Alois Knabl

0 Alois Knabl
Personal information
Date of birth	16th May 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Innsbruck , Austria
Nickname	Luis
societies
Current	ÖTRV elite squad
successes
2008	Junior European Champion Winter Triathlon
2009	Junior national champion duathlon
2015	National champion triathlon short distance
2016	3rd place Ironman 70.3
2020	State champion triathlon sprint distance
status
active

Alois (Luis) Knabl (born May 16, 1992 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian triathlete . He is junior European champion winter triathlon (2008), triathlon national champion over the Olympic distance (2015) and reigning national champion triathlon sprint distance (2020).

Career

In 1998 the Tyrolean Luis Knabl started his first triathlon competition in Telfs .

Junior European Champion Winter Triathlon 2009

In the winter triathlon he was European junior champion in 2008 and Austrian duathlon champion in 2009.

In 2010 he finished third at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and in “Team Europe”, together with the Hungarian Eszter Dudás , the Portuguese Miguel Valente Fernandes and Fanny Beisaron from Israel .

In 2011 he finished seventh at the World Junior Triathlon Championships in Beijing . Knabl finished the 2012 World Cup season in 168th place and in May 2013 he was able to collect further World Cup points for the new season in Mexico with 18th place.

State Champion Triathlon 2015

In June 2015, Luis Knabl became national champion over the Olympic distance at the Kitzbühel Triathlon .

He finished the 2015 World Championship racing series as the best Austrian in 61st place in the ITU points list. He starts for the ÖTRV national team and in the 2016 World Cup racing series he finished as the second best Austrian in 87th place and in 2017 he improved to 35th place. In 2018 he finished 18th as the best Austrian and in 2019 he finished the season in 22nd place.

Alois Knabl was nominated by the Austrian Triathlon Association (ÖTRV) together with Lisa Perterer for a starting place at the 2021 Summer Olympics, which were postponed as the coronavirus pandemic spread .

Alois Knabl lives in Pfaffenhofen . He is trained by Peter Kriegelsteiner .

Awards

• Austria's triathlete of the year 2019

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Alois Knabl
• Profile for Alois Knabl at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 18, 2014
• Profile and results of Alois Knabl in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 25, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Alois Knabl leads Team Europe to gold (August 19, 2010)
2. ↑ Alois Knabl and Lisa Perterer start at the ITU Triathlon World Cup in Huatulco ( Memento from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (May 15, 2013)
3. ↑ ITU Point List | Elite men
4. ↑ Perterer and Knabl also set in Tokyo 2021 [30. April 2020]
5. ↑ Perterer and Knabl named Austria's triathletes of the year (November 16, 2019)