Alistair Brownlee, one of the British sporting sensations of 2009 in winning triathlon’s World Series, will be the guest of honour at the SJA’s first Sporting Lunch of the year, in Fleet Street on Wednesday, March 17.

Joining Brownlee and the SJA that day will be the British Triathlon Federation’s head coach, Joel Filliol, who will also be available for journalists’ questions in our on-the-record lunch, explaining the demands of the swim-bike-run sport.

After impressing with his 12th place finish in Beijing on his Olympic debut in 2008, Brownlee swept all before him last year, winning ITU World Series races in Madrid, Washington, Kitzbuhel and in London’s Hyde Park - the centre of the 2012 Olympic triathlon - before winning the 2009 season Grand Final on Australia’s Gold Coast. Read the rest of this entry »