Simon Whitfield

Simon Whitfield, born on 16 May 1975 in Kingston, Ontario, is a retired Canadian Olympic triathlon champion. He won a gold medal in the triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney after getting up from a crash of 15 riders on the bike leg and working his way back to the leaders, in a time of 1 hour 48 minutes 24.02 seconds that stood as the fastest Olympic triathlon until 2012. He won silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics, five seconds behind Jan Frodeno, took Commonwealth Games gold in 2002 and won ten consecutive Canadian Triathlon Championships titles. He carried the Canadian flag at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Games and the opening ceremony of the 2012 Games.