British Triathlon’s Adam Elliott has actually been honoured at the UK Coaching Awards by being called High Performance Coach of the Year.
Elliott is the Head Coach at the Loughborough High Performance Centre, dealing with the World Class Programme, and 2023 showed an unforgettable one for professional athletes training with him.
2 highlights in specific were Alex Yee’s Olympic Test Event triumph which scheduled his location for Paris 2024 and Sophie Coldwell’s first-ever World Triathlon Championship Series win.
‘Not a 9-5 task’
Yee was a routine on the podium on top end of the sport and won WTCS Cagliari and Abu Dhabi along with the Test Event before being the very first male triathlete called by Team GB for next summer season’s Games.
Coldwell on the other hand won a WTCS race for the very first time as she based on the leading action of the podium in Yokohama, contributing to the silver medal she declared in Abu Dhabi at the start of the season.
Coldwell stated: “I’ve been exceptionally fortunate to have actually been coached by Adam for 14 years now and because time, he’s gone from Apprentice Coach to Head Coach of our centre.