Hamburg triathlon
 ITU World Triathlon Hamburg
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Hamburg Germany
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| First run | 2002 |
| organizer | Ironman Germany GmbH |
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 750 m
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| track record | Men: 51:05 min, 2013 Jonathan Brownlee Women: 56:07 min, 2012 Erin Densham 
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| Website | Official website |
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The ITU World Triathlon Hamburg (2002-2006 Holsten City Man , 2007-2008 Hamburg City Man , from 2009 to 2012 Dextro Energy World Triathlon Hamburg , 2015 hooked World Triathlon Hamburg ) is since 2002 annually in Hamburg held Triathlon -Veranstaltung that With over 10,000 starters and over 250,000 spectators on the two days of the competition, together with the London Triathlon, it is the largest triathlon competition in the world and is the only triathlon in the world that has been the ITU World Cup since 2002 and has been part of the ITU World Championship Series since 2009 . In 2007, 2013, 2014 and 2015, the event, which in 2014 and 2015 was the triathlon with the highest prize money in Germany, was voted “Race of the Year” by the readers of the special-interest magazine Triathlon .
The operator of the triathlon is Ironman Germany GmbH . The original operating company Upsolut Event GmbH was taken over on January 1, 2008 by Groupe Lagardère , who renamed it Lagardère Unlimited Events Germany GmbH in 2013 . In January 2016, the World Triathlon Corporation , which is part of the Wanda Group , took over the company and merged it with its subsidiary Ironman Germany GmbH .
history
- 2002
On September 7, 2002, the starting signal for a triathlon was fired for the first time at the Alster pier in the center of a major German city: the Hamburg City Man. With over 2000 participants, the Hamburg City Man was the biggest triathlon in Germany right from its debut. The Hanseatic city's application for the 2012 Olympic Games provided the chance to fully dedicate the city center of a metropolis to triathlon for a weekend . The organizational effort brought new dimensions to the sport in Germany: two kilometers of carpet were rolled out on Ballindamm alone for the transition area for the 2500 popular athletes. The professional triathletes had a shorter way: their Parc ferme was directly on the Rathausmarkt . The swim start took place from the Jungfernstieg in front of the Alsterhaus , through the Kennedy Bridge into the Outer Alster and back. The stars had to cover a course with eight cycling laps and four running laps in the city center, the police counted 100,000 spectators for the women's race on Saturdays and 150,000 for the men on Sundays. For amateur athletes, on the other hand, a sightseeing tour through the Speicherstadt , along the harbor , over the Elbchaussee to Blankenese and back over the Reeperbahn, was blocked off once or twice, depending on whether you participated in the sprint or short distance. The running route led along the Outer Alster, the goal was, like the elite, on the Rathausmarkt. Around half of the participants stated when they registered that they were taking part in a triathlon for the first time.
- 2003
The second edition in the following year already received 4,597 registrations - Hamburg became number three in terms of number of participants behind the London Triathlon and Chicago, in terms of the number of viewers, which could be increased again, number one. Another 270,000 viewers watched a two and a half hour TV report on NDR television . Criticism was provided by the route for the popular athletes: the narrow and rain-soaked bike route, which now led back through the free port to the Elbe dike in the east and via the wholesale market, caused dangerous situations and also had two longer cobblestone passages.
- 2007
The highlight was then in 2007: the first triathlon world championships were held in Germany. An event in Nuremberg had already been planned in 1993, but was then given to Manchester because of the proximity to Nazi sites. In 1999, the World Cup was initially awarded to Immenstadt, after the withdrawal of its offer due to unfulfilled financial commitments, it was first in the Munich Olympic Park , then rescheduled for the rowing regatta in Oberschleissheim and was then held at short notice in Montreal . The police spoke of a total of 600,000 spectators on the three days of the competition and Daniel Unger , who became the first German world champion over the Olympic distance, put the icing on the cake. In addition to the elite, world champions in the age groups were also honored, participants from 72 nations were represented, 500 starters from Great Britain alone were there.
- 2009
In 2009, under the new name Dextro Energy World Triathlon Hamburg, 9,000 amateur athletes were again there for two days over the sprint and Olympic distance. In 2013, in addition to the elite races in the World Cup, the Mixed Relay World Championship was held in Hamburg for the first time. In this format, in which world champions have been honored since 2009 and for which the IOC decided to be included in the Summer Olympics program in 2013 , teams of two women and men come together, each member completes a super sprint of 250 m swimming one after the other, 6th , 6 km cycling and 1.6 km running. Anja Knapp , Jan Frodeno , Anne Haug and Franz Löschke were honored as world champions to the cheers of the audience when they won their home.
In 2014 and 2015, the World Championship in Mixed Relay was held in Hamburg, and in 2016 it will take place again in Hamburg. In 2015, against the background of Hamburg's application for the Olympic Games 2024, the one-time Fire and Flame World Triathlon Hamburg was chosen as the event name,
With a total of 240,000 US dollars in prize money (85,000 US dollars each for men and women and 70,000 US dollars for mixed relay), the Hamburg Triathlon was the most highly endowed competition in Germany in 2014 and 2015. A total of 10,560 participants were at the start.
Winners list
Sprint distance
Since 2012 the race of the ITU World Championship Series has been held on the sprint distance (0.75 km swimming, 20 km cycling, 5 km running).
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Olympic distance
From 2002 to 2008 the ITU World Cup was held at the Holsten City Man and Hamburg City Man, the ITU World Cup in 2007 and since 2009 the race has been a station in the ITU World Championship Series (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km To run).
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Season
World Championship Mixed Relay (mixed relay: 4 × 250 m swimming, 6.6 km cycling and 1.6 km running)
literature
- Silke Insel, Frank Wechsel: Triathlon World Championships Hamburg 2007 . spomedis, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936376-24-1 ( limited preview ).
Movies
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ triathlon awards | The best from shortly after the past until today . In: tri-mag.de . Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ New owner at Upsolut - Cyclassics should stay . In: welt.de . November 12, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ↑ Organizer Upsolut will in future be active under the name Lagardère . In: rad-net.de . November 20, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ↑ Ironman takes over the endurance division from Lagardère . In: tri-mag.de . January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ↑ Frank Wechsel: 2002 premiere with Olympic ambitions . In: tri-mag.de . September 8, 2002.
- ↑ Frank Wechsel: Holsten City Man and Anja Dittmer inspire . In: tri-mag.de . September 7, 2003.
- ↑ Harry Klein: Looking Back in Anger . In: Triathlete . No. 121 , February 1999, OCLC 724506582 , p. 17-19 .
- ↑ Dirk Steinbach, Stefan Reckziegel: Gold run on the town hall market . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 3, 2007.
- ↑ WM splitter . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 3, 2007.
- ↑ Triathlon Mixed Relay at Olympics ( English ) ITU . 17th May 2013.
- ↑ Nis Sienknecht: Germany is world champion! . In: tri-mag.de . July 21, 2013.
- ↑ Jan Sägert: Mixed Team World Cup: Great Britain wins gold, Germany sixth . In: tri-mag.de . July 13, 2014.
- ↑ Jan Sägert: France wins, Team Germany loses medal . In: tri-mag.de . 19th July 2015.
- ↑ Press kit ITU World Triathlon Hamburg 2014 (PDF)
- ↑ Press kit Fire and Flame World Triathlon Hamburg 2015 (PDF)