Alison Peasgood is a three-time European champion, a two-time World champion and a Paralympic silver medallist. 

Born in Dunfermline in October 1987, she has less than 10% vision and competes in the PTVI category, winning a host of titles across almost a decade in paratriathlon. 

Peasgood initially worked as a physiotherapist, though her athletic capabilities were always apparent.  

She was a gifted swimmer as a junior and was a successful 1500m and 800m runner, winning an International Blind Sports Federation world title over the latter distance as well as representing Scotland as a non-disabled runner at the World Mountain Trophy. 

However, when injuries reduced the amount of running she could do, she signed up to the programme at British Triathlon – amid some persuasion from her friends. 

Since then, Peasgood has gone on to rack up the accolades in paratriathlon, winning the European Championships in 2015, 2016 and 2018, as well as securing the World title in 2014 and 2016. 

In addition to her stacks of ETU and ITU podiums, she claimed silver on her Paralympic debut at Rio 2016 and picked up fourth at Tokyo 2020. 

 

Alison Peasgood record and results

Alison Peasgood’s paratriathlon career kicked off in 2014 when she finished on the podium at ITU events in Yokohama and London. 

She followed that up with third place at the European Championships in Kitzbühel before claiming victory at the World Triathlon Grand Final in Edmonton, the first of her World titles. 

Her 2015 season began with a triumph at the British Paratriathlon National Championships, before she claimed the first of her victories at the European Championships, in Geneva, which was sandwiched by ITU wins at Besancon and Rio de Janeiro. 

At the end of that year, she came close to a second World title, but she came home second at the Grand Final in Chicago.  

However, she went one better in Rotterdam in 2016, having also reigned supreme at the European Championships in Lisbon, which was preceded by another ITU win in Buffalo City. Her Paralympic debut followed in September as she clinched a silver medal in Rio. 

2017 proved to be a disappointing year by Peasgood’s lofty standards as she ended up fourth at the European Championships in Kitzbühel, before a DNF at the Iseo-Franciacorta ITU World Cup race. 

She bounced back in 2018 with ITU wins at Eton Dorney and Iseo-Franciacorta before her third European Championship title, in Tartu, though a third World triumph slipped from her grasp as she ended up second at the Gold Coast Grand Final. 

In 2019, she won another ITU race in Milan and grabbed podiums in Montreal and Alanya, with her next major race coming almost two years later amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

She returned with third place at the World Triathlon Para Series in Leeds before claiming victory in Besancon.  

Next up was the Tokyo Paralympics where she claimed fourth, and she then missed out on further European and World titles as a DNF and third place came in Valencia and Abu Dhabi respectively. 

2022 saw Peasgood pick up another European Championship podium and make it back-to-back wins at Besancon She was a DNF at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, before finishing third at the World Championship in Abu Dhabi. 

In 2024, Peasgood finished second in World Triathlon Para Series Devenport, third in World Triathlon Para Cup Samarkand and the World Triathlon Para Series Swansea and then fifth at the World Triathlon Para Series in Montreal in the build up to the Paris Paralympic Games.

 

Alison Peasgood family

Alison Peasgood is married to Jack Peasgood, who was on the Great Britain Age Group triathlon team for several years before guiding visually impaired athletes. He now works as a coach for Triathlon Scotland. 

Her brother-in-law is George Peasgood, who won two medals in two different sports at Tokyo 2020 as he took silver in the PTS5 paratriathlon and bronze in the C4 cycling road time trial. 

 

Alison Peasgood gear

Cyfac International supplies Alison Peasgood’s bike, with Parcours providing her wheels.