Leading Olympic coach backs Hong Kong to develop ‘genuinely world-class’ triathlete
Ben Bright lending expertise to Hong Kong triathlon, New Zealander has overseen succession of Olympic medals for Great Britain
A multiple Olympic champion coach has backed Hong Kong to develop a “genuinely world-class triathlete”.
Ben Bright, who helped mastermind Alistair Brownlee’s 2012 and 2016 golden summers, recently visited the city to meet with Hong Kong’s leading triathletes, and help head coach Andrew Wright as he fine-tuned plans for 2025 National Games glory.
The 50-year-old New Zealander is a regular sounding board for Wright, who was an athlete when Bright was Hong Kong assistant coach some 20 years ago.
And Bright likened Hong Kong’s steadily growing talent pool, allied to increased ambition, to the situation he discovered in Great Britain when he became the nation’s performance coach in 2005.
As GB men’s head coach, Bright led brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee to gold and bronze, respectively, at London 2012.
He was there again in Rio four years later, when the Brownlees finished one and two, and Vicky Holland took bronze in the women’s race, and in Tokyo, where individual silvers for Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown added to team-relay gold. In his present consultancy role, Bright helped plot Yee’s 2024 Paris Olympics success.
