Jan Frodeno decided to do his first triathlon after watching the first ever Olympic triathlon on TV in 2000. Only eight years later, in 2008, he out sprinted the 2000 Olympic champion, Simon Whitfield, and won a gold medal of his very own in Beijing.

Jan Frodeno was a 15 year old surfer in South Africa who needed to learn to swim. A few years later he won the 2008 Olympic triathlon gold medal.