Australian Triathlete – July-August 2017

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Jake birtwhistle

from Jamie Turner’s squad to explore
something new.
In a mini-bombshell, since the Gold
Coast WTS Jake has now severed ties with
Jamie Turner and the Wizards, and has
commenced working with former
Triathlon Canada National Senior and
Olympic Coach, and British Triathlon Head
Coach, Joel Filliol.
“I met with Joel after the race on the
Gold Coast and had a chat. We have
been speaking a bit since then and
decided that we wanted to try this new
arrangement out.”
“It has been an ongoing thing, and I
wanted to try something different to what
Jamie’s plan was. Our relationship got to a
point where it was time for me to chase
what I want, what I believe in and give that
a try. So I am not left wondering in ten
year’s time thinking, ‘what if’. What if I had
tried this back then.”
“I have been with Jamie for over three
years now and from where I was as an up
and coming junior guy to now being one of
the top in the world is a pretty massive
transition in a few years, and a lot of that
is because of him and his ways.
He certainly has taught me a lot, and it is

something I will continue taking forward

with me where I am going.”

“As the old saying goes, you work on

your strengths and chip away at your

weaknesses, and I have a bit of room for

improvement. I thought a bit more effort

could have been put into what I was doing.

I obviously don’t want to take a step

backwards with the biking or the running

to improve the swim, but I do want to

improve the swim.”

“If you look at all the races I have done

well at, it has been the races where I have

had a good swim or the races that have

come together on the bike, but that is not

a chance you want to take to guarantee

being up there at the front of the race.”

After [WTS] Yokohama Jake will head

over to Europe and join Filliol’s group

(which includes Mario Mola and Richard

Murray) and will be based between

Banyoles Spain and Font Romeu in France.

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ABove: Jake gave a dominating performance at the Super League hamilton Island

event earlier this year. LefT: Jake on the way to his first podium at iTU wTS,

hamburg in 2016.

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