Julia Mai (triathlete)

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Triathlon
GermanyGermany 0 Julia May
Personal information
Date of birth 7th December 1979
place of birth Frankfurt am Main
date of death October 7, 2018
societies
Until 2018 First Offenbach swimming club
successes
2011 Winner ICAN Mallorca
2013 Winner Ostseeman
2015 Winner Madrid KM0
2017 Winner of the Triathlon de Vitoria-Gasteiz
status
deceased

Julia Mai (* December 7, 1979 in Frankfurt am Main as Julia Bohn ; † October 7, 2018 ) was a German triathlete .

Career

Julia Bohn ran her first marathon in 2001 when she was 22 at the time, she came to the triathlon in 2001 and started in July 2003 as the youngest participant in the long distance at Ironman Germany (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42 km running). She started for the first Offenbach Swimming Club .

In 2008 she took fifth place in the age group at Ironman Germany (Ironman European Championships).

In the course of her triathlon career, she finished a total of 40 long distances and countless sprint, short and medium distances.

Professional athlete since 2010

She started as a professional athlete in 2010 and this year was eleventh at Ironman South Africa in April and sixth at Ironman Regensburg in August .

In 2011 she won her first long distance at ICAN on Mallorca. In 2012 she landed at Challenge Roth after 9:37:37 h with a personal best in twelfth place in the ETU European Championship on the long-distance triathlon (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and a marathon over 42.2 km).

In August 2013 she won the long distance race at the Ostseeman . In 2014 and 2015 she was able to achieve second place here and in 2016 she was third. In 2014 she finished second at the Cologne Triathlon in September and just a week later also second at the Ironman Wales . In April 2015 she finished third in the Strongman All Japan Triathlon and a year later she finished second here. In the same year she won the KM0 triathlon in Madrid.

In October 2016 she finished fourth in the AlpsMan Extreme Triathlon on Lac d'Annecy . In July 2017 Julia Mai won the Triathlon de Vitoria-Gasteiz on the long distance , where she finished second in the previous year. In 2018 she started again in Vitoria-Gasteiz in July , but had to finish the race already on the swimming distance. A week later she was second on the Olympic distance at the Churfranken Triathlon . Your coach was most recently Mario Schmidt-Wendling.

Private

Since their wedding in October 2015, she started as Julia Mai . She lived with her husband in Karben . Julia Mai was a trained fitness trainer. She worked in a running shop in Frankfurt until 2016 and then started working as a trainer in a fitness studio as a coach. In addition, she became a female ambassador at the bicycle manufacturer Specialized .

On October 7, 2018, Mai died at the age of 38 after a brief and serious illness.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Triathlete Mai has died. In: Hessenschau , October 7, 2018. Accessed October 7, 2018.
  2. La última ganadora del triatlón de Vitoria, Julia Mai, se retira en el sector del agua. elcorreo.com, July 8, 2018, accessed October 14, 2018 (Spanish).
  3. Fallece la triatleta Julia Mai a los 38 años ( it ) in: TRIATLETAS EN RED . October 8, 2018.
  4. SPECIALIZED WOMEN'S AMBASSADORS
  5. Muere a los 38 años la atleta que ganó el Triatlón de Vitoria 2017. Las Provincias, October 9, 2018, accessed on October 14, 2018 (Spanish).
  6. 10th Hensel Recycling Churfranken Triathlon
  7. Iván Álvarez y Julia Mai, actuaciones estelares para imponerse en el Triathlon Vitoria-Gasteiz 2017 (July 10, 2017)
  8. Résultats de l'AlpsMan 2016 - samedi 1 octobre 2016 (October 1, 2016)
  9. Héctor Guerra y Julia Bohn conquistan Madrid (September 27, 2015)
  10. Results Ostseeman 2015 . In: www.mikatiming.de . 2nd August 2015.
  11. Results Ironman Wales 2014 . In: ironman.com . September 14, 2014.
  12. Results Cologne226 2014 . In: www.time2finish.de . September 7, 2014.
  13. Results Ostseeman 2014 . In: www.mikatiming.de . 5th August 2014.
  14. Results Ostseeman 2013 . In: www.mikatiming.de . 4th August 2013.
  15. Results Ironman Frankfurt 2013 . In: www.mikatiming.de . July 7, 2013.
  16. Results Challenge Roth 2012 . In: www.mikatiming.de . July 8, 2012.
  17. JULIA BOHN WINS ICAN MALLORCA LONG DISTANCE / SEASON STATISTICS 2011 (September 22, 2011)
  18. Results Ironman Lanzarote 2004 ( Memento from June 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  19. Results Ironman Germany 2003