Alex Yee

Alex Yee

Personal information
Full name	Alexander Amos Yee[1]
Nationality	British
Born	(1998-02-18) 18 February 1998 (age 23)[2] Lewisham, London, England, UK
hide Medal record Representing  Great Britain Men's Triathlon Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Mixed relay 2020 Tokyo Triathlon ITU World Triathlon Series 2021 Leeds Elite 2019 Abu Dhabi Elite ITU World Triathlon Series Mixed Relay Elite Elite ITU Triathlon World Cup 2018 Weihai Elite Elite

Alexander Amos Yee (born 18 February 1998) is a British professional triathlete and distance runner. He won the silver medal in the Men's Triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Monday 26 July 2021 and the gold medal in the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday 31 July 2021.

Early life[]

Education[]

Yee completed his A levels at Kingsdale Foundation School in West Dulwich and then went on to study for a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science at Leeds Beckett University.^{[3][4][better source needed]} His godfather is Fr. Neil Chatfield, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.^[5]

Career[]

2016 season[]

On 4 June 2016 Alex won the Championships in Aviles^[6]

As a result he was shortlisted for the SportsAid "One to Watch" award^[7] which he went on to win, receiving his award from Sir Mo Farah at the ceremony in November.^[8]

2017 season[]

At the ITU Triathlon World Cup race in Cagliari on 4 June 2017 Alex tangled with another competitor on the bike and crashed into a concrete bollard, suffering broken ribs, vertebrae and a pneumothorax (collapsed lung).^[9]

2018 season[]

Athletics[]

On 19 May 2018 Yee set a PB in the 10,000m of 27:51.94, less than five seconds outside the British under-23 record of 27:47.0 set in 1971 by Dave Bedford.^[10][11][12]

Earlier in the year, Yee set the second quickest ever Parkrun time to date, clocking 13:57 at Dulwich.^[13]

Triathlon[]

Alex started his 2018 triathlon season off with a 6th place at the Gran Canaria ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup, following this with an 8th place at the Cagliari ITU World Cup, returning to the site of his accident a year prior.^{[citation needed]}

June saw him compete at Antwerp, registering a disappointing 49th place (despite producing the fastest run split),^[14] and then in September he competed in the U23 category at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Gold Coast, coming home 10th.^{[citation needed]}

Later the same month he made it onto the podium for the first and only time in 2018, taking bronze at the ITU World Cup in Weihai.^[15]

2019 season[]

Alex made his debut in the ITU World Triathlon Series at Abu Dhabi with a sprint-distance race on 8 March 2019. After a strong swim and bike he recorded the second-fastest 5 km run of the race to finish second to Mario Mola in a race that saw 9 DNFs.^[16]

In the build-up to the race, Alex confirmed his view that he was a triathlete first and foremost, despite being a nationally ranked runner, and stated his intentions to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.^[17]

Following this he took on his first ITU World Triathlon Series Standard Distance event at Yokohama in Japan, finishing in 5th overall.^[18]

Later the same year, he went on to record a Gold in Nottingham in the Mixed Team relay in June in less-than-ideal weather conditions, resulting in the race being altered to a duathlon format (run, bike, run).^[19] Georgia Taylor-Brown took the first leg, followed by , Sophie Coldwell in leg 3 and Yee on the anchor leg to seal the victory ahead of Switzerland in Silver and France in Bronze.^[20]

Team GB recorded a Silver two months later in the same discipline in Tokyo^[21] with Yee being beaten at the line on the final leg by Dorian Coninx.^[22] The line-up was altered from that fielded at Nottingham, with Jess Learmonth, Gordon Benson, Sophie Coldwell and Yee on the final leg.^[23]

This success followed a disappointing result in July in Hamburg where the team finished 10th overall, with the team comprising Jess Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Yee on the final leg. Learmonth encountered problems on the swim, resulting in Team GB entering T1 in 15th place and unable to make up the deficit on subsequent legs.^[24][25]

Individually, Yee finished the season recording a 13th place finish at the Grand Final in Lausanne^[26] and an overall ITU WTS ranking of 12th, recording 2521 points from 5 races.^[27]

2020 season[]

Athletics[]

On 8 August, in the Podium 5 km at Barrowford, Lancashire, Yee ran 13:26 behind winner Marc Scott in 13:20, the second fastest 5km time ever by a British athlete.^[28] Later in the month, Yee ran a personal best of 7:45.81 over 3000 metres at the Bromley Twilight Meeting. ^[29]

Triathlon[]

Yee started his 2020 race programme as one of four male GB athletes at the race at Mooloolaba, recording the fastest run time of 14:55 but only achieving a 37th place finish overall due to a mechanical prior to T2.^[30][31]

2021 season[]

Yee won the silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021 as well as a gold medal in the mixed triathlon with Yee being the competitor to cross the finish line for the team.^[32]

ITU World Triathlon Series Competitions[]

Yee's ITU World Triathlon Series race results are:^[15]

ITU Triathlon World Cup Competitions[]

Yee's ITU Triathlon World Cup Series race results are:^[15]

References[]

External links[]

• Alex Yee at British Athletics
• Alex Yee at Power of 10
• Alex Yee on Twitter