Dirk Aschmoneit

0 Dirk Aschmoneit
Dirk Aschmoneit and Alexandra Kremer (German Championship in Roth, 1986)
Personal information
Date of birth	2nd March 1962 (age 58)
place of birth	Hildesheim, Germany
Nickname	German Rambo, Dirkinator
societies
successes
1986	German champion triathlon middle distance
1991	Ironman winner
status
Resigned in 1994

Dirk Aschmoneit (born March 2, 1962 in Hildesheim ) is a former German triathlete and Ironman winner (1991).

Career

Aschmoneit began swimming at the age of 14 . After completing his basic training with the Bundeswehr , Dirk Aschmoneit took part in his first triathlon in Koblenz in 1983.
In 1985, during a test at the Sports Medicine Institute of the German Armed Forces in Warendorf, his heart showed the size of 1512 ml - the largest value ever measured there until then.

In the mid-1980s he started as the first professional triathlete in Germany and in the following years he was one of the best German triathletes. Together with Jürgen Zäck and Wolfgang Dittrich , he formed the dominant “Big Three” over the Ironman distance in Germany in the early 1990s. His nicknames were German Rambo or Dirkinator .

In 1986 he became German champion in the triathlon middle distance (2.5 km swimming, 100 km cycling and 25 km running) in Roth.
Dirk Aschmoneit was the first German athlete to undercut the nine-hour mark for a long distance in Säter in 1986 . In 1987 he was the first German to win a long distance, the Embrunman in France.

Winner Ironman 1991

In March 1991 he became the first German to win an Ironman, the Ironman New Zealand .

He ended his active triathlon career in 1994 after back problems and on medical advice. During his career, Aschmoneit repeatedly complained of back pain, which was caused by a fracture of the spine that was only diagnosed years later after falling from a tree as a child, and in 2003 he underwent two operations.

In 2008 he took part in the M45-49 age group at the Ironman Arizona and was able to qualify here again for a place in the Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii .

He has lived in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California , with his wife and two children since 1991 and is Marketing Director at Nestle subsidiary Jenny Craig Inc.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Profile for Dirk Aschmoneit at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on August 23, 2014
• Dirk Aschmoneit's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 15, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herbert Krabel start A new - Dirk Aschmoneit. In: Slowtwitch. February 4, 2009, accessed August 23, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Dirk Aschmoneit in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
3. ^ German Rambo . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1987 ( online - 15 June 1987 ).
4. ↑ Challenge participation as “icing on the cake”: Triathlon legend Dirk Aschmoneit returns to Roth . In: ARD Mediathek . July 7, 2011.
5. ↑ radio interview
6. ↑ Ford Ironman 70.3 California 2009
7. ↑ The Triathlon History of Germany - Part 3: 1986-88
8. ↑ History - Triathlon - German Championships
9. ↑ Challenge participation as “icing on the cake”: Triathlon legend Dirk Aschmoneit returns to Roth
10. ^ Past Winners
11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 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.