Anna Pauline Saßerath

0 Anna Pauline Saßerath
Personal information
Date of birth	19th August 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany
societies
2006-2019	SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen
from 2020	AS Neukirchen-Vluyn
since 2015	Cologne Triathlon Team 01 (second start right)
successes
2014	ITU vice world champion cross triathlon, juniors
2015	3rd place world championship cross triathlon, juniors
2016	German champion cross triathlon
2016	Xterra European champion age group 18-19
2016	ITU Vice World Champion U23 Cross Triathlon
2017	German runner-up in cross triathlon
2018	German vice-champion cross-triathlon age group 20
2018	ITU vice world champion cross triathlon age group 20–24
2018	XTERRA Vice European Champion Cross-Triathlon AG 20
2019	ITU world champion cross triathlon age group 20–24
2019	German champion cross triathlon age group 20
status
active

Anna Pauline Saßerath (born August 19, 1998 in Krefeld-Uerdingen ) is a German triathlete and U23 Vice World Champion (2016) and German Cross Triathlon Champion (2016).

Career

Anna Pauline Saßerath took part in her first triathlon when she was just under five. In 2013 she qualified for the German Youth and Junior Championships in Schluchsee.

Junior Vice World Champion Cross Triathlon 2014

The Uerdingen native found her way to cross triathlon in 2014 when she took part in the domestic world championship in Zittau and became junior runner-up in the world champion (0.75 km swimming, 26 km mountain bike and 6 km cross-country run).

In addition to starts in the 2nd Bundesliga North, road and MTB races, Anna Pauline Saßerath concentrates on the Xterra and cross-triathlon competitions.

German champion cross triathlon 2016

2015 and 2016 were the most successful years to date with numerous top placements, junior bronze at the World and European Championships, two German championship titles and the U23 runner-up world championship. She was also able to win the Xterra German Tour in 2016 .

In 2017 she became German cross triathlon runner-up and in the overall ranking of the Xterra-Europa-Tour she finished eleventh.

2018 was one of the most successful years so far - in addition to two national titles (sprint and cross-triathlon), she won the triple runner-up in the age group 20-24 at the world, European and German championships.

World Champion Cross Triathlon 2019

In April 2019, the 20-year-old became World Champion Cross Triathlon in the age group 20-24 in Pontevedra, Spain.

Anna Pauline Saßerath has lived in Neukirchen-Vluyn since September 2018 and in Krefeld during the week. She is trained by Benjamin Herrera. Her older brother Maximilian Saßerath (* 1993) is a professional triathlete.

Awards

• In her hometown of Krefeld, Anna Pauline Saßerath was voted “Sportswoman of the Year” three times in a row from 2014 to 2016.

Sporting successes

Web links

• Homepage of Anna Pauline Saßerath
• Profile and results of Anna Pauline Saßerath in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 11, 2019 (English).
• Report on the state championship of the NRWTV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ITU Cross Triathlon WM: Ruzafa and Müller win at the O-See. August 17, 2014, accessed December 14, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Anna Pauline Saßerath, Marcelo Ruiz and Gerd Blum are German champions NRWTV athletes, successful in the cross-striathlon championship - NRW TV. In: www.nrwtv.de. Retrieved December 14, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Overall ranking of the Xterra German Tour
4. ↑ Results: 2019 Pontevedra ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships | 20-24 Female AG
5. ↑ Choice of athletes: Anna Pauline Saßerath is happy with her third win in a row . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . March 20, 2017 ( wz.de ). Athlete choice: Anna Pauline Saßerath is happy about her third victory in a row ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Anna-Pauline Saßerath again athlete of the year (March 8, 2016)