Anja Ippach

0 Anja Ippach
Anja Ippach at Ironman 70.3 Western Sydney , 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	6th January 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Bamberg, Germany
size	165 cm
Weight	54 kg
societies
current	VfL Veitsbronn, TV Erlangen ( Triathlon Bundesliga ), Triathlon Club Mandurah
successes
2001	German U18 triathlon champion
2001	German champion Duathlon U18
2004	German Vice-Champion Triathlon Juniors
2005, 2006	2 × German Vice Champion Triathlon U23
2012	2nd place Ironman European Championship
2012	1st place Ironman 70.3 European Championship
2013, 2015	2 × Ironman winner
2015	2nd place Ironman 70.3 European Championship
2015	German long distance triathlon champion
status
maternity

Anja Ippach (born January 6, 1985 in Bamberg ) is a German duathlete , triathlete , Ironman winner (2013, 2015), winner of the Ironman 70.3 European Championship (2012) and German champion in the long-distance triathlon (2015). She is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Anja Ippach started her first triathlon in 1996. In 2001 she became German champion of the A-youth (U18) in duathlon and triathlon. In 2002 and 2003 she had to take a sporting break due to an illness with the Epstein-Barr virus and therefore dropped out of the DTU squad.

In 2004 she was German runner-up in the juniors (sprint distance) in Schleswig, in 2005 in Potsdam and in 2006 in Schliersee she was the German runner-up in the U23 on the Olympic distance.

Anja Ippach has been active as a semi-professional since 2007 and in August 2010 she finished fourth in the world championship in the long distance (4 km swimming, 130 km cycling and 30 km running) in Immenstadt. She has been a professional triathlete since 2011.

Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championship 2012

In July 2012 she came second at the “Ironman European Championship” in Frankfurt and in August 2012 she won the “Ironman 70.3 European Championship” in Wiesbaden.

In July 2013 she won the Ironman Switzerland in Zurich (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

At the Challenge Roth 2014, Anja Beranek took the lead in front of Rachel Joyce and Mirinda Carfrae after about 80 km on the bike , but was knocked over by a relay rider on the second bike lap. She initially continued the competition, but then had to get out on Kalvarienberg in Greding with a broken derailleur hanger and frame.

German champion triathlon long distance 2015

In June 2015 she became German runner-up in the middle distance at Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau. In July she was third at the Challenge Roth and thus German champion in the long-distance triathlon. In August she became Vice European Champion on the Ironman 70.3 middle distance . Three weeks later she was third in the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in the Austrian state of Salzburg as part of the Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun . In September she won the Ironman Wales by over half an hour.

Fourth at the Ironman Hawaii 2016

In April 2016 she won the Challenge Fuerteventura in the middle distance after finishing second here the previous year. In October at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championship), she narrowly missed the podium and finished fourth as the best German.

In 2017 she was able to qualify for the fourth time at the Ironman Hawaii, but the then 32-year-old could not finish the race in October. She is trained by Thomas Hellriegel .

Private

Anja Ippach began studying business administration in Munich, which she completed with a degree in business administration at the Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences with a focus on health economics in the business administration faculty.

In 2012 she married and started as Anja Beranek . On January 11th, 2019, she announced that her name was Ippach again and she has been using her maiden name again since then. The then 34-year-old then announced via social media in December 2019 that she was expecting a child and since May 2020 she has been the mother of a daughter

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Anja Beranek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anja Beranek's website
• Portrait of Anja Beranek on tri2b.com
• Profile for Anja Ippach at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on August 24, 2014
• Profile for Anja Ippach at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 1, 2014
• Profile and results of Anja Ippach in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 17, 2020 (English).
• Profile and results of Anja Ippach in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 21, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of the athlete Anja Ippach . In: Sportwelt Verlag . Archived from the original on 20140630.
2. ↑ Sebastian Böhm: The tears of the brave Anja Beranek . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . July 21, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the German Championship Middle Distance 2015 (June 7th, 2015)
4. ↑ Challenge Fuerteventura: German double victory by Böcherer and Beranek (April 23, 2016)
5. ↑ Anja Ippach. Retrieved April 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Anja Beranek before Daniela Sämmler (September 10, 2017)
7. ↑ Ladykracher at Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau: van Vlerken challenges Gajer (February 19, 2016)
8. ↑ Results Ironman 70.3 Wiesbaden 2015 (August 9, 2015)
9. ↑ ETU European Triathlon Middle Distance Championship on Mallorca: Beranek as fifth, Riesler as seventh, best German (October 19, 2014)
10. ↑ Triathlon - EM: Raelert and Beranek celebrate EM title in record time (August 12, 2012)
11. ↑ Lighthouse Triathlon Fuerteventura: Victory for Anja Beranek (Ippach) (March 5, 2012)
12. ↑ City triathlon Munich: cold start to the triathlon summer