Gordon Benson
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| Nationality | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain File:Flag of England.svg England |
| Born | 12 May 1994 Halifax, West Yorkshire, England |
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Gordon Benson (born 12 May 1994 in Halifax, United Kingdom)[1] is a professional British triathlete. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku, the first medal ever won at the European Games by Great Britain.[2]
Gordon Benson is a member of the UK Sport Lottery Funded British Triathlon Podium Potential Squad. He is based in Leeds, where he grew up. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and is currently reading Nutrition at the University of Leeds.[1][3]
He was voted the British Triathlon Male Elite Junior Triathlete of the Year 2011 and 2012.[1]
In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for Great Britain in men's triathlon. He earned a gold medal. The following month he was part of the British team that took the bronze medal at the ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championships in Hamburg.[4]
Benson had represented Great Britain in athletics at the junior level, having won the silver medal in the 3000 metres at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Profile—Gordon Benson; British Triathlon Org.; retrieved July 2015
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Gordon Benson at World TriathlonLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Leeds
- Athletes from Yorkshire
- English male triathletes
- European Games medalists in triathlon
- European Games gold medalists for Great Britain
- Triathletes at the 2015 European Games
- Medalists at the 2015 European Games
- Triathletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic triathletes for Great Britain
- Alumni of the University of Leeds
- 21st-century English sportsmen
- European triathlon biography stubs
- British sportspeople stubs