Georgia Taylor-Brown

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Georgia Taylor-Brown
MBE
G-Taylor-Brown.jpg
Taylor-Brown in 2013
Personal information
NationalityEnglish
Born (1994-03-15) 15 March 1994 (age 30)
Manchester, England, [1] United Kingdom
Sport
CountryFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Sport Triathlon
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Women's Triathlon
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Mixed relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Triathlon
World Triathlon Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Elite
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Elite
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Elite
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Elite
World Sprint Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Montréal Sprint
World Mixed Relay Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Montréal Mixed Relay
World Triathlon Series - Races
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Hamburg Elite
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Elite
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Lausanne Elite
Super League Triathlon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Championship Series
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Championship Series
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Arena Games Championship Series
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Women's triathlon
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Mixed relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Triathlon

Georgia Taylor-Brown MBE (born 15 March 1994) is an English triathlete. Having won bronze in the 2018 and 2019 World Triathlon Series, Taylor Brown won the one-off sprint triathlon race in Hamburg that constituted the 2020 World Triathlon Championship, becoming the fifth British woman to become world champion. [2]

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In 2021, Georgia won the silver medal in the 2020 Olympic triathlon, the best result achieved to date by a female triathlete for Great Britain, before winning the gold medal for Great Britain with Jess Learmonth, Jonathan Brownlee and Alex Yee in the Triathlon Mixed Relay on Saturday 31 July 2021. Taylor-Brown also won the 2021 and 2022 Super League Triathlon Championship Series, finishing ahead of Triathlon Mixed Relay Teammate Jess Learmonth. [3] [4] She finished 2nd in all four of the Championship Series races. [5] In 2022, Taylor-Brown won gold in the revived World Triathlon Sprint Championships in Montréal, her second individual global title, and anchored her team to silver in the following day's mixed relay, confirming Great Britain's first quota places at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Taylor-Brown finished 3rd in the inaugural Esport Triathlon World Championship, held as part of the 2022 Arena Games Triathlon season. [6]

She is Great Britain's most successful female Olympic triathlete, and along with Alex Yee, the most successful Olympic triathlete at a single Games. [7] Georgia Taylor-Brown is based in Leeds, England where she trains at the Leeds Triathlon Centre. [8] She was born in Manchester, England.

Career

She is a two-time ETU European Junior Champion. [9] Taylor-Brown won the World Junior Championship Silver medal in 2013 [8] along with golds in European Junior Championships in 2012 and 2013. [8] Before that Taylor-Brown won a World Junior Duathlon title in 2012. [8]

A regular in the Great Britain World Triathlon Series squad in 2018, Taylor-Brown earned her first podium at the top level at ITU World Triathlon Leeds [10] behind teammate Vicky Holland and then took bronze at ITU World Triathlon Montreal [11] and ITU World Triathlon Edmonton, [12] helping her to third place in the overall 2018 World Triathlon Series rankings in her debut year, a feat she was able to repeat in 2019 after scoring top ten finishes in every race and a hometown win in Leeds. [13]

Taylor-Brown was also part of the British Mixed Relay teams that won gold at the 2019 Accenture World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Nottingham [14] and silver in the ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Tokyo. [15]

In July 2021, Taylor-Brown joined Jessica Learmonth and Vicky Holland to represent Team GB in the Women's Triathlon at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In difficult conditions and despite suffering a flat tyre on the last cycle lap, she nonetheless closed the resulting gap on the lead group ahead to win silver. [16] A few days later Georgia won the gold medal in the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday 31 July 2021 [17] She also won the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship series, having finished 2nd in all four Championship series races. [18] [19]

At the 2022 Super League Triathlon, Arena Games Triathlon series, Taylor-Brown finished 4th in the London event, [20] and 3rd at the series finale in Singapore. This was enough to finish 3rd in the final standings of the inaugural Esport Triathlon World Championship. [21]

At the 2022 Super League Triathlon Championship Series, Taylor-Brown finished 3rd at the first event in London behind Cassandre Beaugrand and Taylor Spivey. [22] She dominated at the second event in Munich however, finishing 30 seconds ahead of her closest rival. [23] She finished 3rd at SLT Malibu, following a crash on the bike, in the first round of the event. [24] A week later she won again, and again by a significant margin, at SLT Toulouse. [25] At the final event of the series, in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, Taylor Brown won by a narrow margin ahead of fellow British triathletes Sophie Coldwell and Beth Potter. Her performance secured her the overall 2022 Season Championship title. [26]

Taylor-Brown was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to triathlon. [27] [28]

Personal life

Georgia was brought up by an athletic family. Georgia's father, Darryl Taylor, represented Great Britain in the 800m. [9] Her mother Bev swam at national level and ran for Sale Harriers. She has been swimming since she was five. Taylor-Brown started running when she was 12 and was selected to run for her school. She chose to focus on triathlon and had a successful trial with the British Triathlon Olympic Development Squad. Originally from Manchester, she moved to Leeds in 2012 to study for a degree in Sports and Exercise Science at Leeds Beckett University. [9]

Competitions

The following list of results. [13] Unless indicated otherwise, the competitions are triathlons (Olympic Distance).

DateCompetitionRank
2021-07-27 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games*2
2020-09-05Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon1
2020-03-14Mooloolaba ITU Triathlon World Cup2
2019-08-31ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Lausanne3
2019-08-18ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Tokyo2
2019-08-15Tokyo ITU World Triathlon Olympic Qualification EventDSQ
2019-07-07Hamburg ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championships10
2019-07-06Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon5
2019-06-29Groupe Copley World Triathlon Montreal2
2019-06-15Accenture World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Nottingham1
2019-06-09AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds1
2019-05-18ITU World Triathlon Yokohama5
2019-04-27MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda5
2019-03-08Daman World Triathlon Abu Dhabi9
2018-09-15ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Gold Coast8
2018-08-25ITU World Triathlon Montreal3
2018-07-28ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Edmonton6
2018-07-27ITU World Triathlon Edmonton3
2018-07-14ITU World Triathlon Hamburg11
2018-06-10ITU World Triathlon Leeds2
2018-04-28ITU World Triathlon Bermuda14
2018-03-18Gran Canaria ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup1

DNF = Did not finish

DNS = Did not start

DSQ = Disqualified

* Held in 2021

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