Georgia Taylor-Brown

She is a two-time ETU European Junior Champion.[9] Taylor-Brown won the World Junior Championship Silver medal in 2013[8] along with golds in European Junior Championships in 2012 and 2013.[8] Before that Taylor-Brown won a World Junior Duathlon title in 2012.[8]

A regular in the Great Britain World Triathlon Series squad in 2018, Taylor-Brown earned her first podium at the top level at ITU World Triathlon Leeds[10] behind teammate Vicky Holland and then took bronze at ITU World Triathlon Montreal [11] and ITU World Triathlon Edmonton,[12] helping her to third place in the overall 2018 World Triathlon Series rankings in her debut year, a feat she was able to repeat in 2019 after scoring top ten finishes in every race and a hometown win in Leeds.[13]

Taylor-Brown was also part of the British Mixed Relay teams that won gold at the 2019 Accenture World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Nottingham[14] and silver in the ITU World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series Tokyo.[15]

In July 2021, Taylor-Brown joined Jessica Learmonth and Vicky Holland to represent Team GB in the Women's Triathlon at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In difficult conditions and despite suffering a flat tyre on the last cycle lap, she nonetheless closed the resulting gap on the lead group ahead to win silver.[16] A few days later Georgia won the gold medal in the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday 31 July 2021[17] She also won the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship series, having finished 2nd in all four Championship series races.[18][19]

At the 2022 Super League Triathlon, Arena Games Triathlon series, Taylor-Brown finished 4th in the London event,[20] and 3rd at the series finale in Singapore. This was enough to finish 3rd in the final standings of the inaugural Esport Triathlon World Championship.[21]

At the 2022 Super League Triathlon Championship Series, Taylor-Brown finished 3rd at the first event in London behind Cassandre Beaugrand and Taylor Spivey.[22] She dominated at the second event in Munich however, finishing 30 seconds ahead of her closest rival.[23] She finished 3rd at SLT Malibu, following a crash on the bike, in the first round of the event.[24] A week later she won again, and again by a significant margin, at SLT Toulouse.[25] At the final event of the series, in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, Taylor Brown won by a narrow margin ahead of fellow British triathletes Sophie Coldwell and Beth Potter. Her performance secured her the overall 2022 Season Championship title.[26]

Taylor-Brown was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to triathlon.[27][28]

Georgia was brought up by an athletic family. Georgia's father, Darryl Taylor, represented Great Britain in the 800m.[9] Her mother Bev swam at national level and ran for Sale Harriers. She has been swimming since she was five. Taylor-Brown started running when she was 12 and was selected to run for her school. She chose to focus on triathlon and had a successful trial with the British Triathlon Olympic Development Squad. Originally from Manchester, she moved to Leeds in 2012 to study for a degree in Sports and Exercise Science at Leeds Beckett University.[9]

The following list of results.[13] Unless indicated otherwise, the competitions are triathlons (Olympic Distance).

DNF = Did not finish

DNS = Did not start

DSQ = Disqualified

* Held in 2021

• Georgia Taylor-Brown at British Triathlon
• Georgia Taylor-Brown at World Triathlon