Karin Thürig

0 Karin Thürig
at the 2008 Olympics
Personal information
Date of birth	4th July 1972 (age 48)
place of birth	Rothenburg, Switzerland
societies
successes
2001, 2002	2 × world champion duathlon long distance
2002-2009	7 × winner of the Swiss road cycling championships
2002-2011	5 × Ironman winner
2002, 2003	2 × Swiss Duathlon Champion
2004, 2005	2 × world champion individual time trial
2004, 2008	2 × Third Olympic Games individual time trial
2011	Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championship
2011	2nd place Ironman 70.3 World Championship
status
Resigned in 2011

Karin Thürig (born July 4, 1972 in Rothenburg ) is a former Swiss cyclist , duathlete and triathlete . She is a multiple Ironman winner and won the Ironman 70.3 European Championship (2011). She is included in the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Karin Thürig was a volleyball player until 1997 and played in the National League B (second highest league) at BTV Luzern. She also trained as an aerobics and fitness instructor while working .

World champion duathlon 2001 and 2002

At the age of 25, Thürig changed sport and became a duathlete. She was able to put herself at the top of the world immediately and was twice world champion (2001 and 2002). Since duathlon was not an Olympic sport , she changed the sport again in 2001 and turned to cycling , a sub-discipline of duathlon.

In 2002 Karin Thürig was third in the time trial at the road world championships , and she won the Ironman France in the triathlon .

2004 Olympic Games

In 2004 she was eighth of the 17th Tour of Thuringia , and at the Olympic Games in Athens she won the bronze medal in the individual road time trial. A month later she became world time trial champion in Verona .

At the end of March 2005, Thürig won the bronze medal in the 3000 meter single pursuit at the World Track Cycling Championships in Los Angeles , after she had decided to participate only a few days earlier. At the end of September 2005 she was again world champion in the time trial in Madrid .

Olympic Games 2008

In 2008 she successfully defended her bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing .
She won the Chrono Champenois four times - in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008 - and thus holds the record there together with Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli .

After two years of concentrating on cycling, Karin Thürig declared her retirement from cycling in September 2009 after finishing ninth in the cycling world championship and returned to triathlon.

Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championships 2011

In May 2011 she became the first Swiss athlete to win the middle distance in St. Pölten, Austria, and in August 2011 Karin Thürig won the Ironman 70.3 European Championship in Wiesbaden . In September she finished second in the Ironman 70.3 World Championship .

In October 2011, after starting the Ironman Hawaii, she announced her retirement from professional sport.

Awards

• Central Swiss athlete 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
• Swiss sportswoman of the year 2004

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

• Overall World Cup winner triathlon 2001, 2002
• Winner of the World Cup race (track) 2003, 2004

Web links

• Homepage of Karin Thürig . Archived from the original on August 10, 2011.
• Karin Thürig in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Karin Thürig in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Karin Thürig in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile for Karin Thürig at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 15, 2014
• Profile and results of Karin Thürig in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 24, 2018 (English).
• Interview with Karin Thürig from May 18, 2006 . Archived from the original on October 29, 2006.
• Interview with Karin Thürig from June 27, 2002 . Archived from the original on January 23, 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Women (D) Uitslag Details Thüringen-Rundfahrt: .
2. ↑ Karin Thürig finished her career with a 9th place. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 24, 2009, accessed July 14, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Karin Thürig resigns from professional sport ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) (October 21, 2011)
4. ↑ Ironman 70.3 St. Pölten: The anniversary edition is in the starting blocks ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ Schildknecht and Thürig with rank two
6. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Switzerland: Michael Raelert wins the next victory
7. ^ Bozzone and McGlone win Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas
8. ↑ Nicola Spirig and Sven Riederer new Swiss champions
9. ↑ IRONMAN Hawaii 2003 - Kona, Hawaii
10. ↑ Duathlon World Championships: Christiane Soeder wins bronze ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )