Georg Potrebitsch

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Georg Potrebitsch at the Challenge Taiwan 2013
Georg Potrebitsch at the Challenge Taiwan 2013
Personal information
Date of birth 20th March 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Vladivostok, Soviet Union
Nickname Little Georg
size 194 cm
Weight 86 kg
societies
Until 2015 Team Sport for Good , SV Gladbeck 13 and PV-Triathlon Witten ( Triathlon Bundesliga )
successes
2011 German champion triathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 2015

Georg Potrebitsch (born March 20, 1984 in Vladivostok , Soviet Union ) is a former German triathlete . He is German champion in the long distance triathlon (2011).

Career

Georg Potrebitsch was born in the Soviet Union . At the age of 14 he came to Gladbeck with his parents and siblings. His passion was swimming and in 2000 he discovered the "new" sport of triathlon (Olympia in Sydney 2000). Shortly afterwards in 2004 the first starts in the triathlon Bundesliga took place.

At his first start on the long distance in 2008, Georg Potrebitsch won seventeenth place in the long distance world championship at the Almere Triathlon as the fastest amateur in his age group 20-24 years.

Georg Potrebitsch, alias "Little Georg" , was active as a professional from 2010 to 2015. From 2012 on, Potrebitsch started together with Jan Raphael , Timo Bracht and Horst Reichel for the 21run.com Triathlon Team , which became the Power Horse Triathlon Team in 2013 and the Sport for Good Team in 2015 .

German champion triathlon long distance 2011

In July 2011 he was fourth at Ironman Germany in Frankfurt (Ironman European Championships) and in September in Cologne Georg Potrebitsch was also German champion in the long distance triathlon. In July 2015, Potrebitsch announced the end of his career as a professional triathlete.

Georg Potrebitsch holds a degree in industrial engineering specializing in facility management. After his professional career, he stayed true to the triathlon sport and worked as a consultant in the areas of bike fitting and swimming analysis at KANN-SPORT in Gladbeck .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Aug 24, 2014 2 ICAN Germany GermanyGermany Nordhausen 04:06:27
0July 6, 2014 4th Ironman 70.3 Norway NorwayNorway Haugesund 03:56:27
25 Aug 2013 1 ICAN Germany GermanyGermany Nordhausen 03:57:44 Winner of the first edition of the Spanish ICAN triathlon series in Germany
June 16, 2013 1 Ingolstadt triathlon GermanyGermany Ingolstadt 03:31:14 Middle distance winner
Apr 13, 2013 5 Challenge Fuerteventura SpainSpain Fuerteventura 04:10:03 on the half-distance
June 10, 2012 11 ETU Triathlon Middle Distance European Championships GermanyGermany Kraichgau 04:03:30 European championship on the middle distance, as part of the Challenge Kraichgau
May 14, 2012 1 Gladbeck Olympic GermanyGermany Gladbeck 01:42:42 Winner with a course record
0May 7, 2012 2 Mallorca Olympic SpainSpain Colonia de Sant Jordi 01:47:13 Second behind Timo Bracht
May 14, 2011 10 Ironman 70.3 Mallorca SpainSpain Alcúdia 04:07:49
0May 7, 2011 1 Campeonato Illes Balears SpainSpain Colonia de Sant Jordi 01:45:27
Apr 17, 2011 7th TriStar111 Mallorca SpainSpain Portocolom 03:45:00 Shoulder to shoulder with the reigning Hawaii champion
  2011 1 PSD Triathlon Dortmund GermanyGermany Dortmund Olympic distance winner
June 20, 2010 1 Open Holland Championship stone NetherlandsNetherlands stone 05:26:07 Winner of the "classic" with a new course record
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 26, 2014 3 ICAN Gandia-Valencia SpainSpain Valencia 08:40:49
Sep 14 2013 2 Challenge Almere-Amsterdam NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam 08:43:19
04th May 2013 2 Challenge Taiwan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Taiwan 08:27:06
0July 8, 2012 8th Challenge Roth GermanyGermany Roth 08:21:39 sixth place at the ITU European Championship on the long distance
0Oct 8, 2011 31 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:15:08 World championship on the Ironman distance
04th Sep 2011 1 DTU German Championship Triathlon Long Distance GermanyGermany Cologne 08:28:25 Winner of the Cologne Triathlon (Cologne226)
July 24, 2011 4th Ironman Germany GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 08:22:29 Ironman European Championship
0Oct 3, 2010 3 Challenge Barcelona-Maresme SpainSpain Barcelona 08:21:11 Challenge series over the classic long distance
29 Aug 2009 1 Almere triathlon NetherlandsNetherlands Almere 08:31:38 Winner of the long-distance classic
Aug 31, 2008 17th ITU Triathlon Long Distance World Championships NetherlandsNetherlands Almere 06:09:21 World champion in the 20-24 age group, fastest amateur overall
Cross triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
17 Sep 2011 1 International Cross Triathlon Ameland NetherlandsNetherlands Ameland 02:35:14 Winner of the international cross triathlon

Web links

Individual evidence

Georg Potrebitsch at the first ICAN Germany in Nordhausen (2013)
  1. ↑ Triathlon: Georg Potrebitsch is amateur world champion ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrnachrichten.de
  2. ↑ Brand Ambassador Triathlon Team ( Memento from January 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ "I don't want to be on the team's pocket"
  4. ^ ICAN Germany Nordhausen - Potrebitsch before Bittner, home win for Konschak , Tri-Mag, August 26, 2013
  5. ↑ The form is coming
  6. ↑ Potrebitsch out of competition
  7. ↑ Bracht is "Balearic Master", Potrebitsch second , Tri-Mag, May 7, 2012
  8. ↑ Ironman 70.3: Raelert dominates Mallorca , Tri-Mag, May 14, 2011
  9. ↑ Mallorca: Potrebitsch wins Campeonato Illes Balears - May 9, 2011
  10. ↑ Mallorca Olympic Triathlon May 10, 2011
  11. ↑ TriStar Mallorca: Marceau wins, Stadler third ( Memento from April 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Tri-Mag, April 2011
  12. ↑ Stein Triathlon: German victory in Holland
  13. ^ Challenge Almere: Three Germans on the podium , Tri2b.com, September 15, 2013
  14. ↑ Power Horse Triathlon Team celebrates next success , Tri-Mag, May 4th 2013
  15. ↑ Potrebitsch bites his way through and comes in eighth. In: The West . July 9, 2012, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Christoph Winkel and Thomas Dieckhoff: Moments 2011 - The year in review: The iron Georg. In: The West. December 30, 2011, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Cologne Triathlon: German long distance champions 2011 are chosen
  18. ↑ Thomas Dieckhoff: Ironman Frankfurt: 4th place at the European Championship. In: The West. July 6, 2011, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Challenge Barcelona: Strong third
  20. ↑ Dennis Wachter, Georg Potrebitsch wins the UPC Holland Triathlon Almere , Tri2b.com, August 30, 2009
  21. ↑ 2008 Almere-Amsterdam ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships
  22. ^ Winner of the Ameland International Cross Triathlon
personal data
SURNAME Potrebitsch, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Vladivostok , Soviet Union