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| Full name | Alexander Amos Yee[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 February 1998[2] Lewisham, London, England, UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 余力生[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Amos Yee MBE (born 18 February 1998) is a British professional triathlete and distance runner. He is the 2024 World and Olympic champion in standard or 'Olympic' distance triathlon, the second man to win both titles in a single year.
He won the gold medal in the Men's Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the silver medal in the same event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the gold medal in the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and the bronze medal in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. With two golds, one silver, and one bronze medal, Yee is the most successful triathlete in Olympic history.
Yee was also the 2022 Commonwealth Games triathlon champion in both the men's and mixed team events. In addition to his overall victory in 2024, he is a double World Championship medalist over the World Triathlon Championship Series, with silver in 2022, and bronze in 2021.
In 2022, Yee won his first individual World Championship, the 2022 World Triathlon Sprint Championships in Montreal in Canada. Yee has also been part of the gold medal-winning relay team in the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships in Nottingham in 2019. He won silver in the same event in Montreal, securing Great Britain its first quota places in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
In non-traditional formats, Yee was the winner of the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship Series.[4] In 2022, he became the inaugural Esport Triathlon World Champion, after finishing second at both the London and the Singapore Arena Games Triathlon event.[5]
As a distance runner, Yee was the 2018 British 10,000m champion, and led Great Britain to the team silver medal in the European 10,000m Cup as both races were combined as part of the Night of 10,000m PBs festival event at Parliament Hill. He represented Great Britain in the subsequent European Athletics Championships.
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- ^ "Alex Yee". British Athletics.
- ^ "Chinese characters" (JPG). www.alexyee.co.uk.
- ^ "Alex Yee Takes Super League Triathlon Championship Series With 0.2 Second Win In Malibu". Super League Triathlon. 25 September 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ Leitch, Adam (7 May 2022). "Alex Yee Continues Super League Dominance As He Takes Arena Games Triathlon World Title". Super League Triathlon. Retrieved 13 July 2022.