2019 ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS British Triathlon Chair’s Welcome 4 Roll of Honour 6 British Triathlon Governance Review 2019 11 British Triathlon Financial Review 2019 27 Triathlon England Financial Review 2019 37 Triathlon England Chair’s Report 45 Thanks to our Supporters 46 Photograph credits: All photos are courtesy of British Triathlon, Dave Tyrell, David Pearce, Ben Lumley Full usage guidelines are available from British Triathlon. 4 CHAIR’S WELCOME With less than 12-months to go until the Paralympic partners including Volvo and Oakley come on board to help Games, our paratriathlon programme is once again leading support the organisation, members, events and elite teams. the way on the international stage. The team won seven This year has seen a handful of changes made to the DR MARY medals at the Tokyo Test Event, World Paratriathlon Senior Executive Team at British Triathlon, with Series Montreal and the ITU Grand Final in Lausanne Justine Baynes joining as Director of Marketing and HARDWICK this year. Claire Cashmore and Lauren Steadman (both Communications and Anne Vinestock taking on the role PTS5) claimed one of their many one-twos in Lausanne, CHAIR OF of Director of Finance. Helen Marney has been appointed with Hannah Moore (PTS4) and Fran Brown (PTS2) also as the Director of Development, taking up the post from claiming gold in Switzerland. BRITISH the start of November. In addition to myself becoming TRIATHLON Away from elite racing it has also been a successful year Chair, there have been a number of updates to the Board, for the organisation, with close to 118,000 participants including Helen Jenkins who has joined us as Athlete expected to have taken part in triathlon by the end of the Representative and is helping to champion the exciting year within events, club activities and GO TRI. Nearly new Athlete Commission. I’m delighted to be able to welcome you to the 2019 1,000 events have received an event permit and taken Being an Olympic and Paralympic year, 2020 will be an Annual Report as the newly appointed Chair of British place across England, providing opportunities for anyone incredibly exciting year. Our sport will be broadcast globally, Triathlon. Since taking up the post in July, I have seen and everyone to access triathlon in their local area. a number of exciting results and developments across with our athletes giving inspiration to triathletes and future our sport and organisation. Financially, the 2019/20 year is projected to see significant triathletes around the world. As ever, clubs, volunteers and improvements following a challenging 2018/19 year. coaches will be at the forefront of getting people involved in Starting at home, 2019 once again saw us host AJ Bell The current forecast is that British Triathlon’s cash reserves our sport, with GO TRI playing a key role at the beginning World Triathlon Leeds and Accenture World Triathlon will have recovered to sit at approximately £700,000, of the triathlon journey for so many. The sport simply Mixed Relay Nottingham. Britain’s elite women showed following a forecasted surplus of almost £400,000 wouldn’t exist without the commitment of volunteers across their strength in Leeds, with Georgia Taylor-Brown (gold) at the time of writing. This improved financial situation Britain, and my thanks go out to everyone who willingly and and Jess Learmonth (bronze) among six top-15 finishers. means that moving forwards, the British Triathlon Board enthusiastically gives their time in helping others. Nottingham saw further gold as Taylor-Brown teamed up and organisation are confident in being able to meet UK As we say goodbye to 2019 and hello to 2020, I eagerly with Ben Dijkstra, Sophie Coldwell and Alex Yee to romp to Sport expectations of strong financial stability and to anticipate how British Triathlon, Triathlon England and the victory in a rain affected race on the Victoria Embankment. incrementally invest and plan towards a successful future. sport of triathlon will successfully develop and grow and, The crowds across these two events created a great British Triathlon staff have worked with commitment, as always, I hugely appreciate your continued commitment atmosphere, braving the weather to cheer on our athletes. dedication and skill for the past year to help the and support for the organisation and athletes. Consistent performances from Learmonth and Taylor- organisation achieve its goals and will be key as we Brown saw them finish side-by-side in the overall World move our sport forwards. Triathlon Series rankings as they claimed silver and bronze Through their work with us, our family of partners align respectively. At the Tokyo 2020 Test Event in August, with our organisational values and help us to grow the Vicky Holland claimed bronze in the women’s race while profile of and participation in triathlon. Partners and Jonny Brownlee finished fifth. The team also won silver in suppliers are vital to the running of the sport, providing the mixed relay (Learmonth, Gordon Benson, Taylor-Brown key funding, equipment and opportunities to athletes and Yee) in Tokyo to show the strength of our athletes as at all levels. The past 12-months have seen several new we head towards next year’s Olympics. BRITISH TRIATHLON ANNUAL REPORT 2019 6 ROLL OF HONOUR ROLL OF HONOUR 7 ITU WORLD TRIATHLON SERIES Daman World Triathlon Abu Dhabi Hamburg Wasser World Triathlon Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 8-9 March 2019) Hamburg, Germany - 6-7 July 2019 ROLL OF HONOUR Senior Men Alex Yee Silver Senior Women Non Stanford Gold Senior Women Jessica Learmonth Bronze ITU World Triathlon Edmonton ELITE TRIATHLON MEDAL WINNERS 2019 MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda Edmonton, Canada - 20-21 July 2019 Bermuda, Bermuda - 27 April 2019 Senior Men Jonny Brownlee Gold CHAMPIONSHIPS WORLD TRIATHLON Senior Women Jessica Learmonth Silver & MAJOR EVENTS MIXED RELAY SERIES ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Lausanne (2019) AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds World Championships) Weert ETU Triathlon European Championships Accenture World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Leeds, United Kingdom - 8-9 June 2019 Lausanne, Switzerland - 29 August - 1 September 2019 Weert, Netherlands - 31 May - 2 June 2019 Nottingham Senior Women Georgia Taylor-Brown Gold Senior Women Jessica Learmonth Silver Senior Men Alistair Brownlee Gold Nottingham, United Kingdom - 15 June 2019 Jessica Learmonth Bronze Georgia Taylor-Brown Bronze Senior Women Beth Potter Gold Mixed Team Relay Gold U23 Women Olivia Mathias Silver Junior MTR GBR Silver Groupe Copley World Triathlon Montreal U23 Mixed Team Relay Silver ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Edmonton Montreal, Canada - 28-29 June 2019 Valencia ETU Triathlon U23 European Edmonton, Canada - 20-21 July 2019 Senior Women Georgia Taylor- Brown Silver Championships Mixed Team Relay Silver Jessica Learmonth Bronze Valencia, Spain - 14-15 September 2019 U23 Men Ben Dijkstra Gold WORLD CUP RACES U23 Mixed Team Relay GBR Gold Discovery Triathlon World Cup Cape Town Karlovy Vary ITU Triathlon World Cup ETU Sprint Triathlon European Championships Cape Town, South Africa - 9-10 February 2019 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic - 25 August 2019 Kazan, Russia - 26-28 July 2019 Senior Men Alex Yee Silver Senior Men Sam Dickinson Gold Senior Men Gordon Benson Gold Grant Sheldon Silver Sam Dickinson Silver Cagliari ITU Triathlon World Cup Cagliari, Italy - 18 May 2019 Weihai ITU Triathlon World Cup ITU World Triathlon Olympic Qualification Event Senior Men Alastair Brownlee Gold Weihai, China - 21 September 2019 Odabia Marin Park, Tokyo, Japan - 15-16 August 2019 Senior Women Sophie Coldwell Gold Senior Men Grant Sheldon Bronze Senior Women Vicky Holland Bronze Mixed Team Relay Silver Nur-Sultan ITU Triathlon World Cup Nur-Sultan (Astana), Kazakhstan - 15-16 June 2019 Senior Women Kate Waugh Bronze BRITISH TRIATHLON ANNUAL REPORT 2019 BRITISH TRIATHLON ANNUAL REPORT 2019 8 ROLL OF HONOUR ROLL OF HONOUR 9 ETU CUP RACES ELITE PARATRIATHLON MEDAL WINNERS 2019 2019 Lievin ETU Indoor Triathlon European Cup Tartu ETU Triathlon European Cup and Baltic Lievin, France - 2 March 2019 Championships ITU WORLD ITU PARATRIATHLON Senior Men Christopher Perham Gold Tartu, Estonia - 13 July 2019 PARATRIATHLON SERIES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Senior Men Sam Dickinson Gold Milan, Italy - 27 April 2019 Lausanne, Switzerland - 1 September 2019 Huelva ETU Triathlon European Cup and PTS4 Women Hannah Moore Gold PTS2 Women Fran Brown Gold Iberoamerican Championships Malmö ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup PTVI Women Alison Peasgood Gold PTS4 Women Hannah Moore Gold Huelva, Spain - 24 March 2019 Malmö, Sweden - 3-4 August 2019 PTS2 Men Andy Lewis Silver PTS5 Women Claire Cashmore Gold PTS5 Men George Peasgood PTS2 Men Andy Lewis Senior Men Barclay Izzard Gold Senior Women Kate Waugh Silver Silver Silver PTVI Men Dave Ellis PTS5 Women Lauren Steadman Ben Dijkstra Bronze Silver Silver PTVI Men Dave Ellis Silver Kecskemét ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup Yokohama, Japan - 18 May 2019 PTVI Women Melissa Reid Silver Melilla ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup Kecskemét , Hungary - 18 August 2019 PTWC Women Jade Hall Gold Melilla, Spain - 7 April 2019 Senior Women Sian Rainsley Bronze PTS2 Women Fran Brown Silver ITU PARATRIATHLON Senior Men Morgan Davies Bronze PTS5 Women Claire Cashmore Silver WORLD CUP SERIES PTVI Women Melissa Reid Bronze Constanta ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup Besancon, France - 16 June 2019 Quarteira ETU Triathlon European Cup Constanta, Mamaia, Romania, Romania - 21 September 2019 Montreal, Canada -