Heike Funk

0 Heike Funk
Personal information
Date of birth	17th February 1968 (age 52)
place of birth	Bayreuth , Germany
size	168 cm
Weight	58 kg
societies
1995-1999	SC Riederau
2000-2002	Tristar Regensburg
2002-2014	SG Katek Grassau
Since 2014	Triathlon Grassau
successes
2002	German long distance triathlon champion
1995, 2003	German long distance runner-up
2011	German vice-champion winter triathlon
2017	European triathlon champion F45–49
status
active

Heike Funk (* 17th February 1968 as Heike Feichtmayr in Bayreuth ) is a German triathlete .

Career

Heike Feichtmayr began swimming at the age of seven and started as a teenager a. a. in the 1st Bundesliga and for the youth national team. After graduating from high school in 1987, she first spent a year as an au pair in Houston . After studying elementary school education at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , she has been working full-time in this profession since 1990 - also during her time as a professional triathlete from 2003 to 2010.

In 1989, at the age of 22, she started her first triathlon in Bad Endorf , and in 1993 she finished her first long distance as the winner in Kulmbach . At Ironman Europe the following year, she qualified as the seventh woman in 9:33 h for Ironman Hawaii , where she was fourth fastest German woman behind Ute Mückel , Sabine Westhoff and Ines Estedt . In 1995 Heike Feichtmayr became German runner-up in the long distance.

In 1996 she married her husband Harald , whom she met in 1991 at a triathlon competition in the Bayerncup in Landau an der Isar and who, in addition to studying medicine in Erlangen, also started with a professional license in the 1990s. Their first son Frederic was born in August 1997, their daughter Anna-Marie in 2000 and their second son Marc-Philipp in 2002 . When the family was founded, the triathlon ambitions were largely inferior to a participation in the Trossinger Duathlon in 1998 and a few starts in the triathlon Bundesliga for SC Riederau in 1999.

Winner of the long distance at the "Euroman" 1996

In August 1996 she was able to win the Euroman (predecessor event of Ironman Switzerland ) in Zurich on the long distance and started in October for the second time at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, where she was the third fastest German woman in 10:14 after Ute Mückel and Katja Schumacher has been. At the same time, Heike Feichtmayr competed in the Bayern Cup and from 1996 for SC Riederau in the Triathlon Bundesliga .

In spring 2001, Heike Funk started together with her husband at the Ironman Lanzarote , but was thrown back not least by two breakdowns on the bike course. Almost three months later, Heike Funk started two months pregnant at Ironman Switzerland , where she won the previous Euroman event in 1996 , and finished seventh.

German champion triathlon long distance 2002

Only four months after the birth of her third child, she became German long distance champion in the open classification in Kulmbach in 2002.

Professional triathlete since 2003

She has lived with her family in Unterwössen in Chiemgau since 2003 and has been working at a primary and secondary school overseas since then.
In 2003 she set her best time over the Ironman distance at Challenge Roth in 9:28 h and was German runner-up behind Nicole Leder . A year later she was fourth in the same position and only two weeks later she was fifth at the European Championships as part of the Allgäu Triathlon .

In 2008 Heike Funk was second at the Ironman UK in Sherborne .

German Vice Champion Winter Triathlon 2011

In February 2011 she became German runner-up in the winter triathlon. In 2011 and 2014 she started in the age group at Ironman Wales, qualified both times for Ironman Hawaii, but together with her husband Harald only took up the starting place for 2015. There she finished 23rd in the age group 45.

Her husband Harald has been Vice President of the Bavarian Triathlon Association since 2012. Heike Funk started for Tristar Regensburg , SC Riederau and the Katek Grassau sports association , and has been the founding chairwoman of Triathlon Grassau since 2014 .

In 2012 she was the patron of the “Junior Challenge” as part of the Challenge Roth. In this triathlon for children and adolescents, their eldest son Frederic Funk took third place in his first triathlon at the age of five.

She won the European Triathlon Championships in June 2017 in Kitzbühel in the 45-49 age group. With tenth place at Ironman Wales , she was able to win the age group here in September.

Sporting successes

Web links

• Heike Funk's website
• Results from Heike Funk at Ironman races
• Heike Funk's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 2, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Heike Funk at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 16, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of Heike Funk. (No longer available online.) Sportwelt Verlag , June 23, 2009, archived from the original on July 23, 2014 ; accessed on August 13, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Presidium of the Bavarian Triathlon Association ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Heike Funk patron of the Junior Challenge Roth
4. ↑ Results T ³ Triathlon Düsseldorf
5. ↑ Triathlon Ingolstadt 2015: Bittner and Möller win, Van Vlerken dominates half distance (June 14, 2015)
6. ↑ T³ Triathlon Düsseldorf 2013: Olymp. Distance German championship of age group athletes. (PDF) In: Website T³ Düsseldorf. June 30, 2013, accessed September 18, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Austrian 1/2 Iron Triathlon Röcksee
8. ↑ Faris Al-Sultan the measure of all things
9. ↑ Amberg: Timo Bracht and Heike Funk win. In: tri-mag.de. May 3, 2009, accessed January 20, 2018 . 
10. ↑ IRONMAN UK: Heike Funk strong second
11. ↑ German Championships Winter Triathlon 2011 (February 28, 2011)