Lothar leather

0 Lothar leather
at Ironman 70.3 Austria , 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	3rd March 1971 (age 49)
place of birth	Flörsheim-Dalsheim, Germany
size	189 cm
Weight	77 kg
societies
until 2003	DSW 1912 Darmstadt
since 2004	TuS Griesheim
successes
1994-2001	6 × Top-Ten Ironman World Championship
1996	Team world champion triathlon short distance
1998-2001	3 × German champion triathlon short distance
2002	Winner Ironman European Championship
2003	German champion triathlon long distance
status
active

Lothar Leder (born March 3, 1971 in Flörsheim-Dalsheim ) is a German triathlete and multiple Ironman winner (between 1996 and 2003), German champion in the Olympic distance (1998, 2000 and 2001) and in the long distance (2003). At the Ironman in Hawaii in 1997 and 1998 he was third on the podium.

In 1996, Leder was the world's first triathlete to undercut the 8-hour mark on the Ironman distance and is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Lothar Leder began at the age of five in the local sports club with gymnastics and later football, from the age of twelve he started swimming and achieved his first successes at the state level, e. B. as the Rhineland-Palatinate class champion over 1500 m freestyle in 18:10 minutes.

1994 professional triathlete

In 1987, at the age of sixteen, he started his first triathlon at Silbersee. His former association LLG Wonnegau had previously organized a collection for the money to buy a racing bike. After completing school and training as a banker and two years as a sports soldier , he initially worked 25 hours a week in a bank until, in 1994, he focused entirely on a career as a professional triathlete.

In 1992, Lothar Leder started a long-distance triathlon for the first time and was astonishing when he ran arm in arm with his club colleague Jochen Basting as seventh and best German at Ironman Europe in Roth . At his first start at Ironman Hawaii three months later he had to pay for his parforc ride on the bike after a messed up swimming on the running track and was 146. After a fifth place in Auckland in March of the next year, Leder achieved a 14th place in the autumn Hawaii lava fields. In 1994 - only two weeks after he was runner-up behind Rob Barel and ahead of Yves Cordier at the Triathlon International de Nice - he was then able to compete in a world-class field in Roth z. B. with triathlon legend Mark Allen , Ken Glah and Péter Kropkó prove that his performance in 1992 was not a flash in the pan. First he got off the bike together with Jürgen Zäck, who was known for his unrivaled appearances on the bike, and then only let Péter Kropkó and Rainer Müller-Hörner pass. In his first year as a professional, he also showed his weakness as a frequent starter with fourth place just one week after Roth at the German championships over the Olympic distance. Three months later in Hawaii, Leder came in sixth for the first time. In 1995 Leder was third on the podium in Roth together with Jürgen Zäck and Thomas Hellriegel - this trio then dominated the German triathlon scene for a decade. After Leder - known for his unconventional training methods - spontaneously took part in the preparation for the “ Race Around Austria ”, a non-stop race over 800 km over snowy passes from Bregenz to Vienna, his coach, the former national trainer Dieter Bremer , had his support beforehand set. After Leder, following his eighth place in Hawaii in 1995 at the World Championships in Cancún in November 1995 - the first over the short distance with drafting approval - as sixth best German and also team world champion together with Roland Knoll and Stephan Vuckovic , he spent the winter in Florida. There, Leder - inspired by local short-distance specialists - completely changed his preparation and focused more on anaerobic units while at the same time significantly reducing the scope of training.

1996 undercut eight-hour mark

Although Leder had actually decided to concentrate on the Olympic distance now, with his victory at Ironman Europe in Roth in 1996 he became the first triathlete in the world to reach the eight-hour mark over the Ironman distance in 7:57:02 hours (3 , 86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running). However, when he was only 53rd six weeks later at the World Championships in Cleveland, criticism from the national umbrella organization, the German Triathlon Union (DTU), jumped out on Hawaii this time after problems on the bike only a disappointing eighteenth place.

In 1997, after winning his second Ironman in Auckland in March, Leder was able to undercut the world best time set in the previous year by 43 seconds in Roth, which nevertheless only resulted in a third place behind the Belgian Luc Van Lierde (7:50:27 h) and Jürgen Zäck reached.
Instead, he jumped three months later at Ironman Hawaii, where he only moved to the running track in sixteenth with renewed problems on the bike, but then with the best running time of the day still in third place behind Thomas Hellriegel as the first German Hawaii winner and Jürgen Zäck before could run, for the first time a podium place. When a week later because of this day of the Germans in Hawaii - in addition to the three on the podium, six more of the first 22 men from Germany came on that day - Hellriegel and Zäck were studio guests in the current sports studio , Lothar Leder was already back at ITU World Cup in Sydney at the start.

In 1998 Lothar Leder finished second at Ironman Europe in Roth and German champion on the short distance in Frankfurt within two weeks. Three months later in Hawaii, Leder was able to defend his third place last year at the Ironman World Championship with the fastest time, while Hellriegel and Zäck switched to the running track while in the lead, but collapsed there. Lothar Leder then went to Australia with his girlfriend and daughter, who was born in August, for five months to prepare for qualification for the Olympic Games in Sydney , where triathlon was part of the competition program for the first time. The trip was not completely successful in terms of sport - at the World Cup in Sydney and the Formula 1 Grand Prix, Leder got out of a race for the first time. There was also trouble with the association: one day after his return to Germany in May 1999, Leder learned that he was supposed to pack his bags for a training camp for the squad in the Canary Islands. Leder refused, whereupon national coach Reinhold Häusslein struck him from the squad. Although he was still able to go to competitions - albeit at his own expense - he was denied support from the Sporthilfe .

Nevertheless, Leder was the best German at the ITU World Cups in Kapelle-op-den-Bos and Tiszaújváros as well as at the World Cup in Montreal . He also won the ETU Cup races in Schliersee and Karlsbad and was fourth best German in Madeira , which resulted in a third place in the ETU Cup 1999 - even without starting the final race on October 20 in Alanya .

Because at this point in time, leather was already in the Pacific: Observers were amazed when they discovered leather on the list of participants in the Ironman Hawaii 1999 - he had only decided three weeks before the start to use his qualification position as third last year. However, his race went differently than planned: on the bike course he was disqualified because of a controversial decision while he was in the lead because of drafting behind a press vehicle and disregarding the right-hand drive law.
At short notice, Leder then decided to start at Ironman Florida two weeks later - where he qualified for the Ironman Hawaii 2000 with overall victory.

Lothar Leder started in February 2000 at the “1. European Indoor Challenge ”, an unofficial European championship in the Berlin Velodrome and received 10,000 DM for his victory. Due to the low number of spectators, the event remained a unique event.

In the final sprint for his qualification for the Olympic Games in April 2000, Lothar Leder collected points for his ITU ranking with a victory at the ITU Points Race in Anzio , which was held at the same time as the World Cup in Ishigaki , before he went to the decisive qualification races a week later Sydney as well as the World Cup on April 30th in Perth . After a failed race in Sydney, everything went according to plan in Perth: Lothar Leder was ninth on the running track, but had to slow down for a short time with stomach cramps and fell back to 16th place. In the end he was 15 seconds short of the decisive 12th place. Since none of the German men met the criteria set by the DTU - top ten in Sydney and top 12 in Perth - the DTU decided after a long consultation to nominate Stephan Vuckovic and Andreas Raelert and Lothar Leder was able to tick off the Olympic chapter. Nevertheless, with his victories at the German championships over the Olympic distance in 2000 and 2001, Leder proved that he was at home on both the short and the long distance.

2002 Ironman European Championship winner

Lothar Leder at the finish line of the Cologne Triathlon 2006

From 2000 to 2003 a unique series of victories followed with seven triumphs in competitions over the Ironman distance. At Ironman Europe in Roth and Challenge Roth , he won a total of five times (1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003). He also won the Ironman in Cape Town (2001), Frankfurt (2002), Japan (2003), Panama City (1999) and Auckland (1997). In Florianópolis (2002), Langkawi (2001) and Roth (1998) as well as at the 1994 World Championships at the Triathlon International de Nice , he came second. In 2002 alone, Lothar Leder took part in five competitions over the Ironman distance. The fact that he failed to achieve great success in Hawaii while his colleagues such as Thomas Hellriegel and Jürgen Zäck concentrated on two major competitions a year naturally provided material for discussion.
Lothar Leder is - measured by the number of victories over the Ironman distance (11 ×) and the number of podium placements (21 ×) one of the most successful long-distance triathletes in Germany - just behind Timo Bracht (12 × and 20 ×) and ahead Faris Al-Sultan (8 × or 14 ×), Jürgen Zäck (8 × or 14 ×) and Thomas Hellriegel (6 × or 14 ×).

Leder achieved his most spectacular victory in 2003 with his fifth success in Roth, where he and Chris McCormack watched each other in an eight-hour head-to-head race until Leder pulled away 400 m from the finish and finally in a dramatic final spurt of three seconds Could gain lead. Along with Pauli Kiuru and Ken Glah's at Ironman New Zealand 1989, this finish is one of the tightest decisions in long-distance triathlon. His wife Nicole completed the success about an hour later as the fastest woman. From 2004 onwards, protracted injuries, first a torn muscle fiber, then a heel spur increasingly hampered Lothar Leder during training.

At the beginning of the nineties Lothar Leder came to the DSW 1912 Darmstadt under the coach Christian Hildebrandt , with whom he started in 1994 together with Jochen Basting, Alexander Taubert and the American triathlon legend Mark Allen in the North Rhine-Westphalian Crown League as a forerunner of the triathlon Bundesliga started and in 1996 and 1998 a. a. with Frank Vytrisal became vice-champion in the triathlon Bundesliga . In 2004 he moved to the direct neighbor TuS Griesheim .

In March 2014 Lothar Leder took part in a team of two with Udo Bölts in the Cape Epic , an MTB race over eight stages with 718 km and 14,850 meters in altitude in the Western Cape , and won the official UCI race among numerous MTB professionals 56th place.

2007 doping allegation

Because of a "suspicious finding that suggests manipulation" in a voluntary blood sample given immediately before the Ironman Frankfurt in June 2007, the organizer went public a few days after the competition and canceled his contracts with Lothar Leder. Leder resisted the suspicion of manipulation vehemently and suspected special training under artificial mountain air on the bicycle ergometer and the use of a special sleeping tent as a possible cause of the blood values. NADA distanced itself from the organizer, who confirmed that he knew that the investigation method used was not recognized and offered no possibility of exploitation under sports law. The German Triathlon Union (DTU) started investigations, but expressly did not issue a start ban. Leder himself published the values ​​in question and put them up for discussion: Hemoglobin : 17.0 and 17.2 g / dl, hematocrit : 49.5 and 49.6%, reticulocytes : 0.31 and 0.25%, stimulation index / Off-Score values: 136.59 and 142. With an injunction, he forbade the organizer to make allegations that put leather in connection with doping.
In April 2008, the DTU announced that "the use of prohibited substances or the use of prohibited measures" could not be proven and discontinued the proceedings. Lothar Leder then sued the organizer for damages.

Lothar Leder's main sponsor, the Erdinger Weißbräu brewery, stood by its athletes during this time. Today, Leder acts together with his wife Nicole, Wenke Kujala , Meike Krebs and Norbert Langbrandtner as their brand ambassador for the Erdinger alcohol-free team .

Professional

At the beginning of 2002 Lothar Leder founded a running specialist shop in Darmstadt together with the former professional cyclist Holger Loew , followed by another in Frankfurt in 2006. In 2014 Lothar Leder withdrew from the management of the business. In 2009 he founded another specialist shop specializing in cycling clothing from a Swiss manufacturer near the Frankfurt Römers, which was closed again in 2014.
In 2010 Lothar Leder founded the company 3vento, with which he organized the TriStar 111 Germany in Worms as a license partner of Georg Hochegger , co-organizer of Ironman Austria until 2009 . In 2012 the triathlon took place over the distances of 1 km swimming, 100 km on the bike and 10 km running, in which u. a. Chris McCormack and Udo Bölts attended, last held. Leder currently works as a trainer in the triathlon sector and holds lectures and seminars. He also contributes his experience in organizing training camps for beginners and advanced learners.

Private

In 1989 Lothar Leder met the computer science student Nicole Mertes (* 1971) at a training camp for the DTU's junior management . The couple, who married in 1999, live in Darmstadt-Eberstadt and had a daughter in August 1998. In 2013 Nicole Leder, one of the most successful German triathletes, with six victories over the Ironman distance in Korea (2000), Florianópolis (2002), Roth (2003 and 2004), Langkawi (2007) and Frankfurt (2007), announced her retirement from professional sport .

Awards

• Lothar Leder was - together with Jürgen Zäck - voted "Triathlete of the Year" 1999 by the readers of the association magazine "Triathlon & Duathlon".
• Lothar Leder was voted "Triathlete of the Year 2003".

Sporting successes

literature

• Lothar & Nicole Leder with Christoph Elbern: Triathlon training: The simple 3-phase training program for beginners and advanced. Bruckmann 2012, ISBN 3-7654-5393-5 .
• Lothar & Nicole Leder: Triathlon. Preparation - material - practice. Delius Klasing, 2005 ISBN 3-7688-1692-3 .
• Lothar & Nicole Leder: The way to the Ironman. Triathlon training for advanced. Delius Klasing, 2006, ISBN 3-7688-1815-2 .

Web links

Commons : Lothar Leder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Lothar Leder
• Lothar Leder in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile and results of Lothar Leder in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 23, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Lothar Leder at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 1, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lothar Leder in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Sebastian Moll: Eisenmann disregards any training theory . In: The world . August 24, 1996.
3. ↑ German stars are panting after the world's best . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 26, 1996.
4. ↑ Fastest Ironman in the world . In: Rhein-Zeitung . July 14, 1997.
5. ↑ Frank Ketterer: Hellriegel: went through hell three times . In: The world . October 20, 1997.
6. ↑ Jörg Kottmeier: "Germans should buckle up" . In: Rhein-Zeitung . October 5, 1998.
7. ↑ Philippe Millet: Lothar Leder suspended from DTU . In: Triathlete . No. 126 , July 1999, OCLC 724506582 , p. 10 .
8. ↑ ETU Triathlon Cup Series 1999, Alanya 20th octobre 1999 . European Triathlon Union . Archived from the original on October 29, 2000.
9. ↑ Randy Hill: Re: IMH drafting not tolerated. In: rec.sport.triathlon (Google Groups). October 26, 1999, accessed October 18, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Steve Week: "Leichtfuß" ran away from everyone . In: Rhein-Zeitung . October 24, 1999.
11. ^ Karl-Heinz Bergmann: Ironman also successful as short-time work . In: Berliner Zeitung . February 27, 2000.
12. ↑ To have for every mess . In: The world . February 28, 2000.
13. ↑ Lothar Leder back on the road to success . In: triathlon-online.de . June 15, 2000. Archived from the original on November 21, 2000.
14. ↑ At the World Championships in Perth it was about the Olympic nomination . German Triathlon Union . May 3, 2000. Archived from the original on May 22, 2001.
15. ↑ Leather dupes Olympic participants . In: triathlon-online.de . June 25, 2000. Archived from the original on May 5, 2001.
16. ↑ Steffen Gerth: Lothar Leder is bluffing on the title . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 10, 2001.
17. ↑ Sebastian Moll: Dwindling enthusiasm . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 13, 2002.
18. ↑ Jens Richter: Interview with Lothar Leder: Recovery is going better than expected . In: tri2b.com . June 5, 2004.
19. ↑ Daniela Petzenburg: Professional Votes: Lothar Leder - heel spur . In: tri2b.com . March 28, 2012.
20. ↑ Steffen Gerth: The secret boss . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 13, 2007. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
21. ^ Kai Baumgartner: Lothar Leder zu TuS Griesheim . In: 3athlon.de . November 15, 2003. Archived from the original on May 24, 2004.
22. ↑ Team Juwi-Fox at the Cape Epic 2014 .
23. ↑ ^{a b} Voluntary blood tests at the IRONMAN Frankfurt: Lothar Leder in the search cross of the doping inspectors and in the conflict with the IRONMAN Frankfurt ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), 3athlon.de
24. ↑ NADA distances itself from the Ironman organizer . National Anti-Doping Agency Germany . August 7, 2007. Archived from the original on February 25, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
25. ↑ DTU opens investigations ( Memento from January 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), 3athlon.de
26. ↑ Investigations against top triathlete Lothar Leder . In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 1, 2007.
27. ↑ Interview with Dr. Klaus Poettgen, medical director of the IRONMAN European Championship Frankfurt ( memento from September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), 3athlon.de
28. ↑ Success in court for triathlete leather . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 17, 2007. Archived from the original on February 25, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
29. ^ Decision Lothar Leder - justification. DTU, April 15, 2008, accessed October 1, 2014 . 
30. ↑ No doping detectable: proceedings against triathlete leather discontinued. In: FAZ . April 8, 2008, accessed October 1, 2014 . 
31. ↑ For lack of evidence. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 9, 2007, accessed October 1, 2014 . 
32. ↑ Steffen Gerth: My good reputation has been destroyed . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 9, 2008.
33. ↑ Portrait of Lothar Leder (Erdinger alcohol-free team)
34. ↑ Lothar Leder with a running shop in Darmstadt . In: tri2b.com . March 20, 2002.
35. ↑ Herbert Krabel: The enigmatic Lothar Leder talks ( EN ) In: slowtwitch.com . April 11, 2009.
36. ↑ Chris McCormack is the favorite in the race . In: Mannheimer Morgen .
37. ^ Frank Wechsel: The Triathletes of 1999 . German Triathlon Union . March 14, 2000. Archived from the original on May 1, 2002.
38. ↑ Rodgau Triathlon - 2011 results list (Olympic) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 31 kB)
39. ↑ Aldiana Triathlon: Böcherer disrupts Russian show . Archived from the original on April 1, 2011.
40. ↑ Two podium places at ISRAMAN (January 26, 2011)
41. ↑ City Triathlon Erding 2010: Michael Raelert expected up front, surprise winner in the women
42. ↑ City Triathlon Mainz: Leather wins sprint . Archived from the original on August 13, 2008.
43. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Munich Triathlon: Lothar Leder and Edith Niederfriniger successful . In: 3athlon.de . July 30, 2006. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007.
44. ^ Munich Triathlon 2005: Close victories with a successful premiere
45. ↑ Kohler Haardman 2004: Bracht and strength to win by a large margin
46. ↑ Challenge participation as “icing on the cake”: Triathlon legend Dirk Aschmoneit returns to Roth
47. ↑ Ironman Cozumel 2009: Rutger Beke wins the premiere clearly
48. ^ Bayliss and Graves take Ironman UK
49. ↑ Nicole Leder wins in Malaysia
50. ↑ IM Germany 2002: The Leather Show
51. ^ Kai Baumgartner: Preview of Ironman Coeur d'Alene 2003 . In: 3athlon.de . June 27, 2003 Archived from the original on May 14, 2004.
52. ↑ Source Ironman Europe, list of results 1996 (PDF; 13 MB; p. 9) July 1996. Retrieved on July 15, 2011.
53. ↑ trunk Crossduathlon: Victories for Jenny Schulz and Rudolf von Grot (16 November 2010)