Andrea Mayr

Andrea Mayr
Andrea Mayr in London 2012 at the Summer Olympics
nation	Austria
birthday	15th October 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	Wels , Austria
size	175 cm
Weight	54 kg
job	doctor
Career
Best performance	1:11:34 h (half marathon) 2:30:43 h (marathon)
society	SV Schwechat
Medal table
World championships 7 × 1 × 0 × European championships 3 × 2 × 1 × Austrian championships 45 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold Bursa 2006 Mountain run silver Ovronnaz 2007 Mountain run gold Crans-Montana 2008 Mountain run gold Kamnik 2010 Mountain run gold Ponte 2012 Mountain run gold Casette di Massa 2014 Mountain run gold Saparewa Banja 2016 Mountain run gold 2017 Ski mountaineering  European championships silver 2004 Mountain run bronze Telfes im Stubai 2009 Mountain run gold 2005 Mountain run gold 2013 Mountain run silver Weyer 2014 Duathlon gold Madeira 2015 Mountain run
last change: March 12, 2020

Andrea Mayr (born October 15, 1979 in Wels ) is an Austrian long-distance runner and doctor. She is a multiple Austrian champion, two-time Olympian (2012, 2016), three-time European champion and six-time world champion in mountain running, vice-European champion in duathlon (2014) and world champion in ski mountaineering (2017).

Career

Andrea Mayr is both record world champion (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016) and record European champion (2005, 2013, 2014. 2015) in mountain running and thus the most successful athlete in the history of this discipline. She is also a multiple Austrian champion in the 10,000-meter run , the 3000-meter obstacle course and the cross-country run .

Her successes in stair running include three victories at the Empire State Building Run-Up (2004, 2005, 2006), where she has held the course record since 2006 with 11:23 minutes. What is remarkable is the fact that she was able to win every flight of stairs in which she participated. Sometimes she would have occupied the top ten places with her times in the men's standings.

She has also been active in cycling since 2004 and became Austrian mountain champion in 2004, 2006 and 2013. In 2004 she was fourth in Belgium at the Duathlon World Championship.

In 2007 she became vice world champion in mountain running in Switzerland. In 2008 she won the Obudu Mountain Run , the world's most highly endowed hill climb .

In 2009 she made her debut on the marathon distance . She won the Vienna City Marathon in a time of 2:30:43 hours and thus improved Eva-Maria Gradwohl's Austrian national record by eight seconds. At her home European championships in mountain running in Telfes im Stubai as part of the Schlickeralm run , she achieved the bronze medal. In November of this year, a broken collarbone in a traffic accident forced her to take a break from training.

In September 2010 she became world champion in mountain running in the Slovenian town of Kamnik .

2012 Summer Olympics

She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics on October 30, 2011 at the Frankfurt Marathon with a time of 2:32:33 hours. At the Olympic marathon on August 5, 2012 in London , she finished 54th with 2:34:51 hours.

In September 2012 she became world champion in mountain running again in Italy after her success in 2010.

In August 2014 she became Vice European Champion on the Duathlon short distance at Powerman Austria in Weyer . In September she won her fifth world title in mountain running in Italy and has been the sole record winner in this discipline ever since.

2016 Summer Olympics

She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in October 2015 (as in 2011) at the Frankfurt Marathon with a time of 2:33:28 hours. She reached 64th place in the women's Olympic marathon. At the World Mountain Running Championships in September in Saparewa Banja ( Bulgaria ), she won her sixth title.

In February 2017, the then 37-year-old doctor won her first world title in ski mountaineering. In June, the Upper Austrian was able to secure her tenth title in the mountain run in Bludenz .

At the beginning of March 2019, she won the title in the vertical competition again at the World Ski Mountaineering Championships in Vilar (Switzerland).

Andrea Mayr starts for SV Schwechat and she is also in the duathlon national team of the ÖTRV . Andrea Mayr works as a doctor in the hospital in Vöcklabruck .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Andrea Mayr at the “Athlete for Athlete Run” run by the Austrian Sports Aid in Vienna's Stadtpark, 2011

Honors

• 2008: Austrian athlete of the year (Goldener Emil)
• 2009: Austrian athlete of the year - bravo
• 2011: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Austrian state champion

• 1500 m run: 2007
• 5000 m run: 2008
• 10,000 m run: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014
• 1500 m run (indoor): 2007, 2008
• 3000 m run (indoor): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011
• 3000 m obstacle: 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
• 10 km road run: 2006, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017
• Half marathon: 2008, 2010, 2013
• Cross-country run: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2017
• Mountain run: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

European and world champion

• European champion mountain run 2005, 2013, 2015
• Mountain run world champion 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016
• World champion ski mountaineering 2017

Mountain running championships

• Winner of the Mountain Running World Trophy (unofficial Mountain Running World Championships) 2008
• 2nd place overall WMRA Grand Prix 2009
• 1st place overall WMRA Grand Prix 2010

wheel

• Austrian champion in mountain driving 2004, 2006 and 2013

Web links

Commons : Andrea Mayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrea Mayr in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Profile and results of Andrea Mayr in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 8, 2018 (English).
• Athlete portrait at the ÖLV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mountain ÖM title for Riccardo Zoidl and mountain runner Andrea Mayr. live-radsport.ch, June 1, 2013, accessed on December 15, 2015 . 
2. ^ IAAF: Mayr holds off road running stars, but Wyatt fades, as course records fall - Obudu Ranch Mountain Race ( Memento of December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). November 29, 2008
3. ↑ ÖLV: Strong performances by Austria's top runners . November 30, 2008
4. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Andrea Mayr wins in Vienna with a record . April 19, 2009
5. ↑ http://www.maxfunsports.com/news/2009/andrea-mayr-bei-lkw-unfall-verletzt
6. ↑ HDsports.at: Weidlinger and Mayr run marathon Olympic limit . October 30, 2011
7. ↑ Andrea Mayr won the World Cup gold in mountain running (September 2, 2012)
8. ↑ Andrea Mayr sensationally wins the Duathlon European Championship silver (August 24, 2014)
9. ↑ Marathon: Andrea Mayr undercuts Olympic limit in Frankfurt (October 25, 2015)
10. ↑ Frau Doktor Mayr and her most incredible "operation" (March 2nd, 2017)
11. ↑ Mountain run: Mayr won the next national championship title
12. ↑ Andrea Mayr: Sporty tricking biology (June 16, 2019)
13. ↑ Andrea Mayr: "Steffi Graf should give up post" (April 18, 2010)
14. ↑ Maritiem wins 14th Linz Marathon ( Memento from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (April 19, 2015)
15. ↑ Perterer and Knabl strong at street running championships (March 30, 2014)
16. ↑ went well (September 14, 2013)
17. ↑ Ndungu and Mayr win on the Großglockner (July 15, 2018)
18. ↑ Andrea Mayr mountain running champion for the ninth time (June 5, 2016)
19. ↑ Reiner from Vorarlberg at the World Cup in Wales eighth (September 19, 2015)
20. ↑ Norwegian Hovind wins Glockner Mountain Run (July 19, 2015)
21. ↑ Susanne Mairs team wins silver in Portugal (July 6, 2015)
22. ↑ Reiner sensationally second on Muttersberg (June 8, 2014)