Boris Stein

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Boris Stein at Ironman France, 2015
Boris Stein at Ironman France , 2015
Personal information
Date of birth 19th October 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Germany
size 188 cm
Weight 77 kg
societies
since 2009 DBL team RSG Montabaur
successes
2010 German champion duathlon long distance
2012, 2013 2 × German champion triathlon middle distance
2014-2019 3 × Ironman winner
2015 Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championship
2016 7th place Ironman World Championship
status
active

Boris Stein (born October 19, 1984 ) is a German triathlete and duathlete . He is multiple German champion (2010, 2012, 2013), winner of the Ironman 70.3 European Championships (2015, 2019), Ironman winner (2014, 2015) and is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Because his studies could not be combined with the earlier soccer training in Stein's home club, Boris Stein began running to keep himself fit. Motivated by friends, he invested in a racing bike, with which he then crossed the Alps and various Mediterranean and Atlantic islands. The report about a triathlete in the sports paper of his club then led him to participate in his first triathlon in 2008, 10 km from his home town in Bad Ems , where he was just 2:42 minutes behind the winner Lothar Leder in his sprint distance Age group came on the podium. The success motivated him to register for his first middle distance four weeks later for the Cologne Triathlon 2008.

After his first experiences in triathlon made you want more, Stein joined the triathlon department of a cycling club in the Westerwald and initially started for its fourth team, the DBL team RSG Montabaur in the “2. RTV-Liga "as the fifth highest league below the" Triathlon Bundesliga "," 2nd Bundesliga South "," Regionalliga Mitte "and" 1. RTV-Liga ”to finish the season in the 3rd team one league higher. On a sprint distance on Lake Kronenburger See , he was able to enjoy the feeling of being the first to cross the finish line for the first time.

German champion duathlon long distance 2010

In June 2010 Stein won the German championship on the long distance duathlon. In the meantime he started in the 2nd Bundesliga . In 2011 he won the traditional Breisgau Triathlon and undercut the times of all winners in the twenty-year history of the event, including z. B. Timo Bracht , Andreas Böcherer and Faris Al-Sultan . In July 2012, he became German champion in the triathlon middle distance at the Allgäu Triathlon .

Professional triathlete since 2012

After completing his studies and the following legal traineeship, Boris Stein began to compete as a professional athlete in 2012 and defended his German championship title in the middle distance in June 2013 and has since started in the 1st Bundesliga. In autumn he made his debut at the Ironman distance at Lake Tahoe just two weeks later in a double pack at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Nevada .

In June 2014 Stein was able to triumph for the first time in a competition in the Ironman 70.3 series in Rapperswil-Jona . In the following month he won the Ironman Switzerland in Zurich on his second start on the long distance and thus interrupted a twelve-year winning streak of Swiss athletes. The points gained in this way in the “Kona Pro Ranking System” were “only” enough for the last professional starting position, but also his personal first start at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii , where he made his debut in October as the fifth fastest German took 20th place.

Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championship 2015

In August 2015 he won the Ironman 70.3 European Championship in Wiesbaden on the fifth attempt .
In October 2015, he was fourth fastest German and finished tenth at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii.

In 2016 he was able to improve to seventh place overall on his third start at the Ironman Hawaii. In June 2017, he won the Challenge Heilbronn in the middle distance . At the Ironman Hawaii in October 2017, he finished tenth.

Boris Stein lives in Eitelborn in the southern Westerwald and studied to be a high school teacher in the subjects of social studies and sport at the TU Darmstadt . In addition to his activities as a triathlon professional, he worked part-time as a teacher at the Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium until he decided to concentrate full-time on the triathlon as a professional.

In August 2019 he won the Ironman Sweden .

Sporting successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kona Pro Ranking Men 2014
  2. Boris Stein: "My tactical performance was a catastrophe" (October 11, 2015)
  3. BORIS STEIN: THE TRAIN TO HAWI WAS TOO FAST (Boris Stein in the target interview; October 14, 2017)
  4. Volker Boch: Portrait of Boris Stein ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: tri-mag.de . 29th September 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tri-mag.de
  5. Boris Stein wins Ironman Kalmar (August 17, 2019)
  6. Triathlon in the heart of Frankfurt. In: runnersworld.de. August 4, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  7. Boris Stein wins superior (June 18, 2017)
  8. Results Ironman 70.3 Wiesbaden 2015 (August 9, 2015)
  9. Marco Rosbach: Boris Stein after leaving the Triathlon World Cup: I didn't want to risk anything In: Rhein-Zeitung . September 11, 2014
  10. Ryf Smashes Switzerland (June 1, 2014)
  11. Results: IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship
  12. Triathlon - EM: Raelert and Beranek celebrate EM title in record time (August 12, 2012)
  13. Ironman 70.3 Switzerland Raelert dismantles the competition (June 3, 2012)
  14. Boris Stein: The next bang!
  15. 21st International Breisgau Triathlon: Boris Stein with course record
  16. Ironman 70.3: Spirig ends season with victory in Austin
  17. IM 70.3 Germany: Raelert runs to the title
  18. ^ Moret Triathlon 2010: A clear matter for Boris Stein
  19. 74 Pros Accept Ironman World Championship Slots ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 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. (August 14, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / triathlon.competitor.com
  20. Results: Lake Tahoe