Dorian Coninx

Dorian Coninx has proven to be a serial winner in his career and is one of only a handful of athletes to secure both the Junior and senior World Championship titles.

Coninx, originally from Grenoble, in fact was so prolific as a junior that in 2013 he secured both the Junior European and World Championship titles and the very next year made the quick step up to under-23 racing - where he won the World title at that level as well.

It was obvious then that Coninx was an athlete that would be on the radar for years to come in the elite ranks, even among a crop of incredible French stars, both male and female, and so it has proved.

After barely breaking into those senior ranks he was selected for the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he finished 36th, and was building experience on the global stage.

In 2019 he picked up a maiden World Triathlon Series victory in Bermuda and collected another in 2021 in Montreal. That was perfect preparation for the delayed Tokyo Olympics.

Coninx had well established himself as part of a hugely competitive French team in the mixed relay format - they have taken five world titles with him racing - and they battled to a bronze medal in Tokyo.

He became World Champion in 2023 in a truly dramatic end to the season. Coninx took the final at the Final in Pontevedra and that was enough to see him leapfrog pre-race title favourites such as Alex Yee and Hayden Wilde.

Coninx suffered a nasty injury in the build-up to his home Olympics in Paris but was given the nod by the selectors and finished 27th.