Georgia Taylor-Brown

Georgia Taylor-Brown has battled her way through potentially career-ending injuries to the very pinnacle of triathlon, culminating in three Olympic medals and a supertri title.

The Manchester-born athlete grew up in a sporting family. Her dad, Darryl, was an 800m runner who represented Great Britain, while her mum, Beverley, was a national level swimmer and a club runner.

Georgia was a talented cross-country runner at school before being drafted into British Triathlon’s Olympic Development Squad. She won the Junior World Duathlon Championships in Nancy in 2012, but injuries threatened to derail a promising career.

Following the 2014 Junior World Championships, Taylor-Brown was diagnosed as a stress fracture in her foot, which, despite careful management, got worse. After accepting the need for surgery and having two screws inserted into the bone, Taylor-Brown suffered another fracture. That paled into insignificance compared to the next chapter of woe. As she returned to running, she felt pain. It turned out a screw had come loose and was about to burst through her skin. After 16 months of frustration and pain, Taylor-Brown started to build again.

It didn’t take long for her determination and talent to rapidly propel her into the big time. She finished third in the WTS rankings in both 2018 and 2019 and reached the pinnacle of her game in 2020 when she took victory at Hamburg to be crowned World Champion.

Georgia starred at the Tokyo Olympics. She secured silver in the individual event, despite getting a flat tyre with 2km to go on the bike. She was then part of the Great Britain team that took gold in the Mixed Relay. She produced the same results in Commonwealth Games in 2022, as well as winning the supertri title in 2021.

Taylor-Brown spoke openly about struggles in her personal life which caused her distraction from her racing, and suffered two more injuries which kept her out for a large chunk of the last year.

However, she is now happy in a relationship with former supertri supremo Vincent Luis and fit again having proved herself able to compete at the Paris Olympics where she battled to 6th, before winning bronze as part of GB's mixed relay squad.