Craig Alexander

Craig Alexander is an Australian triathlete, born on 22 June 1973, who won the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2011. He raced his first triathlon in December 1993 at Kurnell in southern Sydney and won twenty races in his first four years as a professional, split between Olympic distance and half iron distance. He won the inaugural Ironman 70.3 World Championship in 2006 and again in 2011, and in 2011 he became the first athlete to win both titles in the same year. His 2011 victory broke a course record that had stood for fifteen years and, at age 38, made him the oldest winner of the Ironman World Championship. In 2014 he stepped away from Ironman racing and launched a coaching brand, Sansego.