Meet Alex Yee: Olympic gold medalist who is looking to pick up triathlon mantle from Brownlee brothers in Paris
TEAM GB star Alex Yee is targeting Olympic gold ahead of Paris 2024.
Yee, 26, will be competing in the triathlon during the Summer Olympics in France.
The Lewisham-born athlete will be looking to pick up the mantle from the Brownlee brothers to keep the good times rolling for Team GB.
Paris 2024 will be the first Olympics without a Brownlee since Athens 2004 after Alistair’s retirement and Jonny’s narrow failure to earn selection.
The rising star is facing a daunting task ahead of him but his success at Tokyo 2020 leaves plenty of promise.
SunSport take you through everything you need to know about Alex Yee:
Who is Alex Yee?
Alex Yee was born on February 18, 1998, and grew up in Lewisham, London.
In 2017, at just 19 years old and a week before resitting his A-levels, Yee competed in his first World Cup race in Cagliari, Italy.
In a high-speed race the triathlete came off his bike and collided with a concrete bollard and suffered broken ribs, vertebrae as well as a collapsed lung.
The star athlete refused to let the accident deter him as he recovered and continued to push for Olympic success.
In 2019, he featured in the gold medal-winning relay team in the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships in Nottingham along with Georgia Taylor-Brown, Ben Dijkstra, and Sophie Coldwell.
Yee’s Olympic success
Alex Yee has already enjoyed success at the Olympics despite his young age.
Yee won a sensational gold medal in the first-ever Olympic triathlon mixed relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Team GB star went on to pick up the silver medal in the individual event.
What’s been said
Alex Yee will be representing Team GB alongside Beth Potter, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Sam Dickinson and Kate Waugh in the triathlon.
Yee said ahead of the Olympics: “It’s such an iconic venue that we’re racing at and we’re so lucky to be able to swim in the Seine and ride up the Champs-Elysees, which I’ve grown up dreaming about racing.
“To actually be able to do it is really special.
“We always seem to find a new level when it comes to racing as a team.
“It’s special to be able to race with your teammates because even though people think it’s a very individual sport, we train and work so hard together, so it’s nice to be able to share that experience.”