Eva Hürlimann

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland 0 Eva Hürlimann
Personal information
Date of birth 27th January 1983 (age 37)
societies
Since 2007 Veloclub Bärau (VCB)
successes
2016 Gigathlon winner
2018 Winner of the Quintuple Ultratriathlon
status
active

Eva Hürlimann (born January 27, 1983 ) is a Swiss triathlete and multi-athlete.

Career

Eva Hürlimann skated figure skating for eight years as a girl and played floorball in her youth. She joined a triathlon club at the age of 18 and started her first triathlon competitions at the age of 20. In 2007 she had to take a break due to an injury.

In 2016, after a five-year maternity break (three children born in 2010, 2012, 2014), the qualified nurse won her first start in Gigathlon Switzerland .

In August 2018, the 35-year-old created a new one at the “Swiss Ultra Quintuple one per day” (five times the Ironman distance in five days: 3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running per day) in Buchs World record.

In August 2019, Hürlimann set a new world record for the Deca One per Day (ten Ironmans in ten days) at the Swissultra Triathlon in Buchs . The Emmentaler undercut the time of Austrian Alexandra Meixner from 2017 by more than eleven hours.

Eva Hürlimann is married and lives with her husband and three children in Hasle near Burgdorf .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eva Hürlimann: "Five days of sport is pure joy for me" (April 5, 2018)
  2. Eva Hürlimann wins the Quintuple Ultratriathlon in record time (August 30, 2018)
  3. Two world records at the Swissultra triathlon in Buchs (September 1, 2019)