Camilla Pedersen

0 Camilla Pedersen
at Ironman Germany , 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	8th June 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Esbjerg , Denmark
Nickname	Mille
societies
Current	Fusion team and Esbjerg Tri og Multisport
successes
2011	ETU European Champion Long Distance Triathlon
2013, 2017	2 × ETU European triathlon champion middle distance
2013	Winner Ironman European Championship
2014	ITU world champion triathlon long distance
status
active

Camilla Pedersen (born June 8, 1983 in Esbjerg ) is a Danish triathlete . She is two-time European champion in the long distance (2011), in the middle distance (2013, 2017), she won the Ironman European Championship in 2013 and is triathlon world champion in the long distance (2014).

Career

In 2010 Camilla Pedersen started her first triathlon.

European Champion Long Distance Triathlon 2011

In 2011, Camilla Pedersen became the European triathlon champion in Finland in the long distance (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running). Pedersen is trained by the Danish national coach Michael Krüger . Her nickname is "Mille". In July 2012 she finished second at the World Triathlon Long Distance Championship.

In May 2013 Pedersen became European champion in the middle distance, in June also triathlon vice world champion in the long distance and in July she won the Ironman European Championship .

After a serious training accident with the bike on September 3rd, Camilla Pedersen was in an artificial coma with skull fractures. In mid-October she was allowed to leave the hospital for the first time for a few days.

World Champion Long Distance Triathlon 2014

In 2014 she returned to racing and in April she won the Challenge Fuerteventura . In September she won the title of world champion in the long-distance triathlon in China after two runner-up titles in previous years.

In June 2015, Camilla Pedersen was runner-up in Sweden's long-distance triathlon and in October she was eighth at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. In November 2016, as in the previous year, she was third at Ironman Mexico .

Triathlon European champion middle distance 2017

In June 2017 she was again European triathlon champion in the middle distance after 2013 as part of the Challenge Herning in Denmark. The then 35-year-old finished fourth at the ITU World Championships on the long-distance triathlon in July 2018. In September she finished second at Ironman Wales .

In August 2019, after 8:49:23 h, she was second behind the German Anne Haug in the personal best in Ironman Copenhagen .

Camilla Pedersen starts together with Henrik Hyldelund and Martin Jensen in the Danish Fusion team .

Awards

• 2014 - Sportswoman of the Year (Denmark)

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Camilla Pedersen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Camilla Pedersen
• Profile and results of Camilla Pedersen in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 3, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Camilla Pedersen at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 3, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ETU Long Distance European Championship 2011 - Tampere, Finland ( Memento from September 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (August 21, 2011)
2. ↑ Ironman European Champion Pedersen in an artificial coma (September 4, 2013)
3. ↑ Camilla Pedersen Remains In Coma (September 11, 2013)
4. ↑ Ironman European Champion Pedersen awakes from a coma (23 September 2013)
5. ↑ Camilla Pedersen Out Of Hospital (October 11, 2013)
6. ↑ Challenge Fuerteventura: Andreas Dreitz and Camilla Pedersen (April 26, 2014)
7. ↑ Patrick Dirksmeier is ETU European Champion (June 11, 2017)
8. ↑ Camilla Pedersen Sportsman of the Year ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (January 10, 2015)
9. ↑ Andreas Giglmayr and Camilla Pedersen win Trumer Triathlon middle distance (July 28, 2019)
10. ↑ Results Ironman 70.3 Wiesbaden 2015 (August 9, 2015)
11. ↑ Ironman 70.3: Sudrie wins premiere in Barcelona (May 18, 2014)