Beth Potter

A two-time supertri E World Champion, a World Triathlon Championship Series winner and now a double Olympic bronze medallist. Beth Potter is somebody whose sporting career has taken a remarkable twist - and she is in the form of her life.

Potter isn’t exactly new to the pro athlete game, having already been to the Olympics as a runner before transitioning to triathlon. Her second Games, this time in Paris 2024, saw her step on the podium as she picked up a bronze medal in both the individual and mixed relay events.

Potter is an experienced supertri athlete having finished fourth in the 2021 and 2022 Championship Series’ and taking the inaugural esports triathlon World Title at Arena Games Triathlon powered by Zwift 2022. She regained the title in the newly named supertri E in 2024.

She grew up in Bearsden in Scotland and ran as a junior for Victoria Park Glasgow, inspired by her father, Alex, also a runner. Potter enjoyed success quickly, picking up several junior titles in cross country and on the track, and combined her running with swimming. Her move to Loughborough University saw her pedigree develop further, and in 2014 she moved from being a junior to a senior and worked with coach Mick Woods.

Potter represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in her home city of Glasgow and then followed that up by qualifying to run for Great Britain over 10,000 meters at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she finished 34th. The idea that she could be more successful in triathlon than track running had already been going around Potter’s head, but a chance meeting with the Brownlee brothers in Rio convinced her to give it a go.

During her Commonwealth and Olympic years, Potter had been working as a teacher but decided to quit so she could move to Leeds and focus fully on triathlon. She was given an invite to live with Jonny Brownlee, which she did for a year, learning from one of the sport’s biggest stars.

Without any funding and with run sponsors now leaving the scene, Potter initially lived off of savings and really focused on improving her biking. She did that, and slowly but surely, her results improved before she produced a seismic shock in winning the European Championships in 2019.

Potter was on an upward curve in 2020 despite the enforced lay-offs of COVID, and since has only gone from strength to strength. In 2021, she was crowned the first esports triathlon World Champion at Arena Games Triathlon. She then enjoyed more success, taking a bronze medal while representing Team Scotland, at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Later in the year, she took on the SLT Championship Series, where she finished in 4th position over all, thanks to an impressive podium finish at the season finale in NEOM.

Her results have continued to improve at a pace and in 2023 she became WTCS champion and in 2024 supertri E World Champion.