Jonathan Hall

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Personal information
Date of birth 8th October 1972 (age 47)
place of birth Wollongong
societies
successes
1995 National Duathlon Champion
1997 World champion duathlon short distance
1997 Australian champions road race
1997 Australian champions individual time trial
2003 Vice world champion Duathlon short distance
status
resigned

Jonathan Hall (born October 8, 1972 in Wollongong , Australia ) is a former Australian duathlete and cyclist and current coach. In 1997 he was the ITU world champion in the short distance duathlon.

Career

Jonathan Hall started his athletic career as a runner at the age of ten. From the beginning of the 1990s he tried his luck in cycling. Although he was part of the Australian national team, his attempts to get signed to a large professional cycling team failed.

Duathlon since 1995

After switching to the sport of duathlon, the first major successes came in 1995: Hall won the Powerman Australia and became Australian duathlon champion. In 1996 he won the Powerman New Zealand and the Duathlon Overall World Cup, among others. After winning two more Powerman duathlons , he achieved his greatest success in 1997 when he won the Duathlon World Championship over the short distance.

In the same year, Jonathan Hall achieved three stage successes in road cycling at the Commonwealth Bank Classic and was Australian champion in road racing and individual time trial . At the UCI Road World Championships in San Sebastián in 1997 , he finished eighth in the individual time trial. After these successes, he switched to professional cycling for Team Festina in 1998 . In 1999 he repeated winning the Australian championship in the individual time trial. Jonathan Hall had to interrupt his cycling career due to a broken ankle in 2000 as a result of a car accident.

After his cycling team disbanded in 2001, Jonathan Hall switched back to duathlon. In 2002 he won two major international duathlon events straight away. In 2003 Jonathan Hall was once again runner-up in the short distance world championship.

Trainer since 2005

Jonathan Hall has been working mainly as a trainer in the field of duathlon and triathlon since 2005 . He looked after, among others, the Australian duathletes and triathletes Erin Densham , Leon Griffin and Brendan Sexton . In February 2012, his move to the senior management of the triathlon team in the USA became known.

Sporting successes

Duathlon

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Cycling

1997
1998
1999
  • AustraliaAustralia Australian Champion - Individual Time Trial

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jonathan Hall. (No longer available online.) Powerman.org, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved December 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.powerman.org
  2. Peter Kogoy: Australia loose triathlon coach Jonathan Hall to US . In: The Australian . February 14, 2012.