Double Olympic Champion (2012 and 2016) Alistair Brownlee was named Olympic Athlete of the Year and Elite Male Athlete of the Year at the British Triathlon Federation\u2019s annual awards dinner.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u201cThis year was all about the Olympic Games, so to achieve that goal was fantastic \u2013 and this award is just the cherry on the cake,\u201d said Alistair. \u201cIt\u2019s the end of a very tough four years and it was always in my head to have a decent bit of time off now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not thinking too much into the future, but just enjoying the achievements before I get back to doing what I love in the new year \u2013 training.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0Olympic bronze medallist Vicky Holland won The British Triathlon Female Elite Triathlete of the Year Award.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Vicky said: \u201cBeing the first female Olympic medallist is amazing. It\u2019s been a long time coming as we have such a rich heritage in women\u2019s triathlon in the UK. Helen (Jenkins) was such a pioneer for me \u2013 she won her first world title in 2008 and since then we\u2019ve been waiting for an Olympic medal to come. I\u2019m really delighted to be the person that got it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paralympic gold medallist and ITU World Paratriathlon Champion\u00a0Andy Lewis was awarded Male Paratriathlete of the Year and the Peter Holmes Award for Inspirational Performance in International Competition, beating Alistair Brownlee in the process. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI hadn\u2019t even come from backstage after receiving the first award,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cAlistair Brownlee literally grabbed me and said: \u2018It\u2019s you, it\u2019s you, go and get it, go and get it!’\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cAfter winning gold in Rio, I thought \u2018what just happened?\u2019 Going into it all with the pressure of being World Champion, I just never expected to come away with a gold. I made a lot of sacrifices to get there \u2013 the sort of sacrifices all athletes make in order to get to the top. But I did it for my family. I said before I set out that I wanted to achieve something, and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read the full interview with Andy Lewis here<\/p>\n
Fellow ITU Paratriathlon World Champion and Paralympic silver medallist, Alison Patrick (PT5), was awarded the British Triathlon Female Paratriathlete of the Year award alongside guide, Hazel Macleod (formally Smith).<\/p>\n
Alison said: \u201cHazel and I have worked hard to become such a great team, and it\u2019s down to not worrying when things go wrong and not having a fear of failure.\u00a0 We have to have complete trust in each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning silver in Rio was incredible. It was such an amazing atmosphere and knowing that we did it as a team was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
2016 British Triathlon Awards Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n Eisberg Female Age Group Triathlete of the Year \u2013 Alice Jenkins<\/strong><\/p>\n Eisberg Male Age Group Triathlete of the Year \u2013\u00a0 Mike Smallwood<\/strong><\/p>\n Leigh Day & Co. British Triathlon Volunteer of the Year \u2013 John Hagemeister<\/strong><\/p>\n Leigh Day & Co. British Triathlon Official of the Year \u2013 Tony Smalley<\/strong><\/p>\n Leigh Day & Co. British Triathlon Coach of the Year \u2013<\/p>\n British Triathlon Female Elite Duathlete of the Year \u2013 Emma Pooley<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Male Elite Duathlete of the Year \u2013<\/p>\n British Triathlon Event of the Year \u2013 Deva Divas Ladies Triathlon<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Female Elite Long Distance Triathlete of the Year \u2013 Jodie Swallow<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Male Elite Long Distance Triathlete of the Year \u2013Tim Don<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Female Elite Junior Triathlete of the Year \u2013 Sian Rainsley<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Male Elite Junior Triathlete of the Year \u2013 Sam Dickinson<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Female Paratriathlete of the Year \u2013 Alison Patrick and Hazel Macleod (Guide)<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Male Paratriathlete of the Year \u2013 Andy Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Female Elite Triathlete of the Year \u2013 Vicky Holland<\/strong><\/p>\n British Triathlon Male Elite Triathlete of the Year \u2013 Alistair Brownlee MBE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Peter Holmes Award for Inspirational Performance in International Competition \u2013 Andy Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n BOA Olympic Athlete of the Year Award\u2013 \u00a0Alistair Brownlee MBE<\/strong><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n British Triathlon Gold Pin Award \u2013 Malcolm Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Double Olympic Champion (2012 and 2016) Alistair Brownlee was named Olympic Athlete of the Year and Elite Male Athlete of the Year at the British Triathlon Federation\u2019s annual awards dinner. Advertisement \u00a0\u201cThis year was all about the Olympic Games, so to achieve that goal was fantastic \u2013 and this award is just the cherry on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}