Edith Niederfriniger

0 Edith Niederfriniger
Edith Niederfriniger in the Ironman Hawaii 2007
Personal information
Date of birth	2nd June 1971 (age 49)
place of birth	Merano, Italy
Nickname	Ironfrini
size	165 cm
Weight	50 kg
societies
Until 2014	Sport Club Meran Triathlon
successes
1999, 2011	2 × Italian champion long distance triathlon
2003	ETU European Champion Long Distance Triathlon
2006, 2007	2 × Ironman winner
status
Resigned in 2014

Edith Niederfriniger (born June 2, 1971 in Meran , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian triathlete . She is the European long-distance triathlon champion (2003) and two-time Ironman winner (2006, 2007). She has topped the list of Italian triathletes in the Ironman distance since 2008.

Career

Edith Niederfriniger is a qualified sports teacher, began swimming as a competitive sport in 1980 and has been running triathlons since 1989. She started for the Sport Club Meran Triathlon and has been a member of the Italian national triathlon team since 1999.

In 1999 she became Italian champion over the long distance triathlon (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running). In September she was third in the national championship on the short distance in Peschiera del Garda .

In August 2002 she started the long-distance triathlon at Ironman Germany in Frankfurt am Main and came fourth straight away.

European champion long distance triathlon 2003

In Denmark, she became the 2003 European long-distance triathlon champion. She is the first Italian to stay below the nine-hour mark at Ironman Austria in 2008 .

Niederfriniger is also successful as a long-distance runner and won the South Tyrol Marathon in 2003 on the half marathon route and in 2004, 2005 and 2008 on the full distance. Her victory time in 2004 (2:47:39 h) is a former South Tyrolean marathon state record, which was broken in 2007 by Renate Rungger .
In 2006 she came second in the Munich Marathon in 2:48:08 h and thus secured the title of Munich Hero for the combination of the Munich Triathlon and Munich Marathon ahead of the German Nicole Leder .

In May 2011 she became national champion in the long distance triathlon for the second time since 1999. In 2012 she came second in the first national championship on the triathlon middle distance.

The athlete, nicknamed “Ironfrini”, was trained by Fabio Vedana and has been coached by sports and nutritionist Bram van Dam for many years . At the Ironman in Klagenfurt in June 2014, she declared her active professional career over.

In March 2015, Niederfriniger was hit by a vehicle during bike training in South Africa and seriously injured.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Edith Niederfriniger at the finish line of the Ironman Austria in Klagenfurt , 2007

Web links

• Website from Edith Niederfriniger
• Profile for Edith Niederfriniger at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 25, 2014
• Profile and results of Edith Niederfriniger in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 5, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Munich chose its heroes . marathon.de. October 18, 2006. Archived from the original on March 20, 2007.
2. ↑ SERIOUS ACCIDENT: SOUTH TYROL EDITH NIEDERFRINIGER ACCIDENT IN SOUTH AFRICA (March 8, 2015)
3. ↑ Challenge Walchsee 2010: Michael Weiss wins with the strongest bike split
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Vienna City Triathlon to Stilgenbauer
5. ↑ Munich Triathlon: Lothar Leder and Edith Niederfriniger successful . In: 3athlon.de . July 30, 2006. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007.
6. ↑ Laguna Phuket Triathlon
7. ↑ German double victory at the 20th International Kalterersee Triathlon .
8. ↑ "Eisenlady" finishes the Hawaii Triathlon in 31st place (October 11, 2010)
9. ↑ Triathlon long distance EM: Home wins for Llanos and Berasategui
10. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Abu Dhabi International Triathlon: rendezvous of the Ironman stars in the land of the sheikhs . In: 3athlon.de . March 10, 2010. Archived from the original on March 13, 2010.
11. ↑ ABU DHABI INTERNATIONAL TRIATHLON 2010 - Yvonne van Vlerken on 7th place ( Memento from January 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Hat trick, Belinda Granger wins Ironman Malaysia Triathlon . In: 3athlon.de . February 27, 2010. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010.
13. ↑ Edith Niederfriniger about her Ironman Malaysia silver medal ( Memento from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Virginia Berasategui, campeona de Europa de Triathlon
15. ^ Winners 2006 ( Memento from July 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )