mixed Team - with Lauren Groves, Kathy Tremblay and Brent McMahon
June 27, 2009 1 Hy-Vee Triathlon United StatesUnited States Des Moines 01:49:43 ITU Triathlon Elite Cup (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
0May 2, 2009 14th ITU World Championship Series 2009 Korea SouthSouth Korea Tongyeong 01:51:17
Aug 19, 2008 2 2008 Summer Olympics China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 01: 48: 58.47 second place behind the German Jan Frodeno
0June 4, 2006 3 Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon United StatesUnited States San Francisco
July 18, 2005 2 Life Time Fitness Triathlon United StatesUnited States Minneapolis 01:59:58 Second behind Craig Alexander
Aug 26, 2004 11 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 01:53:15
0Aug 4, 2002 1 Commonwealth Games 2002 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Manchester 01:51:57
0Nov 9, 2002 49 ITU Triathlon World Championships MexicoMexico Cancun 01:57:56
0Sep 2 2001 11 Goodwill Games AustraliaAustralia Brisbane 01: 51: 38.35
July 22, 2001 6th ITU Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Edmonton 01:48:41
16 Sep 2000 1 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01: 48: 24.02 Winner of the first ever Olympic Games triathlon in Sydney (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
Sep 12 1999 7th ITU Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Montreal 01:46:02
Aug 30, 1998 95 ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Men SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 02:24:42
Nov 16, 1997 9 ITU Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Perth 01:50:13 Elite men
0May 4, 1997 16 St. Croix Triathlon United StatesUnited States Saint Croix 02:50:39
Aug 24, 1996 15th ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Men B United StatesUnited States Cleveland 01:57:34
Nov 12, 1995 10 ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Men MexicoMexico Cancun 01:59:42

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

literature

  • Simon Says Gold: Simon Whitfield's Pursuit of Athletic Excellence , 2009 (Simon Whitfield, Cleve Dheensaw; ISBN 9781554691418 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Triathlon man Brent McMahon clears brutal obstacles
  2. ↑ Simon Whitfield ends his triathlon career (October 23, 2013; English)
  3. ↑ Whitfield and Bentley earn Triathlon Canada Hall of Fame Honors (January 10, 2014)
  4. ^ Simon Whitfield inducted into ITU Hall of Fame. September 18, 2015, accessed January 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ World Cup final: Brownlee crowns a strong season
  6. ↑ Des Moines: Whitfield Beats Frodeno (June 28, 2009)
  7. ↑ Battle of the sexes: Alexander achieves first men's victory . In: tri2b.com . July 18, 2005.
  8. ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Whitfield, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whitfield, Simon St. Quentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston (Ontario)