Aeneas Appius

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Aeneas Appius, Sprint Duathlon World Championship, Penticton (Canada), 2017
Aeneas Appius, Sprint Duathlon World Championship, Penticton (Canada), 2017
Personal information
Date of birth 6th September 1960 (age 59)
place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Nickname Fastanis
Size 185 cm
societies
1975-1982 Old Boys Basel
1988-1996 SC Sandoz / Novartis
1998-2002 Crazy Runners team
since 1999 Swiss Masters Running
2003-2008 Straumann Running Team
2009-2018 Törli sports team
since 2019 Team Swiss Emotions
successes
2017, 2018 2 × ITU world champion Sprint Duathlon M55
2016, 2018, 2020 4 × ITU European Champion Sprint & Standard Duathlon M55 / M60
2015, 2016 2 × Swiss Champion Duathlon M55
status
active

Aeneas Silvius Appius (born September 6, 1960 in Basel ) is a Swiss endurance athlete who used to be active in football and is now active in running , duathlon and triathlon .

Career

Aeneas Appius played football in the Swiss leagues up to the age of 35 .

After 20 years in football, he started running in 1997 and has been a runner in the national masters elite since 1998 (track, cross, city, mountain and marathon). The multiple Swiss champion in long-distance running has been running duathlon (running, cycling and running) since 2014, triathlon (swimming, cycling and running) since 2016 and has been one of the world's top duathlons in his age category since 2016. In 2016 at his first European Duathlon Championship in Kalkar, he won the M55 age group.

He was regularly to be found at army championships and gun races in Switzerland and was a member of the successful Suisse team at the CISM Marathon World Championship in Biel in 2002 and was the first of the senior officers. From 2015 to 2018 he won the Swiss Duathlon series four times in a row in his age group. In 2015 and 2016 he became Swiss Duathlon Champion in the M55 category.

He is currently at home with 36 medals from national and international championships, including various duathlon titles as world, European and Swiss champions. His sporty palmares has over 600 races (running, cycling, duathlon and triathlon) with a podium rate of 64%.

Since 2017 he has been volunteering as a Swiss Duathlon Age Group Manager for popular sport and as a coach he accompanies athletes on their way to the top of the world junior and masters. He is the founder and member of the “Swiss Duathlon Gold Member Club”.

Private

Aeneas Appius has professional qualifications as a banker and sales consultant as well as a Master of Business Management , is married and has three grown children. His wife Anita is also active as a runner and duathlete.

Awards

  • In January 2020, Aeneas Appius was honored with the “Volunteer Award” by the Swiss Triathlon Association .

Sporting successes

Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0March 8 2020 1 ETU Duathlon European Championship M60-64 SpainSpain Punta Umbria 02:01:54 European champion sprint duathlon M60-64
07th Mar 2020 1 ETU Sprint Duathlon European Championship M60-64 SpainSpain Punta Umbria 01:03:44 European champion sprint duathlon M60-64
03rd July 2019 2 ETU Duathlon European Championship M55-59 RomaniaRomania Târgu Mureș 02:02:22 Vice European champion duathlon M55–59
June 30, 2019 2 ETU Sprint Duathlon European Championship M55–59 RomaniaRomania Târgu Mureș 01:00:35 Vice European champion sprint duathlon M55–59
03rd Mar 2019 1 Asian Championship Powerman Malaysia M55-M59 MalaysiaMalaysia Putrajaya 03:07:56 Asian Champion M45 +!
27 Apr 2019 2 ITU Sprint Duathlon World Championship M55–59 SpainSpain Pontevedra 01:02:32 Vice world champion M55–59
Oct 20, 2018 1 ETU Sprint Duathlon European Championship M55-59 SpainSpain Ibiza 00:57:48 ETU European champion sprint duathlon M55–59
0July 8, 2018 1 ITU Sprint Duathlon World Championship M55–59 DenmarkDenmark Fyn 01:04:04 World champion sprint duathlon M55–59
0May 6, 2018 2 ETU Powerman Middle Distance Duathlon European Championship MM55–59 DenmarkDenmark Vejle 03:16:47 Vice-European Champion Duathlon Middle Distance M55–59
21 Aug 2017 2 ITU Duathlon World Championship M55–59 CanadaCanada Penticton 02:04:16 Vice world champion Duathlon M55–59
19 Aug 2017 1 ITU Duathlon World Championship M55–59 CanadaCanada Penticton 01:05:03 World champion sprint duathlon M55–59
0May 8, 2016 2 ETU Powerman Long Distance Duathlon European Championship M55–59 DenmarkDenmark Copenhagen 02:53:38 Vice European Champion Powerman M55–59
April 16, 2016 1 ETU Sprint Duathlon European Championship M55-59 GermanyGermany Kalkar 01:01:36 European champion sprint duathlon M55–59

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0May 7, 2017 1 Sparkassen Triathlon Rheinfelden GermanyGermany Rheinfelden 01:11:24 Sprint distance, M50 winner
Oct 21, 2016 1 Oceanic Triathlon United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Khor Fakkan 01:36:54 Winner M40 +
Running
Date / year rank competition venue distance time comment
0Sep 2 2018 1 Achensee run AustriaAustria Pertisau 23.2 km; 230 m 01:39:45 Winner M50
0Nov 6, 2016 1 Goldengate Bridge Half Marathon United StatesUnited States San Francisco 21.1 km; 310 m 01:24:25 Winner M50

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EM medals for Laermann and Verleysdonk (April 20, 2016)
  2. ↑ DUATHLON: A couple wins gold twice in the Basel area (April 24, 2016)
  3. ↑ Honor for Anita and Aeneas Appius at the "Night of Duathlon" (January 28, 2019)
  4. ↑ MELANIE MAURER AND JENS-MICHAEL GOSSAUER DUATHLETEN OF THE YEAR 2019 (January 24, 2020)
  5. ↑ DUATHLON EM: AENEAS APPIUS (M60) WITH SPRINT AND STANDARD GOLD, JUNIOR MARILENA KUSTER FOURTH (March 8, 2020)
  6. ↑ Success seldom comes alone: ​​Aeneas Appius becomes double vice-European champion champion in the duathlon (July 15, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Appius, Aeneas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Appius, Aeneas Silvius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss endurance athlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1960