Alex Yee

Yee completed his A levels at Kingsdale Foundation School in Dulwich and then went on to study for a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science at Leeds Beckett University.[3][4]

Alex is in a relationship with fellow triathlete Olivia Matthias.[5]

Yee started his 2020 race programme as one of four male GB athletes at the ITU World Cup race at Mooloolaba, recording the fastest run time of 0:14:55 but only achieving a 37th place finish overall due to a mechanical prior to T2.[6][7]

Alex made his debut in the ITU World Triathlon Series at Abu Dhabi with a sprint-distance race on the 8th 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.[8]

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.[9]

Following this he took on his first ITU World Triathlon Series Standard Distance event at Yokohama in Japan, finishing in 5th overall.[10]

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).[11] Georgia Taylor-Brown took the first leg, followed by Ben Dijkstra, Sophie Coldwell in leg 3 and Yee on the anchor leg to seal the victory ahead of Switzerland in Silver and France in Bronze.[12]

Team GB recorded a Silver two months later in the same discipline in Tokyo[13] with Yee being beaten at the line on the final leg by Dorian Coninx.[14] The line-up was altered from that fielded at Nottingham, with Jess Learmonth, Gordon Benson, Sophie Coldwell and Yee on the final leg.[15]

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.[16][17]

Individually, Yee finished the season recording a 13th place finish at the Grand Final in Lausanne[18] and an overall ITU WTS ranking of 12th, recording 2521 points from 5 races.[19]

On the 19th May 2018 Yee set a PB in the 10,000m of 00:27:51.94.[20]

Earlier in the year, Yee set the second quickest ever Parkrun time to date, clocking 00:13:57 at Dulwich.[21]

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.

June saw him compete at Antwerp, registering a disappointing 49th place (despite producing the fastest run split),[22] and then in September he competed in the U23 category at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Gold Coast, coming home 10th.

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.[23]

At the ITU Triathlon World Cup race in Cagliari on the 4th 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).[24]

On the 4th of June 2016 Alex won the ITU World Junior Duathlon Championships in Aviles[25]

As a result he was shortlisted for the SportsAid "One to Watch" award[26] which he went on to win, receiving his award from Sir Mo Farah at the ceremony in November.[27]