Beth became World Champion in 2023 having put together a series of results across the World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS), including victories in the Paris Test Event, Championship Finals in Pontevedra and WTCS Abu Dhabi – her first standard distance WTCS victory. Her impressive year also saw her named as the first female triathlete selected as part of Team GB for Paris 2024.
Having previously represented Team GB in athletics in Rio, Paris will be her first Olympics as a triathlete. In 2022, Beth represented Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where she won bronze, four years after competing in both triathlon and athletics at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
As a junior, Beth had been a national level swimmer, combining her swimming with running, before focusing on athletics during her time studying at Loughborough University. Her previous experience with cycling had been cycling around London during her time working as a physics teacher prior to Rio 2016.
After the Olympics, Beth decided to pursue triathlon, a chance meeting with Jonny and Alastair Brownlee convincing her to give swim, bike, run a go. Beth moved to Leeds to train and lived with Jonny for a period of time.
Less than a year later and Beth was on the top step of a triathlon podium at the 2017 Funchal ETU Sprint Triathlon Cup, before making history in 2018 by becoming the first Scottish athlete to compete across two sports at the same Commonwealth Games. Gold Coast was Beth’s second Commonwealth Games appearance having made debut at her first senior Games in her home city of Glasgow in 2014, with top-10 finishes in both the 5,000m and 10,000m.
2018 and 2019 saw top-10 finishes recorded at ITU Triathlon World Cup races before winning gold at the 2019 ETU Triathlon European Championships in Weert, Netherlands. Beth’s upward curve continued in 2020, despite the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, starting the year by claiming silver at the ETU Duathlon European Championships in March 2020 and ending it with silver and gold medals at the World Triathlon Cup events in Arzachena and Valencia, respectively.
Major Results
Beth made headlines worldwide in April 2021, running an unofficial world-record beating 5km time of 00:14:41 at a road event, just a week after victory in the Super League Triathlon Arena Games London. The rest of 2021 saw more success follow for Beth with two seventh place finishes in the World Triathlon Championship Series, including in Leeds, and back-to-back victories in World Triathlon Cup events in South Korea.
Beth continued her form in 2022, starting the year by becoming the first ever eSport Triathlon World Champion after overall victory in the Arena Games Triathlon Series. The medals continued through the summer when Potter claimed her first World Triathlon Championship Series medal with bronze in Montreal before returning to the podium in both Hamburg (silver) and Bermuda (bronze).
On her way to becoming World Champion in 2023, Beth took the top step of the podium in Abu Dhabi, Montreal, Paris and Pontevedra, with a further individual podium (silver) in Hamburg and mixed relay podiums (both silver) in Sunderland and Paris.
In November 2023, Beth was named Scottish Sportswoman of the Year.
On her way to becoming World Champion in 2023, Beth took the top step of the podium in Abu Dhabi, Montreal, Paris and Pontevedra, with a further individual podium (silver) in Hamburg and mixed relay podiums (both silver) in Sunderland and Paris.
In November 2023, Beth was named Scottish Sportswoman of the Year.
