Brownlee junior, 20, was named British Triathlon's Olympic Athlete of the Year after finishing his first season in the senior ranks as world under-23 and world sprint champion within the Dextro International Triathlon Union series.

Meanwhile Holland, whose results were not good enough to earn her a place on the Lottery funding programme this year, has jumped straight back to the elite level after a series of top 10 finishes in the ITU World Championship series, culminating in sixth place at the Grand Final in Budapest.

Brownlee senior, who made a delayed start to the season after recovering from a stress fracture, finished strongly, matching his younger brother's under-23 win in the Grand Final by winning the senior event.

Jenkins continued to reach the podium in the world series, taking third place in London and Madrid before finishing seventh in the Grand Final.

The Brownlee brothers will continue their training at British Triathlon's Satellite Performance Centre in Leeds under the guidance of Malcolm Brown and Jack Maitland.

They will be joined by two outstanding young talents named in the World Class Development squad, 20-year-old Hollie Avil, the former world under-23 champion, and 19-year-old Tom Bishop, who emulated Jonathan Brownlee this season by taking silver at the world junior championships.

Like Helen Jenkins, Holland will base herself in Wales when she is in the UK, just a few miles west from Jenkins' Bridgend home in Swansea and will continue to train in Australia and Switzerland with a tough international training group that includes world number three, Lisa Norden of Sweden.

A large squad of World Class Affiliate Programme athletes will be fully supported throughout the season with access to British Triathlon's enviable world class coaching, sports science and medical provision.

The squad features current and former world champions who are all contenders for Olympic selection and continued international success in 2011.

Included are recently crowned Ironman 70.3 World Champion, Jodie Swallow from Brentwood Essex, former World Champion, Tim Don and the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Kitzbuhel winner, Stuart Hayes.

Hayes will spend the winter training in Australia alongside team mates Jodie Stimpson and Will Clarke, who has elected to take his training to the Gold Coast as he focuses on a second Olympic campaign having raced in Beijing.

Sky Draper, the British Triathlon Junior Athlete of the Year, features in the women's Talent team having made a name for herself by beating Jenson Button at the Eton Triathlon earlier in the season.

British Triathlon performance director Heather Williams commented: "This has been another successful season for our GE Great Britain teams.

"We are well into our winter training programmes now ahead of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series commencing in Australia in April.

"The major focus for 2011 will be Olympic selection and our World Class Performance Squads will continue to benefit from excellent sports science, medical and coaching support at our National Performance centre in Loughborough and at the funded satellite centres in Leeds, Stirling and Eastbourne."


UK Sport Lottery funded British Triathlon World Class Performance Programme:


World Class Podium

Alistair Brownlee, 22, Leeds

Helen Jenkins, 26, Bridgend

Vicky Holland, 24, Swansea

Jonny Brownlee, 20, Leeds


World Class Development

Hollie Avil, 20, Leeds

Tom Bishop, 19, Leeds

Adam Bowden, 28, Loughborough

Lucy Chittenden, 19, Loughborough

Aaron Harris, 22, Loughborough

Katie Ingram, 25, Loughborough

Todd Leckie, 23, Eastbourne

David McNamee, 22, Stirling

Matt Sharp, 21, Loughborough

Mark Threlfall, 22, Loughborough


World Class Affiliate

Liz Blatchford, 30, Loughborough

Will Clarke, 25, Loughborough

Tim Don, 32, Middlesex

Olly Freeman, 24, Eastbourne

Stuart Hayes, 31, London

Kerry Lang, 34, Glasgow

Jodie Stimpson, 21, Oldbury, West Midlands

Jodie Swallow, 29, Brentwood, Essex

Abbie Thorrington, 23, Loughborough

Vanessa Raw, 26, Loughborough


For profiles of the World Class athletes click here.


Olympic Talent

Sophie Coldwell, 15, Keyworth Nottingham

Sky Draper, 15, Northwood, London

Nicole Raymond, 17, Brentwood

Georgia Taylor Brown, 16, Droysldon, Manchester

Ellie Walton, 15, Bracknell

Maddie Winzer, 16, Richmond, North Yorkshire

Gordon Benson, 16, Leeds

Simon Cooper, 16, Tiverton, Devon

James Davis, 17, Upminster, London

Morgan Davies, 16, Porthcawl, Wales

Iestyn Harriett, 17, Glynneath, Wales

Josh Harris, 17, Newport, Wales

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