Maik Petzold

0 Maik Petzold
Personal information
Date of birth	16th January 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Bautzen, Germany
size	182 cm
Weight	70 kg
societies
Until 2013	Bautzner LV Rot-Weiß 90, EJOT Team TV Buschhütten SG Adelsberg (honorary member)
successes
2003	German champion triathlon short distance
2004, 2007	2 × German vice-champion triathlon short distance
2006	2nd place world championship team
2008	German vice-champion winter triathlon
2009	3rd place world championship
2011	3rd place world championship mixed team
2013	German vice-champion duathlon
2013	German vice-champion triathlon middle distance
status
Resigned in 2013

Maik Petzold (born January 16, 1978 in Bautzen ) is a former German triathlete and duathlete . He is German champion in the short distance triathlon (2003), two-time Olympic athlete (2004, 2012) and third in the ITU World Championship in 2009.

Career

He completed his first triathlon in 1990. After completing secondary school in 1994, Maik Petzold switched to the technical high school in Bautzen. After graduating from high school in 1997, he completed his basic military service and at the beginning of 1998 switched to the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr .
In 2001 he began studying sports science in Saarbrücken (2001-2002) and then rejoined the Bundeswehr sports promotion group. In 2001 he started in the World Cup for the first time. Since then he has trained at the Olympic base in Saarbrücken or in his home town of Bautzen / Oberlausitz.

German champion triathlon short distance 2003

In 2003 he became German champion in the short triathlon distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). Maik Petzold started at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and finished 19th on August 26th.

In 2006 he won the silver medal in the men's relay with Jan Frodeno and Daniel Unger at the Team World Cup in Mexico. In January 2008 Petzold became Vice State Champion Winter Triathlon in Oberstaufen. He was a substitute for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

In 2009 he was the best German third at the Short Distance World Championship of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) and won his first and only World Championship individual medal. His trainer was Wolfram Bott from 2009 to 2011 and since autumn 2011 he has been supervised by Wolfgang Thiel . He started for the Bautzner LV Rot-Weiß 90 club and in the 1st Bundesliga with a second start right for the EJOT team TV Buschhütten .

In August 2011 he achieved third place in the team in the mixed relay with Svenja Bazlen , Anja Dittmer and Steffen Justus at the Triathlon Sprint World Championship in Lausanne.

He started for the team "London 2012" of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and was a member of the B-team of the German Triathlon Union . In May 2012 he qualified again in Madrid for a starting place at the Olympic Games in London, where he finished 31st.

German Vice-Champion Duathlon 2013

In April 2013 he became German duathlon runner-up in Cottbus. In the run-up to Challenge Kraichgau , he announced in June 2013 that he would end his active time at the end of the current season and in July he declared his professional career over after Challenge Roth .

Maik Petzold lives with his wife and two children in his native Bautzen.

Awards

• 2005: Official ambassador of Upper Lusatia
• 2009: Golden Book of the City of Bautzen

Sporting successes

Web links

• Personal website of Maik Petzold
• Maik Petzold in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Maik Petzold in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile and results of Maik Petzold in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on June 22, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Maik Petzold at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 13, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Triathlete Frodeno on Gold Coast third ( Memento from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Clarissa Sagerer-Schlockermann: DOSB-Olympia-Top-Team London 2012 started. In: DTU-info.de. January 19, 2011, accessed December 17, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Petzold coordinates to London ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2012 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. (May 27, 2012) 
4. ↑ World Cup final: Brownlee crowns a strong season ( Memento of the original from March 24, 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. 
5. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Two-time title win and three-time triumph of the DTU at the military world championships in Otepää, Estonia . In: 3athlon.de . June 15, 2008. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008.
6. ↑ Military World Championships: Double title win and triple triumph , report on the website of the Deutsche Triathlon Union e. V. of June 15, 2008 (accessed July 11, 2011)
7. ↑ Results London Triathlon 2008 male elite ( Memento from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ 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. 
9. ↑ 2006 Cancun ITU Triathlon Team Relay World Championships
10. ↑ Triathlon European Championship 2001: Filip Ospaly and Michelle Dillon become European champions in triathlon in Karlsbad / Czech Republic
11. ↑ 13th Leipzig Triathlon on 07/07/96