Georgia Taylor-Brown (born 15 March 1994) is an English professional
triathlete
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. 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.
In 2021, Taylor-Brown 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
Jonathan Callum Brownlee (born 30 April 1990) is an English professional duathlete and triathlete. He is a six-time World champion (once World Triathlon Series, twice World Sprint Triathlon, three-time World Triathlon Mixed Relay), and one- ...
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. She finished 2nd in all four of the Championship Series races. 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
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.
Taylor-Brown finished 3rd in the inaugural Esport Triathlon World Championship, held as part of the 2022 Arena Games Triathlon season.
She is Great Britain's most successful female Olympic triathlete, and along with
Alex Yee, the most successful Olympic triathlete at a single Games. Taylor-Brown is based in
Leeds
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,
England
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where she trains at the Leeds Triathlon Centre.
She was born in
Manchester
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, England.
Career
She is a two-time ETU European Junior Champion.
Taylor-Brown won the World Junior Championship Silver medal in 2013
along with golds in European Junior Championships in 2012 and 2013.
Before that Taylor-Brown won a World Junior Duathlon title in 2012.
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 behind teammate
Vicky Holland
Vicky Holland (born 12 January 1986) is a British former triathlete who was part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic team. Holland was the 2018 World Triathlon champion, the fourth British woman to win the title. She was also t ...
and then took bronze at ITU World Triathlon Montreal and ITU World Triathlon Edmonton, 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.
Taylor-Brown was also part of the British Mixed Relay teams that won gold at the 2019 Accenture World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Nottingham and silver in the ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Tokyo.
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
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
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. A few days later Georgia won the gold medal in the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday 31 July 2021 She also won the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship series, having finished 2nd in all four Championship series races.
At the 2022 Super League Triathlon, Arena Games Triathlon series, Taylor-Brown finished 4th in the London event, 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.
At the 2022 Super League Triathlon Championship Series, Taylor-Brown finished 3rd at the first event in London behind
Cassandre Beaugrand
Cassandre Beaugrand (born 23 May 1997 in Livry-Gargan) is a French triathlete.
She is the only female triathlete (and the second ever after male Alistair Brownlee) to have won a gold medal in the three major competitions, Triathlon at the Summ ...
and
Taylor Spivey. She dominated at the second event in Munich however, finishing 30 seconds ahead of her closest rival. She finished 3rd at SLT Malibu, following a crash on the bike, in the first round of the event. A week later she won again, and again by a significant margin, at SLT Toulouse. At the final event of the series, in
NEOM
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,
Saudi Arabia
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, Taylor Brown won by a narrow margin ahead of fellow British triathletes
Sophie Coldwell and
Beth Potter
Beth Potter (born 27 December 1991) is a Scottish triathlete and long distance runner. She competed for Great Britain in athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In 2019 she won the gold medal at the European Triathlon Championsh ...
. Her performance secured her the overall 2022 Season Championship title.
Taylor-Brown was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
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(MBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours
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for services to triathlon.
She competed in the
women's triathlon at the
2024 Summer Olympics
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in Paris, France.
Personal life
Taylor-Brown was brought up by an athletic family. Taylor-Brown's father, Darryl Taylor, represented Great Britain in the 800m.
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
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and had a successful trial with the British Triathlon Olympic Development Squad. Originally from
Manchester
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, she moved to
Leeds
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in 2012 to study for a degree in
Sports and Exercise Science at
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the Leeds city centre, city centre and Hea ...
.
Competitions
The following list of results.
Unless indicated otherwise, the competitions are triathlons (Olympic Distance).
DNF = Did not finish
DNS = Did not start
DSQ = Disqualified
* Held in 2021
References
External links
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British Triathlon
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1994 births
Sportspeople from Manchester
Living people
Alumni of Leeds Beckett University
English female triathletes
British female triathletes
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in triathlon
Triathletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic triathletes for Great Britain
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Triathletes at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists in triathlon
Commonwealth Games silver medallists in triathlon
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Triathletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
21st-century English sportswomen