Career History

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Paul has been a competitive athlete throughout his life. He was a competitive swimmer in his early years competing at county level although he specialised at the short 50m distance and considered 200m to be a long distance race.

 

In 1999 whilst training to become a Royal Marine, Paul competed in his first triathlon, the Chirk sprint triathlon and was hooked from there, the natural athletic ability became obvious and Paul went on to finish the season as Welsh Junior Olympic distance champion

 

Paul spent the next 5years serving his country as a Royal Marine commando including tours of Afghanistan and Iraq, representing the Royal Marines and Royal Navy in swimming, cross country and triathlon in between operational tours.

 

On leaving the Royal Marines in 2005 Paul qualified as a personal trainer and fitness coach and regained his interest in triathlon.

 

By the end 2007, Paul was crowned Welsh Olympic distance champion, UK amateur national rankings champion and qualified for the Ironman 70.3 middle distance world championships in Florida.

 

 

Paul continued to develop as an amateur athlete and began stepping up the distances and was hooked on long distance races after competing in his first Iron distance race in 2008 at the legendary Challenge Roth, finishing in a time of 9hrs 11min beating many of the seasoned Challenge series professionals.

 

In 2010, as an amateur, Paul won his first major full Iron distance race at the very first Outlaw triathlon, against a top class field of both professionals & amateurs alike. It was following this Paul decided to pursue his dream and gave up his job and become a professional Triathlete in 2011.

 

Pauls first international Podium quickly followed in 2012 in only his second season as a Professional Athlete finishing 3rd  at  Ironman UK with a top 10 pro in Ironman Wales finish only weeks later..