Laura Bieger
  Laura Bieger
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 Laura Bieger at BerlinMan 2000
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 18th April 1971 (age 49) |
| place of birth | Kiel , Germany |
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| 2001 | Ironman winner |
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| Resigned in 2003 | |
Laura Bieger (born April 18, 1971 in Kiel ) is a German American player, former professional triathlete and Ironman winner (2001).
Career
Laura Bieger has lived in Berlin-Mitte since 1991 .
She was active as a professional triathlete from 1996 to 2002.
In 2001 she won the Ironman distance on Lanzarote (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running). In 2003 she declared her active time over.
From 1991 to 2000 she studied American studies , history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In 2006 she did her PhD with Winfried Fluck . From 2007 to 2014 Bieger was Junior Professor of American Culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Teaching and research stays led Bieger u. a. to the University of North Carolina, Dartmouth College and the University of California, Berkeley .
Since 2014 she has been a full professor for North American Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| May 25, 2002 | 8th | Ironman Lanzarote |
 Puerto del Carmen
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11:16:13 | |
| Oct 7, 2001 | 20th | Ironman Hawaii |
 Hawaii
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10:34:04 | behind the Swiss winner Natascha Badmann |
| 2001 | 1 | Müritz Triathlon |
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| July 15, 2001 | DNF | Ironman Austria |
 Klagenfurt
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| May 21, 2001 | 1 | Ironman Lanzarote |
Puerto del Carmen |
10:41:29 | Laura Bieger achieved her first Ironman victory in front of the Swede Lena Wahlquist and the Danish Lisbeth Kristensen . |
| July 9, 2000 | 9 | Ironman Europe |
Roth
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09:55:12 | |
| Aug 19, 2000 | 1 | BerlinMan |
Berlin
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04:33:50 | Victory ahead of Carola Müller (2.2 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 20 km running) |
| May 22, 1999 | 5 | Ironman Lanzarote |
Playa del Carmen |
11:04:42 | |
| Oct 1, 1998 | 16 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
10:23:24 | |
| 16 Aug 1998 | 21st | FISU World University Triathlon Championships |
Kiel
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02:14:01 | |
| May 23, 1998 | 4th | Ironman Lanzarote |
Puerto del Carmen |
10:29:29 | |
| 1998 | 1 | BerlinMan |
Berlin |
04:35:46 | Victory ahead of Katrin Friedrich |
| July 13, 1997 | 6th | Ironman Europe |
Roth |
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| Aug 19, 1996 | 3 | BerlinMan |
Berlin |
04:39:32 | 2.2 km swimming, 86 km cycling and 20 km running |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Apr 26, 1997 | 1 | Spreewald Duathlon |
Spreewald
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03:28:49 | Running 19 km, cycling 58 km and running 5 km |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Publications (selection)
- Laura Bieger: Aesthetics of Immersion: Experiencing space between world and image . Las Vegas, Washington and the White City . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 9783899427363 .
- (Ed. With Ramón Saldívar and Johannes Voelz): The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn . Dartmouth College Press, Hanover NH 2009, ISBN 9781611684070 .
- (Ed. With Winfried Fluck and Johannes Voelz): Romance with America? Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies . Winter, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 9783593399904 .
- (with Annika Reich and Susanne Rohr): Mode: A cultural-scientific plan . Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 9783770553228 .
- (Ed. With Christoph Lammert): Revisiting the Sixties: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 9783593399904 .
- (Ed. With Annette Geiger): The beautiful body: fashion and cosmetics in art and society . Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 9783412202422 .
Web links
- Profile for Laura Bieger at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on August 25, 2014
- Laura Bieger's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 22, 2019 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger (PDF)
- ↑ Ironman Lanzarote 2002 ( Memento of April 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Peter Thomas: Ironman Lanzarote 2002: Hart im Wind - Stefan Holzner is second . In: tri2b.com . May 26, 2002.
- ^ Ironman: Hellriegel and Kraft Third
- ↑ Miss Eisenhart . In: BZ . September 2, 2001.
- ↑ 180 kilometers on a racing bike in tropical heat
- ↑ 2nd Spreewald Duathlon April 26, 1997
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| SURNAME | Bender, Laura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18th 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |