40 Facts About Alex Yee

Alexander Amos Yee was born on 18 February 1998 and is a British professional triathlete and distance runner.

Alex Yee is the 2024 World and Olympic champion in standard or 'Olympic' distance triathlon, the second man to win both titles in a single year.

Alex Yee won the gold medal in the Men's Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the silver medal in the same event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the gold medal in the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and the bronze medal in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Alex Yee was the 2022 Commonwealth Games triathlon champion in both the men's and mixed team events.

In 2022, Alex Yee won his first individual World Championship, the 2022 World Triathlon Sprint Championships in Montreal in Canada.

Alex Yee has been part of the gold medal-winning relay team in the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships in Nottingham in 2019.

Alex Yee won silver in the same event in Montreal, securing Great Britain its first quota places in the 2024 Summer Olympics.

In non-traditional formats, Alex Yee was the winner of the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship Series.

Alex Yee represented Great Britain in the subsequent European Athletics Championships.

Alexander Amos Yee was born on 18 February 1998, to a Mozambique-born Chinese father, Ron Yee and English mother, Emma Amos Yee.

Alex Yee studied at Stillness Infant School and Stillness Junior School for his primary education in Honor Oak Park.

Alex Yee studied at Kingsdale Foundation School in West Dulwich and then went on to study for a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science at Leeds Beckett University.

On 4 June 2016 Alex Yee won the ITU World Junior Duathlon Championships in Aviles in northern Spain.

On 19 May 2018 Alex Yee set a PB in the 10,000m of 27:51.94, less than five seconds outside the British under-23 record of 27:47.0 set in 1971 by Dave Bedford.

Alex Yee started his 2018 triathlon season off with a 6th place at the Gran Canaria ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup, following this with an 8th place at the Cagliari ITU World Cup, returning to the site of his accident a year prior.

Alex Yee made his debut in the ITU World Triathlon Series at Abu Dhabi with a sprint-distance race on 8 March 2019.

Team GB recorded a Silver two months later in the same discipline in Tokyo, with Alex Yee being beaten at the line on the final leg by Dorian Coninx representing France.

Individually, Alex Yee finished the season recording a 13th-place finish at the Grand Final in Lausanne in Switzerland, and an overall ITU WTS ranking of 12th, recording 2521 points from 5 races.

Later in the month, Alex Yee ran a personal best of 7:45.81 over 3000 metres at the Bromley Twilight Meeting.

Alex Yee started his 2020 race programme as one of four male GB athletes at the ITU World Cup race at Mooloolaba in Australia, recording the fastest run time of 14:55 but only achieving a 37th-place finish overall due to a mechanical prior to T2.

Alex 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 Yee was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to triathlon.

Alex Yee 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.

Alex Yee took the win at the Super League Triathlon, Jersey race, earlier in the season, finishing ahead of teammate Jonathan Brownlee in the process.

Alex Yee finished second in the SLT Arena Games, Rotterdam 2021.

Alex Yee competed in Super League Triathlon's Arena Games Triathlon Powered by Zwift Esports Triathlon series in 2022.

At the first event of the series, held at Munich's Olympiapark, Alex Yee finished in 6th.

However, following a rule change at the next event, held at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park London, Alex Yee finished in 2nd, being narrowly beaten by Germany's Justus Nieschlag.

At the final event of the series, held at Marina Bay, Singapore, Alex Yee finished in second place behind New Zealand's Hayden Wilde.

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Alex Yee won the first gold medal of the Games by in triathlon.

Alex Yee emerged from the swim in 15th place, and chased down leader Hayden Wilde in the run to win his first major race of the season by 13 seconds.

Alex Yee won a second Commonwealth Games gold in the mixed relay with Sophie Coldwell, Sam Dickinson, and Georgia Taylor-Brown.

Alex Yee started in the first leg of the race to give the second leg a 20-second lead, which the team held on to win the race.

Alex Yee competed as a wildcard at the opening event of the 2022 Super League Triathlon championship series in London.

Alex Yee finished the event in 3rd, behind Matthew Hauser and Hayden Wilde.

Alex Yee won the gold medal in the triathlon at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Alex Yee took home the bronze medal in the team relay, alongside Georgia Taylor-Brown, Sam Dickinson and Beth Potter.

Alex Yee was one of the Great Britain flag-bearers at the closing ceremony alongside trampoline gymnast Bryony Page.

On 27 April 2025 Alex Yee completed his first competitive marathon, running the London Marathon in 2:11:08.

Alex Yee was the second British runner to finish in the Elite men's race, and placed fourteenth overall.