fullname country updated birth_place weight height sport birth_date article_title
tyler barbour butterfield bermuda 21 july 2012 pembroke parish , bermuda 75 kg lb on 1.81 triathlon 12 february 1983 tyler butterfield

tyler butterfield

tyler barbour butterfield -lrb- born february 12 , 1983 in pembroke parish , bermuda -rrb- is an athlete from bermuda .
he competes in road bicycle racing and triathlon events .
he became bermuda 's first ever professional triathlete in 2002 .
he was voted bermuda 's male athlete of the year in 2006 and 2013 .
butterfield was the youngest male competitor at the second olympic triathlon at the 2004 summer olympics .
he placed thirty-fifth with a total time of 1:58:26.99 .
in 2007 , butterfield competed for team slipstream , a uci professional continental team .
in 2006 , he raced as an amateur cyclist for the vendee u team based in france .
he finished 11th in the cycling road race at the 2006 commonwealth games in melbourne .
at the 2012 summer olympics , he again competed in the men 's triathlon , finishing in thirty-fourth with a time of 1:50:32 .
following the 2012 games , butterfield elected to focus on long-course triathlons .
in 2013 butterfield finished seventh at the ironman world championship on his debut and ninth in the ironman 70.3 world championship .
at the 2014 commonwealth games , he finished in 19th place .
butterfield 's father , jim , competed in rowing for bermuda at the 1972 summer olympics , before switching to the marathon -lrb- finishing 17th in the event at the 1978 commonwealth games -rrb- and to triathlon , finishing seventh in the 1981 hawaii ironman .
his mother debbie finished fourth in the 1985 boston marathon and set a personal best of 2:38 in the same year .
his wife nikki butterfield-egyed won the 2011 ironman 70.3 syracuse , five months after giving birth to the couple 's daughter savana and went on the win the 2012 abu dhabi international triathlon .
she made a second return to the sport in 2014 , finishing third at the ironman 70.3 mandurah australian pro championship less than 10 months after the birth of the couple 's son walker , but she subsequently announced her decision to retire from professional competition in january 2015 .
