Magali Di Marco Messmer
  Magali Di Marco Messmer
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 at the Triathlon de Lausanne, 2010
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 9th September 1971 (age 48) |
| place of birth | La Chaux-de-Fonds , Switzerland |
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| 1995-2007 | 7 × Swiss triathlon champion |
| 1999, 2000 | 2 × vice European triathlon champion short distance |
| 2000 | 3rd place Olympic Games |
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Magali Di Marco Messmer (born September 9, 1971 in La Chaux-de-Fonds as Magali Messmer ) is a Swiss long-distance runner who also competed as a triathlete in races over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) started.
Career
She began swimming at the age of ten and won several Swiss championship titles at junior level. In 1995 she took part in a triathlon for the first time and immediately became Swiss champion in the same year. Six further championship titles followed in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
In 1999 and 2000 she was second at the European Triathlon Championships.
Olympic Games 2000
Messmer celebrated her greatest success at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , when she won the bronze medal behind Brigitte McMahon from Switzerland and Michellie Jones from Australia . She then announced her resignation, but returned after three years to top-class sport and established herself again at the top of the world.
From 2005 to 2007 she won the Swiss championship three times in a row.
Olympic Games 2008
In 2008 she started again at the Olympic Games in Beijing for Switzerland and finished in 13th place.
In the 15 years from 1995 to 2009 Magali Di Marco took part in 73 ITU competitions and achieved 43 top ten placements, in 2009 she was number 8 among the 106 world's best triathletes in the World Championship ranking.
In France, Magali Di Marco took part in the Lyonnaise des Eaux club championship series in 2010 and represented the Triathlon Club Châteauroux there . In August 2010 she finished third in the Swiss Triathlon Championships and won the Lausanne Marathon .
In April 2014 she qualified in the marathon in Zurich for the 2014 European Athletics Championships , where she finished 44th in August.
Personal
Magali Messmer has been married since 2001, has one son and lives in Troistorrents . In collaboration with the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA), Messmer organizes training camps for beginners and young people.
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Aug 8, 2010 | 3 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
Nyon
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Third in the Swiss championship on the sprint distance (800 m swimming, 18.6 km cycling and 5 km running) | |
| July 3, 2010 | 6th | ETU European Triathlon Short Distance Championships |
 Athlone
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01:59:00 | at the European Triathlon Championships in July 2010 on the Olympic short distance |
| June 5, 2010 | DNF | ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2010 |
 Madrid
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- | Mass fall |
| July 26, 2009 | 13 | ITU World Championship Series 2009 |
 Hamburg
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01:58:25 | |
| Aug 18, 2008 | 13 | Olympic Games 2008 |
 Beijing
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02: 01: 50.74 | behind the Olympic champion Emma Snowsill |
| Aug 19, 2007 | 1 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
Geneva
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02:14:07 | Victory and Swiss champion at the Triathlon de Genève in front of the runner-up Nicola Spirig (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
| Aug 19, 2006 | 1 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
Geneva |
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| May 21, 2006 | 1 | ITU Triathlon Premium European Cup |
 Sanremo
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02:15:26 | |
| 2005 | 1 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
Geneva |
at the Triathlon de Genève | |
| 16 Sep 2000 | 3 | Olympic Games 2000 |
 Sydney
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02: 01: 08.8 | Third behind the Swiss winner Brigitte McMahon and the Australian Michellie Jones |
| July 8, 2000 | 2 | ETU European Triathlon Short Distance Championships |
 stone
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European triathlon champion on the short distance | |
| 2000 | 1 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
Melide TI
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| Sep 11 1999 | 18th | ITU Triathlon Short Distance World Championships |
 Montreal
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01:58:15 | Olympic distance world championship (1500 m swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) |
| 1999 | 1 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
Nyon
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| July 3, 1999 | 2 | ETU European Triathlon Short Distance Championships |
 Funchal
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European triathlon champion on the short distance | |
| 1998 | 2 | Women's triathlon Zurich |
Zurich
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01: 54: 45.5 | Second behind Jackie Gallagher |
| Aug 15, 1997 | 2 | ITU Triathlon World Cup |
 Embrun
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02:22:41 | Second behind Belgian Mieke Suys |
| 1996 | 1 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
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| Nov 12, 1995 | 26th | ITU Triathlon Short Distance World Championship |
 Cancun
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02:10:05 | World championship on the short distance. |
| July 30, 1995 | 17th | ETU European Triathlon Short Distance Championships |
 Stockholm
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02:07:34 | European championship on the short distance |
| 1995 | 1 | Swiss Championships Triathlon |
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Victory and Swiss champion |
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 16 Aug 2014 | 44 | European Athletics Championships 2014 |
Zurich
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02:46:53 | in the marathon |
| Apr 6, 2014 | Zurich marathon |
Zurich
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02:43:59 | qualified for a starting place at the 2014 European Athletics Championships | |
| Oct 27, 2013 | 1 | Frankfurt marathon |
Frankfurt am Main
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02:41:54 | |
| 17th Mar 2013 | 11 | Rome marathon |
Rome
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02:42:50 | |
| Oct 31, 2010 | 1 | Lausanne marathon |
Lausanne
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02:54:10 |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Magali Messmer's blog
- Profile for Magali Di Marco Messmer at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 2, 2014
- Profile and results of Magali Di Marco Messmer in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 30, 2018 (English).
- Magali Di Marco Messmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Champion title for Sven Riederer and Nicola Spirig
- ↑ Short-distance European Championships Athlone: Spirig defends title
- ↑ a b Magali Di Marco Messmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Triathlon SM / European Cup Geneva (VW-circuit) ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2016 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.
- ^ The marathon debut of Nicola Spirig (April 6, 2014)
- ↑ Di Marco victorious in marathon debut (October 31, 2010)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Di Marco Messmer, Magali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Di Marco, Magali; Messmer, Magali (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Chaux-de-Fonds |