Alistair Brownlee

Alistair Brownlee
MBE

Brownlee at Our Greatest Team Parade in 2012
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Al
Born	(1988-04-23) 23 April 1988 (age 28) Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England
Residence	Bramhope, West Yorkshire, England
Education	Bradford Grammar School, University of Leeds & Leeds Metropolitan University
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country	England \ Great Britain
Club	Bingley Harriers Leeds Metropolitan University
Team	Corus
Coached by	Malcolm Brown Jack Maitland
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Men's Triathlon Olympic Games 2012 London Triathlon 2016 Rio de Janeiro Triathlon ITU Triathlon World Championships 2009 Gold Coast Elite 2011 Lausanne Team 2011 Beijing Elite 2014 Hamburg Team 2011 Lausanne Sprint European Triathlon Championships 2010 Athlone Elite 2011 Pontevedra Elite 2014 Kitzbuhel Elite 2009 Holten Elite ITU Triathlon Junior World Championships 2006 Lausanne Junior 2008 Vancouver U23 2007 Hamburg Junior European Junior Triathlon Championships 2006 Autun Junior 2007 Copenhagen Junior Men's duathlon ITU Duathlon World Championships 2006 Corner Brook Junior Representing  England Men's triathlon Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 Men's race Glasgow 2014 Mixed team relay

Alistair Edward Brownlee, MBE (born 23 April 1988) is a British triathlete. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the triathlon, and the only athlete to win two Olympic titles in the event. He is also a two-time Triathlon World Champion, winning in 2009 and 2011, a two-time World Team Champion (2011, 2014), a three-time European Champion, and 2014 Commonwealth champion.

His brother, Jonathan Brownlee, is also a triathlete, placing second in the 2016 Olympics, third in the 2012 Olympics, winning the 2012 World Championship and the last World Sprint Triathlon Championship, in addition to accompanying his brother in their World and Commonwealth mixed team relay victories.

Brownlee was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to triathlon.

Brownlee was educated at Bradford Grammar School, a co-educational independent school in the city of Bradford in Yorkshire, followed by Girton College, Cambridge, where he started a medicine degree. After just the first eight-week term, Brownlee decided to leave and instead went to the University of Leeds, where he gained a degree in Sports Science and Physiology in 2010. He is now studying for an MSc in Finance at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Brownlee was introduced to triathlon at a young age by his uncle, Simon Hearnshaw, who regularly competed in the sport. As a junior, he was a successful fell and cross country runner, coming second in the Junior English Cross Country Championships and winning the Yorkshire County title on several occasions.

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