Ironman 70.3 Germany
The Ironman 70.3 Germany was one of 2,007 a year by 2016 in August in Wiesbaden held triathlon sporting event. Even if it was not an official European championship , it was advertised by the organizer under the name "Ironman 70.3 European Championship", but there were no qualifying criteria for participation.
organization
The Ironman 70.3 Germany was part of the Ironman 70.3 -Triathlon-racing series in the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), a subsidiary of China's Wanda Group . The name is derived from the total distance of 113 km or 70.3 miles.
The first two events of the Ironman 70.3 Germany in Wiesbaden were organized by Xdream Sports & Events GmbH , which had organized the Ironman Germany in Frankfurt since 2002 . For the use of the trademark "Ironman 70.3", which was used for the first time in Germany, license fees were paid to the WTC. The competition was the first under this trademark in Germany. In 2009, WTC took over Xdream and organized the event itself from then until 2016.
For the Ironman 70.3 World Championship , 100 qualification places in all age groups were awarded annually at this competition (as of September 2014). In 2013, a qualification for the Ironman Hawaii was also possible in Wiesbaden.
The Swiss Daniela Ryf with her winning time of 4:26:12 hours (2014) and the Briton Ritchie Nicholls with 3:56:55 hours (2013) hold the course records here.
Due to construction work on the Raunheimer Waldsee, where the start took place since 2011, as well as a lack of alternatives for the implementation of the opening discipline, the event was no longer continued. The last event was on August 14, 2016.
Route
- The swimming was until 2010 in the water sports area Schiersteiner harbor started. After several athletes complained about diarrheal diseases after the competition in 2010 and these were attributed to the water quality in the harbor basin, the swimming took place from 2011 to 2016 in the Raunheimer Waldsee.
- The bike course led by 2010 Eltville and Kiedrich in the Taunus in and ended on Kurpark Wiesbaden . From 2011 to 2016 it no longer led through the Rheingau , but from Raunheim to the edge of Wiesbaden, from there in a loop to Idstein and back to Wiesbaden, where it again ended at the spa gardens. This route change made the bike route one kilometer longer and was now 1,450 meters in altitude.
- The running route started behind the Kurhaus Wiesbaden and extended over four laps (until 2008 three laps of around 7 kilometers each).
Special occurrences
During the event in 2008, a total of eight bicycles were stolen from the transition area from cycling to running, whereupon the organizer compensated those affected and offered a reward of 25,000 euros for relevant information that led to the arrest of the perpetrator (s).
At the fourth edition in 2010 there was a death at the Ironman. A 55-year-old man suffered cardiac arrest while swimming and died a little later in hospital despite resuscitation measures.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kona-Slots: Via Wiesbaden to Hawaii In: tri2b.com November 20, 2012
- ^ No more Ironman in Wiesbaden. Frankfurter Rundschau , September 7, 2016, accessed on January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Managing director Björn Steinmetz currently sees little chance for another Ironman 70.3 in Wiesbaden In: Wiesbadener Kurier September 8, 2016
- ↑ Virus alert at the Ironman. Frankfurter Rundschau , October 28, 2010, accessed on January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Swimming course 2011 on the website of Ironman 70.3 Germany ( Memento from June 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 2011 bike course on the website of Ironman 70.3 Germany ( Memento from June 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Wiesbaden 70.3: bikes stolen - 25,000 bounty | Triathlon Team DSW Darmstadt. Retrieved September 24, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Ironman Wiesbaden - Death during a triathlon In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung August 16, 2010