Frederic Funk

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Triathlon
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Personal information
Date of birth 9th August 1997 (age 23)
place of birth Munich, Germany
Nickname Fred
societies
since 2013 Federal squad D / C of the DTU
until 2017 Kiwami Tri Team Grassau
since 2018 PV-Triathlon Witten and Tiszaújvárosi Triathlon Club (Hungary)
since 2019 Erdinger alcohol-free junior team
successes
2016 German junior champion triathlon
2018 German champion triathlon middle distance
2019 Winner Ironman 70.3
status
active

Frederic Funk (born August 9, 1997 in Munich ) is a German triathlete . He is junior triathlon champion (2016) and German champion in the triathlon middle distance (2018).

Career

At the age of five, Frederic Funk took third place in his first triathlon in the “Junior Challenge” as part of Challenge Roth .

In 2012 he became German Vice-Champion in Youth B, in 2014 German Vice-Champion in Youth A and overall winner of the Deutschland Cup. Since 2013 he has been a member of the DTU D / C management team . On August 2, 2015, the 17-year-old was third behind Michael Raelert and Horst Reichel in the Frankfurt City Triathlon .

German junior champion triathlon 2016

Frederic Funk celebrated his first German championship title in Nuremberg in 2016. He started on September 16, 2016 at the Triathlon Junior World Championship in Cozumel / Mexico and finished 25th as the second-best German. Funk has been part of the Triathlon Bundesliga for the Kiwami Tri Team Grassau since the 2016 season . In 2016 and 2017, Funk became Hungarian champions with the “Tiszaújvárosi Triatlon Club”.

In March 2017, Funk celebrated his elite debut in the national team at the Europa Cup race on Gran Canaria . In June, 19-year-old Frederic Funk won the Rothsee Triathlon with a new course record as the youngest ever winner .

German champion triathlon middle distance 2018

In June 2018, the then 20-year-old became German champion in the triathlon middle distance in Ingolstadt.
After a third and a second place in the previous year, he won the Frankfurt City Triathlon on the Olympic distance in August 2018 . Frederic Funk Triathlete will start the 2019 season for the Erdinger Non-Alcoholic Junior Team .

In October 2019 Frederic Funk won the Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote at his second start in an Ironman 70.3 (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) .

Private

Frederic Funk is the oldest son of the two former professional triathletes Heike Funk and Harald Funk. His father was Vice President of the Bavarian Triathlon Association from 2012 to 2016. Funk studies business informatics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität and lives in Nuremberg .

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint and short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
25 Aug 2019 1 Viernheim V-Card Triathlon GermanyGermany Viernheim 01:50:57
July 21, 2019 16 Tübingen triathlon GermanyGermany Tübingen 00:57:15
June 23, 2019 1 Erding triathlon GermanyGermany Erding 01:50:40
19th May 2019 1 Challenge Heilbronn GermanyGermany Heilbronn 01:54:30 Winner on the short distance next to Natascha Schmitt in the women
05th Aug 2018 1 Frankfurt City Triathlon GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 01:58:02 Winner on the short distance
01st July 2018 8th DTU German Championship Triathlon Sprint Distance GermanyGermany Dusseldorf 00:57:33 German championship sprint distance as 15th in the T3 triathlon
June 16, 2018 1 Rothsee triathlon GermanyGermany Roth 01:53:04 successful title defense with a new course record
06 Aug 2017 2 Frankfurt City Triathlon GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 01:56:43
29th July 2017 1 Erlangen triathlon GermanyGermany gain 01:56:20 Victory with a new course record and around 9 minutes ahead of last year's winner and runner-up Tobias Heining
June 26, 2017 1 Rothsee triathlon GermanyGermany Roth 01:53:17 Victory with a new course record and around 5 minutes ahead of last year's winner and runner-up Sebastian Neef
26th Mar 2017 23 ETU Triathlon European Cup SpainSpain Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 01:54:02 on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
Sep 15 2016 25th ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Men MexicoMexico Cozumel 00:56:12 Junior World Championship
23rd July 2016 1 DTU German Championship Triathlon Juniors GermanyGermany Nuremberg 00:56:40 German junior champion triathlon
0Aug 2, 2015 3 Frankfurt City Triathlon GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main
19th July 2015 7th DTU German Championship Triathlon Juniors GermanyGermany Nuremberg 00:54:18
June 28, 2015 24 DTU German Triathlon Championships GermanyGermany Dusseldorf 00:56:36 German triathlon championship on the sprint distance (0.75 km swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running)
Triathlon middle distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Oct 5, 2019 1 Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote SpainSpain Lanzarote 03:35:00 second start at an Ironman 70.3; Run without swimming
0Sep 1 2019 2 Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun AustriaAustria Zell am See 03:55:54 Second behind Thomas Steger
July 27, 2019 4th Challenge Prague Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague 03:59:33
June 30, 2019 2 Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl AustriaAustria Walchsee 03:53:07 second behind Maurice Clavel
02nd June 2019 11 Challenge - The Championship SlovakiaSlovakia Šamorín 03:44:21
05th May 2019 3 Challenge Riccione ItalyItaly Riccione 03:53:45
Oct 28, 2018 3 Challenge Forte Village Sardinia ItalyItaly Sardinia 03:52:50 had to be held as a duathlon (5 km run, 90 km bike ride and 21 km second run)
0Sep 2 2018 2 Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl AustriaAustria Walchsee 03:51:27 Second behind Sebastian Kienle
June 10, 2018 1 DTU German Championship Triathlon Middle Distance GermanyGermany Ingolstadt 03:44:47 German champion in the middle distance as part of the Triathlon Ingolstadt
0May 6, 2018 3 Challenge Riccione ItalyItaly Riccione 04:04:31 first start on the middle distance
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
April 16, 2016 6th ETU Duathlon European Championship Junior Men GermanyGermany Kalkar 00:55:24

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike and Harald Funk . Archived from the original on January 24, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Panoscha: Schmitt and Raelert win in Frankfurt . In: tri-mag.de , August 3, 2015
  3. ↑ News: DTU DM youth and juniors: Tertsch and Funk triumph in Nuremberg (July 25, 2016)
  4. ↑ Kiwami Tri Team Grassau ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.triathlonbundesliga.de
  5. ↑ Budaörsi és tiszaújvárosi címvédés Magyar Triatlon Szövetség, May 22, 2017
  6. ↑ Jens Sägert: Solid elite debut: Frederic Funk 23rd at the European Cup on Gran Canaria . In: German Triathlon Union , March 27, 2017
  7. ↑ Markt Grassau honors young athletes - His goal: Olympics 2020 . In: Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , August 30, 2016
  8. ↑ a b Frederic Funk: Start-finish victory at the Rothsee Triathlon . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , June 25, 2017
  9. ↑ MEDIUM DISTANCE DM: FUNK AND MOROFF BRING THE ELITES IN INGOLSTADT (June 10, 2018)
  10. ↑ 2,213 single finishers over four distances (August 5, 2018)
  11. ↑ ERDINGER ALCOHOL-FREE PERSPECTIVE TEAM: FREDERIC FUNK AND LEA-SOPHIE KEIM PRESENTED AS NEW ADDITIONS (November 21, 2018)
  12. ↑ FREDERIC FUNK WINS THE IRONMAN 70.3 LANZAROTE (October 5, 2019)
  13. ↑ Yearbook of the Bavarian Triathlon Association 2013
  14. ↑ Youngster Funk makes the competition look old (June 23, 2019)
  15. ↑ FREDERIC FUNK WINS THE IRONMAN 70.3 LANZAROTE (October 5, 2019)
  16. ↑ CHALLENGE FORTE VILLAGE SARDINIA: VICTORY FOR THOES, BERLINGER AND FUNK THIRD PARTIES (October 28, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Funk, Frederic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich