Irina Kirchler

0 Irina Kirchler
at Ironman 70.3 Austria (2012)
Personal information
Date of birth	11th June 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Niederau (Wildschönau municipality) , Austria
Nickname	Rini
size	175 cm
Weight	57 kg
societies
To 2012	1. Raina TTC Innsbruck, Team BMC
successes
1998, 1999	2 × national champion duathlon short distance
2009	National champion triathlon short distance
status
Resigned in 2012

Irina Elisabeth Kirchler (born June 11, 1983 in Niederau , married Irina Juen ) is a former Austrian triathlete , duathlete and multiple national champion (1998, 1999, 2009).

Career

Between 1988 and 1996 Irina Kirchler was an 83-time Tyrolean swimming champion. Between 1991 and 1998 she won numerous national trophies in the cross country.

Her father Richard Kirchler was also an active triathlete and achieved the world and European championship titles in the Winter Triathlon Masters. Irina Kirchler started her first triathlon in Graz in 1993.

National Champion Duathlon Short Distance 1998

Irina Kirchler has been a member of the national team since 1998 and since 2005 she started as a professional athlete. In 1998 and again in 1999 the Tyrolean became Austrian national champion in the short distance duathlon.

In 2006 and again in 2007 she was third in the state championship on the short distance triathlon. A targeted start at the Olympic Games in 2008 was prevented by an illness with glandular fever .

She started for the club 1. Raika TTC Innsbruck and was a regular soldier in the Austrian Armed Forces in Innsbruck as a competitive athlete. Her nickname is Rini .

State champion triathlon short distance 2009

In June 2009 she became the national champion of the Olympic distance at the Vienna City Triathlon on Vienna's Danube Island (short triathlon distance: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).
She was trained by former British triathlete Michelle Dillon together with Marco Wolf and swimmer Heidi Steinacher .

After missing a targeted nomination for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she switched from the short to the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running). In 2012, the then 29-year-old declared her professional career over.

Irina Juen has been working in human resources since the end of her seven-year professional career. She is married and lives with her husband and a child in Wildschönau in Tyrol.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Website of Pep Solutions (company of Irina Juen)
• Profile for Irina Kirchler at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 18, 2014
• Profile and results of Irina Kirchler in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 18, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirchler fights over the IRONMAN 70.3 distance (February 14, 2012)
2. ↑ Ironman 70.3 in St. Pölten 2012 - results (May 20, 2012)
3. ↑ Top 5 placement for Kirchler at debut (April 12, 2012)
4. ↑ Waldmüller at the European Triathlon Championships 27th, Höfer in 32nd place ( memento of the original from July 26, 2014 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. (June 25, 2011) 
5. ↑ Eva Wutti and Lukas Hollaus are the new triathlon champions!
6. ↑ ÖTRV squad athletes in the Bundesliga
7. ↑ Irina Kirchler at the start of the “Days of Truth” . Archived from the original on May 14, 2014.
8. ^ ETU short distance EM: Title to Gomez and Spirig
9. ↑ Irina Kirchler new national champion June 6, 2009 .
10. ↑ City triathlon Munich: cold start to the triathlon summer
11. ^ Munich Triathlon 2005: Close victories with a successful premiere