Ken Glah

0 Ken Glah
Personal information
Date of birth	2nd December 1964 (age 55)
place of birth	West Chester, USA
Nickname	The Beast from the East
societies
Until around 1990	Team Foxcatcher
successes
1989	American short distance triathlon champion
1992-2000	6 × Ironman winner
status
active

Ken Glah (born December 2, 1964 in West Chester (Pennsylvania) ) is an American triathlete and multiple Ironman winner. He is included in the best list of American triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Ken Glah was active in running in his youth. During his active time, he has competed more than seventy times in Ironman distance competitions (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and 33 times in a row at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. He was able to place ten times in the top ten , his best placement in Hawaii was a third place in 1988.

From the mid 1980s until the dissolution of the team early 1990s belonged Ken Glah with other triathletes from the Philadelphia area as Jeff Devlin, Steve Fitch, Brooks and Greg Clark, Freddy Klevan, Jody Schmidt and Joy Hansen Leutner the team Foxcatcher from John du Pont . The Foxcatcher team was next to the J. Daniels team with Mark Allen , Scott Tinley , Scott Molina , Julie Moss , and others. a. then the most important triathlon team in the USA.

In 1990 Glah finished second at the Ironman New Zealand - in the sprint to the finish with only one second behind and thus one of the tightest target decisions in Ironman history.

In October 2015, the then 52-year-old successfully completed the Ironman in Hawaii at his 32nd start on the Big Island . The 33rd successful participation followed in 2016. His nickname is The beast from the East .

Private

In 1989 Glah married the former Australian professional triathlete Jan Wanklyn (* 1958), in April 1993 the couple had a daughter, but they live separately. He is now married to the German triathlete Christine Heidemann and they both live in West Chester (Pennsylvania) .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Profile for Ken Glah at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science , accessed February 14, 2015
• Profile and results of Ken Glah in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 20, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bill Fleischmann: Firecracker-hot Liberty Triathlon Defending Champ Decries Poor Cycling Sportsmanship ( English ) In: Philadelphia Daily News . July 7, 1986.
2. ↑ Timothy Carlson: John du Pont dies in prison ( English ) In: slowtwitch.com . October 10, 2010.
3. ↑ Paul Sokoloski: Triathlon Course Race makes Challenging ( English ) In: Times Leader , Wilkes-Barre . August 15, 1993. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Tri-Classic: Kiuru versus Glah - the blink of an eye finale (December 26, 2010)
5. ↑ Ironman New Zealand 1990 - The best finish ever! (Film report from the finish line in 1990)
6. ↑ Ken Glah - 30 straight at Kona (October 17, 2013)
7. ↑ Melanie Haack: The Indestructible King of Kailua-Kona In: Die Welt October 5, 2016
8. ↑ Don Beideman: Triathlon Champ Yields To The Urge To Compete Again West Chester's Jan Wanklyn Won't Let Motherhood Stop Her. ( English ) In: The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 28, 1995.
9. ↑ German Agegroupers chasing the title (October 14, 2013)
10. ↑ Triathlon Results for Ken Glah ( Memento from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ IM Brazil: Glah and Fuhr Win ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Ironman: 1990 - The closest race in history