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Three-time Olympian | Triathlon World Champion | Blue Carpet Sports Management
Tim Don 
British triathlete, three-time Olympian, 2006 world champion and former IRONMAN world record holder, now managing triathletes at Blue Carpet Sports Management.
About
Tim Don is a British triathlete, born in 1978 in Isleworth, London. He raced three Olympic Games for Great Britain, from Sydney 2000 to Beijing 2008, and won world titles in duathlon in 2002, aquathlon in 2005 and triathlon in Lausanne in 2006.
Moving up to long course, he twice made the podium at the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship, and in May 2017 he won IRONMAN Brazil in 7:40:23, the fastest IRONMAN ever raced at the time. Two days before that year's World Championship in Kona he was hit by a car on the bike course and broke his neck. He spent three months in a halo brace, ran the 2018 Boston Marathon in 2:49:42 six months after the crash, and was back on an IRONMAN start line in Hamburg that July.
He now works at Blue Carpet Sports Management, managing triathletes and heading up its training camps, and coaches through TD Coaching. He spends most of his time in the UK and trains in Boulder and Spain.
Career highlights
- IRONMAN world best, 7:40:23, IRONMAN Brazil 2017
- ITU Triathlon World Champion, Lausanne 2006
- ITU Duathlon World Champion 2002 and Aquathlon World Champion 2005
- Three-time Olympian: Sydney 2000 (10th), Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008
- Bronze, IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship, 2014 and 2017
- Boston Marathon 2018 in 2:49:42, six months after breaking his neck
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At a glance
- Sport
- Triathlon
- Born
- 1978, London
- Olympics
- 2000, 2004, 2008
- Nickname
- The Don
Management
Blue Carpet Sports Management, where he manages triathletes and heads up training camps.
Coaching
TD Coaching.
Photos
timdon.com; 2006 Commonwealth Games by Jimmy Harris (CC BY 2.0) and Strathclyde Park 2011 by Hugh Miller (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
