Julien Loy

Julien Loy is a French triathlete, born on 1 February 1976. He became a world champion at long distance triathlon by winning the gold medal at the 2007 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Lorient, ahead of his fellow countrymen Xavier Le Floch and Sebastien Berlier, who took second and third. He won the gold medal again at the 2008 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Almere in the Netherlands, so he held the title in consecutive years. The long distance format stretches the swim, bike and run well beyond the Olympic distance, and these two victories are the achievements the source article records for him.