Greg Welch

Greg Welch
Medal record

Men's Triathlon
Competitor for Australia
ITU World Championships
	1990 Orlando	Elite
ITU Long Distance World Championships
	1996 Muncie	Elite
ITU World Cup
	1991	Overall
Ironman World Championship
	1994	Elite
	1991	Elite
	1989	Elite
	1996	Elite
Men's Duathlon
ITU World Championships
	1993 Arlington	Elite

Gregory ("Greg") John Welch OAM^[1] (born in 1964 in Campsie, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian triathlete. He is acknowledged as one of the greatest triathletes due to his remarkable dominance in winning the "The Grand Slam" which includes the ITU Triathlon World Championships (1990), The Ironman World Championship (1994), the ITU Duathlon World Championships (1993) and the Long Course Triathlon World Championship (1994). Greg was an ambassador to the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) in 2000.

Due to his being diagnosed with Ventricular tachycardia, he has undergone nine open-heart surgeries from 2001 until 2003 and has retired from sports. He maintains contact with triathlon through his work as an advisor, coach and commentator with the World Triathlon Corporation.

He is married to fellow Ironman triathlete Sian Welch.

References

↑ http://ironman.com/holdingcell/2004/january-2004/arise-sir-welch

External links

World Champions in men's ITU Duathlon

Kenny Souza (1990) Matt Brick (1991-1992) Greg Welch (1993) Normann Stadler (1994) Oscar Galíndez (1995) Andrew Noble (1996) Jonathan Hall (1997) Yann Millon (1998-1999) Benny Vansteelant (2000-2001) Tim Don (2002) Benny Vansteelant (2003-2004) Paul Amey (2005) Leon Griffin (2006) Paul Amey (2007-2008) Jarrod Shoemaker (2009) Bart Aernouts (2010) Sergio Silva (2011) Emilio Martin (2012) Rob Woestenborghs (2013) Benoit Nicolas (2014)

(women)

World Champions in men's ITU Triathlon

Mark Allen (1989) Greg Welch (1990) Miles Stewart (1991) Simon Lessing (1992) Spencer Smith (1993-1994) Simon Lessing (1995-1996) Chris McCormack (1997) Simon Lessing (1998) Dmitriy Gaag (1999) Olivier Marceau (2000) Peter Robertson (2001) Iván Raña (2002) Peter Robertson (2003) Bevan Docherty (2004) Peter Robertson (2005) Tim Don (2006) Daniel Unger (2007) Javier Gómez (2008) Alistair Brownlee (2009) Javier Gómez (2010) Alistair Brownlee (2011) Jonathan Brownlee (2012) Javier Gómez (2013-2015)

(women)

World Champions in men's ITU Long Distance Triathlon

Rob Barel (1994) Simon Lessing (1995) Greg Welch (1996) Luc Van Lierde (1997-1998) Peter Sandvang (1999-2001) Cyrille Neveu (2002) Eneko Llanos (2003) Torbjørn Sindballe (2004) Viktor Zemchev (2005) Torbjørn Sindballe (2006) Julien Loy (2007-2008) Timothy O'Donnell (2009) Sylvain Sudrie (2010) Jordan Rapp (2011) Chris McCormack (2012) Bertrand Billard (2013-2014) Cyril Viennot (2015)

(women)

World Champions in men's Ironman Triathlon

Gordon Haller (1978) Tom Warren (1979) Dave Scott (1980) John Howard (1981) Scott Tinley (Feb 1982) Dave Scott (Oct 1982) Dave Scott (1983–84) Scott Tinley (1985) Dave Scott (1986–87) Scott Molina (1988) Mark Allen (1989-93) Greg Welch (1994) Mark Allen (1995) Luc Van Lierde (1996) Thomas Hellriegel (1997) Peter Reid (1998) Luc Van Lierde (1999) Peter Reid (2000) Tim DeBoom (2001–02) Peter Reid (2003) Normann Stadler (2004) Faris Al-Sultan (2005) Normann Stadler (2006) Chris McCormack (2007) Craig Alexander (2008–09) Chris McCormack (2010) Craig Alexander (2011) Pete Jacobs (2012) Frederik Van Lierde (2013) Sebastian Kienle (2014) Jan Frodeno (2015)

(women)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 08, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.