Natascha Badmann

0 Natascha Badmann
Natascha Badmann at Ironman 70.3 Austria (2012)
Personal information
Date of birth	6th December 1966 (age 53)
place of birth	Basel
Size	165 cm
Weight	53 kg
societies
Current	Toni Hasler team
successes
1995	World champion Duathlon short distance
1997	European champion triathlon short distance
1997, 2000	2 × world champion duathlon long distance
1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005	6 × Ironman Hawaii winner
2000	Vice world champion triathlon long distance
status
active

Natascha Badmann (born December 6, 1966 in Basel ) is a Swiss duathlete and triathlete . She won the Ironman Hawaii six times , twice the long-distance world championship duathlon at Powerman Zofingen (1997, 2000), was triathlon European champion (1997) and vice-world champion in triathlon (2000). She is included in the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

The course of her sporting career is rather unusual. Badmann became a mother (daughter Anastasia) at the age of 17, worked as a secretary and was overweight. In her biography, she described herself as an 'awkward, chubby, depressed child'.

The turning point in her life came in 1989 when she met the former national triathlon coach Toni Hasler , who subsequently became her partner and trainer. Hasler soon discovered Badmann's talent for endurance sports and consistently promoted her development to become a top athlete.

World champion duathlon 1995

Badmann was able to assert himself at the top of the world in the duathlon at the beginning of the 1990s . At the 1992 World Cup she was fourth, and a year later she was vice European champion. Since 1995 she started as a professional athlete. In 1995 she won the duathlon world title over the short distance. In 1996, 1997 and 2000 she won the Powerman in Zofingen, which was the Duathlon World Championship over the long distance until 1999. In 1995 and 1997 she was also European triathlon champion. In 1996 she took part in the Ironman Hawaii in Kailua-Kona for the first time and immediately reached second place, beaten only by record winner Paula Newby-Fraser .

Winner Ironman Hawaii 1998

Badmann was a semi-professional until 1997 and also worked as a social worker at the municipal administration in Trimbach . She then decided on a professional career and henceforth concentrated on the triathlon. This year Badmann was already one of the tight favorites at Ironman Hawaii, but got out of the race with stomach cramps. In 1998 she became the first European ever to win the prestigious race. As a result, she was voted Swiss Sportswoman of the Year for the first time .

2000 Summer Olympics

1999 was devoted entirely to preparation for the 2000 Olympic Games . But the Olympic distance of 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running proved too short for their abilities; Badmann could not show her strengths in cycling, was not fast enough in swimming and concentrated on the long distance (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42 km running).

In the following years Badmann dominated the long distance (silver at the ITU Triathlon World Championship 2000) and the Ironman races. From 2000 to 2002 she won the Ironman Hawaii three more times in a row and in 2002 was voted Swiss Sportswoman of the Year for the second time. In 2004 and 2005 further victories at the Ironman Hawaii followed.

Accident at the Ironman Hawaii 2007

In 2007 she was the victim of a serious accident at the Ironman Hawaii: A motorcyclist cut her way on a downhill slope, Badmann evaded and collided with a pylon at a construction site. Badmann initially continued the race with a spare bike until her coach persuaded her to give up. Later, massive and serious injuries were found on both shoulders, which seemed to make a continuation of the career impossible. Several operations followed, after months of rehab, Badmann began training again six months later, during a fitness test at the sprint triathlon in Uster a few weeks before the Ironman Hawaii 2008, she was sometimes only able to swim with one arm. At her starts at the Ironman Hawaii in 2008 and 2009, however, she broke off the race, a planned renewed comeback attempt in 2010 she canceled in advance because of a Pfeiffer glandular fever .

It wasn't until 2011 that Badmann made a comeback at the age of 44 with a second place at the Ironman Lanzarote , the first successful Ironman since her accident. In April 2012, she took her fourth win at Ironman South Africa, which was her eleventh win in an Ironman competition overall. And also made her the oldest female Ironman winner.

In 2014, Badmann was again the victim of a traffic accident on Gran Canaria in preparation for the Ironman Melbourne . Instead , she broke off a start at Ironman South Africa . At Ironman Germany (Ironman European Championship) she finished sixth in June 2014 and three weeks later at Ironman Switzerland she only had to admit defeat to Daniela Ryf . In October 2014, at her seventeenth start at Ironman Hawaii, she was thrown back by a tire failure and finished 24th. In 2015 Badmann decided not to start in Hawaii for the third time in 19 years.

She announced that she would start as a professional in Hawaii for the last time in 2016 at the age of 50. 20 years after their first start. She has been working as a speaker since 2018. In March 2019, the 52-year-old finished second at Ironman 70.3 Oman.

Personal

Natascha Badmann is a UNICEF ambassador and lives with her partner Toni Hasler in Oftringen . She is vegetarian .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Awards

• International duathlete of the decade
• Swiss Sportswoman of the Year (1998, 2002)
• International Triathlete of the Year (2001, 2002, 2005)

Publications

• Natascha Badmann: 9 hours to fame: The Queen of the Triathlon , Delius Klasing Verlag , Bielefeld. 2nd edition 2015 (October 6, 2014), ISBN 978-3768839044

Web links

Commons : Natascha Badmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Natascha Badmann and Toni Hasler
• Natascha Badmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Portrait of Natascha Badmann on tri2b.com
• Natascha Badmann's profile on redbull.com
• Profile for Natascha Badmann at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 12, 2016
• Natascha Badmann's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 19, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Natascha Badmann: "I was a chubby, depressed child" In: Aargauer Zeitung March 14, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jacqueline Schwerzmann: "Giving up is more painful than continuing" In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung October 15, 2007
3. ↑ Second operation for Natascha Badmann  ( 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.  
4. ↑ Natascha Badmann: Is a comeback possible?
5. ↑ Natascha Badmann: Comeback on the sprint distance
6. ↑ ^{a b} Short distance victory by Natascha Badmann  ( 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.  
7. ↑ ^{a b} No top Swiss ranking at the Ironman
8. ↑ Badmann gives forfait for Hawaii In: Aargauer Zeitung September 17, 2010
9. ↑ Natascha Badmann's sense of achievement In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung May 21, 2011
10. ^ ^{A b} Ironman South Africa: Riesler and Fachbach top
11. ↑ Natscha Badmann returns to victory at the age of 45 In: Aargauer Zeitung April 23, 2012
12. ↑ Jan Sägert: Badmann fears about the start of the Ironman Hawaii In: tri-mag.de March 26, 2014
13. ↑ Badmann approached by Tourist: "All my preparations are destroyed" In: Aargauer Zeitung March 27, 2014
14. ^ ^{A b} Ironman South Africa: Frommhold wins, Al-Sultan third
15. ↑ Rookie Ryf clears up in Zurich
16. ↑ Daniela Ryf only defeated by defending champion Carfrae In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung October 12, 2014
17. ↑ "It hurts not to be there!" (October 10, 2015)
18. ↑ Natascha Badmann: The Biggest Smile on Ali'i (September 16, 2016)
19. ↑ Famous vegetarian-vegan athletes. (HTTPS) In: vebu.de. May 2016, accessed May 30, 2016 . 
20. ↑ Sebastian Kienle full throttle to the second victory (June 24, 2012)
21. ↑ Aernouts and Goos strike again ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 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. 
22. ↑ Ironman 70.3 New Orleans
23. ↑ Badmann and Potano win the Volcano Triathlon
24. ^ Half-Ironman Florida: Clear victories for Badmann and Lessing
25. ↑ Blackwater Eagleman: Badmann and Legh the fastest
26. ↑ Uster Triathlon - WALL OF FAME
27. ↑ Uster Triathlon - WALL OF FAME
28. ↑ Ironman Malaysia: Diana Riesler successfully defends her title
29. ↑ Podium places for Badmann and Brader
30. ↑ Natascha Badmann: Class proven ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 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. 
31. ↑ 4th place in Australia: Natascha Badmann mixes with the top In: Aargauer Zeitung March 25, 2013
32. ↑ Ironman South Africa: Badmann and Schellens defend their titles
33. ↑ IM South Africa: Natascha Badmann repeats last year's victory
34. ↑ IM Hawaii: The winners speak German
35. ↑ IM South Africa: The favorites Badmann and Tissink are convincing
36. ↑ Ironman Hawaii 2003 - Kona, Hawaii ( Memento from December 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
37. ↑ Badmann unstoppable - fourth Hawaii victory in a row In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung October 20, 2002
38. ↑ Badmann - an Ironman for the history books
39. ^ Nice 2000 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships
40. ^ Powerman Zofingen: Erika Csomor with fifth triumph