Tim Don

0 Timothy Don
Tim Don at the Strathclye Park Triathlon , 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	14th January 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Hounslow , London
Nickname	The Don
size	173 cm
Weight	63.5 kg
societies
since 2017	First Endurance Team
successes
1998	World Champion Junior Triathlon
2002	World champion duathlon
2006	World champion triathlon
2014	3rd place Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2014, 2017	2 × Ironman winner
2017	World best time Ironman race
status
active

Timothy (Tim) Don (born January 14, 1978 in Hounslow , London) is a British triathlete and duathlete . He is a three-time Olympic athlete (2000, 2004, 2008), junior world champion triathlon (1998), duathlon world champion (2002), world champion on the short distance triathlon (2006), Ironman winner (2014, 2017) and with 7:40 : 23 h holder of the world's fastest time in an Ironman race . ^{(As of December 2018)}

Career

In 1994 Tim Don started his first triathlon. In August 1998 in Lausanne, Switzerland, he became triathlon junior world champion. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he finished tenth in Australia.

World champion duathlon 2002

In 2002 he became the short-distance duathlon world champion in the United States. In August 2004 he started for the second time at the Summer Olympics and he finished 18th in Athens.

World champion triathlon and doping ban 2006

In 2006 he became world champion in the triathlon in Lausanne on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) in the elite class (professional athletes).

After achieving the world title, Tim Don was banned from the British Triathlon Federation for 3 months at the end of 2006 for missing three doping tests within 18 months. According to the rules of the Olympic Association of Great Britain (BOA), Tim Don would have been excluded from participation in the Olympic Games - but after his appointment he was after 2000 (10th place) and 2004 (18th place) after all nominated for the third time to participate in the Olympic Games . He couldn't finish the race in Beijing in August. He was trained by Brett Sutton .

First Ironman start in 2014

In September 2014, he finished third at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Canada . At his first start on the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) he won the race on Mallorca at the end of September.

At the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships) in October 2015, he finished 15th. In May 2016 he finished second at the Ironman Brasil .

World best time in an Ironman race in 2017

He has been part of the First Endurance Team since 2017 . In April 2017 he won the first edition of the Ironman 70.3 Liuzhou . At the Ironman Brasil in May, Tim Don set a new world record in an Ironman race with his winning time of 7:40:23 h. In this race he was able to beat the world record by four minutes and his personal best by as much as 24 minutes.

During his bike training in Kona in October 2017, the 39-year-old was hit by a car and seriously injured just three days before the Ironman Hawaii , other sources speak of a truck. As a result of the accident, Don broke his second cervical vertebra and was treated with a halo fixator .

In July 2018, the 40-year-old started the long distance again after his accident and finished ninth in the Ironman Hamburg . Tim Don is trained by Julie Dibens (running) and Matt Bottrill (cycling).

Tim Don lives in Boulder with his wife and two children .

Awards

• In 2016 he was named "Long-Distance Athlete of the Year" by the British Triathlon Federation .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Tim Don's website
• Profile for Tim Don at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 13, 2014
• Tim Don's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 22, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ British federation bans triathlete Tim Don (October 13, 2006)
2. ↑ Don receives three-month ban (October 13, 2006)
3. ↑ Tim Don hopes for gentleness (November 27, 2006)
4. ↑ First Endurance Names 2018 Triathlon Team (February 5, 2018)
5. ↑ Don and Seymour light up Liuzhou (April 2, 2017)
6. ^ The Don Smashes the Ironman World Record: Tim Don Wins the IRONMAN South American Championship with a Record Breaking Performance. (May 31, 2017)
7. ↑ Tim Don - Ironman record smasher (May 31, 2017)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Melanie Haack: He broke his neck - and is now starting the Ironman. In: The world . July 29, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Accident out: Ironman Hawaii co-favorite Tim Don collides with a car (October 12, 2017)
10. ↑ Halo free, but a long way to go (January 8, 2018)
11. ↑ Del Corral And Morrison Win Alpe d'Huez Triathlon ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 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. 
12. ↑ Don Wins With Impressive 10 km Run At Hy-Vee Triathlon
13. ↑ IM 70.3 South Africa: Konstantin Bachor third
14. ↑ My results . Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. 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. Retrieved January 9, 2016. 
15. ↑ Triathlon European Championship 2001: Filip Ospaly and Michelle Dillon become European champions in triathlon in Karlsbad / Czech Republic
16. ↑ Blue- green algae: No swimming in the Alster at the Ironman (July 27, 2018)
17. ↑ Ironman Mallorca: Tim Don wins his premiere Ironman (September 27, 2014)
18. ↑ Tim Don and Corine Raux win the Duathlon World Championship in 2002