The MSc Finance student missed the season's first two races after a stress fracture picked up during off-season training but with brother Jonathan pacemaking, he beat Australian Courtney Atkinson.

Afterwards he said: "That win overshadows anything I did last year, it's the proudest victory that I've ever had because I had to fight so hard for it.

"I definitely wasn't expecting to win. I was running for second place and with 500m to go I gave it everything I had. I looked back and couldn't believe the gap that I had opened up. I had to give it everything to win."

To watch highlights of Brownlee's victory visit BBC Sport.