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Sep 17, 2020 · Canadian Olympic triathletes Simon Whitfield and Sharon Donnelly stretch following Olympic training at Sydney Harbour on Sept. 13, 2000. (Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press) Simon Whitfield...
Oct 1, 2010 · Although Donnelly showed great talent right from the start, she never took herself too seriously. Simon Whitfield says he spent a lot of time racing and, at times, training with Donnelly during those early Kingston years and she helped lighten the mood during their heavy training sessions.
- The Beginning
- The Sydney Olympics
- The Beijing Olympics
- Attitude
- The London 2012 Olympics
- Training
- The End
On Whitfield’s early years in Australia, where he attended a high school boarding school. Whitfield: I met Greg Bennett at a race in Australia, and I’ve looked up to him ever since. … I was very, very lucky to have Benno. And frankly I had Crowie and Macca, too. They were a couple of years older than I was, and I spent time around them when I was i...
On winning gold Bennett(who trained with Whitfield in Victoria, British Columbia, in the lead-up to Sydney): I went to Sydney as a reserve for the Australian Olympic team. We were both incredibly fit and fast. I was confident Simon would mix it up. When they hit the 5K mark on the run I had a tear in my eye already. I truly believed he would do it....
On the controversy surrounding Canada’s decision to name Colin Jenkins to the Canadian Olympic team for Beijing to serve as a domestique for Whitfield. Whitfield: When I started in Sydney we had zero budget for high performance, and we got zero funding, and now we have $1.3 million, and it’s based on medals. That’s just the way it is. So if we coul...
On “The Relentless Pursuit Of …” Kyle Jones(a fellow Canadian national team member who has trained with Whitfield since 2004): Simon changed the name of his blog recently to “The Relentless Pursuit Of.” I think that summarizes him as an athlete and how he approaches the sport and always has approached the sport. There’s that saying “no stone unturn...
*Editor’s note: This article was originally published before the London 2012 Olympics. On Whitfield’s mental preparation for the Games Whitfield: I’ve probably thought about Brownlee or [reigning ITU world champion Javier] Gomez or [reigning Olympic champion Jan] Frodeno every day I’ve been here [in Maui] in some form or another. Whether it’s been ...
On intensity in training Whitfield: I’m training very differently this year than I ever have trained. … It’s less intensity and more general mileage. I always used to train at an incredibly high level of intensity with not a lot of volume. It was intensity, intensity, intensity. Every single day. Except for Mondays, basically. I didn’t do a lot of ...
On retiring and Whitfield’s legacy to the sport Whitfield: This is a selfish answer, but [parenting] is gonna give me the ability to move on. Without kids, I wouldn’t have been able to move on. … [Parenting] is going to make it much easier to move on. In fact, it will just be time. Instead of being like 45 and limping and being told it’s time to pa...
World Triathlon Hall of Fame: Simon Whitfield. The World Triathlon Hall of Fame will honour Elite Women, Elite Men, and Lifetime Achievers for their extraordinary achievements during the evolution of World Triathlon and the sport of Triathlon.
Canadian triathlete Simon Whitfield was a relative unknown, until he put on a spectacular performance at the 2000 Sydney Games to win gold.
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Simon St. Quentin Whitfield (born 16 May 1975) is a Canadian retired Olympic triathlon champion.
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Sep 21, 2020 · 20 years ago, Simon Whitfield won the first ever triathlon Olympic gold medal I remember watching that come-from-behind sprint to the finish live, and it's still as epic as it was in 2000
