Jens Roth

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German actor, director and author see Jens Roth (actor) .

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Jens Roth winning the 2017 German Cross Duathlon Championship
Personal information
Date of birth	24th January 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Bernkastel-Kues
societies
until 2014	RSG Montabaur
Current	Tri Post Trier
successes
2013	World champion cross triathlon M25–29
2015	Vice European champion cross triathlon
2015-2019	5 × German cross triathlon champion
2017	German champion cross duathlon
status
active

Jens Roth (born January 24, 1988 in Bernkastel-Kues ) from Monzelfeld is a German former swimmer who is now active as a triathlete . He is Vice-European Cross-Triathlon Champion (2015) and five-time and reigning German Champion in Cross-Triathlon (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) and Cross-Duathlon (2017).

Career

The electrical engineer Jens Roth was active in swimming for about 15 years. At the German Swimming Championships 2007 in Berlin, he finished third behind the winner Thomas Lurz over 1500 m freestyle.

Triathlon since 2010

Roth started triathlon in 2010 and today he mainly competes in Olympic distance competitions: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running. He has been trained by Marc Pschebizin since 2010 .

In Zell an der Mosel he contested his first competition and was able to celebrate a successful fourth place after swimming and cycling best times. A year later he won the title of Rhineland-Palatinate champion over the Olympic distance in Mussbach (Palatinate). In 2012 he was able to confirm this achievement and became German Champion of the AK20 in Düsseldorf.

He started for the RSG Montabaur club until 2014, with whom he was promoted to the First Triathlon Bundesliga in 2013. He was able to defend his title in Rhineland-Palatinate in Kaiserslautern in May and also secured the German amateur title in Düsseldorf in June.

Since his serious fall during the 2014 Bundesliga race in Buschhütten, Jens has joined the club where he lives, Tri Post Trier, and was involved in the team from the Moselle's promotion to the Bundesliga from the Rhineland-Palatinate League to the 1st Triathlon Bundesliga within four years.

Amateur world champion cross triathlon 2013

At the Cross-Triathlon World Championships in The Hague, the Netherlands, he was amateur world champion in July. With his finishing time after 1 km of swimming, 32 km of mountain bike and 9 km of cross-country run, it would have been fifth overall in the professional field.

Five-time German cross triathlon champion (2015 to 2019)

In July 2015 he became Vice European Champion and in August German Cross Triathlon Champion. In the 2016 season too, Jens Roth is largely concentrating on cross-triathlon and Xterra. On July 23, 2016, he defended the title of German champion in the elite class in the cross-triathlon in Zeulenroda, Thuringia. In 2016 he was promoted to the second Bundesliga with his current club Tri Post Trier . In March 2017, the then 29-year-old also became German cross-duathlon champion. In August of the same year, Roth won the title of German champion for the third time with fifth place at Xterra Germany in Saxony.

In 2018 he won the German championship title in cross triathlon for the fourth time in a row at his home race in Schalkenmehren in July. He is now the first athlete in the history of the German Triathlon Union (DTU) to win the title of German champion in the elite area four times in a row.

As part of the 2015 German Cross Duathlon Championship in Schleiden in the Eifel, he has long tried his hand at the Cross Duathlon to support his team from Trier in the team standings. In third place he reached the podium in front of local hero Mathias Frohn. In 2016 it was only enough for sixth place.

In 2017, the German Cross Duathlon Championships were held on his home track in Trier's Weishauswald and he also secured the German championship title here. In 2018 the title was awarded again in Kraichgau, with Jens Roth taking third place behind his team-mate Andreas Theobald. Again in Trier in 2019, it was "only" enough to take second place behind Jonas Hoffmann.

On August 17, 2019, Jens Roth secured his fifth German championship cross-triathlon in a row in Zittau, Saxony. He finished the race, which was held at the same time as the classification race of the Xterra world and European series, behind the French Arthur Serrieres in second place.

Sporting successes

Web links

Commons : Jens Roth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Jens Roth
• Jens Roth's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 1, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Jens Roth at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on November 15, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Party in the Eifel: Jens Roth is German Cross Triathlon Champion (July 30, 2018)
2. ↑ Number five: Jens Roth expands title series (August 19, 2019)
3. ^ DM title for Jens Roth
4. ↑ Middle Moselle Triathlon: Meyer flies past Al-Sultan and Roth (June 24, 2012)
5. ↑ Jens Roth starts the triathlon season with the German elite (May 8, 2012)
6. ↑ Triathlon: Jens Roth also on the winners podium in Frankfurt (August 12, 2011)
7. ↑ Triathlon: Monzelfelder Jens Roth fourth in the second division race at Tegernsee (July 12, 2011)
8. ↑ The new GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE CROSS TRIATHLON are Jens Roth and Susi Pawel ( memento of the original from August 19, 2015 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. (August 15, 2015)