Joe Townsend
Former Royal Marine Joe
Townsend has won gold for England after winning the first Commonwealth Games
Para-triathlon.
Joe, a former Royal
Marine, lost both his legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2008 at the age of
19.
I had the pleasure of meeting Joe back in my days at Headley Court. Part of the Royal marines family.
Since then Joe's also become a Strength and Conditioning coach as well as an athlete.
He has now followed on successes at the Invictus Games to claim his first
gold medal at a major games.
Joe first got into
triathlon when he first completed the Ironman UK triathlon in July 2011.
He has
since competed at the Ironman World Champions ships, finishing second in the
disability category in Kona, Hawaii in 2012.
At his home Paralympic
Games, Joe carried the Paralympic flame into the London 2012 stadium as part of
the opening ceremony, making a dramatic overhead entrance to the arena
suspended by wires.
Joe went on to claim 4 gold medals at the 2014 Invictus
games and competed at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro.
Joe Townsend, the Bulletproofbodies Team salute you.
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