Alex Yee is a British triathlete from Lewisham, London. At the young age of 23 in the year 2021, he became an Olympic gold medal winner and also won the Super League Triathlon championship. Now he is also Qualified for the Paris Olympics 2024.
Alex Yee is Qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics
The British triathlete Alex Yee dominated the men’s test race in Paris to secure Britain’s second win on the course that will be used in the Olympic Games. The 25-year-old had such a big lead over the runner-up Vasco Vilaca from Portugal that he slowed down to cross the finish line at Pont Alexandre III in the men’s triathlon Olympic Games test event on Friday.
“I was just really pleased with how it went, and we’ve got a great course for next year,”. The race started with a 1500m swim in the River Seine after it passed water quality tests – two weeks following the cancellation of an open water swimming test event because the water was “below acceptable standards”.
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“Being able to have this first experience on this course, and the next one being Paris 2024, gives me confidence that hopefully I can come back and do my best to repeat, as well as I can, what I did today,” Yee said.
Yee’s victory comes one day after fellow Briton Beth Potter won the women’s event on Thursday. Vilaca, who finished 14 seconds behind Yee, described the race as “aggressive” as athletes fought for the best position throughout the swim and bike legs before the run.
“Alex kind of made us look slow, but I felt we were going very fast and I gave everything I had.” “I tried to position myself well for the sprint in the end with the two French men squished me in, and in those last 50m I just looked forward and tried to squish back through the middle of them and got back to second place.”
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“The race started at a crazy pace, I had a plan to control my speed but when I saw what the others were doing, I preferred to break away.”
“It wasn’t easy, it took me six or seven kilometers to catch up with the leading group.”
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Alex Yee’s Early Years and Family
Alex Yee was born on February 18, 1998, in Lewisham, England. He was born to his father, Ron Yee, and his mother, Emma Amos Yee. He has two brothers named Joseph Yee and Bolen Yee. His father was originally born in Mozambique. Alex credits his father as one of the key reasons for introducing him to the sport. Ron, who is an architect and university lecturer, competed in some duathlon races himself, and Alex used to go with him to races when he was six or seven years old.
He completed his A-level exams at Kingsdale Foundation School in West Dulwich and then studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport and Exercise Science at Leeds Beckett University. His height is 5 feet and 10 inches, and his weight is 121.3 pounds.
Alex Yee is in a Relationship with Olivia Mathias
Alex Yee is currently dating Olivia Mathias, who is also a triathlete. They have been dating each other for some time now.
Olivia Mathias was born on October 12, 1998, in Great Britain, Wales. She is a Welsh professional triathlete. She took part in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in the Mixed relay event, where she won a silver medal. Her height is 5 feet 7 inches and her weight is 130.1 pounds.
Olivia competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2019 World Triathlon U23 World Championships. In 2022, she competed at the Europe Triathlon Cup Kitzbühel event, where she won a gold medal.
Alex Yee Career So far
Alex Yee Early Career
On June 4, 2016, Alex won the ITU World Junior Duathlon Championships in Avilés in northern Spain. Because of this, he was shortlisted for the SportsAid “One to Watch” award, which he went on to win. He received his award from Sir Mo Farah at the ceremony in November.
On June 4, 2017, at the ITU Triathlon World Cup race in Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy, Alex got twisted with another competitor on the bike and crashed into a concrete bollard. He suffered broken ribs and vertebrae and a pneumothorax (collapsed lung).
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On May 19, 2018, Yee set a personal best time of 27:51.94 in the 10,000-meter race. This was less than five seconds outside the British under-23 record of 27:47.0 set in 1971 by Dave Bedford. Earlier in the year, Yee set the second-quickest-ever Parkrun time to date, clocking 13:57 at Dulwich.
Alex started his 2018 triathlon season with 6th place at the Gran Canaria ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup. After that, he got 8th place at the Cagliari ITU World Cup, returning to the site of his accident a year before. In June, he competed at Antwerp, getting a disappointing 49th place (despite having the fastest run split). Then in September, he competed in the U23 category at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Gold Coast, coming home 10th. Later the same month, he made it onto the podium for the first and only time in 2018, taking bronze at the ITU World Cup in Weihai, China.
Alex Yee’s Professional Career in His Prime
On March 8, 2019, Alex made his debut in the ITU World Triathlon Series in Abu Dhabi with a sprint-distance race. After a strong swim and bike, he recorded the second-fastest 5 km run of the race to finish second to Mario Mola in a race that saw 9 DNFs (did not finish). In the build-up to the race, Alex confirmed his view that he was a triathlete first and foremost, despite being a nationally ranked runner, and stated his intentions to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics and Super League
On August 8, 2020, in the Podium 5 km at Barrowford, Lancashire, Yee ran a time of 13:26, behind the winner Marc Scott who ran 13:20. Yee’s time was the second fastest 5 km ever by a British athlete. Later that month, Yee ran a personal best of 7:45.81 over 3000 meters at the Bromley Twilight Meeting.. Yee started his 2020 race program as one of four male British athletes at the ITU World Cup race at Mooloolaba in Australia. He recorded the fastest run time of 14:55 but only achieved an overall 37th-place finish due to a mechanical issue before the second transition.
Yee won the silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, as well as a gold medal in the mixed triathlon, in which he was the competitor to cross the finish line for the team. Alex was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for his services to triathlon.
Yee won the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship Series. He took victory in the final race of the series, held in Malibu, California, crossing the line just fractions of a second ahead of Belgium’s Marten Van Riel. He also took the win at the Super League Triathlon Jersey race earlier in the season, finishing ahead of teammate Jonathan Brownlee. Yee also finished second in the SLT Arena Games in Rotterdam in 2021.
In 2022, Yee was appointed a Member of the British Empire (MBE) during New Year’s Honours for his services to triathlon, along with fellow relay gold medalists Jonny Brownlee, Jess Learmonth, and Georgia Taylor-Brown. He became a virtual world champion and won the inaugural Esports Triathlon World Championship in Singapore.
World Championships
In the same year, he won the first and third World Triathlon races of the year. He battled with Wilde throughout the race but just edged him in the home stretch to take the first win of 2022 in Yokohama. Later that year, he had a crash at the Leeds WTCS event at the start of the month, causing him to DNF (did not finish) from what could have been a remarkable race. He fared better than teammate Jonny Brownlee though, who suffered a broken elbow from the same collision. Two weeks later, Yee was in Montreal and back to his winning ways in the individual event and won silver in the mixed relay.
In March 2023, he took the first win in Abu Dhabi at the first race of the 2023 WTCS season. Yee took a relatively comfortable win. He also skipped the second WTCS race in Yokohama but returned to Cagliari to make it two wins from two races in Sardinia.
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In August 2023, he secured his second Olympic spot by cruising to victory at the Paris Olympics Test Event to secure his spot at the 2024 Games. It was a powerful statement from the British star, as he practically sauntered across the line to win by 14 seconds. A week later, he finally won his home Super League race in the first round of the 2023 series.
In the same year, he finished in fifth place, which was not a highlight for Yee, given he finished the Grand Final race in 30th place, a shocking swim, and missed several bike packs, but he managed to still finish in the top five for the year and, of course, qualify for his second Olympics. He also ended the year with a bronze in the final round of the 2023 SLT series, which was enough to secure bronze overall.
