Jesper Svensson

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Personal information
Date of birth 2nd August 1990 (age 30)
place of birth Uddevalla, Sweden
size 187 cm
Weight 83 kg
societies
Current Uddevalla CK triathlon
successes
2017 Winner Swimrun World Championship
2018 2 × Ironman winner

Jesper Svensson (born August 2, 1990 in Uddevalla ) is a Swedish triathlete . He is a two-time Ironman winner (2018).

Career

Jesper Svensson starts for the Uddevalla CK Triathlon club . In June 2017 he was sixth in the middle distance at the European Triathlon Championships as part of the Challenge Herning in Denmark.

With the Ironman Brasil , he won his first Ironman race in May 2018 (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running). In October, the then 28-year-old won the Ironman Barcelona and set a personal best on the Ironman distance with his winning time of 8:05:56.

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint, short and middle distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Oct 29, 2017 2 Ironman 70.3 Austin United StatesUnited States Austin Second behind Franz Löschke
June 10, 2017 6th ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships DenmarkDenmark Herning 03:57:15 European championship on the middle distance as part of the Challenge Herning
Sep 11 2016 9 Ironman 70.3 Rügen GermanyGermany Binz 04:01:29
July 18, 2015 6th SWE Triathlon National Championships SwedenSweden Västerås 02:12:21 behind Gabriel Sandör
0Aug 9, 2014 6th SWE Sprint Triathlon National Championships SwedenSweden Malmo 01:07:39
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Nov 2, 2019 8th Ironman Florida United StatesUnited States Panama City 08:07:02
Oct 12, 2019 37 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:00:53
07th July 2019 2 Challenge Roth GermanyGermany Roth 08:02:20
0Dec 2, 2018 4th Ironman Mar del Plata ArgentinaArgentina Mar del Plata 07:46:39 Swimming shortened to 1.9 km
0Oct 7, 2018 1 Ironman Barcelona SpainSpain Calella 08:05:56 personal best time on the Ironman distance
May 27, 2018 1 Ironman Brazil BrazilBrazil Florianópolis 08:08:07
Swim & Run
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
29 Sep 2018 1 Swimrun World Championship SwedenSweden Stockholm archipelago 07:58:06 new course record in the team with Daniel Hansson

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

  • Profile and results of Jesper Svensson in the ITU database on Triathlon.org , accessed on November 30, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesper Svensson (accessed December 2, 2018)
  2. ↑ Patrick Dirksmeier is ETU European Champion (June 11, 2017)
  3. ^ Two Breakthrough Wins at Ironman Brazil
  4. ↑ Dirksmeier is ETU European Champion (June 11, 2017)
  5. ↑ Course record and rough conditions at the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship 2017 (September 4, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Svensson, Jesper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Uddevalla , Sweden