Daniel Fontana
  Daniel Fontana
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 31st December 1975 (age 44) |
| place of birth | General Roca (Argentina) |
| size | 183 cm |
| Weight | 70 kg |
| societies | |
| Current | Dimensione Dello Sport |
| successes | |
| 1997, 1999, 2001 | 3 × National Triathlon Champion (Argentina) |
| 2005 | National champion triathlon sprint distance (Italy) |
| 2009 | 2nd place Ironman 70.3 World Championships |
| 2014-2018 | 3 × Ironman winner |
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Daniel Monzoro Fontana (born December 31, 1975 in General Roca , Argentina ) is an Italian triathlete . He is a two-time Olympic athlete (2004, 2008), multiple Ironman winner and leads the best list of Italian triathletes on the Ironman distance . (As of March 2019)
Career
He was born in the Patagonia region of Argentina and started his first triathlon in 1994. In 1997, 1999 and 2001 he became Argentine champion. In 2004 he started for Argentina at the Olympic Games and finished 28th.
Daniel Fontana has Argentinian and Italian citizenship. He started for Argentina until 2005 and moved to Italy in 2006. Since then he's started for Italy. In 2008 he started in Beijing for the second time at the Olympic Games and finished there in 33rd place.
Fontana then switched from the short triathlon to the longer distances and became Ironman 70.3 Vice World Champion in 2009 (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21 km running). In April 2010, he finished third in South Africa at his first start on the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).
In October 2016, Fontana won the Ironman Taiwan and thus his second Ironman race after 2014.
Daniel Fontana is trained by Simon Diamanten and starts for the Dimensione Dello Sport (DDS) team. Today he lives in Settimo Milanese .
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| July 30, 2016 | 9 | Ironman 70.3 Budapest |
 Budapest
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03:54:59 | |
| 20th July 2014 | 5 | Ironman 70.3 Racine |
 Racine
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03:53:16 | |
| 23 Sep 2012 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 Cozumel |
 Cozumel
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03:56:20 | Second in the first edition |
| 26 Aug 2012 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun |
 Zell am See
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03:48:01 | |
| June 10, 2012 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Italy |
Pescara
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04:13:25 | |
| Apr 29, 2012 | 2 | TriStar 111 Cannes |
 Cannes
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03:31:35 | Second at the first event (1 km swimming, 100 km cycling and 10 km running) |
| Sep 18 2011 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 Cancun |
Cancun
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04:02:05 | on half the Ironman distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21 km running) |
| June 12, 2011 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Italy |
Pescara |
04:01:26 | Winner at the first edition |
| Jan. 16, 2011 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Pucón |
 Pucón
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03:52:59 | |
| 2010 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 Pucón |
Pucón |
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| Nov 14, 2009 | 2 | Ironman 70.3 World Championships |
Clearwater
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03:36:44 | Second place in the world championship behind the German Michael Raelert . |
| 2009 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 Pucón |
Pucón |
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| May 16, 2009 | 2 | Kalterer See Triathlon |
Lake Kaltern
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01: 55: 28.40 | second place behind the Ukrainian Volodymyr Polikarpenko |
| 2008 | 14th | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championships |
 Vancouver
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| Aug 19, 2008 | 33 | 2008 Summer Olympics |
 Beijing
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01: 52: 39.21 | |
| 2007 | 21st | ETU Short Distance Triathlon European Championships |
 Copenhagen
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on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) | |
| 2006 | 15th | ITU Triathlon Short Distance World Championships |
 Lausanne
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| Sep 24 2005 | 1 | ITA National Championship Sprint Distance Triathlon |
Rimini
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00:55:55 | State champion on the sprint distance |
| 2005 | 8th | ITU Triathlon Short Distance World Championships |
 Gamagōri
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| Aug 26, 2004 | 28 | 2004 Summer Olympics |
 Athens
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01: 57: 14.20 | |
| Jan. 18, 2004 | 1 | ITU Triathlon Pan American Cup |
 La Paz |
01:50:45 | |
| 2002 | 1 | Kalterer See Triathlon |
Lake Kaltern |
Olympic distance winner |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Oct 12, 2019 | 35 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii
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08:51:17 | |
| Oct 7, 2018 | 1 | Ironman Taiwan |
 Kenting
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07:47:36 | Due to strong winds, the swimming distance had to be shortened to 400 m |
| Oct 2, 2016 | 1 | Ironman Taiwan |
Kenting |
08:40:45 | |
| Oct 11, 2014 | 181 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
09:37:44 | Ironman World Championship |
| 30th Mar 2014 | 1 | Ironman Los Cabos |
Los Cabos
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08:26:15 | first Ironman victory - with a new course record |
| Nov 2, 2013 | 4th | Ironman Florida |
Panama City
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08:05:48 | with a personal best time on the Ironman distance new Italian record |
| July 28, 2013 | 2 | Ironman USA |
Lake Placid
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08:48:29 | |
| 17th Mar 2013 | 6th | Ironman Los Cabos |
Los Cabos |
08:39:24 | at the first edition |
| July 1, 2012 | 2 | Ironman Austria |
Klagenfurt
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08:20:37 | |
| Oct 8, 2011 | 12 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
08:31:20 | |
| Apr 10, 2011 | 4th | Ironman South Africa |
 Port Elizabeth
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08:18:51 | |
| Apr 25, 2010 | 3 | Ironman South Africa |
Port Elizabeth |
08:33:48 | first start on the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Daniel Fontana in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile for Daniel Fontana at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 15, 2016
- Profile and results of Daniel Fontana in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 12, 2019 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ironman 70.3 Pucon: Corbin and Fontana win in severe weather , on tri2b.com, accessed on December 29, 2019
- ↑ Kalterersee Triathlon ( Memento from April 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fontana, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fontana, Daniel Monzoro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine-Italian triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | General Roca , Argentina |