Ben Bright

New Zealand triathlete (born 1974)

Benjamin Clifford Bright, also known as Ben Bright, was born on 12 July 1974 in Waiuku, New Zealand. He is the head coach for GB Triathlon, an olympic coach and a former athlete. ^[1]

Athletic career

Bright won Le Race, a 100 kilometres (62 mi) road bicycle race in Canterbury, New Zealand, in early 2000.^[2] He competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He ended up finishing in thirty-eighth place with a total time of 1:52:17.26.

Coaching

Later on,^[when?] Bright became a coach of Mantas, a local swim club in Hong Kong. After training several outstanding swimmers, including an Olympian^[who?] and Hong Kong age group record breakers,^[who?] he accepted an opportunity to coach a triathlon at Loughborough University in England.

Bright is now the head coach for the British Triathlon High Performance centre in Loughborough. He was personal coach to Tim Don and Hollie Avil at the 2008 Olympics.^[3]

References

^ "Ben Bright Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. 12 July 1974. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
^ "Hall of Fame". Le Race. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
^ "Ben Bright". Triathlonperformancesolutions.com. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ben Bright". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2010.

2000 New Zealand Olympic team

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