Georg Potrebitsch
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Georg Potrebitsch at the Challenge Taiwan 2013
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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
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Aug 24, 2014 | 2 | ICAN Germany | Nordhausen | 04:06:27 | |
July 6, 2014 | 4th | Ironman 70.3 Norway | Haugesund | 03:56:27 | |
25 Aug 2013 | 1 | ICAN Germany | Nordhausen | 03:57:44 | Winner of the first edition of the Spanish ICAN triathlon series in Germany |
June 16, 2013 | 1 | Ingolstadt triathlon | Ingolstadt | 03:31:14 | Middle distance winner |
Apr 13, 2013 | 5 | Challenge Fuerteventura | Fuerteventura | 04:10:03 | on the half-distance |
June 10, 2012 | 11 | ETU Triathlon Middle Distance European Championships | Kraichgau | 04:03:30 | European championship on the middle distance, as part of the Challenge Kraichgau |
May 14, 2012 | 1 | Gladbeck Olympic | Gladbeck | 01:42:42 | Winner with a course record |
May 7, 2012 | 2 | Mallorca Olympic | Colonia de Sant Jordi | 01:47:13 | Second behind Timo Bracht |
May 14, 2011 | 10 | Ironman 70.3 Mallorca | Alcúdia | 04:07:49 | |
May 7, 2011 | 1 | Campeonato Illes Balears | Colonia de Sant Jordi | 01:45:27 | |
Apr 17, 2011 | 7th | TriStar111 Mallorca | Portocolom | 03:45:00 | Shoulder to shoulder with the reigning Hawaii champion |
2011 | 1 | PSD Triathlon Dortmund | Dortmund | Olympic distance winner | |
June 20, 2010 | 1 | Open Holland Championship stone | stone | 05:26:07 | Winner of the "classic" with a new course record |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Oct 26, 2014 | 3 | ICAN Gandia-Valencia | Valencia | 08:40:49 | |
Sep 14 2013 | 2 | Challenge Almere-Amsterdam | Amsterdam | 08:43:19 | |
4th May 2013 | 2 | Challenge Taiwan | Taiwan | 08:27:06 | |
July 8, 2012 | 8th | Challenge Roth | Roth | 08:21:39 | sixth place at the ITU European Championship on the long distance |
Oct 8, 2011 | 31 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:15:08 | World championship on the Ironman distance |
4th Sep 2011 | 1 | DTU German Championship Triathlon Long Distance | Cologne | 08:28:25 | Winner of the Cologne Triathlon (Cologne226) |
July 24, 2011 | 4th | Ironman Germany | Frankfurt am Main | 08:22:29 | Ironman European Championship |
Oct 3, 2010 | 3 | Challenge Barcelona-Maresme | Barcelona | 08:21:11 | Challenge series over the classic long distance |
29 Aug 2009 | 1 | Almere triathlon | Almere | 08:31:38 | Winner of the long-distance classic |
Aug 31, 2008 | 17th | ITU Triathlon Long Distance World Championships | Almere | 06:09:21 | World champion in the 20-24 age group, fastest amateur overall |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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17 Sep 2011 | 1 | International Cross Triathlon Ameland | Ameland | 02:35:14 | Winner of the international cross triathlon |
Web links
- Website by Georg Potrebitsch
- Profile and results of Georg Potrebitsch in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 25, 2019 (English).
- Profile for Georg Potrebitsch at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 13, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Brand Ambassador Triathlon Team ( Memento from January 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ "I don't want to be on the team's pocket"
- ^ ICAN Germany Nordhausen - Potrebitsch before Bittner, home win for Konschak , Tri-Mag, August 26, 2013
- ↑ The form is coming
- ↑ Potrebitsch out of competition
- ↑ Bracht is "Balearic Master", Potrebitsch second , Tri-Mag, May 7, 2012
- ↑ Ironman 70.3: Raelert dominates Mallorca , Tri-Mag, May 14, 2011
- ↑ Mallorca: Potrebitsch wins Campeonato Illes Balears - May 9, 2011
- ↑ Mallorca Olympic Triathlon May 10, 2011
- ↑ TriStar Mallorca: Marceau wins, Stadler third ( Memento from April 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Tri-Mag, April 2011
- ↑ Stein Triathlon: German victory in Holland
- ^ Challenge Almere: Three Germans on the podium , Tri2b.com, September 15, 2013
- ↑ Power Horse Triathlon Team celebrates next success , Tri-Mag, May 4th 2013
- ↑ Potrebitsch bites his way through and comes in eighth. In: The West . July 9, 2012, accessed October 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Christoph Winkel and Thomas Dieckhoff: Moments 2011 - The year in review: The iron Georg. In: The West. December 30, 2011, accessed October 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Cologne Triathlon: German long distance champions 2011 are chosen
- ↑ Thomas Dieckhoff: Ironman Frankfurt: 4th place at the European Championship. In: The West. July 6, 2011, accessed October 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Challenge Barcelona: Strong third
- ↑ Dennis Wachter, Georg Potrebitsch wins the UPC Holland Triathlon Almere , Tri2b.com, August 30, 2009
- ↑ 2008 Almere-Amsterdam ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships
- ^ Winner of the Ameland International Cross Triathlon
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Potrebitsch, Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Little Georg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vladivostok , Soviet Union |