Pete Jacobs

Pete Jacobs is an Australian professional triathlete, born in Sydney in 1981 and raised in the Northern Beaches area, who competes mainly in long-distance, non-drafting events. He grew up in surf lifesaving and cross country running, started triathlon at eighteen and turned professional after a four-year landscaping apprenticeship. His first Ironman victory came at Ironman Australia in 2011, after many top-five finishes in Ironman and Challenge Roth races, and he often posts the fastest swim and run splits in a field. His breakthrough came in 2012, when he won the Ironman World Championship by five minutes over Andreas Raelert. In 2014 he drew public criticism from the Ironman chief executive over a last-place professional finish at Ironman Switzerland, a dispute the two later settled in private.