There are millions of coaches around the world, some of them working on a voluntary basis and all of them having a big impact on our lives and societies. As part of European Week of Sport 2021, ‘Global Coaches Day’ has been marked for Saturday, 25 September and World Triathlon are profiling various coaches and acknowledging all coaches, around the world, for their incredible and ongoing contribution to Triathlon and Para Triathlon.

Hear from Joe Schoeman on his role as a high performance triathlon coach and the interesting dynamic of coaching his son, Olympic medallist Henri Schoeman. In this video interview Joe Schoeman shares insight his career as a high performance coach, his approach to coaching at the highest level of the sport and the fundamentals and evolution of coaching in triathlon.