Bas Diederen

0 Bas Diederen
at the Twinfield Triathlon Veenendaal, national champion triathlon short distance, 2013
Personal information
Date of birth	19th May 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Sittard, Netherlands
size	185 cm
Weight	79 kg
societies
Since 2011	Team4Talent
successes
2005-2007, 2009, 2011-2013	7 × national champion triathlon short distance
2008-2011	4 × National Champion Triathlon Middle Distance
2013	3rd place Ironman European Championship
2015	Ironman winner
status
active

Bas Diederen (born May 19, 1980 in Sittard ) is a Dutch triathlete , eleven-time national champion (between 2005 and 2013) and Ironman winner (2015).

Career

Bas Diederen started out with performance-oriented swimming at a young age and then switched to triathlon in 1999.

In 2003 he was third at the state championship on the short distance triathlon. In the same year he also took part for the first time in the European Championships over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) and finished in 37th place.

National champion triathlon short distance 2005

From 2005 he was honored seven times as Dutch champion over the short distance and in 2011 he became national champion in the triathlon middle distance for the fourth time in a row.

Winner Amateurs Ironman World Championship 2011

In October 2011, Bas Diederen was the fastest amateur at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and thus became the "Amateur World Champion".
Since the end of 2011 he has started as a professional athlete for the Team4Talent association . In the following year, he won his first triathlon over the Ironman distance at the Challenge Barcelona-Maresme .

In July 2013 he was third at the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt am Main and in August for the seventh time national champion in the short distance triathlon.

In the same place, he finished fourth with a new personal Ironman best time in July 2015. Four weeks later he was able to celebrate his second victory on the Ironman distance at the first Ironman Maastricht-Limburg .

Bas Diederen lives in Susteren .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Bas Diederen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait of Bas Diederen (team4talent)
• Profile for Bas Diederen at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 28, 2014
• Bas Diederen's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 7, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diederen surprises Bittner and Bayliss (September 30, 2012)
2. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Luxembourg: Gajer sovereign, Küng works (June 20, 2015)
3. ↑ Diederen tweede in Mexicaanse Ironman (November 26, 2012)