Hannes Hempel

0 Hannes Hempel
Personal information
Date of birth	6th October 1973 (age 46)
place of birth	Klagenfurt
societies
since 2001	Team Gerolsteiner
successes
1999	Austrian state champion road race
1999, 2000	2 × Winner mountain classification Lower Saxony tour
status
Resigned in 2013

Hannes Hempel (born October 6, 1973 in Klagenfurt ) is a former Austrian cyclist and three-time Austrian national champion (1993, 1999), who was subsequently active as a triathlon professional for a few years. He is included in the best list of Austrian triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Cycling until 2003

Hannes Hempel is three-time Austrian national champion (1993, 1999) and won two stages in the Tour of Austria (1994, 2002). He was the mountain king of many international tours and was named one of the best mountain drivers in the world in 2000. He only narrowly lost the Tour of Austria in 2000 against Georg Totschnig . From 2001 he was under contract with the German team Gerolsteiner but his career failed because of his fear of flying.

Athletics and triathlon since 2006

In 2003 Hempel ended his career as a cyclist and moved to the Carinthian provincial government, but stayed on cycling as a co-commentator at ORF .

Hannes Hempel developed into an excellent runner and took 19th place at the Austrian Half Marathon State Championships in 2006 with a time of 1:13:59 hours.

As a triathlete, Hannes Hempel took eighth place over the long distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling, 42.195 km running) at the Ironman Austria 2007 and was third the following year. He started with a professional license in the Austrian Triathlon Association and for the HSV Triathlon Carinthia club .

2009 doping affair

In the ongoing doping process against Bernhard Kohl , the latter stated that Hannes Hempel had received the Epo drug CERA . Further gave Lisa Hütthaler in court, Hannes Hempel would have advised her to bribe a laboratory worker in Seibersdorf. The criminal proceedings against Hempel were discontinued by the public prosecutor's office in Wiener Neustadt, and on July 29, 2009 NADA announced that doping proceedings had been initiated against Hannes Hempel. On June 15, 2010, Hannes Hempel was banned from NADA for four years with retroactive effect from May 2008. Hempel announced that he would appeal against the lock. The suspension was shortened by four months by NADA on January 10, 2012 after Hempel had cooperated with the authorities.

On April 25, 2013 it was announced that Hannes Hempel had tested positive for testosterone during a training check on March 8. As a result, he decided not to open the B sample and declared his resignation from professional sport. He was then banned for life in October.

Entrepreneur since 2014

From October 2014 to 2017 Hannes Hempel worked for the company Look Cycle as a sales manager in Austria. Since March 2017 he has been running the BärenBikes brand , which produces e-bikes, together with the Carinthian entrepreneur Franz Petschnig .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

To go biking

• 2 stage victories in the Tour of Austria (Hintertuxer Gletscher 1994, Tamsweg 2002).
• Glocknerkönig 1999, Bergkönig Tour of Austria 1999, Tour of Slovenia 2002, International Peace Tour 1996 , Rhineland-Palatinate Tour 1999.
• 10th place Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda , 21st place Gent – ​​Wevelgem , 3rd place Trofeo Mallorca , 35th place Olympic Summer Games 1996 (road race elite).
• Hattrick national champion 1999, mountain bike national champion 1993, vice national champion mountain, vice national champion individual time trial, vice national champion road.

Web links

• Hannes Hempel in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Profile for Hannes Hempel at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 21, 2014
• Profile and results of Hannes Hempel in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 13, 2017 (English).
• BearBikes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Licensee 2013
2. ↑ Kohl names a CERA supplier ( Memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (www.kurier.at)
3. ↑ Hempel advises Hütthaler to bribe ( memento from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (www.heute.at from June 26, 2009)
4. ↑ NADA blocks Hannes Hempel ( memento of the original from September 20, 2011 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. (www.trinews.at from June 15, 2010)  
5. ↑ Doping amnesty for Hannes Hempel kleinezeitung.at January 12, 2012
6. ↑ Hannes Hempel tested positive (April 25, 2013)
7. ↑ Hannes Hempel waives the B sample (May 2, 2013)
8. ↑ Hannes Hempel banned for life (October 1, 2013)