Anke Erlank

0 Anke Erlank
Personal information
Date of birth	28th July 1977 (age 43)
place of birth	Cape Town
societies
successes
2001	World champion Xterra, cross triathlon
2004-2005	2 × Africa champion individual time trial
2005	Africa champion road race
status
resigned

Anke Erlank (born July 28, 1977 in Cape Town ) is a former South African cyclist and world champion in cross triathlon (2001).

Career

As an 18-year-old, Anke Erlank started at the Triathlon World Cup in Mexico in November 1995 and finished 19th among the juniors.

In 1999 Erlank won the US Tour de Toona . In February 2000 she was second in the long distance triathlon behind Paula Newby-Fraser at the Ironman South Africa (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

In 2001 she became Xterra World Champion in cross triathlon in Hawaii and in 2004 she was Vice European Champion at the Xterra Czech Championships .

In 2004 and 2005 she won the title in the individual time trial in South Africa . Also in 2005 she won two African championship titles - in the individual time trial and in the road race . Erlank has not appeared internationally since 2005.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Teams

• 1999 Timex
• 2000 Autotrader.com
• 2001, 2002 Saturn Cycling Team

Web links

• Anke Erlank in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Profile for Anke Erlank at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 20, 2014
• Profile and results of Anke Erlank in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 24, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anke Erlank and Conrad Stoltz winners of the XTerra Championships 2001  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Trib2b.com  
2. ↑ Xterra EM 2004: Ute Schäfer wins the title