Daniela Ryf

0 Daniela Ryf
At Ironman Germany , 2018
Personal information
Date of birth	29th May 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Solothurn, Switzerland
Nickname	Stella, angry bird
Size	175 cm
Weight	57 kg
societies
Since 2015	Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
Since 2018	Breitling triathlon squad
successes
2004, 2005	2 × European Junior Champion
2009, 2010	2 × world champion mixed relay
2012, 2013	2 × Swiss champion triathlon short distance
2013, 2014	2 × Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championships
2014	Winner 5150 European Championships
2014-2019	5 × Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2015, 2018	2 × winner of the Ironman European Championships
2015-2018	4 × Ironman Hawaii winner
status
active

Daniela Ryf [ ˈriːf ] (born May 29, 1987 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss triathlete and two-time Olympic participant (2008, 2012). She is U-23 world champion (2008), world champion in mixed relay (2009, 2010) and Swiss champion in the short distance triathlon (2012, 2013). She has also won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship five times (middle distance: 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019) and is a four-time winner of the Ironman World Championships (long distance: 2015-2018). Ryf is listed as the leader in the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Daniela Ryf from Solothurn first took part in a school triathlon in 2000. Three Swiss championship titles followed in the youth category. She achieved her first international success at the 2003 European Championship when she won the gold medal in the team classification.

Junior European Triathlon Champion 2004

In 2004 and 2005, two further European junior championship titles followed in the individual ranking, and in 2006 a bronze medal was added in the team ranking. She was trained by Claude Ammann (2000-2008), Darren Smith (2008-09), Chris Lang (2010) and Craig Walton (2011). Her nicknames are "Stella" or "Angry Bird".

From 2003 to 2006 Ryf became Swiss Junior Champion four times in a row. On June 8, 2008, she won the triathlon world title in Vancouver in the U-23 category and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics , where she finished seventh. In 2009 she won the World Championship in Mixed Relay (team ranking) in Des Moines together with Magali Di Marco Messmer , Ruedi Wild and Lukas Salvisberg . The following year in Lausanne she defended this title in the Swiss team together with Nicola Spirig , Ruedi Wild and Sven Riederer .

2012 Summer Olympics

In June 2012 she also qualified for a start at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where she competed for Switzerland with Nicola Spirig, Sven Riederer and Ruedi Wild and reached 40th place. In September 2012 she became Swiss champion over the Olympic triathlon distance in Murten.

Daniela Ryf was a member of the Elite B team in the Swiss Triathlon Team in 2013 . In May she started the Ironman half-distance in St. Pölten, Austria, and in August she won the Ironman 70.3 European Championship in Wiesbaden .

Daniela Ryf after the World Championship Series race in Madrid, 2010

Since 2014 she has been supervised by Australian Brett Sutton (also coaches Nicola Spirig; “Trainer of the Year 2017”) and former cyclist Armin Meier . In June 2014, when she won the Ironman 70.3 Switzerland in Rapperswil-Jona , she was able to improve her best time in the middle distance of 4:00:14 h and set a new course record. At the end of July she won the 5150 European Championship in Zurich and the next day at her first start on the long distance also the Ironman Switzerland . This victory gave her the points that were still missing in the “Kona Pro Ranking System” of the WTC for a start three months later at the Ironman Hawaii . In September she won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Canada . Five weeks later, she finished second in the Ironman World Championship. Of the prize money distributed by the WTC in 2014, a total of 125,000 US dollars went to Daniela Ryf, more than any other triathlete at competitions organized by the WTC.

Ironman Hawaii 2015 winner

Since the beginning of 2015 Ryf has started for the newly founded Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team , which is led by Australian Chris McCormack . In May 2015 she won the Ironman 70.3 Mallorca with a new course record, which was her sixth victory in a row in a competition at this distance.
In June she won the Ironman European Championship on her fourth start in a competition over the Ironman distance in Frankfurt. Despite extremely high temperatures, which resulted in the highest dropout rate in the history of the event, she undercut the course record with a new personal best at this distance of 8:51:00 h. In August she won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship as part of the Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun . In October she was only the second Swiss woman to win the Ironman Hawaii after the six-time winner Natascha Badmann . As the second woman after Leanda Cave (2012), she won both the Ironman 70.3 World Championship and the Ironman World Championship within one calendar year. With her victory in the middle distance in Bahrain in December 2015, she won the overall ranking of the “Triple Crown Series” from the Challenge Dubai , the Ironman 70.3 World Championship and the Ironman 70.3 Bahrain and thus the highest prize money in the history of triathlon of $ 1 million.

Daniela Ryf at Challenge Roth, 2016

Winner Challenge Roth and Ironman Hawaii 2016

In June 2016 she won the Ironman 70.3 Switzerland for the third time in a row . In July, she set her personal best at Challenge Roth with her winning time of 8:22:04 h and the third fastest time ever achieved by a woman on the long distance. A week later she started at the next long distance and won the 20th Ironman Switzerland with a new course record on the new route. In October she improved the course record at the Ironman Hawaii by more than five minutes and successfully defended her title at the Ironman World Championship.

Winner Ironman Hawaii and Ironman 70.3 World Championship 2017

In July 2017, she defended her success at Challenge Roth. In September she became the first female athlete to win the Ironman 70.3 World Championships for the third time after 2014 and 2015. In October she won the Ironman Hawaii for the third time in a row. After she was in eighth place after the swim, 4:23 minutes behind, she took the lead with her bike and did not give it up on the marathon distance. Daniela Ryf was the highest earning athlete in the 2017 season.

In May 2018, the 30-year-old joined the new Breitling triathlon team with Jan Frodeno and Chris McCormack . In July she won the Ironman European Championships for the second time after 2015 at Ironman Germany with a new course record (8:38:44 hrs) and reached the finish in seventh place overall.

Fourth win at the Ironman Hawaii 2018

In October, the then 31-year-old won the Ironman Hawaii for the fourth time in a row. Daniela Ryf came out of the water more than nine minutes after leading Lucy Charles , but passed the Briton towards the end of the bike course. With the new best time on the Ironman distance of 8:26:16 h, she set a new course record for women in Hawaii and undercut her previous record from 2016 by more than 20 minutes. Daniela Ryf was the leader in the prize money ranking for the 2018 season with 201,000 US dollars (as of October 20).

With the Ironman Texas , Ryf was able to win her 13th race on the Ironman distance in April 2019. With the exception of second place on her Hawaii debut in 2014, Ryf had won every race in which she crossed the Ironman distance up to October 2019. In October, the 32-year-old from Solothurn, who started as the favorite, placed 13th at the Ironman Hawaii.

Daniela Ryf lives in Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus . During the season she trains and lives in St. Moritz .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Awards

• Swiss Sportswoman of the Year , 2015 and 2018
• Nominated for the SwissAward as “Swiss Woman of the Year”, 2015
• Swiss Triathlon Award, 2016 (Swiss Triathlete of the Year)
• Special sports prize from the Canton of Solothurn, 2018

Web links

Commons : Daniela Ryf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Daniela Ryf
• Daniela Ryf in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Daniela Ryf with the Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
• Daniela Ryf with the Wildcats Triathlon Team ( Memento from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile for Daniela Ryf at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 5, 2016
• Profile and results of Daniela Ryf in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 22, 2019 (English).
• Daniela Ryf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Christof Gertsch: Lady First. In: Das Magazin No. 49 of December 8, 2018, pp. 12–21.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The New Chrissie (May 9, 2015)
2. ↑ 7 other athletes selected for London ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (June 15, 2012)
3. ↑ Daniela Ryf with EM gold (August 11, 2013)
4. ↑ Daniela Ryf: You have to stay tuned during training, otherwise you'll be gone (February 7, 2017)
5. ↑ Daniela Ryf only defeated by defending champion Carfrae (October 12, 2014)
6. ↑ IRONMAN prize money kings from 2014 (February 3, 2015)
7. ^ Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
8. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Bahrain: Ryf is now a triathlon millionaire
9. ↑ Daniela Ryf: I sprinted the last two kilometers (October 8, 2016)
10. ↑ Daniela Ryf wins the Ironman World Cup again (October 15, 2017)
11. ↑ Ryf and Mola Triathlon Prize Money Kings 2017 (October 24, 2017)
12. ↑ The Breitling Triathlon Squad (May 15, 2018)
13. ↑ Only six men faster than Daniela Ryf (July 9, 2018)
14. ↑ Ironman Hawaii with records - Daniela Ryf wins fourth world title (October 14, 2018)
15. ↑ Prize money ranking - DANIELA RYF TOP EARNER IN THE TRIATHLON October 20, 2018  ( 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.  
16. ↑ DANIELA RYF ENJOY VICTORY AT IRONMAN TEXAS (April 28, 2019)
17. ↑ Ironman Hawaii: Daniela Ryf is worse than ever - but not saddened to death (October 14, 2019)
18. ↑ Emil Bischofberger: "There are moments when I fly." Interview in: SonntagsZeitung on October 28, 2018.
19. ↑ RYF SECURES HER FIFTH IRONMAN 70.3 WORLD CUP TITLE (September 7, 2019)
20. ↑ Two weeks before the Ironman 70.3 World Championship - Daniela Ryf starts at the Trans Vorarlberg Triathlon (August 16, 2019)
21. ↑ Daniela Ryf continues her winning streak (August 25, 2019)
22. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 WM: TIM REED WRESTLES SEBASTIAN KIENLE DOWN IN THE FINAL PRINT (September 4, 2016)
23. ↑ 5150 Zurich: Lisk and Bazlen on the winner's podium (July 26, 2014)
24. ↑ Ryf Smashes Switzerland (June 1, 2014)
25. ↑ EM silver for Swiss triathletes (July 27, 2013)
26. ↑ Ryf and Wild come to championship honors (September 15, 2012)
27. ↑ Findlay claims 2011 World Championship Series opener in Sydney
28. ↑ Champion title for Sven Riederer and Nicola Spirig
29. ↑ Des Moines: Snowsill collects record bonus
30. ↑ Dramatic finish: Ryf keeps his nerve
31. ^ ETU short distance EM: Title to Gomez and Spirig
32. ↑ World Cup gold for Lukas Salvisberg ( Memento from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
33. ↑ Nicola Spirig and Daniela Ryf got Olympic diploma ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
34. ↑ Daniela Ryf is approaching the top of the world
35. ↑ Alexandroupolis 2005 ETU Triathlon European Championship ( Memento from February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 499 kB)
36. ↑ DANIELA RYF VICTORS OVER THE LONG DISTANCE AT THE ALPE D'HUEZ TRIATHLON (FRA) (July 25, 2019)
37. ↑ DANIELA RYF TAKES THE FOURTH WORLD CUP TITLE (October 14, 2018)
38. ↑ Daniela Ryf starts at Ironman Switzerland ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2016 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. (July 21, 2016) 
39. ↑ DATEV Challenge Roth: Daniela Ryf dominates. June 28, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
40. ↑ Daniela Ryf "freezes" in Frankfurt! (July 3, 2016)
41. ↑ Kienle and Ryf as a highlight in Frankfurt (April 14, 2015)
42. ↑ Aquathlon Indoor de Vittel
43. ↑ Daniela Ryf after being voted Sportswoman of the Year: "It's like a fairy tale!" (December 13, 2015)
44. ↑ Sports Awards: Nino Schurter and Daniela Ryf win the awards (December 9, 2018)
45. ↑ Ironwoman Ryf wins the title before Spirig (December 15, 2016)
46. ↑ Honor for Daniela Ryf