Caroline Steffen

0 Caroline Steffen
Caroline Steffen at Ironman Germany 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	18th September 1978 (age 41)
place of birth	Spiez , Switzerland
Nickname	Xena
Size	178 cm
Weight	65 kg
societies
current	Team TBB
since 2015	Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
successes
2010, 2012	2 × ITU world champion triathlon long distance
2011, 2012	2 × winner Ironman European Championship Frankfurt
2011-2018	6 × Ironman winner
2012	2nd place Ironman World Championship
2016	Vice world champion triathlon long distance
status
active

Caroline Steffen (born on September 18, 1978 in Spiez as Caroline Claudia Steffen ) is a Swiss triathlete . She is triathlon world champion on the ITU long distance (2010, 2012), came second in the Ironman World Championship in 2012 and won the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt twice (2011, 2012). She is in second place in the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Caroline Steffen began swimming in 1990 and was a member of the Swiss national team for ten years from 1993 to 2003, where she was 17 times Swiss champion.

In July 2006 she took part in an Ironman in Zurich, finished second in her age group and qualified for a place at the Ironman World Championship 2006 in Hawaii, where she was able to achieve third place in the 25-29 year category for women . She was trained by the multiple Swiss marathon champion Richard Umberg .

In 2007 and 2008 she was a member of a professional women's cycling team ( Raleigh Lifeforce Creation ) and in 2007 she took part in the Grande Boucle Féminine (the counterpart to the Tour de France for men), where Steffen, along with Karin Thürig and Priska Doppmann for Switzerland won the team championship. In 2009, in her first year as a professional, she finished fourth in the Ironman 70.3 World Championship.

World Champion Triathlon Long Distance 2010

In Immenstadt she became triathlon world champion on the long distance of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) in August 2010 and in October she was second at the Ironman Hawaii .

In May 2011 she won a competition under the trademark Ironman for the first time in Port Macquarie (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running). In July 2011 she won the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt and was able to repeat this victory in 2012.

Caroline Steffen achieved a world best time of 4:35:29 h in Melbourne in March 2012 in the 180 km bike sub-discipline in an Ironman race.

World champion triathlon long distance 2012

In July 2012, she was able to repeat her success from 2010 in Spain and again won the title at the world championship on the long-distance triathlon. In October she finished second at the Ironman Hawaii.

In July 2013 she won the Challenge Roth long distance and in March 2014 Steffen took her fifth Ironman victory in Melbourne . In 2014 she was able to qualify for the sixth time for a starting position at the Ironman Hawaii in October, where she finished fifth as the second fastest Swiss woman. Caroline Steffen started for Team TBB from 2010 to 2014 and was trained there by Australian Brett Sutton , who later took over her training again after an interruption.

At the beginning of 2015 she switched to the newly founded Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team , which is led by Australian Chris McCormack and who has been taking care of Steffen's training ever since. She was third at the Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt in July and ninth at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii in October.

In September 2016 she was runner-up in the long-distance triathlon world championship.

Caroline Steffen deliberately did not contest an Ironman in 2016 and therefore did not qualify for the Ironman Hawaii. In 2017 she took a maternity leave. In May 2028 she returned to racing and came third in a half-Ironman in Vietnam. In August, Steffen won the Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast in Australia and two months later the first Ironman 70.3 Shanghai in China. In December, the then 40-year-old was able to win her sixth Ironman race with the Ironman Western Australia and set a new course record in 8:49:46 hours at the 15th edition.

Private

Caroline Steffen is a trained draftsman , lived for some time in Mooloolaba, a suburb of the Sunshine Coast (Queensland) and now in Port Macquarie . Her nickname is "Xena".

In 2009 she met the Australian triathlete David Dellow (* 1979) and was in a relationship with him until 2015.

In July 2017, she announced that she was expecting a baby with her partner, former triathlete and Ironman presenter Pete Murray, and her son was born in December.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Caroline Steffen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Caroline Steffen in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile for Caroline Steffen at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 15, 2014
• Profile and results of Caroline Steffen in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 30, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christof Gertsch: The girl and love. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. June 4, 2011, accessed July 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ The Girl and Love (June 4, 2011)
3. ^ Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
4. ↑ 10 Things To Know About The All-Star Bahrain Endurance 13 Team ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2015 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. (May 6, 2015) 
5. ↑ Caroline Steffen wins the Ironman 70.3 in Australia (August 26, 2018)
6. ↑ Christof Geruch: The triathlete and her driver - trainer Brett Sutton surprised herself by Caroline Steffen's performance in Hawaii. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 17, 2010, accessed July 15, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Xena Warrior Princess
8. ↑ BABY JOY WITH CAROLINE STEFFEN (December 28, 2017)
9. ↑ She is 40, a mother and record-breaking speed (December 12, 2018)
10. ↑ CHIEMSEE TRIATHLON: THOMAS STEGER AND CAROLINE STEFFEN WIN MEDIUM DISTANCE (July 1, 2019)
11. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 WM: TIM REED WRESTLES SEBASTIAN KIENLE DOWN IN THE FINAL PRINT (September 4, 2016)
12. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Bahrain: Ryf is now a triathlon millionaire
13. ^ Petraeus, Steffen take Challenge Aarhus
14. ↑ Caroline Steffen in a class of her own (December 5, 2010)
15. ↑ Noosa Triathlon: Hawaii second Caroline Steffen victorious in Australia
16. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Switzerland: Michael Raelert wins the next victory ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2011 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.  
17. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Singapore: Victories for Steffen and Alexander
18. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Caroline Steffen from Switzerland wins Ironman 70.3 Geelong Triathlon from Australia . In: 3athlon.de . February 7, 2010. Archived from the original on February 7, 2010.
19. ^ Poole, Warriner top Port of Tauranga
20. ↑ Caroline Steffen just next to the World Cup podium
21. ↑ Caroline Steffen wins the Gold Coast Half Ironman  ( 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.  
22. ↑ DM title and Kona slot for Julia Gajer: Susie Cheetham wins Ironman Hamburg, Sarah Piampiano comes second (July 28, 2019)
23. ↑ Ironman Hawaii: Andreas Raelert moves up (September 1, 2014)
24. ↑ Weiss at IRONMAN Melbourne at the start (March 19, 2014)
25. ↑ Caroline Steffen: "I'm glad I made it to the finish" (October 13, 2013)
26. ↑ Van Lierde and Hauschildt win in Abu Dhabi (March 2, 2013)
27. ↑ Shivering winner
28. ↑ Frederik van Lierde steals the show from the top guys
29. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Abu Dhabi International Triathlon: rendezvous of the Ironman stars in the land of the sheikhs . In: 3athlon.de . March 10, 2010. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010.