Franz Löschke

0 Franz Löschke
at Ironman Germany (Ironman European Championships) in Frankfurt am Main 2019
Personal information
Date of birth	8th February 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Finsterwalde , Germany
Nickname	Big one, dwarf
size	192 cm
Weight	78 kg
societies
since 1996	SV Neptun 08 Finsterwalde
2005-2011	Zeppelin team OSC Potsdam
since 2009	Versailles Triathlon ( Grand Prix de Triathlon , France)
since 2011	Triathlon Potsdam
since 2014	Second right to start in the Bundesliga for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
successes
2006, 2007	2 × German Champion Junior Triathlon
2006	German Champion Junior Duathlon
2007, 2008, 2011	3 × European champion in the triathlon team
2009	U23 world champion
2009	German champion U23 duathlon
2010	Third U23 World Triathlon Championship
2011	German champion U23 triathlon
2012	German triathlon champion
2013	World champion mixed team relay
2017, 2019	2 × winners Ironman 70.3
2018	German champion triathlon long distance
status
active

Franz Löschke (born February 8, 1989 in Finsterwalde ) is a German duathlete and triathlete . He is the reigning German champion in the long distance triathlon (2018) and his greatest international successes include the U23 world championship title in 2009 and first place in the triathlon world championship in the mixed team in 2013. At the Ironman European championship in June 2019 in Frankfurt he took third place and thus secured qualification for the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii 2019.

Career

Franz Löschke grew up in Finsterwalde with his two years younger brother and his parents. In 2005, at the beginning of the eleventh grade, he switched to the sports school Potsdam "Friedrich Ludwig Jahn" due to his athletic achievements . There he graduated from high school in 2009 and then began a voluntary social year in sport. Since 2010 he has been studying sports science in the field of rehabilitation and prevention at the University of Potsdam .

Löschke learned to swim from his grandfather when he was four. In 1997 he was discovered swimming in schools and from then on was active as a swimmer at SV Neptun 08 Finsterwalde. In 1999, Löschke accepted an invitation from the teacher and member of the youth, education, culture and sports committee of the Elbe-Elster district council, Christian Homagk. He started his first triathlon and won it. This was the starting shot of his career and together with his trainer at the time, Marlies Homagk, he began intensive running and cycling training. After some successful participation in state championships, Löschke took 39th place at his first German championships in Grimma in 2003. In addition to his triathletic successes, Franz Löschke was also active as a duathlete and successfully participated in German championships. When he changed school in 2005, he started training with his new home trainer Ron Schmidt in the Zeppelin team OSC Potsdam .

German Junior Triathlon Champion 2006

Löschke then celebrated several victories with his new trainer in 2006: He not only took first place in the German championships in triathlon singles in Kiel , but also in the German championships in duathlon and in the DTU junior cup in the overall standings. In the following year he also took first place at the German Junior Championships in Munich and repeatedly won the overall standings at the DTU Junior Cup. From 2006 to 2008 Löschke was part of the C-squad of the German Triathlon Union , became a member of the junior national triathlon team in 2006 and of the national duathlon team in 2008.

When he joined the junior national team in 2006, Franz Löschke also trained under the direction of national coach Roland Knoll until 2012 . In 2007 he won his first elite race together with his teammates, Daniel Unger from Ravensburg and Sebastian Dehmer from Darmstadt at the European Triathlon Championships in the team competition in Copenhagen . Another great victory for Franz Löschke followed in May 2008. This time he started in the German junior trio with Stefan Zachäus and Philipp Bahlke. In the relay super sprint (300 m swimming, 8 km cycling and 2 km running) the trio became European junior champions in Lisbon .

In 2009, Franz Löschke had his greatest success to date: At the U23 World Championships on the Australian Gold Coast , Franz Löschke competed with two teammates. With a time of 1:46:19 hours, Löschke crossed the finish line five seconds ahead of the Australian James Seear. He won gold over the Olympic distance of 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running. The following year he was third at the U23 World Championships in Budapest .
In 2009 Franz Löschke also celebrated national successes in the duathlon in Backnang . He won the German U-23 Championships and took second place in the Elite DM. In 2009 he was promoted to the B-team of the German Triathlon Union and he has been sponsored by Deutsche Sporthilfe ever since . In addition to his own sporting career, the eight-time German champion is involved in the club and has had a  C coaching license in popular sports specific to sports since 2009 . In 2010 he obtained his B trainer license in competitive triathlon sport and has been a trainer with a trainer license since 2011.

German U23 triathlon champion 2011

Franz Löschke has been with the Triathlon Potsdam e. V. and is supported by U-25 trainer Wolfram Bott in addition to his exercise bike and the national trainer . In 2011, Franz Löschke started with Rebecca Robisch , Sarah Fladung and Gregor Buchholz at the European Team Championships in Pontevedra . Everyone completed a super sprint, as they did in 2008 at the European Junior Championships. The German mixed team won gold together. At the same place, however, Löschke only managed to finish 17th in the elite world championship.

German triathlon champion 2012

In 2012, Franz Löschke was able to take first place in national and international competitions four times. Not only at the German Elite Championships, the U23 and U23 Sprint, but also at the ITU Triathlon Premium African Cup in Port Elizabeth , he was the first to cross the finish line in front of top athletes from seven other nations.

Since 2013, Löschke has celebrated several sporting successes together with the Luxembourgish sports scientist and national coach Dan Lorang from Munich . Since 2014, Franz has had a second right to start in the Triathlon Bundesliga for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten . After winning three European team championships so far, Franz Löschke started at the mixed team world championship in Hamburg in July 2013: Together with Anne Haug , Anja Knapp and Jan Frodeno , the then 24-year-old won over 300 m swimming and 6.6 km cycling and 1.6 km run World Championship gold. As the best German, he finished 22nd in the 2013 ITU World Championship Series .
At the end of October 2013, on his marathon debut, he was the second fastest German behind the athlete Markus Weiß-Latzko and achieved 31st place in the Frankfurt Marathon with a time of 2:22:12 h .

2017 first victory Ironman 70.3

Since 2016 he has also competed in the middle distance in Ironman 70.3 races and in November 2017 he won the Ironman 70.3 Austin . At his first start in an Ironman race, Franz Löschke became German champion in the long-distance triathlon at Ironman Hamburg in July 2018 .

In May 2019, Löschke only overtook the Austrian Thomas Steger , who had been leading up to that point, about 400 meters from the finish ; he won the Ironman 70.3 Austria and thus his second race at half the Ironman distance after 2017. In June, the 30-year-old came third at the Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt am Main.

Franz Löschke lives in Potsdam.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

• Website of Franz Löschke
• Profile for Franz Löschke at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 13, 2014
• Profile and results of Franz Löschke in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 26, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EJOT team is already setting the course for 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b c} About me . ( Memento of the original from October 24, 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. Franz Löschke's website, accessed on May 12, 2014.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official website of Franz Löschke ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on franzloeschke.com (January 12, 2014) 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Gold-plated graduation in Copenhagen on dtu-info.de
5. ↑ ^{a b} EM gold for junior relay on dtu-info.de
6. ^ Gold Coast - Franz Löschke becomes U23 world champion on tri-mag.de
7. ^ Franz Löschke - Extra sheet / short reports on neptun08-finsterwalde.de
8. ↑ In Morocco for Madrid, Potsdam's triathlete Franz Löschke at the Africa Cup on pnn.de.
9. ↑ Ejot-Team: 2014 with Franz Löschke on tri2b.com
10. ↑ "The greatest tinnitus moment" on sport1.de
11. ↑ ITU World Triathlon Series Rankings 2013 - Elite Men on triathlon.org
12. ↑ Löschke on the trail of an Olympic champion on tri-mag.de
13. ↑ Franz Löschke wins triathlon in Texas (November 1st, 2017)
14. ↑ Löschke wins IRONMAN 70.3 St. Pölten (May 26, 2019)
15. ↑ German team becomes world champion on runnersworld.de
16. ↑ ^{a b} DM: Ricarda Lisk and Franz Löschke title holder 2012 (June 3, 2012)
17. ↑ Results Eilat 2012 on triathlon.org
18. ↑ EM Pontevedra: DTU relays with gold and silver on triathlon.de
19. ↑ Löschke back on the podium at tri-mag.de (September 11, 2010)
20. ↑ 2010 Lausanne ITU Elite Sprint Triathlon World Championship on dtu-info.de
21. ↑ Triathlon: Franz Löschke in relay - Sprint World Championships Triathlon / Lausanne on neptun08-finsterwalde.de
22. ↑ Franz Löschke U-23 World Champion (September 14, 2009)
23. ↑ ITU Triathlon World Cup 2009, Tiszaújváros, Hungary - men and women ( memento from March 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on tri2b.com
24. ↑ World Cup Juniors: Sixth place for Stawczynski and Löschke on dtu-info.de
25. ↑ ITU Junior World Championships - Hamburg - male and female ( memento from March 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on tri2b.com
26. ↑ DM short distance - Munich 2007 - youth classes male and female. ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on tri2b.com
27. ↑ Henner Mallwitz: Second attempt: Brandenburger Trio starts at the Junior European Championships for triathletes in Copenhagen. In: Potsdam's latest news . June 28, 2007, accessed May 13, 2014 . 
28. ↑ DTU Junior Cup: The starting shot is given in Gladbeck on dtu-info.de
29. ↑ Franz Löschke wins triathlon in Texas (November 1st, 2017)
30. ↑ Blue- green algae: No swimming in the Alster at the Ironman (July 27, 2018)
31. ^ Christine Walz: Frankfurt Marathon: Löschke with a fast marathon debut. In: Triathlon.de. October 27, 2013, accessed October 3, 2014 .