Christiane Pilz

0 Christiane Pilz
Christiane Pilz (center), 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	3rd August 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Karl Marx City
societies
successes
2001-2009	4 × German champion triathlon short distance
2011	German champion police championships cross-country
status
inactive

Christiane Pilz (born August 3, 1975 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German duathlete and triathlete who usually achieves better results in triathlons due to her swimming strength.

Career

The Rostocker has been running triathlons since 1995. Before that, the sports soldier was a sailor from 1982 to 1992 and a swimmer from 1993 to 1995 in the USA and for PSV Rostock . Since 1997 she has been part of the national triathlon team. In 1996 she became national champion in triathlon and vice national champion in duathlon.

With the team of TC FIKO Rostock she rose from the 2nd to the 1st Bundesliga. 1997 Pilz was fourth in the German championships in triathlon and 15th in the duathlon. A year later she was runner-up in the duathlon and again fourth in the German championship. At the 1997 Summer Universiade, I got 16th place in the individual and the silver medal with the team. The 1998 German Championships brought fourth place in the triathlon and sixth place in the duathlon. Pilz won team gold at the European Championship.

The year 2000 was also successful. Both in the duathlon as third and in the triathlon as second, she won medals at the German championships. At the European Championships she was sixth in the individual and with the team she won the silver medal, in the overall European Cup ranking Pilz reached fifth place. At the Universiade, there was also the silver medal in the individual and gold with the team.

Since 2001 she started in the World Cup and achieved several top ten placements. At the German Triathlon Championships, Pilz was able to win the title for the first time. The athlete finished tenth at the World Championships in Canada. In 2002, Pilz repeated winning the national title. At the European Championship she won bronze in the individual race and gold with the team. At the World Cup in Mexico, she came in 18th.

In 2003, Pilz was injured for a long time. With the team from asics Team Witten , however, she was able to achieve second place in the Bundesliga.

In 2004, Pilz was third in the German championship in Potsdam and just missed another medal in fourth at the European Championships in Spain. She finished the World Cup in Madeira in 26th place. An elbow injury after a fall with a bike prevented her from starting at the Olympic Games in Athens . The only significant result in 2005 was the runner-up title in Potsdam.

The year 2007 was particularly successful. Pilz became German and European champions and achieved four placements among the top ten in the World Cup, including two third places. In 2008 the Rostockers were able to qualify as seventh at the World Cup in Madrid for the Olympic Games in Beijing against Joelle Franzmann for the last free starting place in the triathletes. In Beijing she took 26th place. In 2007 she took third overall place of 441 participants in the 38th Müritzschwimmen .

On November 20, 2011, Pilz became German champion at the police championships in cross-country skiing.

Christiane Pilz starts for SC Neubrandenburg and she is trained by Klaus-Peter Weippert and Christian Bartsch. Since October 2009 she has been working as a police officer in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It has not appeared internationally since 2013.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Christiane Pilz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christiane Pilz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Christiane Pilz ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at tri2b
• Christiane Pilz's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 2, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Christiane Pilz at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 13, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Cross-Country Police Championship 2011 in Darmstadt ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Kitzbühel (PDF; 115 kB)
3. ↑ Triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )