Sam is a Commonwealth champion from the Birmingham 2022 mixed relay, former British Junior Champion, and has represented Great Britain at individual and mixed relay races and championships across the age categories.
Elsewhere in 2022, Sam also claimed mixed relay gold and at World Triathlon Championship Series Hamburg and Montreal respectively, and individual bronze at Europe Triathlon Cup Coimbra and World Triathlon Cup Tongyeong. This last result was one he matched when returning to Tongyeong in 2023 before ending his year with nineth at Africa Triathlon Cup Agadir.
Sam is originally from York and is a member of the UK Sport Lottery Funded World Class Performance Programme, training at the Leeds Triathlon Centre. Two years after his introduction to triathlon, Sam was the British Junior Champion and topped the table at the British Triathlon Super Series in 2015. In 2016, he won silver at the ETU European Championships and represented GB at the ITU World Championships.
Sam's older brother, Tom, also represents the Great Britain Age-Group Team. They both competed on the Gold Coast at the ITU World Championships in 2018. Sam won silver in the U23 elite race at the ITU World Championships on the Gold Coast.
He took gold at the 2019 Tartu ETU Triathlon European Cup and Baltic Championships in July, as well as the Karlovy Vary ITU Triathlon World Cup. He also won silver at the Kazan ETU Sprint Triathlon European Championships. His year was closed out with a final gold medal at the Constanta ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup where he took the podium with British teammate Calum Johnson.
After limited racing opportunities due to the pandemic in 2020, Sam returned to international racing at AJ Bell 2021 World Triathlon Championship Series Leeds, his first World Series event as a senior athlete.
He was then part of the British mixed relay team which won gold at the 2021 Europe Triathlon Sprint and Relay Championships in Kitzbühel, Austria, with Sam finishing seventh in the men’s race earlier in the Championships.
Major Results
2022 was a busy year of racing for Sam with gold in the mixed relay at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham among his mixed relay successes which also included gold at World Triathlon Championship Series Hamburg and silver at the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships in Birmingham.
At the end of 2022, he competed in his first IRONMAN 70.3 race, crossing the line second in Bahrain to return home with a silver medal.
In February 2021, Sam hosted the Youth Sport Trust's After School Sport Club which you can view below.
