Tyler Butterfield

0 Tyler Butterfield
Personal information
Date of birth	12th February 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Pembroke Parish, Bermuda
societies
2007	Professional Continental Team Slipstream Chipotle
successes
2002	Third ITU World Championship Triathlon Juniors
2016	Winner Ironman 70.3
2019	Ironman winner
status
active

Tyler Barbour Butterfield (born February 12, 1983 in Pembroke Parish ) is a Bermudian cyclist , triathlete and two-time Olympian (2004, 2012). He is listed in the best list of triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

In 2002 Tyler Butterfield was third in Mexico at the World Junior Triathlon Championship.

2004 Summer Olympics

Before he had his first successes in cycling, Tyler Butterfield was better known as a triathlete , the then 21-year-old taking part in the triathlon competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , where he finished 35th .

In 2005 he started the Tour de la Guadeloupe and led the overall standings during one stage. A year later he won a stage of the Tour de la Guadeloupe and again wore the jersey of the leader in the overall standings for one day.

In the 2007 season Butterfield drove for the US Professional Continental Team Slipstream Chipotle and was able to become the Bermudian road race champion. In 2008 he started for the French amateur team “Vendée U”, which was founded in 1991 by Jean-René Bernaudeau .

2012 Summer Olympics

In 2012 he was able to qualify again in the triathlon for the Olympic Games and finished 34th in London.

In August 2015 he finished eighth in the middle distance at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in the Austrian state of Salzburg as part of the Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun . In 2016, he won the Ironman 70.3 Timberman in August .

In November 2019 he won his first Ironman race with Ironman Mexico (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and with a time of 7:44:01 h he was the fifth fastest ever on the Ironman -Distance scored time a.

Tyler is married to former triathlete Nikki Butterfield (* 1982) and they have two children together.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Teams

• 2007 Slipstream Chipotle

Web links

• Homepage of Tyler Butterfield
• Profile and results of Tyler Butterfield in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 15, 2019.
• Tyler Butterfield in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ironman 70.3 St. Croix: Bozzone again before O'Donnell
2. ↑ Onion triathlete Christian Ruderer is pedaling hard in hot Mexico ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2005 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. 
3. ↑ Juniors: Bozzone takes second gold ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Ironman European Championship 2018 - Frankfurt - overall entry professionals
5. ↑ Ironman Cozumel 2009: Rutger Beke wins the premiere clearly
6. ^ Ironman Cozumel: Van Vlerken and Beke win at Premiere