Jack Maitland

Coaching qualifications

• BTA level 3 coach
• Yoga Alliance UK certified Yoga Teacher

Coaching & Relevant Experience

• Carnegie Director of Triathlon at Leeds Metropolitan University
• Coached extensively for Leeds and Bradford Triathlon club
• Has worked full-time as a triathlon coach since 2002
• Co-director of TheTriathlonCoach.com

Coach Biog

Jack runs a comprehensive programme of sessions for members of the Leeds Met University triathlon club and for World Class athletes who are based in Leeds. In addition to those responsibilities Jack coaches a number of TheTriathlonCoach.com athletes at all levels from novice to elite and at all distances from sprint to Ironman.

As an athlete Jack competed internationally from 1976 when he first represented Scotland as a junior orienteer. He competed for Scotland and GB as a senior before switching to mountain-racing where he enjoyed further success. Highlights of his mountain-racing career were winning the British Fell-running Championships in 1986 and winning both the Everest marathon and the Mount Cameroon race in 1989.

In 1990 he competed in the Commonwealth Games triathlon and he then represented GB 16 times at elite level and won 2 World age-group titles before retiring in 2002 to concentrate on coaching.

Some of the Athletes currently coached by Jack:

Alistair Brownlee - 2009 World Champion and 2nd in European Championship

Jonathan Brownlee - 2009 European Junior Champion and 2nd in World Junior Championships

Vicky Graves - 2009 European Junior Duathlon Champion, 3rd European Junior Triathlon, 2nd World Junior Duathlon

Lois Rosindale - 2009 British Universities Sprint Triathlon Champion

Claire Shea-Simonds - 11:29 at Challenge Barcelona Ironman 2009

Tom Williams - 9:28 at Ironman Switzerland 2009

Jason Benniman - 14th World age-group (M35-39) Championships 2009