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Triathlon Australia Annual Report Triathlon Australia Annual Report 2014-2015 CONTENTS PATRON’S MESSAGE 5 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS 6 CEO’S MESSAGE 7 ASC’S MESSAGE 11 STRATEGIC OVERVIEW 13 ORGANISATIONAL EXCELLENCE 14 PARTICIPATION 21 MEMBERSHIP 28 EVENTS 34 HIGH PERFORMANCE 46 BRAND 54 AROUND THE NATION HIGHLIGHTS 61 GOVERNANCE 71 HONOUR BOARD 77 Australian Repesentatives 78 Hall of Fame 78 Elite World Champions 79 Award and Recognition 81 2014-2015 National Champions 82 2014 ITU AGE GROUP WORLD 87 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS PARTNERS AND SPONSORS 94 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 95 FINANCIAL REPORT 96 TRIATHLON AUSTRALIA LIMITED ABN 67 007 356 907 PO Box 13, Alexandria, NSW 1435 Level 2, 66 Wentworth Avenue, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Telephone +61 2 8488 6200 Email [email protected] Principal partner Website www.triathlon.org.au Photographs used in this report are courtesy of Delly Carr/ ITU Media, Janos M Schmidt/ITU Media, Keith Hedgeland and Megan Pickering. PATRON’S MESSAGE I have watched on with Stewart as her successor. I look forward to supporting interest as triathlon has Miles as he guides the organisation through the sport’s progressed in a number of next three year Strategic Plan. areas over the last year. It is encouraging to see PHIL COLES AM some of the younger athletes beginning to make their mark PATRON in the sport. Brittany Dutton dominated the female triathlon TRIATHLON AUSTRALIA race at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in August 2014, spearheading the Australian team’s performance with a convincing Gold Medal. Young Jake Birtwhistle is certainly an athlete to watch in the future. Making the move from Tasmania to the National Performance Centre in Wollongong under coach Jamie Turner obviously paid off for him with a silver medal in the ITU Junior World Championships in Edmonton last September. He then stepped into the big league with a silver medal in the 2015 ITU Mooloolaba World Cup and a top 10 finish in the Yokohama stage of the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series. Regular World Triathlon Series top 10 finishers, Aaron Royle and Ryan Bailie are also following an upward trajectory of success, which is very encouraging. I congratulate Aaron on securing an automatic Olympic team nomination as the best placed Australian in the Top 10 at the Rio test triathlon event earlier this year. From a participation perspective, the number of clubs taking up the TRYstars junior program bodes well for a strong pipeline of junior members entering the triathlon community. I am particularly pleased that TRYstars is unique amongst similar “first touch” programs offered by other National Sporting Organisations, in that it offers the opportunity for children to learn and practice all 13 fundamental movement skills outlined in the Australian primary school curriculum. It also offers triathlon clubs a ready-made program to deliver and attract local kids to their club. I’m sure the development of resources the TRYstars junior program for schools under the Australian Government’s Sporting Schools program will enable an even larger number of children to be exposed to the sport of triathlon in their school environment. I applaud Triathlon Australia for taking the lead on creating a much more unified approach to the governance and management of the sport by actively involving the State and Territory Triathlon Associations in key projects and whole of sport decision making. I heard that the attendance of national staff and Board members at a recent Sport NSW governance seminar for state sporting organisations provided an excellent example to other sports of the benefits of the national and state associations working closely together. In conclusion, I’ll take this opportunity to thank outgoing CEO, Anne Gripper for her leadership of Triathlon Australia over the last five years, and welcome Miles www.triathlon.org.au | 5 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS I am very pleased to provide my Championship category and that is something that we first Annual Report as President can always be thankful for. Jackie Fairweather was an of Triathlon Australia. outstanding athlete, administrator, coach, Board member and ambassador of triathlon. In August 2015 I was very proud to be elected as President I want to thank the Australian Sports Commission for their following David Ferrier’s decision support of Triathlon Australia this year. to step down in order to pursue some exciting commercial I would also like to thank the Triathlon Australia Board opportunities. I would like to members for their contribution to the governance of the thank David for his leadership organisation. On behalf of the Board of Triathlon Australia and dedication to the sport I would like to acknowledge the work of Triathlon Australia during his term as President and staff, the State and Territory Associations and their particularly for his efforts on the boards, committees and staff and the work of all of the whole of sports unification project club officials and volunteers. and for agreeing to continue as a Board Member to lead this project. Thanks to Phil Coles AM as Patron and Life Members Dr Jim Hazel, Brian Hinton, Ken Bonham and Bill Walker Michelle Copper has been appointed as Vice President, the for their ongoing support of triathlon in Australia, and role that I vacated to accept the position of President. internationally. Anne Gripper’s tenure as our CEO ended in September I look forward to seeing you over the 2015-2016 season. this year. Anne Gripper has played an instrumental role in working with the past Presidents and Boards to build a solid foundation for the organisation over her 5 years as CEO. Anne has taken a collaborative approach with all of our stakeholders and has been instrumental in working with the State and Territory Associations to establish BEN HOUSTON a “whole of sport” operating model. This model will be PRESIDENT critical as we focus on the commercial opportunities TRIATHLON AUSTRALIA required for triathlon in Australia to remain sustainable in the future. I welcome Miles Stewart as our new CEO. Following an extensive national recruitment process Miles was recently selected as our new CEO and will commence in early November 2015. Miles has been a triathlon World Champion, Board Member, committee member and has had a successful business career since retiring from professional racing. I’m confident that Miles will bring a level of passion, enthusiasm and commercial insight that is required to lead the organisation as we focus on delivering on the objectives of our new strategic plan. Our new 2015-2018 Strategic Plan has been developed in collaboration with our STTA’s, the Board and numerous stakeholders who have all played a role in formulating the new plan which will guide our sport over the next 3 years. Implementing the three purpose pillars of passion, performance and participation will be the focus of the organisation and aligns with the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) goals for NSO’s, but it also reminds us what our sport means to the community. I believe that the recent changes and the upcoming board appointments at the Annual General Meeting will give us an opportunity to leverage our strong foundations to better service the members and stakeholders of our sport, and capitalise on the organic growth in popularity and participation of the sport that we have seen in recent years. The Annual General Meeting that will be held alongside the Jackie Fairweather Memorial Triathlon in Canberra in November 2015. Jackie played an important role in the junior development pathway of our sport as the first U23 coach at the AIS and instigator of the U23 World Triathlon Australia Annual Report 2014-2015 CEO’S MESSAGE Passion, performance and Paralympics in 2016. What an amazing “full circle” story participation. The three purpose it is that Sydney Olympic silver medal winning Michellie pillars of our new Strategic Plan Jones is now training and competing with visually impaired are what the sport of triathlon is triathlete Katie Kelly, as they prepare to win the first ever all about for me. I have had the Paralympic Gold medal in the PT5 class in Rio. pleasure and privilege of leading Triathlon Australia through the The gradual coming together of our sport over the last five last five years. We are a sport years is also a real highlight for me. We operate so much brimming with stories – personal on a “whole of sport” basis now, that it is almost hard to stories of triumph, challenge and remember a different way of doing things. The Executive disappointment, community stories Directors of our State and Territory Triathlon Associations of belonging, support and pride. And and their staff are embedded into our daily operational so many of our stories contain all life through every project and activity on which we are three elements of passion, performance and participation. working. The STTA Presidents meet together to discuss the governance aspects of a whole of sport approach. As As I write my fifth and final CEO report, the date of I write, we are just about to start a Unification Working 16 September 2015 draws near. I cast my mind back Group to progress three important aspects of the next to two previous 16 Septembers. 15 years ago, on 16 stage of becoming more unified – a new constitution September 2000, I was standing in Macquarie Street in and the consultation and communication that goes with Sydney watching Michellie Jones battle it out with Brigitte such a fundamental change in the governance of our McMahon from Switzerland for the first Gold and Silver sport. In Australian sport, we have led the way in this Medals of the Sydney Olympic Games. And then 5 years area, and have been recognised by the Australian Sports ago, on 16 September 2010, I was enjoying my first day Commission for our progress so far.
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