Joel Filliol Triathlon

About Joel Filliol

Joel is one of triathlon's most experienced and successful professional coaches. He has been involved in endurance sport since 1989 both as an athlete and coach. As an athlete Joel has competed in over 100 triathlon and multi-sport events and represented Canada at World Championships in Triathlon and Duathlon. As a coach he has worked with athletes at the highest levels including at the Ironman and Ironman 70.3 World Championships, the ITU World Elite and Age Group Championships, and multisport games such as the Commonwealth, Pan American, and Olympic Games.

Joel's current project is his independent elite squad #JFTcrew, initiated in 2013, through which he has supported 6 Elite ITU World Champions, 17 World Triathlon Championships Series Overall Podium performances, over 30 World Triathlon Championships Series winning performances, and Multiple Olympic representatives including 3 Olympic Medalists.

Joel's previous roles included serving Triathlon Australia as the Podium Centre Head Coach, and Olympic Program Head Coach, providing coaching leadership and strategic direction to the TA High Performance Plan with a focus on current and future Olympic, Commonwealth cycle and WT success and to lead the daily training environment, technical direction and operational standards for the TA Podium Centre.

From Rio to Tokyo in 2020, Joel held the role of Olympic Performance Director for the Federazione Italiana Triathlon leading the Olympic program towards building the processes for success at the Olympic Games and World Championships. The role included setting the overall Olympic Program Leadership, including policy, budget, and strategic direction, as well as hands on coaching of National Team athletes.

Joel served as Head Coach for the world leading national federation, British Triathlon, based at the National High Performance Centre in Loughborough, UK. As Head Coach with British Triathlon Joel worked with world medallist athletes Alistair Brownlee, Jonathan Brownlee, Helen Jenkins, Will Clarke, Tim Don and the other members of the UK Sport funded World Class Programme.

Joel served Triathlon Canada for two years as Development Coach at the National Triathlon Centre in Victoria, before taking on the Senior Coach role in 2006 to 2008. Joel has coached at two Commonwealth Games (2002 and 2006), two Pan American Games (2003 and 2007), and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. At the NTC in Victoria Joel personally coached many of Canada's National Team athletes including 2000 Olympic Champion Simon Whitfield, and Colin Jenkins.

As the Head Coach for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Team Joel led the Canadian team toward achieving their two major performance objectives; qualifying a full team of 3 men and 3 women, and achieving a Silver Medal performance, as Simon Whitfield's personal coach.

Joel initiated his coaching company, CompetitionZone.com, in 2000, and has worked with many athletes of different backgrounds, goals and fitness levels to achieve their goals online, locally and through camps. Through Competition Zone Joel has worked with multiple Ironman winner Tom Evans from 2004-2008, and 70.3 podium performer and Olympian Helle Frederiksen, among many others.