Celia Kuch

0 Celia Kuch
as the best German at the Challenge Henley-on-Thames , 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	31st July 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Weinheim , Germany
size	165 cm
Weight	55 kg
societies
Until 2016	TSG Weinheim team cycling Wagner
successes
2013	Vice European champion long distance triathlon
2013	3rd place national championship triathlon long distance
2014, 2016	2 × Vice State Champion Duathlon long distance
2014	4th place European Championship Triathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 2016

Celia Kuch (born July 31, 1978 in Weinheim ) is a German triathlete and vice-European champion in the long distance (2013).

Career

Celia Kuch was active as an artistic gymnast in her youth and ran her first marathon in 2003. In 2004 and 2005 she competed in triathlons in Germany and New Zealand. She started structured training in 2006 at the age of 27.

In 2004 she finished her studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Diploma in Sports Science) and then did her Master of Science at the University of Auckland from 2005 to 2007 .

Long distance triathlon since 2007

In January 2007 she started in Wanaka (New Zealand) for the first time in a triathlon competition over the long distance (3.86 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and was able to achieve fourth place. She was looked after in New Zealand by her coach Walter Thorburn . From 2004 to 2010 Celia Kuch lived in Auckland (New Zealand) and since May 2010 she has returned to Weinheim .
She started for the TSG Weinheim team Radsport Wagner , was trained by Kristian Manietta , Charlotte Paul's husband, and looked after by Astrid Stienen and her husband Christian . From 2010 to 2011 she was looked after by Susanne Buckenlei .

Celia Kuch mainly took part in long-distance triathlon competitions. In July 2012 she started at the European Championships of the European Triathlon Union (ETU) in Roth and finished twelfth. In August, she broke her collarbone in a training fall.

Vice-European Champion Long Distance Triathlon 2013

In September 2013 she was runner-up in Vichy, France, in the long-distance triathlon.

In her first duathlon start as part of the Powerman racing series, she became German runner-up in the long-distance duathlon in May 2014. In September 2014 she finished fourth at the ETU Long Distance European Championship, which was held as part of the Challenge Almere-Amsterdam . In October, Celia Kuch was fourth fastest German woman in Mallorca and finished 13th at the European Championships in the middle distance.

In June 2016, she announced that she would end her active career after the 2016 season. In August she became German runner-up on the long distance duathlon for the second time in Ulm.

Since 2017 she has been competing without a professional license and in September 2017 the 39-year-old finished third at the Ironman Vichy . Celia Kuch works today as a trainer and coach.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

Commons : Celia Kuch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Celia Kuch, Triathlon Coaching
• Profile and results of Celia Kuch in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 3, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Celia Kuch at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on September 29, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About Celia
2. ↑ Ironman: The other way to be tough as iron!
3. ↑ ^{a b} Fachbach and Bij de Vaate crowned European champions at Challenge Almere. (No longer available online.) September 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on September 14, 2014 (English). 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.  
4. ↑ 11th place at the 70.3 (Triathlon) Duathlon Luxembourg 2016 - A competition report and a little more than that ... (June 20, 2016)
5. ↑ Julian Mutterer pulverizes course record - Celia Kuch wins the women's race at the 26th Breisgau Triathlon
6. ↑ Maxdorf Triathlon: Göhner gives himself victory for his birthday
7. ↑ Kiwi Celia Kuch placed in top 10 at Austria's Challenge Walchsee ( Memento from February 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ Challenge Walchsee 2010: Michael Weiss wins with the strongest bike split
9. ↑ athlinks.com: Celia Kuch. Retrieved December 13, 2011 . 
10. ↑ MAINOVA IRONMAN European Championship Frankfurt Results - IRONMAN Official Site | IRONMAN triathlon 140.6 & 70.3. In: IRONMAN.com. Retrieved July 3, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Challenge Roth: Women's race with a double record
12. ^ Ironman Western Australia
13. ↑ Ironman New Zealand 2009: Celia Kuch - Who brakes loses
14. ↑ DUATHLON-DM: ESEFELD AND SENCZYSZYN BRING GOLD IN ULM (August 9, 2016)