Luc Van Lierde
Luc Van Lierde | |
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at the Knokke Triathlon (September 2008)
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Personal information | |
Date of birth | 14th April 1969 (age 51) |
place of birth | Bruges , Belgium |
size | 180 cm |
Weight | 70 kg |
societies | |
current | Coach in the TZU Tri Team |
successes | |
1995 | Vice European champion triathlon short distance |
1995, 1996 | 2 × runner-up world champion triathlon long distance |
1996 | Vice world champion triathlon short distance |
1996 | ETU European champion triathlon short distance |
1996, 1999 | 2 × Ironman Hawaii winner |
1997, 1998 | 2 × ITU world champion triathlon long distance |
2005 | Belgian champion triathlon middle distance |
status | |
Resigned in 2009 |
Luc Van Lierde (born April 14, 1969 in Bruges ) is a former Belgian triathlete . He is a two-time ITU long distance world champion (1997, 1998), ETU European champion, two-time runner-up world champion (1995, 1996), Belgian champion in the Olympic distance and has won the Ironman Hawaii twice (1996 and 1999).
Career
Luc Van Lierde has competed in international triathlon competitions since 1990 and was one of the world's dominant athletes in the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) in the mid-1990s.
In October 1995 he was runner-up in the long-distance world championship at the Triathlon International de Nice .
Winner at Ironman Hawaii 1996
In 1996 Van Lierde entered the Ironman Hawaii as the reigning European champion and runner-up on the Olympic distance with a wildcard . Van Lierde was the only athlete to keep up with Thomas Hellriegel on his course record on the bike course, but then had to serve a three-minute time penalty in the transition area. Hellriegel increased his lead in the meantime to 4:40 min, but Van Lierde came up again and ultimately overtook Hellriegel with five kilometers to go and thus became the first European winner in Hawaii on his debut on the Ironman distance.
He undercut the previous course record by more than three minutes. Only fifteen years later, in October 2011, was his time undercut by the Australian Craig Alexander .
In 1997 and 1998 he was ITU world champion in the long distance triathlon.
World best time on the Ironman distance in 1997
Van Lierde held the world best time on the Ironman distance for 14 years with 7:50:27 h. In 1997 he mastered this distance at the Ironman Europe in Roth :
- 3.86 km swim - 44:51 min
- 180.2 km cycling - 4:28:47 h
- 42.195 km run - 2:36:49 h
This world record was only beaten on July 3, 2011 at Ironman Austria by Marino Vanhoenacker in 7:45:58 h and then again on July 10, 2011 by Andreas Raelert in his victory at Challenge Roth with 7:41:33 h. The running time for the marathon represents the current course record on the Ironman distance in Roth (today Challenge Roth) (as of January 2018). The current best time on the long distance was also set in Roth by Jan Frodeno in 2016 with 7:35:39 and is still valid today. (As of 2020)
In 2009 he declared his active time over. Today he works as a coach in the TZU Tri Team .
Coaching since 2010
Today he is active as a coach and trains, among others, Michelle Vesterby , Alexandra Tondeur , Marino Vanhoenacker and the Belgian triathlete Frederik Van Lierde , to whom he is not related.
Luc Van Lierde now lives in Bruges with his wife and child.
Awards
- Athlete of the year (Belgium) 1997, 1999
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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June 12, 2009 | 1 | Vienna City Triathlon | Vienna | 03:56:44 | new course record |
Apr 5, 2009 | 4th | Ironman 70.3 New Orleans | New Orleans | 03:57:13 | |
2009 | 1 | Volcano triathlon | Lanzarote | 01:57:34 | Victory on the short distance |
3rd Sep 2006 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 Monaco | Monaco | 04:14:37 | |
18 Mar 2006 | 12 | Ironman 70.3 California | Oceanside | 04:16:02 | |
2005 | 1 | BEL National Championships | Eupen | Belgian champion over the middle distance - alongside Tine Deckers in the women | |
2000 | 1 | St. Croix Triathlon | Saint Croix | ||
Aug 24, 1996 | 2 | ITU Triathlon World Championships | Cleveland | 01:40:11 | World championship on the short distance |
1996 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Szombathely | 01:47:32 | Winner at the ETU European Championship |
1995 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Stockholm | 01:47:05 | European Championship (1.3 km swimming, 60 km cycling and 12 km running) |
5th July 1992 | 7th | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Lommel | 01:50:15 | European Championship |
Sep 15 1990 | 4th | ITU Triathlon World Championships | Orlando | 01:53:01 | Fourth in the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
Aug 26, 1990 | 9 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Linz | 01:52:03 | European Championship |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Oct 10, 2009 | 50 | Ironman Hawaii | Big Island | 09:14:59 | |
Aug 10, 2009 | 6th | ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships | Prague | 05:44:22 | |
Oct 14, 2007 | 8th | Ironman Hawaii | Big Island | 08:30:01 | |
May 19, 2007 | 2 | Ironman Lanzarote | 08:59:13 | ||
Feb. 26, 2004 | 1 | Ironman Malaysia | Langkawi | 08: 48.02 | |
Feb 23, 2003 | 1 | Ironman Malaysia | Langkawi | 08:31:16 | |
Oct 23, 1999 | 1 | Ironman Hawaii | Big Island | 08:17:17 | |
26 Sep 1999 | 3 | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | ||
Oct 1, 1998 | 2 | Ironman Hawaii | Big Island | 08:31:57 | |
1998 | 1 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Sado | 05: 44.05 | |
June 8, 1997 | 1 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Nice | 05:35:44 | In 1997 the ITU World Championship was held as part of the Triathlon International de Nice . |
1997 | 1 | Ironman Europe | Roth | 07:50:27 | Luc Van Lierde achieved the fastest time ever achieved over the Ironman distance in triathlon. |
Oct 26, 1996 | 1 | Ironman Hawaii | Big Island | 08:04:08 | World champion with a new course record on his Ironman debut |
28 Sep 1996 | 1 | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | ||
Sep 7 1996 | 2 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Muncie | 03:47:54 | |
Oct. 1, 1995 | 2 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Nice | 05:48:26 | Vice world champion in the long distance at the Triathlon International de Nice |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Official website of Luc Van Lierde
- Profile for Luc Van Lierde at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 13, 2014
- Profile and results of Luc Van Lierde in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 4, 2018 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source Ironman Europe - 10 years Ironman in Roth, list of results 1997. (PDF; 8 MB) July 1997, accessed on July 13, 2011 .
- ↑ Ironmanlife: Frederik Van Lierde (January 27, 2012)
- ↑ Luc van Lierde wins with a new course record in Vienna
- ↑ Luc van Lierde and Bella Bayliss victorious in the Volcano Triathlon
- ^ European Triathlon Championships , GBR Athletics
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Van Lierde, Luc |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruges |