Fran Brown backs Swansea Para Series event to boost paratriathlon profile

Former world champion Fran Brown is backing the first ever standalone World Triathlon Para Series event in Swansea to dramatically increase the profile of her sport. The best paratriathletes in the world head to south Wales later this summer and will return to the city through to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Ad/> The event also gives non-elite athletes the chance to take part and PTS2 star Brown, who grabbed global glory in 2019, wants the race on August 6 to push paratriathlon onto a whole new level in this country.

Triathlon‘I was loving life… everyone was miserable’ – Learmonth on why losing doesn’t have to matter3 HOURS AGO She said: «It will be brilliant. »I think it can be a real boost for our sport and give us some exposure that we have been otherwise lacking. «It is exposure that means people who otherwise wouldn't know, will see the sport, come into the sport, it will help develop paratriathlon.

»It will show some potential athletes out there who might already be just starting in triathlon, that they can reach the elite side of paratriathlon. «Tri clubs are really inclusive which is great. But that sometimes means there will be those club members who are competing with those who are non-disabled or don't even know they can compete in in the para side.

»So I hope it will help grow the sport and bring out even more people who want to take part." Brown, who finished fourth in the Tokyo Paralympics last year, first arrived in elite sport through para climbing, becoming a two-time world champion. But by 2016, she needed a new challenge and with a burning fire to push herself further, learnt to run with crutches and traditional leg braces. This came after already re-learning how to ride a two-wheeled bicycle, with