Eneko Llanos

0 Eneko Llanos
Eneko Llanos at Ironman Germany (2013)
Personal information
Date of birth	30th November 1976 (age 43)
place of birth	Vitoria-Gasteiz , Spain
size	180 cm
Weight	74 kg
societies
successes
2003	ITU world champion triathlon long distance
2003, 2004, 2009	3 × Xterra world champion cross triathlon
2007	ETU European cross triathlon champion
2007-2019	8 × Ironman winner
2010	ETU European Champion Long Distance Triathlon
2013	Ironman European Champion
status
active

Eneko Llanos Burguera (born November 30, 1976 in Vitoria-Gasteiz ) is a Basque triathlete , Olympian (2000, 2004), multiple Ironman winner, long distance world champion (2003) and European champion (2010) as well as European ironman champion (2013). He is included in the best list of Spanish triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Olympic Summer Games 2000 and 2004

Eneko Llanos competed in triathlon for Spain in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. In 2000 he finished 20th and 2004 in Athens 23rd.

World champion triathlon long distance 2003

In 2003 he became triathlon world champion over the long distance at the ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships (4 km swimming, 130 km cycling and 30 km running).

In May 2007 Eneko Llanos won the Ironman in Lanzarote and he was able to repeat this success in 2010.

Xterra world champion cross triathlon

In 2003, 2004 and 2009 he became Xterra World Champion in cross triathlon.

In June 2010 he became European champion on the ITU long distance in his hometown of Vitoria-Gasteiz. At the Ironman Arizona in November 2011, after the Swiss Ronnie Schildknecht, he was the second athlete to achieve an Ironman time of less than eight hours in a race in North America.
In July 2012 he was runner-up in the long-distance triathlon in Spain and in July 2013 in Frankfurt he became European Champion at Ironman Germany (Ironman European Championships). In November 2018, the 41-year-old won his seventh Ironman race with the Ironman Arizona .

His brother Hektor Llanos (* 1972), who was four years older than him, was also active as a professional triathlete until 2010.

Sporting successes

Eneko Llanos as the winner at Ironman Germany 2013

Web links

• Official website of Eneko Llanos
• Portrait on tri2b.com
• Portrait of Eneko Llanos at ITU
• Profile for Eneko Llanos at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 22, 2014
• Profile and results of Eneko Llanos in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 16, 2019 (English).
• Eneko Llanos in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eneko Llanos y Sara Loehr vencen el Triatlon de Elche (April 17, 2016)
2. ↑ Challenge Dubai: Time additions change Poduim (February 28, 2015)
3. ↑ win Clemente Alonso and Catriona Morrison: TriGrandPrix in Zarautz
4. ↑ Van Lierde and Hauschildt win in Abu Dhabi (March 2, 2013)
5. ↑ Triathlon long distance EM: Home wins for Llanos and Berasategui
6. ↑ 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 12, 2010.
7. ↑ Wasle co-favorite at Triathlon Cross World Championship premiere ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )