Holger Lorenz
Holger Lorenz (born June 16, 1969 ) is a German triathlete and Ironman winner.
Career
Holger Lorenz completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker and was active as a semi-professional triathlete after completing his military service in the early 1990s. From the late 1980s he was one of the dominant triathletes in Germany for a decade. He started together with Thomas Hellriegel for TV Bretten, where Sebastian Kienle also started triathlon as a teenager in the mid-1990s . From 1997, Holger Lorenz started for the Hansgrohe Schramberg team, initially in the Baden-Württemberg LBS League and at the end of the season rose to the Triathlon Bundesliga , where they jointly won the bronze medal in the 1998 German team championship. Today Lorenz acts as the sporting director of Triathlon Kraichgau eV
The greatest successes of the 178 cm tall Badener, whose competition weight was 68 kg, were two top ten placements at the Ironman World Championship (1993 and 1997) and his victory at Ironman Australia in Forster in 1995, ahead of Péter Kropkó and Pauli Kiuru . He achieved his personal best on the Ironman distance in 1997 at Ironman Europe in 8:13:48 hours. In 1994 he became triathlon world champion in the team classification at the first ITU long distance world championship in Nice, together with Lothar Leder and Thomas Hellriegel. After winning the German Youth Championships in 1987, Holger Lorenz was on the podium four times in the elite at German Championships.
Holger Lorenz is married to his wife Carmen. Their first son Nils was born in 1999, followed a year later by his brother Luis. They live together in Bruchsal.
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Feb. 27, 2015 | 61 | Challenge Dubai | Dubai | 04:31:38 | 2nd place in age group M45 |
Oct 26, 2014 | 23 | Ironman 70.3 Miami | Miami | 04:20:02 | 1st place in age group M45 |
May 18, 2014 | 54 | Ironman 70.3 Barcelona | Calella | 04:47:34 | 2nd place in age group M45 |
8 Sep 2013 | 152 | Ironman 70.3 Las Vegas | Henderson | 04:38:04 | 12th place in age group M40 at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship |
Aug 11, 2013 | 102 | Ironman 70.3 Germany | Wiesbaden | 04:38:40 | 12th place in age group M40 |
June 16, 2013 | 34 | Ironman 70.3 Berlin | Berlin | 04:19:44 | 3rd place in age group M40 |
June 6, 2005 | 4th | Kraichgau Triathlon Festival | Bad Schönborn | 05:16:02 | behind Markus Forster , Swen Sundberg and Rolf Lautenbacher , long distance - 2.5 / 110/21 km |
Aug 1997 | 1 | Breisgau triathlon | Malterdingen | 03:53:31 | before Michael Brucker, Rolf Lautenbacher and Steffen Liebetrau , 2-80-20 |
Sep 7 1996 | 14th | ITU World Championship long distance | Muncie | 03:54:34 | 1.9 km swim / 90 km bike / 21.1 km run |
Aug 1996 | 1 | Breisgau triathlon | Malterdingen | 03:50:35 | before Rolf Lautenbacher and Uwe Widmann , 2-80-20 |
Aug 13, 1995 | 10 | DTU German Championship Olympic Distance | Darmstadt | 01:58:09 | |
Aug 1994 | 1 | Breisgau triathlon | Malterdingen | 04:00:24 | before Bennie Lindberg, 2-80-20 |
22 Aug 1993 | 29 | ITU World Championship Olympic Distance | Manchester | 01:56:56 | |
Aug 7, 1993 | 4th | DTU German Championship Olympic Distance | amounts | 01:50:58 | behind Ralf Eggert , Rainer Müller-Hörner and Gerd Amrhein |
1993 | 2 | DTU German championship middle distance | Waldeck | as part of the Edersee Triathlon behind Thomas Hellriegel , in front of Jochen Basting | |
4th July 1993 | 4th | ETU European Championship Olympic Distance | Echternach | 02:03:31 | behind Simon Lessing , Rainer Müller-Hörner, Thomas Hellriegel and in front of Rob Barel |
June 27, 1993 | 4th | Leipzig triathlon | Leipzig | 01:47:04 | behind Thomas Hellriegel, Rainer Müller-Hörner and Ralf Eggert (Quelle Supersprint series) |
Sep 1992 | 3 | DTU German championship middle distance | Immenstadt | 03:18:53 | behind Jürgen Zäck and Michael Heiligenthal, route was shortened to 1.0 - 66 - 21 due to the weather. |
Aug 16, 1992 | 4th | DTU German Championship Olympic Distance | Cologne | 01:50:58 | behind Thomas Hellriegel, Rainer Müller-Hörner and Gerd Amrhein |
5th July 1992 | 9 | ETU European Championship Olympic Distance | Lommel | 01:50:51 | |
June 28, 1992 | 4th | Leipzig triathlon | Leipzig | 01:48:21 | behind Rainer Müller-Hörner, Oliver Graf, Gerd Amrhein and Andreas Clauß (Quelle Supersprint series) |
1992 | 1 | Viernheim Triathlon | Viernheim | before Arndt Schomburg and Jürgen Zäck | |
8 Sep 1991 | 10 | ETU European Championship Olympic Distance | Geneva | 01:56:05 | |
Aug 3, 1991 | 3 | DTU German Championship Olympic Distance | Arolsen | 02:02:17 | behind Roland Knoll and Gerd Amrhein |
Aug 1991 | 1 | Breisgau triathlon | Malterdingen | 03:54:56 | 2-80-20 |
July 8, 1990 | 1 | Friesenheim Triathlon | Friesenheim | Baden-Württemberg championships ahead of Axel Stahl and Ralf Faulhaber | |
1990 | 3 | DTU German championship middle distance | Kulmbach | as part of the Trebgaster Triathlon behind Jürgen Zäck and Björn Gustavsson | |
1987 | 1 | DTU German Championship Youth | Immenstadt | before Björn Gustavsson |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Oct 4, 2015 | 95 | Ironman Barcelona | Barcelona | 09:15:02 | 3rd place in age group M45 |
Nov 9, 2014 | 123 | Ironman Brasil Fortaleza | Fortaleza | 10:52:09 | 10th place in age group M45 |
3rd Mar 2012 | 20th | Abu Dhabi International Triathlon | Abu Dhabi | 07:11:12 | 1st place in age group M40, 4th amateur (3 km swimming / 200 km bike / 20 km running) |
July 10, 2011 | 30th | Challenge Roth | Roth | 08:45:55 | 5th place in age group M40 |
July 12, 2009 | 38 | Challenge Roth | Roth | 08:43:51 | German championship long distance, 3rd place age group M40 |
July 17, 2005 | 63 | Ironman Switzerland | Zurich | 09:43:04 | 10th place in age group M35 |
Oct 16, 2004 | 218 | Ironman Hawaii | Kailua-Kona | 10:24:56 | 32nd in age group M35 |
July 11, 2004 | 25th | Ironman Germany | Frankfurt | 09:18:12 | 3rd in age group M35 |
Aug 1, 1999 | DNF | Ironman Switzerland | Zurich | - | got out after 53:22 minutes of swimming and the third-best bike time (4:49:02 h) on the running track |
June 27, 1999 | 10 | Ironman Europe | Roth | 08:35:11 | |
Oct 3, 1998 | DNF | Ironman Hawaii | Kailua-Kona | - | After a 51:49 min swim and 5:00:54 h bike on the running track got out |
July 12, 1998 | 5 | Ironman Europe | Roth | 08:24:36 | |
Oct 18, 1997 | 8th | Ironman Hawaii | Kailua-Kona | 08:45:55 | |
July 13, 1997 | 6th | Ironman Europe | Roth | 08:13:48 | personal best |
Oct 26, 1996 | DNF | Ironman Hawaii | Kailua-Kona | - | After a 54:16 min swim and 4:37:40 h bike (10th best bike time overall) got out on the running track |
July 14, 1996 | 5 | Ironman Europe | Roth | 08:22:14 | |
1996 | 2 | Ironman Australia | Ranger | 08:26:01 | behind Jürgen Zäck |
Oct 7, 1995 | 20th | Ironman Hawaii | Kailua-Kona | 08:56:16 | |
July 22, 1995 | 1 | Allgäu triathlon | Immenstadt | 06:30:35 | in the Allgäu special (2.9 km swimming, 138 km cycling and 29 km running) |
Apr 9, 1995 | 1 | Ironman Australia | Ranger | 08:27:34 | before Péter Kropkó and Pauli Kiuru |
Oct 15, 1994 | 16 | Ironman Hawaii | Kailua-Kona | 08:53:56 | |
1994 | 1 | Allgäu triathlon | Immenstadt | in the Allgäu special (2.9 km swimming, 138 km cycling and 29 km running) | |
June 26, 1994 | 4th | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | 06:04:30 |
ITU World Championship long distance , behind Rob Barel , Lothar Leder and Yves Cordier , in front of Thomas Hellriegel and 11:07 minutes in front of Dave Scott , thus winning the Team World Championship for Germany together with Lothar Leder and Thomas Hellriegel |
Oct 23, 1993 | 8th | Ironman Hawaii | Kailua-Kona | 08:32:51 | |
Sep 14 1991 | 1 | Austria triathlon | Podersdorf | 08:59:12 |
Web links
- Holger Lorenz in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Profile for Holger Lorenz at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on September 22, 2014
- Profile and results of Holger Lorenz in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 22, 2014 (English).
- Jan Sägert: What does ... actually? Holger Lorenz . In: German Triathlon Union . January 25, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release ( Memento from January 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) DTU September 6, 1998
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lorenz, Holger |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1969 |