ELITE profiles profile#3 AARON ROYLE DOB: January 26th, 1990 (Australia Day) Age: 23 Born: Newcastle , Australia Hometown: Newcastle Lives: Wollongong Coach: Jamie Turner Institute: AIS Sponsors: Giant, 2XU, Endura, Spiuk, Oakley, HED Wheels, FAVORITE: Page 6 Saucony Sporting Team/s: Newcastle Knights (NRL), Sydney Swans (AFL), Newcastle Jets (A League) MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS: Movies: Fracture WORLD TRIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013 CHAMPIONSHIPS TRIATHLON WORLD TV Shows: Dexter, Californication, Prison Break, 2012 ITU U23 World Champion Food: Chocolate, Thai, Italian 2013 ITU WTS RESULTS Drink: Coffee, Chocolate milk. Auckland 6th Hobbies: Golf, Surfing San Diego 35th Last Book Read: GIANTANAMO ‘My journey’ – David Hicks Madrid 8th Hamburg 18th PERSONAL: Family: Mum: Kim; Dad: Ken; Brother; Nathan (24) Something we don’t know about you: I once had the fastest 200m butterfly time in the world in 2001 for an 11-year-old. True story! What I love about Triathlon: Lifestyle, things you see, people you meet. The feeling you have when you’ve been able to nail something in a race that you’ve been training to do. Outside Triathlon: Golf (fading obsession), Beach, Friends, Work (pool lifeguard) Ultimate Relaxation: Going to sleep when it’s raining. Have you ever encountered any obstacles in your career: Spending10 days in isolation in a clinic in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country this year, after falling ill following a Grand Prix race a week after the Madrid WTS. Doctors found a 12mm abscess on my left lung, initially believing it to be either tuberculosis or a tumour. It was later found I had suffered two “nasty bacterial infections” causing pneumonia and the abscess. DID YOU KNOW? AUSTRALIA has won 20 medals in the ITU World Championships for Men – six gold, six silver and eight bronze – the Gold to Greg Welch (1990), Miles Stewart (1991), Chris McCormack in 1997 and Peter Robertson three times (2001, 2003 and 2005); the Silver to Brad Bevan (1990, 1994, 1995), Robertson (2000, 2002), Chris Hill (2001) and the Bronze to Stephen Foster (1990), Miles Stewart (1998, 1999), Craig Walton (2000, 2001) and Brad Kahlefeldt (2005, 2007, 2010)..