Double Olympic champion Brownlee retires aged 36

Double Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee has announced his status from the athletics astatine the property of 36.

Brownlee won golden astatine London 2012 earlier defending his rubric successful Rio 4 years later.

A satellite champion successful 2009 and 2011, Brownlee is the lone triathlete ever to beryllium crowned inferior satellite champion, U23 satellite champion, European champion and Olympic champion.

"Triathlon has profoundly shaped my life. I person dedicated astir fractional of it to being a nonrecreational athlete, fulfilling my puerility imagination and achieving acold much than I ever dared to imagine," Brownlee wrote connected X.

"I look guardant to embracing a somewhat slower gait of life, yet not excessively slow.

"There’s an breathtaking array of events, challenges and adventures awaiting maine — things I’ve ever wanted to person a ace astatine but haven’t had the accidental to pursue."