Clemente Alonso McKernan

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Triathlon
SpainSpain 0 Clemente Alonso McKernan
Personal information
Date of birth 23rd April 1978 (age 42)
place of birth Málaga , Andalusia
societies
successes
1997 3rd place ITU World Triathlon Championship
1998 Winner of the ETU European Triathlon Championship
2012, 2014, 2017 3 × Ironman winner
2012 3rd place Ironman European Championships
status
active

Clemente Alonso McKernan (born April 23, 1978 in Málaga ) is a Spanish triathlete and Ironman winner (2012, 2014). He is included in the best list of Spanish triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Clemente Alonso McKernan was active as a swimmer and is starting today in triathlon competitions - mainly in the medium and long distance.

His first major successes were third place at the Junior World Championships in 1997 and the title of Junior European Champion in 1998.

In 2009 he qualified for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running), where he finished 17th. Just two weeks later he finished eleventh at the International Triathlon Union (ITU) long distance world championship .

In April 2012 he won the Ironman South Africa and in July came third at the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt am Main.

In October 2014 he won the Ironman Barcelona , which he had already won in 2011, when it was still held under the name Challenge Barcelona-Maresme .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
June 11, 2011 1 TriGrandPrix SpainSpain Zarautz 03:40:42
May 16, 2010 5 Half Challenge Barcelona SpainSpain Barcelona 03:41:23
May 24, 2009 1 Half Challenge Barcelona SpainSpain Barcelona 04:01:49 ahead of the German Timo Bracht - at the first edition of the Challenge Barcelona-Maresme
Apr 18, 2004 13 ETU Short Distance Triathlon European Championships SpainSpain Valencia 01:49:44 European championship on the short distance
04th July 1998 1 ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men AustriaAustria Velden 01:56:34 Junior European Champion
Nov 16, 1997 3 ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Men AustraliaAustralia Perth 01:54:15 Junior Triathlon World Championship
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Nov 18, 2018 2 Ironman Arizona United StatesUnited States Tempe 08:08:41
19 Aug 2017 1 Ironman Sweden SwedenSweden Squid
May 14, 2016 5 Ironman Texas United StatesUnited States The Woodlands 07:30:59 The race is held on a shortened bike course (94 instead of 112 miles)
Nov 16, 2014 2 Ironman Arizona United StatesUnited States Tempe 08:00:32 Second behind Canadian Brent McMahon
0Oct 5, 2014 1 Ironman Barcelona SpainSpain Calella 08:04:13 second Ironman victory with a new personal best
June 23, 2013 3 Ironman France FranceFrance Nice 08:35:53
0July 8, 2012 3 Ironman Germany GermanyGermany Frankfurt 08:14:04 Third at the Ironman European Championship
Apr 22, 2012 1 Ironman South Africa South AfricaSouth Africa Port Elizabeth 08:34:45
0Oct 2, 2011 1 Challenge Barcelona-Maresme SpainSpain Barcelona 08:15:25
July 10, 2011 2 Ironman Switzerland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 08:27:56 Second behind the Swiss Ronnie Schildknecht after the fastest swimming time (51:04 min)
Oct 25, 2009 11 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Perth 03:58:21 World championship on the long distance
Oct 10, 2009 17th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 08:48:53
June 28, 2009 4th Ironman France FranceFrance Nice 08:48:59 qualified for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ win Clemente Alonso and Catriona Morrison: TriGrandPrix in Zarautz
  2. ↑ Successful premiere - Clemente Alonso McKernan and Katja Schumacher win the first edition of the Challenge Barcelona-Maresme
  3. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Tim O'Donnell and Jodie Swallow new ITU world champions on the long haul . In: 3athlon.de . October 25, 2009. Archived from the original on November 1, 2009.
  4. ↑ ITU World Championship long distance: Title to Timothy O'Donnell and Jodie Swallow
  5. ↑ Long Distance World Championships: Gold to O'Donnell and Swallow ( Memento from October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME McKernan, Clemente Alonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish duathlete and triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Málaga