Alexander Taubert

0 Alexander Taubert
Personal information
Date of birth	11th February 1969 (age 51)
place of birth	Mannheim
size	187 cm
Weight	73 kg
societies
Current	Soprema Team TSV Mannheim
successes
1995, 1996	2 × Winner long distance triathlon
2004	4th place Ironman World Championship
2005	German champion triathlon long distance
status
resigned

Alexander Taubert (born February 11, 1969 in Mannheim ) is a former German triathlete . He is winner of the long distance (1995, 1996), German champion triathlon long distance (2005) and is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Alexander Taubert started his first triathlon in Koblenz in 1986.

In 1991 he took part for the first time in Roth in a long-distance competition (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).
In 1991, 1992 and 1993 he won his age group (18-24 years) at the Ironman Hawaii . In 1995 and 1996 he was also able to win the “Euroman” in Zurich, the previous event of Ironman Switzerland .

In 2002 he became the first triathlete in Mannheim to be athlete of the year .

He competed sixteen times in a row at the Ironman Hawaii between 1991 and 2006, his greatest success being fourth in 2004 - after his thigh muscle above the knee was severed in a serious cycling accident just four months earlier.

German long distance triathlon champion 2005

In July 2005, he became the German long-distance champion at the Challenge Roth .

Since November 2010 he has been the head coach of the "Soprema Team TSV Mannheim". Alex Taubert lives in Mannheim.

Awards

• 2002 Sportsman of the Year, Mannheim

Sporting successes

Web links

• Alexander Taubert's website
• Profile and results of Alexander Taubert in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 14, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Alexander Taubert at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on November 28, 2014
• Taubert Sports
• Interview with Alexander Taubert athlete portrait from Sportwelt Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mannheim: Athlete of the Year honored ( Memento from March 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Alex becomes head coach in the new Soprema team SV Mannheim
3. ↑ Ironman Lanzarote - Bella Comerford and Bert Jammaer are the 2008 winners
4. ↑ Alex Taubert just misses the Kona ticket ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (May 24, 2008)
5. ↑ Ironman 2007: The Results ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ German double leadership
7. ↑ Alexander Taubert - the sun-proof shadow man (October 23, 2002)