Brad Kahlefeldt

0 Brad Kahlefeldt
Brad Kahlefeldt in Wagga Wagga (2011)
Personal information
Date of birth	27th July 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	Temora, Australia
Nickname	Sticksy
size	183 cm
Weight	67 kg
societies
Until 2018	EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
successes
2000	Vice World Champion Aquathlon
2006	Commonwealth Games winner
2009	Vice World Champion Mixed Relay
2010	3rd place world championship triathlon short distance
2013-2016	5 × winners Ironman 70.3
status
Resigned in 2018

Brad (Bradley) Kahlefeldt (born July 27, 1979 in Temora ) is a former Australian duathlete and triathlete . He is a two-time Olympic athlete (2008, 2012) and is included in the best list of Australian triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Brad Kahlefeldt grew up with five siblings and he was introduced to the sport at an early age by his parents, who were both active in marathons. He has lived in Wagga Wagga since 1987 and Kahlefeldt started his first triathlon in Canberra in 1993 . As a teenager he started for Australia in the duathlon in Italy in 1996 and in Spain the following year. In 2000 he became vice world champion in aquathlon.

2008 Summer Olympics

He won the 2006 Commonwealth Games and started for Australia at the 2008 Olympic Games in China, where he finished 16th.

In 2009 he and his team in Lausanne won the silver medal at the first edition of the Triathlon World Championship in the mixed team. Since 2010 he coached the Australian triathlete Emma Moffatt (* 1984), with whom he was in a relationship until 2012. In July 2011 he won the fourth race of the ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2011 in Hamburg .

2012 Summer Olympics

The Australian Triathlon Association nominated Kahlefeldt together with Courtney Atkinson and Brendan Sexton for a starting place at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where he finished 32nd.
In March 2015 he finished third in his first start on the Ironman distance in Australia. In October 2016, he took his fifth victory in an Ironman 70.3 race in China . Kahlefeldt started in the German Bundesliga for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten .

His nickname is Sticksy . He has been married to the Czech triathlete Radka Vodičková (* 1984) since December 2016 . In March 2018, the then 38-year-old declared his active time over.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Brad Kahlefeldt and Gregory Rouault at the Grand Prix Triathlon in Paris (2011)

Web links

Commons : Brad Kahlefeldt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Brad Kahlefeldt
• Brad Kahlefeldt's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 19, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief Biography Brad Kahlefeldt
2. ↑ Triathlon power couple Emma Moffatt and Brad Kahlefeldt have split (May 1, 2012)
3. ↑ Steger in Hungary only beaten by Raelert, Herlbauer wins
4. ↑ challenge-family.com: Kahlefeldt and Vodickova win Challenge Batemans Bay ( Memento from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English) (accessed on March 16, 2014)
5. ↑ Kahlefeldt takes Third Mooloolaba title
6. ↑ Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Final 2010 - Budapest, Hungary - Men ( Memento from September 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ÖTRV squad athletes in the Bundesliga
8. ^ Frodeno Sprints to Victory in Seoul
9. ↑ World Cup Mooloolaba: Kahlefeldt has strong nerves ( Memento from March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Alistair Brownlee wins the turbulent World Championship run of the ITU London Triathlon, Steffen Justus with silver, Sebastian Rank and Jonathan Zipf in the top 10 . In: 3athlon.de . August 15, 2009. Archived from the original on August 19, 2009.
11. ↑ Rank 13 for Maik Petzold in New Plymouth
12. ↑ ITU WORLD CUP TRIATHLON IN SALFORD (July 30, 2006)
13. ↑ Aquathlon worlds hit beaches of Yucatan ( Memento from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )