Maja Stage Nielsen

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Maja Stage Nielsen (right) at Ironman 703 Rügen (2014)
Maja Stage Nielsen (right) at Ironman 703 Rügen (2014)
Personal information
Date of birth 24th July 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Esbjerg, Denmark
size 176 cm
Weight 60 kg
societies
Current Odense Triathlon Club
successes
2012 European champion duathlon long distance, ages 20–24
2014, 2015 2 × state champion triathlon middle distance
2014 State champion duathlon
2016 Vice-European Champion Duathlon long distance
2016, 2017 2 × Vice European Champion Triathlon Middle Distance
status
active

Maja Stage Nielsen (born July 24, 1988 in Esbjerg ) is a Danish triathlete . She is vice European champion in the triathlon middle distance (2016) and the duathlon long distance (2016).

Career

Maja Stage Nielsen started playing golf at the age of ten and played for Denmark in the Ladies European Golf Tour in 2006 and 2007 .

She started for the first time in 2005 as a 17-year-old at the Triathlon World Championships on the long distance in Fredericia, Denmark and finished in 30th place (Double Olympic, O2: 3 km swimming, 80 km cycling and 20 km running).

Maja Stage Nielsen lived in Lanzarote since 2009 and worked there as a golf teacher.

State champion duathlon and triathlon 2014

Stage Nielsen has been a professional athlete since 2014 and became national duathlon champion in May. In July she also became the Danish state champion in the triathlon middle distance and was able to successfully defend this title in 2015.

Vice European Champion 2016 and 2017

In May 2016 she became vice European champion on the long distance duathlon and in September also vice European champion on the triathlon half distance. Just three weeks later she started her first Ironman long distance race on Mallorca (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and came second in Alcúdia, Spain .

In June 2017, as part of the Challenge Herning in Denmark , she was again runner-up in triathlon in the middle distance, as in the previous year. In July 2018, the then 29-year-old finished fifth at the ITU World Championship on the long-distance triathlon. At the Ironman Lanzarote , she finished second in May 2019.

Maja Stage Nielsen lives again in her native Esbjerg and is trained by Faris Al-Sultan .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
05th Aug 2017 2 Ironman 70.3 Otepää EstoniaEstonia Otepää 04:37:17
June 10, 2017 2 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships SpainSpain Barcelona 04:21:10 As in the previous year, she was vice European champion in the middle distance as part of the Challenge Herning
  2016 2 THE Middle Distance Triathlon National Championships DenmarkDenmark Vice State Champion Triathlon
04th Sep 2016 2 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Walchsee 04:19:49 Vice European champion in the half-distance as second in the Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl
16 Aug 2015 1 THE Middle Distance Triathlon National Championships DenmarkDenmark 04:29:00 State champion triathlon
06 Aug 2016 3 Challenge Fredericia DenmarkDenmark Fredericia 04:23:56 at the first edition behind the winner Camilla Pedersen
Oct 18, 2014 3 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships SpainSpain Paguera 04:44:17 European championship in the middle distance as part of the Challenge Paguera-Mallorca
Sep 14 2014 3 Ironman 70.3 Rügen GermanyGermany Binz at the first event - due to the weather, the race had to be held as a duathlon without the swimming distance (5 km running, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running)
0July 6, 2014 1 THE Middle Distance Triathlon National Championships DenmarkDenmark 04:21:33 State champion triathlon
0Nov 3, 2013 1 Ocean Lava Lanzarote Triathlon SpainSpain Lanzarote 05:00:45 Middle distance winner
  2012 2 THE Middle Distance Triathlon National Championships DenmarkDenmark Vice State Champion Triathlon
 Nov. 2012 1 Ocean Lava Lanzarote Triathlon SpainSpain Lanzarote Middle distance winner
Sep 11 2011 Ironman 70.3 World Championships United StatesUnited States Las Vegas Seventh of AG F18-24
Aug 14, 2011 Ironman 70.3 Germany GermanyGermany Wiesbaden Second of AG F18-24 at the 70.3 European Championship
May 14, 2011 Ironman 70.3 Mallorca SpainSpain Alcúdia Winner of the AG F18-24 at the first edition - and thus qualified for the 70.3 Worlds Championship, Las Vegas
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Nov 24, 2019 2 Ironman Mexico MexicoMexico Cozumel 08:52:26 personal best Ironman time
Oct 12, 2019 11 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:10:28
May 25, 2019 2 Ironman Lanzarote SpainSpain Puerto del Carmen 10:03:41
Oct 13, 2018 15th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:10:23
29th July 2018 3 Ironman Hamburg GermanyGermany Hamburg 08:21:23 Run without the swimming distance as a duathlon
July 14, 2018 5 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships DenmarkDenmark Fyn 06:08:29 ITU World Championship Triathlon Long Distance
April 15, 2018 9 Ironman South Africa South AfricaSouth Africa Port Elizabeth 09:37:21
Oct 14, 2017 12 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:25:38
Apr 22, 2017 3 Ironman Texas United StatesUnited States The Woodlands 09:01:00
Sep 24 2016 2 Ironman Mallorca SpainSpain Alcúdia 09:23:40 first Ironman start
0Aug 6, 2005 30th ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships DenmarkDenmark Fredericia 07:21:35 Triathlon World Championship on the long distance
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0May 8, 2016 2 ETU Long Distance Duathlon European Championships DenmarkDenmark Copenhagen 02:48:55 Vice European champion in the long distance duathlon (10 km run, 60 km bike ride and 10 km second run)
Apr 11, 2015 3 ETU Long Distance Duathlon European Championships NetherlandsNetherlands Horst aan de Maas 02:48:45
May 11, 2014 1 DEN Duathlon National Championships DenmarkDenmark 02:03:57 State champion
May 12, 2012 2 DEN Duathlon National Championships DenmarkDenmark 02:04:21 Vice State Champion, behind Susanne Svendsen
Apr 29, 2012 1 ETU Long Distance Duathlon European Championship 20–24 NetherlandsNetherlands Horst aan de Maas 03:09:12 European champion in the age group 20–24

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Maja Stage Nielsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Skrevet af Maja Stage Nielsen
  2. ↑ Patrick Dirksmeier is ETU European Champion (June 11, 2017)
  3. ↑ MY 2017: FARIS AL-SULTAN - ACTIVE DESPITE COMPETITIVE SPORTS RENT (February 2nd, 2017)
  4. ↑ CHALLENGE FREDERICIA 2016 - DENMARK (August 6, 2016)
  5. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Rügen: Michael Raelert wins again (September 14, 2014)
  6. ↑ After a four month break - Vanhoenacker wins Ocean Lava Triathlon (November 3, 2013)
  7. ↑ Blue- green algae: No swimming in the Alster at the Ironman (July 27, 2018)
  8. ↑ Long Distance World Championships: Zyemtsev and Smet the winners
personal data
SURNAME Nielsen, Maja Stage
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Esbjerg