Adam Carlton

Nickname: Ads, Adsy, AC

Sport: Triathlon

Position or event: Olympic distance (ITU draft legal)

Date of birth: 17 December, 1987

Place of birth: Melbourne

Place of residence: Brisbane

Age started competing: 8 (swimming) and 14 (triathlon)

First time awarded QAS Scholarship: 2006

Occupation: Triathlete, Student, Get Active Project Officer (teaching healthy lifestyle and sport through schools)

How you became involved in the sport? Swimming and cross-country back-ground at school then selected in QAS Talent Search squad in 2002 and haven’t looked back since!

Achievements: Australian U/23 Elite team for World Champs 2007 and ‘08. Australian Junior National Series Champion 2006.

Current ITU World Ranking: 40th (as of 05/04/09)

Race Results:
2009 (In order from most recent)
• 6th (1st U23) – New Plymouth ITU Oceania Cup
• 12th (2nd U23) – Mooloolaba ITU World Cup (World Cup debut)
• 7th – Australian National Championships, Perth

2008
• 3rd (1st U23) – Incheon International Cup Triathlon, South Korea
• 1st – Gatorade Series Race 1, Raby Bay
• 6th – Singapore ITU Asian Cup
• 6th – Seorak ITU Asian Cup
• 32nd – Vancouver ITU U23 World Championships
• 10th – Seoul ITU Asian Cup
• 3rd – Byron Bay Triathlon
• 17th – Wellington ITU Oceania Championships
• 12th – Gold Coast ITU Oceania Cup
• 2nd – QLD State Track Champs 5km
• 2nd – Gatorade Series Race 4, Robina

2007
• 6th – Noosa Triathlon
• DNF (crash) –World U23 ITU Triathlon Championships, Hamburg
• 3rd – Australian U23 National Championships, Geelong
• 12th (3rd U23) – Luke Harrop Memorial Triathlon
• Awarded Luke Harrop Bursary for winning U23 series
• 1st – Redcliffe Jetty to Jetty 10km Fun Run
• 4th – UQ Maunsell Distance Classic 3km Track Championships
• 9th (3rd U23) – Wellington ITU Continental Cup and NZ National Champs
• 4th (1st U23) – Shichigahama ITU Asian Cup
• 3rd (1st U23) – Gamagori ITU Asian Cup
• 3rd (1st U23) – Yicheng ITU Asian Cup
• 8th – Canberra Capital ITU Sprint Triathlon

2006
• 6th – Noosa Triathlon (first open pro race)
• 1st – Junior National Series Champion 2006
• DNS (injured) – Lausanne ITU Junior World Championships
• 1st – Hobart ITU Australian Junior Series Race 1 (World Champs Selection)
• 2nd – Geelong ITU Junior Australian Sprint Distance Championships
• 9th (1st Junior) – Penrith ITU U23 Oceania Championships
• 3rd – Mooloolaba Triathlon Open Age Group
• 2nd – Australian University Championships

Proposed upcoming race schedule:
June/July: Seorak ITU Asian Cup, South Korea
Sendai ITU Asian Cup, Japan
Italy: training camp and sprint races
Brno ITU European Cup, Czech Republic
August: Tiszaujvaros ITU World Cup, Hungary (selection pending)
September: Gold Coast ITU World Championships (selection pending)

Career high: Despite my race turning out horribly wrong, competing for Australia for the first time at a World Championships in Hamburg 2007 was a huge buzz with the streets lined with hundreds of thousands screaming fans and something I will never forget.

Career low: Missing World Junior Champs in 2006 due to injury.

Greatest sporting influence: Mum and Dad.

Sportspeople Most Admired: Lance Armstrong, Simon Whitfield, Courtney Atkinson, Simon Thompson, Michael Klim, Roger Federer.

Short Term Goals: Qualify for Australian U23 Team for Gold Coast ITU World Champs 2009; compete well in upcoming ‘Young Guns’ tour through Korea, Italy and Czech Republic; win/podium at Gold Coast U23 ITU World Champs.

Long Term Goals: Win Gold at the Olympics; keep competing at a high level all over the world for many years to come, hopefully gaining a number of World Cup and World Champ series podiums; win a World Championship; become World Number 1; and keep learning and getting faster and stronger every year and continuing to enjoy the lifestyle and challenges.

Advice for others: Believe in yourself no matter that. Do not let anyone tell you that you can’t do something.

Hobbies and interests: Music, movies, the beach, tennis, AFL, cards, BBQ’s with friends.

Personal strengths: Determination, focus and drive.

Personal weaknesses: Impatience, sometimes I get to frustrated too easily.

Personal likes: Strawberries, chocolate, travelling and learning about other cultures.

Personal dislikes: Negativity, smoking.

Dream job outside triathlon: Pro tennis player, pro poker player or front man for a boy band!

Favourite food: Indian.

Favourite drink: Coffee.

Favourite TV shows: Prison Break, High Stakes Poker, Summer Heights High & Skins.

Favourite movies: Blood Diamond, The Shawshank Redemption, Slumdog Millionaire.

Favourite song: Michael Jackson – Man in the Mirror.

Favourite bands/artists: The Beautiful Girls, Angus & Julia Stone, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lenka, Lior, Cat Empire, Robbie Williams & Joss Stone.