Richard Murray (triathlete)

Richard Murray is a Dutch triathlete and coach, born on 4 January 1989 in Cape Town. He won the Junior ITU Duathlon World Championships in 2007 and 2008, moved up to adult triathlon in 2009, and was African under-23 champion in both triathlon and duathlon in 2010, then elite African triathlon champion in 2011 and 2012. His first win in the ITU World Triathlon Series came in Hamburg in 2012, and he won the Grand Final of the series in Chicago in 2015. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he placed seventeenth and at the 2016 Summer Olympics fourth. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games he took a silver medal in the mixed team relay and a bronze in the individual triathlon, and in 2016 he won the ITU Duathlon World Championships in Asturias.