Jan Frodeno

0 Jan Frodeno
Jan Frodeno at Ironman Germany (Ironman European Championships) in Frankfurt am Main 2018
Personal information
Date of birth	18th August 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Cologne, Germany
Nickname	Frodo
size	194 cm
Weight	76 kg
societies
Until 2010	Tri-Sport Saar-Hochwald
2013	Bromelain-POS Team Saar
Current	Athletics Center Saarbrücken and Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
Since 2018	Breitling Triathlon Squad
successes
2004	Vice World Champion U23
2007	German champion triathlon short distance
2008	Olympic champion
2012	6th place Olympic Games
2013	World Champion Mixed Relay
2015, 2016, 2019	3 × Ironman World Championship winner
2015, 2018	2 × Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championship
2015, 2018, 2019	3 × Winner Ironman European Championships
2016	Winner Challenge Roth; World record
status
active

Jan Frodeno (born August 18, 1981 in Cologne ) is a German triathlete . He was the first to win both the gold medal at the Olympic Games (2008) and the title at the Ironman Hawaii (2015, 2016, 2019). He is in first place in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance . Since 2016 he has held the world best time of 7:35:39 hours on the long distance triathlon, which he set in July at the Challenge Roth .

Career

Jan Frodeno grew up in South Africa and began his sporting career as a swimmer at the age of 15 . Three years later he came to life swimming due to the diversity of the various disciplines . The pictures of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney on TV motivated him to start triathlon.

In November 2000 he started his triathlon career and in 2002 he started in the Triathlon Bundesliga for the first time . In the same year Frodeno made the leap into the German national team. In May 2004 he was runner-up in the U23 class in Portugal. In 2004 Frodeno started for TuS Griesheim , between 2005 and 2008 for the Hans Grohe team in the Triathlon Bundesliga. In 2006 he was ninth in the overall triathlon world cup.

Olympic champion 2008 and World Cup successes

Frodeno was a member of the "Top Team Beijing" (A-squad of the national team) and was able to secure early qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where he competed against the favored Daniel Unger, at the World Championships in Hamburg in 2007 with his sixth place and Javier Gómez prevail and so to date, the only German triathlete to win the gold medal. Federal President Horst Köhler honored him for this in November 2011 with the Silver Laurel Leaf. When 1,350 VDS sports journalists voted for the athlete of the year 2008, Jan Frodeno came third behind weightlifter Matthias Steiner and table tennis player Timo Boll .

In September 2009 Frodeno was fourth in the overall ranking of the four-race short distance world championship of the International Triathlon Union (ITU). In November 2009 Frodeno founded his own junior triathlon team called “Team Strive”. It existed until 2011 and consisted of three male and three female junior athletes. He was also looked after by the nutritionist Wolfgang Feil .

In 2010, Frodeno was on the verge of making history: Before the final race for the world championship , he was in the lead; if he had placed no more than three places behind Javier Gómez in Budapest, he would have been the first triathlon Olympic champion to be world champion. Frodeno started the final run as third, but then collapsed completely and crossed the finish line in forty-first. Gómez became world champion for the second time. Jan Frodeno later openly admitted that he was suffering from burnout syndrome .

Frodeno lived in Saarbrücken and started for the “Tri-Sport Saar-Hochwald” association up to and including 2010. Since 2011 he starts for the "Athletics Center Saarbrücken". With Specialized , he had a new bike sponsor from 2011 to 2014. He was a member of the "ASICS-DTU-Elite-Team" of the German Triathlon Union (DTU), as the name of the DTU's senior squad was at the time.

For the 2010 season Frodeno was appointed by the ITU to the "Gold Group" comprising 20 athletes, which consisted of the medal winners from Beijing 2008 supplemented by the top athletes from the previous year. They represented the ITU in public and secured an additional starting place for their national associations for each of the seven races of the ITU World Championship Series . In 2011 and 2012 Frodeno was also part of the "Gold Group".

In 2011, Frodeno got involved as an ambassador of Herzenssache , the children's aid campaign by SWR , SR and the Association of Sparda Banks . In April 2011, he and Emma Snowsill were the first triathletes to be appointed ambassadors for the Laureus Foundation , which annually honors the world's athletes of the year .

2012 Summer Olympics and first Ironman race

In addition to Steffen Justus and Maik Petzold , after several months of injury at the end of June 2012, Frodeno literally qualified at the last minute at the World Cup race in Kitzbühel for a start at the 2012 Olympic Games , where he finished sixth as the best German in London in August 2012 reached. In 2013 Jan Frodeno started for the Bromelain-POS Team Saar in the Triathlon Bundesliga. On July 21, 2013 he became world champion in mixed relay together with Anne Haug , Anja Knapp and Franz Löschke in Hamburg .

Jan Frodeno (2014)

In July 2014 Jan Frodeno started at an Ironman for the first time . In previous years, Frodeno had repeatedly made statements such as B. in the Olympic distance there is "more high-performance sport", Ironman is "not dynamic enough" for him, would only be something for "failed short distance athletes" and swimming at the Ironman is only "warming up for a long day" for indignation among Ironman disciples taken care of in online forums. After a sponsor made it possible for him to experience Ironman Hawaii in person in 2010, he changed his mind.

At the competition in Frankfurt , Frodeno finished swimming in the lead, but then had three tire defects on his bike. Nevertheless, he managed to place on the podium behind Sebastian Kienle and Frederic van Lierde . In September 2014, he finished second at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Canada .

In the run-up to Ironman Hawaii, Frodeno admitted that the long distance was addictive. In October 2014 he started as a favorite for the first time at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. As in Frankfurt, Frodeno was the first to get out of the water and was in the lead for a long time on the bike course, but was then thrown back first by a tire defect and later by a four-minute time penalty. With one of the fastest times of the day, however, he was finally able to run up to third place.
Since the beginning of 2015 Jan Frodeno has started for the then newly founded Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team , which is led by Australian Chris McCormack . The bike manufacturer Canyon from Koblenz replaced Specialized as its bike sponsor. In July 2015 Jan Frodeno won the Ironman European Championship at his second start in Frankfurt . Despite the extreme heat, he beat the existing track record with his winning time of 7:49:48 h - the fourth fastest time ever achieved in a race over the Ironman distance. At the same time, thanks to this victory, which brought him 30,000 US dollars in prize money, he, like the winners in Melbourne , Port Elizabeth , Texas and Florianópolis , secured his new starting place at Ironman Hawaii on October 10, 2015.
From 2012 to 2014, the winners in Frankfurt had to qualify for Hawaii via the “Kona Pro Ranking System”. In August he secured a further US $ 45,000 in prize money with his win at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship as part of the Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun in the Austrian state of Salzburg .

Winner Ironman World Championships 2015, 2016 and 2019

Jan Frodeno at the award ceremony in Roth (2016)

In October 2015 Frodeno won the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii as the fifth German after Thomas Hellriegel (1997), Normann Stadler (2004 and 2006), Faris Al-Sultan (2005) and Sebastian Kienle (2014). For his win, he received $ 120,000 in prize money. He is the first athlete to win the Ironman Hawaii, the Ironman 70.3 World Championship and the Ironman European Championship in the same year, as well as the first Olympic champion to also triumph at the Ironman World Championship.

In July 2016 he won the Challenge Roth and set a new world record in the long distance triathlon with a time of 7:35:39 hours. In October 2016 Frodeno was able to defend his title at the Ironman Hawaii and again became world champion in the long distance triathlon. In the election for Sportsman of the Year in December, he finished second behind Fabian Hambüchen .

In July 2017, Frodeno won the Ironman Austria at his first start in Klagenfurt . In August he became German champion in the middle distance. At the Ironman in Hawaii he finished fourth after the bike course, but then had back problems while running, had to take a break and crossed the finish line a long way behind. Jan Frodeno is trained by Dan Lorang.

Jan Frodeno joined the new Breitling triathlon team together with Daniela Ryf and Chris McCormack in May 2018 . In July, the then 36-year-old won the Ironman European Championships for the second time since 2015 at Ironman Germany . After a fatigue fracture in his hip, Frodeno had to cancel the planned start at Ironman Hawaii 2018 in September.

In June 2019 he won the Ironman Germany in Frankfurt for the third time and in October with a new course record after 7:51:13 h, the Ironman Hawaii for the third time. With prize money of 158,000 US dollars, Jan Frodeno was the second highest earning triathlete of the 2019 season (behind the French Vincent Luis , 289,200 US dollars in prize money). In December, Jan Frodeno was named Triathlete of the Year for the fourth time in Langen .

In the context of the corona crisis , he organized a so-called “Tri @ home” for April 11, 2020, during which he carried out the Ironman distances at home with the help of home training facilities or the swimming distance with a counter-current system and asked viewers to virtually guide him to the challenge accompany. The amount of over 200,000 euros collected through this campaign benefited the hospital in his place of residence, Girona , Spain , as well as the “Laureus Sports for Good” foundation.

Personal

Frodeno's nickname is " Frodo " based on the protagonist in the novel The Lord of the Rings ( bon mot about the Olympic rings ).

Since summer 2010, Frodeno has been in a relationship with Olympic and three-time triathlon world champion Emma Snowsill . The couple got married in October 2013. The couple live in Noosa Shire on the Sunshine Coast in Emma's Australian homeland and in Girona. Their son was born in February 2016. In early October 2017, it was announced that the couple was expecting a second child, and their daughter was born in February 2018.

Frodeno has been following a vegetarian diet since the beginning of 2017 .

Sporting successes

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Jan Frodeno at Ironman Germany 2014

Awards

• Silver bay leaf 2008
• The 3800 athletes sponsored by Deutsche Sporthilfe voted Jan Frodeno 2008 Champion of the Year .
• Saar Sportsman of the Year 2008, 2009, 2014 and 2015
• For his victories in Frankfurt and Hawaii, Frodeno was voted Sportsman of the Month by the athletes sponsored by Deutsche Sporthilfe in July 2015, October 2015 and October 2016 .
• On November 12, 2015, Frodeno was the second triathlete after Faris Al-Sultan (2005) to receive the Bambi in the Sport category at the Stage Theater in Berlin .
• Triathlete of the year 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
• In December 2015 he was the first triathlete to be voted athlete of the year .
• In April 2016, Frodeno became the first triathlete to be honored at the Laureus World Sports Awards .
• In the election for Germany's Sportsman of the Year 2019 , he finished second behind the decathlon world champion Niklas Kaul .

Publications

• Jan Frodeno: A question of passion: With courage and motivation to success . Ariston Verlag , May 2018. ISBN 978-3-424-20167-3

Web links

Commons : Jan Frodeno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Jan Frodeno
• Portrait of Jan Frodeno . In: tri2b.com .
• Jan Frodeno in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Profile and results of Jan Frodeno in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 17, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Jan Frodeno at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on September 18, 2014
• Jan Frodeno in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Susanne Rohlfing: Gold in the triathlon: "Frodo, great thing!" . In: Der Spiegel . August 19, 2008.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Federal President Köhler honors 132 athletes with the silver laurel leaf . DOSB . November 20, 2008.
4. ↑ Great honor for Steffen, Steiner and the hockey men . In: The world . December 21, 2008.
5. ↑ Michael Eder: "And if it tears away every tendon - it doesn't matter" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 22, 2008.
6. ↑ Gold Coast: Brownlee crowns a strong season
7. ↑ dpa : Triathlon Olympic champion Frodeno founds junior team . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . November 25, 2009. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015. Retrieved on October 7, 2015.
8. ↑ Christina John: "We all want to become professionals" With "Strive" for the 2016 Olympics . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . December 24, 2009.
9. ↑ Team Strive ( Memento from December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Martin Kleinemas: Jan Frodeno was about to give up everything . In: The world . September 10, 2010.
11. ↑ Frodeno missed the title - Justus second . In: Rheinische Post . September 11, 2010.
12. ↑ Melanie Haack: Olympic champion Frodeno was inedible in 2010 . In: The world . July 15, 2011.
13. ↑ News from November 8, 2010 "Jan Frodeno: Passion comes from suffering"
14. ^ Fergus Murray: Gold Group Explained ( English ) In: ITU . June 22, 2010.
15. ^ René Penno: ITU: Two Germans in Gold Group . In: tri2b.com . February 23, 2011.
16. ↑ Frank Wechsel: ITU names Gold Group for the first five World Championship races . In: tri-mag.de . March 29, 2012.
17. ↑ Three prominent ambassadors for children and young people for a matter of the heart - the children's aid campaign by SWR, SR and Sparda-Bank
18. ^ Paula Kim: Emma Snowsill and Jan Frodeno inducted as Laureus Ambassadors . ITU . April 7, 2011.
19. ↑ These are the Laureus ambassadors . In: Focus .
20. ↑ Silke Keul: With bared teeth in sixth place . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 7, 2012.
21. ^ Website of the Triathlon Team Saar
22. ↑ German athletes win the Hamburg Team World Championship . In: Hamburger Morgenpost . July 21, 2013.
23. ↑ Peter Stützer: King Frodeno has little interest in the Ironman . In: The world . October 10, 2008.
24. ↑ Sebastian Kayser: If you don't silver your gold, it's your own fault . In: image . October 15, 2008.
25. ↑ Thomas Hahn: "It's about who the best cyclist is" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 17, 2010.
26. ↑ Ironman newcomer Frodeno: "A thick chunk" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 4th July 2014.
27. ↑ January Saegert: Kienle new king of Frankfurt, Frodeno third parties . In: tri-mag.de . July 6, 2014.
28. ^ Sid : Triathlon Olympic champion Frodeno becomes vice world champion in Canada . In: Handelsblatt . September 7, 2014. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015.
29. ↑ Melanie Haack: Jan Frodeno - "I tend to excess" . In: The world . October 11, 2014.
30. ↑ Sebastian Kienle is Ironman World Champion, Jan Frodeno is third . In: tri-mag.de . October 12, 2014.
31. ↑ Melanie Haack: Kienle's ride in hell ends with victory in the Ironman . In: The world . October 12, 2014.
32. ↑ The King of Kona . In: Handelsblatt . October 12, 2014.
33. ^ Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
34. ↑ 10 Things To Know About The All-Star Bahrain Endurance 13 Team ( Memento from May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), May 6, 2015.
35. ↑ January Saegert: Frodeno hires at Canyon . In: tri-mag.de . January 7, 2015.
36. ↑ Michael Eder: Cool head and hot race . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 6, 2015.
37. ↑ ^{a b c} Distribution of points and prize money for professional triathletes . World Triathlon Corporation . Archived from the original on October 19, 2014.
38. ↑ Professional Athlete Qualification & Validation . World Triathlon Corporation . Archived from the original on October 19, 2014.
39. ↑ Harald Eggebrecht: Ironman 70.3 WM: Jan Frodeno and Sebastian Kienle ensure a German double victory . In: tri2b.com . August 30, 2015.
40. ↑ Triathlon: Jan Frodeno cracks world record over long distance , July 17th, 2016.
41. ↑ The great drama of Jan Frodeno. In: faz.net , October 15, 2017, accessed October 18, 2017.
42. ↑ The Breitling Triathlon Squad. In: tritime-magazin.de , May 15, 2018.
43. ↑ Jan Frodeno will not start at the Ironman Hawaii. In: pushing-limits.de , September 12, 2018.
44. ↑ Ralf Weitbrecht: Heat, breakdowns and a collapse. In: faz.net. June 30, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 . 
45. ↑ The Prize Money Ranking 2019 (December 16, 2019)
46. ↑ Frodeno not all alone in the "Pain cave" at the "Tri @ home" (April 8, 2020)
47. ↑ Frodeno's Indoor Triathlon brings € 200,000 (April 11, 2020)
48. ^ Matthias Marburg: Frodeno: Olympic champion loves Olympic champion . In: image . October 2, 2010.
49. ↑ Jan Frodeno and Emma Snowsill get married . In: Rheinische Post . September 30th, 2013.
50. ↑ Ironman winner Jan Frodeno reveals his sweetest secret . In: Focus . October 11, 2015.
51. ^ Emma Snowsill and Jan Frodeno expecting second child. In: triathlonmagazine.ca , October 4, 2017.
52. ↑ Happy family: Frodeno family now as a four. In: tri2b.com , February 5, 2018.
53. ↑ Jan Frodeno: Vegetarian for top performance. In: www.tritime-agazin.de. October 13, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017 . 
54. ^ Frodeno festival in the Allgäu: Olympic champion wins triathlon. In: br.de , August 18, 2019.
55. ↑ Triathlon Buschhütten: Jan Frodeno and Laura Philipp the new royal couple. In: tri2b.com , May 5, 2019.
56. ↑ A miracle happened… . In: triathlon-szene.de .
57. ↑ Hy-Vee: Don wins, Frodeno misses the podium . In: tri-mag.de . Archived from the original on January 8, 2011.
58. ^ Frodeno Sprints to Victory in Seoul
59. ↑ Jan Sägert: World Cup prelude: Docherty wins, Frodeno unlucky . April 11, 2010.
60. ↑ Laguna Phuket Triathlon 06 December 2009 ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), December 6, 2009.
61. ↑ Laguna Phuket Triathlon: Jan Frodeno alone in front. In: tri2b.com .
62. ↑ Triathlete Frodeno on Gold Coast third ( Memento from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
63. ↑ Dextro Energy Triathlon-ITU World Championship Yokohama: Jan Frodeno takes first victory
64. ↑ Des Moines: Whitfield beats Frodeno
65. ^ Gelsenkirchen: Bundesliga finals and German championship (August 3, 2008)
66. ↑ “Hamburg Cityman” Triathlon 2008
67. ↑ 2006 Cancun ITU Triathlon Team Relay World Championships
68. ↑ Kathrin Müller wins bronze (June 21, 2004)
69. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.triathlon-in-polen-frodeno-siegt-bei-703-ironman-in-gdynia.f2531a79-f682-4c3f-b9f2-550318d3efb4.html
70. ↑ http://www.tri-tracking.com.tw/services/events/20180428b/records
71. ↑ Strong Frodeno debut in Wiesbaden . August 11, 2013. Archived from the original on August 11, 2013.
72. ↑ Return of the world champion: Jan Frodeno starts at Challenge Roth 2020 (December 19, 2019)
73. ↑ http://eu.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman/world-championship/results.aspx?p=4&ps=20#axzz4vz7hR02A
74. ↑ Jan Frodeno starts at Ironman Austria-Carinthia. In: trinews.at , March 20, 2017.
75. ↑ Kienle and Ryf as a highlight in Frankfurt. In: ironman.com , April 14, 2015.
76. ↑ Frodeno is "Champion of the Year" . In: The time . September 30, 2008.
77. ↑ Jan Frodeno is “Sportsman of the Month” July . German Sports Aid Foundation . August 7, 2015. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015.
78. ↑ Ironman world champion Frodeno is athlete of the month for October . German Sports Aid Foundation . November 6, 2015. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015.
79. ↑ Frodeno Sportsman of the Month October. In: sport1.de , November 8, 2016.
80. ^ Triathlon world champion Jan Frodeno awarded Sport Bambi . In: Sport1 . November 13, 2015.
81. ↑ https://tri-mag.de/szene/jan-frodeno-und-daniela-ryf-sind-triathleten-des-jahres-146849
82. ↑ The highlights of the triathlon awards: Anne Haug and Jan Frodeno in a talk at the Sailfish Night of the Year (December 25, 2019)
83. ↑ Ralf Weitbrecht: A year like out of a picture book . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 20th December 2015.
84. ↑ Even a German can cheer . In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 18, 2016.

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