Katja Schumacher

0 Katja Schumacher
on the short distance at HeidelbergMan , 2009
Personal information
Date of birth	9th April 1968 (age 52)
place of birth	Heidelberg , Germany
societies
successes
1998-2006	4 × Ironman winner
2002	Winner of the Ironman European Championships
2005	6th Ironman Hawaii
2005, 2008	2 × German champion triathlon middle distance
status
Resigned in 2009

Katja Schumacher (born April 9, 1968 in Heidelberg ) is a former German triathlete . She is multiple German triathlon champion and Ironman winner (1998, 2001, 2002 and 2006).

Career

Katja Schumacher grew up near Heidelberg. Her uncle was the former ski racer Toni Sailer . Katja Schumacher was also an avid skier in her youth and became a ski instructor, she played rugby for a club until she was twelve , but then had to stop playing because of her gender and completed a rugby coaching course. At the age of sixteen she founded a women's rugby team, with which she was six times German champion.

After running and swimming were a regular part of her rugby fitness training, she and a friend decided in 1989 to take part in the HeidelbergMan . The enthusiasm that she felt while cheering on a friend at Ironman Europe in 1990 also motivated her to do her first Ironman here two years later .

Triathlon professional since 1995

A few days after her third place on Lanzarote in 1995, she decided to focus entirely on a triathlon career, even if being a "professional triathlete" in the first few years always looked like waiting for a living, cleaning, and massaging u. earned.

In 1998 Katja Schumacher decided to take part in the Olympic Games. Triathlon was part of the competition program for the first time at the Olympic Games in Sydney . Since she was not a member of the federal squad at the time, she did not enjoy financial support or any coaching. In her private life, she found a trainer who was an Olympian in swimming himself in Barcelona to work on her weakness in the first discipline, and from the winter of 1998 she doubled her swimming training. In 1999 she took part in five ITU World Cup races and was the second or third best German. In 2000, the final sprint for a possible qualification followed. The DTU had set the placements at the World Cup in Sydney in April and the World Championships in Perth as qualification criteria. An accident during the last bike training session two days before the World Cup in Sydney thwarted her plans. A driver had carelessly opened the door of his parked car when she drove by. A nuclear spin revealed a 50% tear in her biceps muscle and a training break of at least eight weeks and a ban on competitions.

In 2001 in Panama City and in 2002 in Frankfurt , Schumacher, who had already won the Ironman Europe in Roth in 1998, celebrated her second and third triumphs in Ironman races.

Suspected doping in 2004

After the Ironman in Frankfurt in 2004, Schumacher was banned from the German Triathlon Union (DTU) disciplinary committee for one year. In her fight for the positive A and B samples, Katja Schumacher reaffirmed her position that she had never ingested unauthorized means to increase performance. Due to the ambiguity of this case, the ban was lifted after 10 months and the Disciplinary Commission decided that it should not be called a "ban" because of the ambiguity of the case.

After this turbulent time, Schumacher quickly found a successful entry into competition again. After a few years in the United States, she now lives in Heidelberg again.
In 2005 and 2008 she became German triathlon champion in the middle distance (2 km swimming, 85 km cycling and 20 km running). In her active professional career, she was able to finish four Ironman races over the long distance (1998, 2001, 2002, 2006) and two Ironman 70.3 races (2002 and 2007) over the middle distance as the winner. In 1998, 1999 and 2005 Schumacher was the best German at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, 2007 - the year of the mysterious gastrointestinal diseases, when numerous German professional triathletes did not finish their race with stomach cramps and for the first time since 1998 no German was in the top -Ten was placed - she had to be transported by ambulance lying in fourth place with stomach cramps.

She officially ended her career in 2009 and has been passing on her experience in seminars and coaching ever since.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Publications

• Katja Schumacher, Sabine Scheltwort: Run better - compact: the way to faster and healthier running . 2nd Edition. Meyer & Meyer Verlag , Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89899-878-9 ( limited preview ).

Web links

• Official website of Katja Schumacher ( Memento from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Katja Schumacher in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Katja Schumacher's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 17, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Katja Schumacher at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on November 27, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile Katja Schumacher ( Memento from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Katja Schumacher: The Dream of Olympia ( Memento from August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Katja Schumacher is blocked ( Memento from October 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), In: 3athlon.de , September 11, 2004
4. ^ Doping in the Katja Schumacher case In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 5, 2004
5. ↑ Katja Schumacher doubts the procedure ( memento of October 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), In: 3athlon.de , September 12, 2004
6. ↑ Timothy Carlson: The never ending prosecution of Katja Schumacher ( English ) In: InsideTri.com . February 23, 2005. Archived from the original on February 24, 2005.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Steffen Gerth: Mysterious nausea on the day of suffering . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 14, 2007.
8. ↑ V-Card-Triathlon Viernheim and BASF TCRN 2009 ( Memento from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Mußbach Triathlon 2009
10. ↑ Half Challenge Barcelona, ​​disqualification of the Spaniard Virginia Berasategui Luna canceled. ( Memento from November 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Top results from the Ralphs California Half Ironman ( Memento from June 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Ralphs California Half-Ironman 2002 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
13. ^ Ironman Coeur d'Alene
14. ↑ IN UK: New Zealander Bryan Rhodes and Australian Rebecca Preston win in Great Britain
15. ^ Ironman Hawaii 2003 - Kona, Hawaii