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Brad Beven Triathlon coaches swimmers, cyclists, runners & triathletes of all ages & ability. Whether your goals are related to fitness, performance or just training & interacting with like minded people, BBT is for you.

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Brad Beven trained in swamps with Crocs, but you don't have have to. Get custom training programs with Brad's online system and/ or come along to BBT squad sessions.

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That doesn’t mean BBT caters for the elite. Brad works with all different abilities in achieving their personal goals in an environment that’s fun and supportive.

I’ll never forget the year I raced Mark Allen at an indoor triathlon in Bourdeaux. Mark and I had a sprint finish... of course Brad Beven lapped all of us.

––Simon Lessing

I was a little on the puny side as a kid and Dad suggested I run with bricks to help build myself up.

--Brad Beven

The bottom line was I trained really really hard. Not only by myself, I worked with Brad Beven and we used to train each other into the ground.

––Simon Lessing

My hero was Brad Beven – my sole aim was to emulate what he did.

––Courtney Atkinson

We raced a World Cup in Russia, and racing there is a little bit different. They put us up in a hotel which was like something out of Batman, some Gothic huge thing [...]. For food they'd bring out a plate with a great, big cow's tongue on it, and nothing else, no veges or anything, just a great, big cow's tongue. Obviously we didn't eat that. We asked what the soup was and they said it was fat soup. It was just great big lumps of lard that obviously they eat in Winter, or give foreigners, one of the two.

--Brad Beven

Hear more of this interview and Brad's travel yarns in Part 4 of Brad's afterburn.tv interview.*

In 1990 just before Worlds, Welshy got stuck in Canada because of Visa problems, they wouldn't let him out of the country, which is fair enough, who would? Usually they don't let you in when you're Welshy.

--Brad Beven

Hear the rest of this interview and more Welshy stories in Part 3 of Brad's afterburn.tv Champions Series interview.*

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• 19 World Cup Victories
• World Indoor Champion
• 4 x ITU World Cup Champion
• 5 x Australian Triathlon Champion
• International Grand Prix Champion
• 7 x Australian Grand Prix Champion
• 3 x ITU World Championship Silver Medalist
• 1990 Commonwealth Games Silver medalist

Awards

• OAM: Order of Australia Medal
• Triathlon Hall of Fame Member (2013)
• Queensland Sport Hall of Fame
• The Prime Minister's award for services to sport

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The sessions are great and cater for all abilities. There is also a strong social aspect and I am sure I have met life long friends through BBT.

––Jodie S

Brad has helped me achieve outstanding results. I am an ordinary guy who placed 4th at the world championships. I am proof that anyone can achieve with the right encouragement.

–– James B

I was over 60 years old when I took up triathlon. I have no athletic background and limited ability. I will never be a champion but Brad puts as much time and effort into coaching me as he does with the young “hot shots” in the squad.

––Peter M

Since joining BBT last year I have achieved goals I have been chasing for years. I’ve also met a great bunch of people and really look forward to each session.

––Dave L

A few years ago, I was 99kg. Now, I’m a very healthy 74kg. I’m a big fan of BBT!

––Adam Y

The BBT on line program is a great way to train for those who try to fit as much into their lives as they can. I have a family, full time job, but like to train like it was my job. The on line program provides me with detailed training instructions, online feedback to Brad as my coach which enables us to discuss how I’m progressing against the program. I’ve been training with Brad for over 2 years and can see the benefits I’m getting from the sessions and now the on line programs. I would highly recommend the BBT Training and On Line Program to age group athletes, who hold full time jobs, have a family and want to become better triathletes.

––Chris W

I am in my last week of a set of programs Brad put together for me for the Melbourne Marathon on the online system. I can hardly ever get to training in person so the on-line program has been perfect. It’s on-line, so you can access it wherever you are (obviously…). Bu,t I am also a bit old-fashioned – so being able to print in PDF one week at a time has been great as I always have hard copies on hand too. The online system has a feature where you can put in your data after each session – how many kms, HR, how you are feeling etc. I haven’t used this religiously but a couple of times have sent Brad an update of my stats for a week or two at a time and he has used this to see progress etc. The best thing this shows is flexibility – Brad lets you use the online tool however it suits you. The best part for me is that Brad is only an email away and has always been keen to hear how I am going even at my completely random times.

––Melanie C

North Queensland schoolboy sports star Brad Beven would run four kilometres to and from his beloved Miriwinni State School every day carrying a brick in each hand.

The kids on the school bus would hang out the window and give him a hard time, laughing at the boy running along the road as they enjoyed their daily ride to class. But this 10-year-old farm boy who would one day conquer the world, took the Miriwinni school motto of "Success Follows Effort" literally.

At the suggestion of his dad Ray, Brad added the two bricks – one in each hand – to build himself up when he set out every morning to run to school. "I was a little on the puny side as a kid and Dad suggested I run with bricks to help build myself up," recalled Beven this week when he looked back over a stellar career in the sport of triathlon.
"The kids would give me a hard time, yelling at me out of the bus windows but later they’d say to me we never realised just how good you would be."

Now there is a sign that welcomes travelers to Miriwinni (a little sub-tropical haven some 65 kilometres south of Cairns) "The Home of World Triathlon Champion Brad Beven." The puny kid went on to become a legend in the sport – winning four consecutive World Cup Series titles between 1992 and 1995 and three silver medals in the ITU World Championships in the 90s – amongst a host of amazing achievements at home and abroad.

The 1990 ITU World Championships in Orlando Florida was very much Australia’s day with Greg Welch taking the gold medal from Beven and Stephen Foster taking the bronze in only the second ever World Championship. Beven was in the mix again in 1994, finishing with the silver behind the aggressive Brit Spencer Smith (who later tested positive for the performance enhancing drugs) before taking silver again to another Brit, Simon Lessing in 1995. But it was satisfaction of his consistency through the World Cup circuits that would bring great satisfaction to Beven. "We would race 30 times a year and the World Cup winner would be the most consistent for the year and that was satisfiying for me," said Beven.

The Miriwinni school boasts, "Nearby you will find lovely shady beaches, superb rainforests and crystal clear freshwater creeks, not to forget the excellent fishing spots" and Beven explored it all, training by himself without a coach and taking his talents to the world. "Looking back I wouldn’t change a thing," said Beven, "I would always run up and down chasing Dad’s tractor through the cane fields every day… I was always on the run and took up triathlon when I started cross training for my running and swimming training so I wouldn’t lose fitness in between seasons. It was all trial and error and I learnt so much despite the weather; it was either raining or stinking hot up home. And when Cairns hosted the first ever triathlon in 1982 I started riding with a group of guys. I was about 14 at the time and I have never looked back since".

Nicknamed "Croc" because he would train through crocodile infested swamps around his parents cane farm in Miriwinni, Beven along with the likes of Welch and Miles Stewart, would go on to transform the sport of triathlon, putting it on the Australian sporting map – athletes ahead of their time.
And on Sunday night March 17, at the Triathlon Australia Celebration of Champions Annual Awards Dinner at Novotel Twins Waters Resort on the Sunshine Coast, the "Croc" will join his two contemporaries as only the third male to be inducted into the Triathlon Australia Hall of Fame.

Beven will join Welch, Stewart, Michellie Jones and last year’s inductees Jackie Gallagher, Loretta Harrop and Emma Carney as the seventh inductee in Triathlon Australia’s select club. "I suppose it’s recognition for devoting 30 years of your life to doing triathlons and to join Greg and Miles it’s nice to receive this induction," said Beven. "We came through an era when television came on board and it grew quite fast and it all helped build the sport and the popularity. People from Miriwinni could turn on the TV and see me in action and it was a huge thrill."

But of all of his international wins and notoriety it was his victory in his home town Cairns Triathlon in the late 80's that stands out in an extraordinary career that saw him race consistently 30 times a year for four years to win those World Cup Series for four straight years (1992-1995). "That meant so much to me, to win in Cairns in front of my Mum and Dad and family and friends was very special indeed," said Beven. "It was a race I always wanted to win in front of my home town crowd. Because Dad was always cutting the cane around the summer months when I was racing he never got the chance to see me race and he was also in New Zealand when I ran second in the 1990 Commonwealth Games (to Rick Wells) demonstration sport and that was also a thrill. "To win as an individual was great, but to wear the green and gold at the Commonwealth Games was very special."

First Off The Bike said of Beven when rating Australia’s best triathletes: "Domestically he was an absolute rock star and became a household name in Australia. He was super quick and competitive and also traveled well having multiple top 10 finishes in both ITU and World titles races. His dominance in Australia was the key point here. Brad made many athletes look very average when he was in his heyday."

Many believe that Brad Beven was the world’s greatest triathlete "never to win a world championship."

*This article was originally published on the Triathlon Australia website