Marc Dülsen

0 Marc Dülsen
Marc Dülsen at Ironman Germany , 2016
Personal information
Date of birth	30th July 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Stuttgart, Germany
size	179 cm
Weight	67 kg
societies
Until 2016	Team Silla Hopp
Since 2017	Pro team Mohrenwirt
successes
2012	European champion triathlon middle distance M25-29
2014	7th place Ironman European Championship
2016	Ironman Wales winner
status
active

Marc Dülsen (born July 30, 1985 in Stuttgart ) is a German triathlete and Ironman winner (2016). He is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

In 2011, Dülsen came second as an amateur in the M25–29 age group at Ironman Germany in Frankfurt am Main and third at Ironman Hawaii (overall rank: 52).

European champion triathlon middle distance 2012

In 2012 he became the European middle distance champion in the same age group.

Triathlon professional since 2013

In his first season as a professional, he finished seventh after 8:14:29 h at Ironman Arizona 2013 and set his personal best.

At the Ironman European Championship 2014, Dülsen was seventh, third-best German behind the reigning winner of Ironman Hawaii, Sebastian Kienle and the Olympic champion Jan Frodeno .

At Ironman 70.3 (half the Ironman distance) in Miami in October 2014, he came in fifth.

In September 2016 he was the first German to win the sixth Ironman Wales event. For 3.8 km of swimming, 180 km of cycling and 42 km of running ( marathon run ), nozzles required 9:01:39 h. With that he secured victory over Briton Philip Graves .

With the aim of qualifying for the first time as a professional triathlete for the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships), Marc Dülsen switched to the Austrian Pro Team Mohrenwirt at the beginning of the 2017 season. At the start of the season, the Freiburg resident competed in the Ironman 70.3 in Texas and the North American championships at the Ironman Texas . With a time of 8:07:25 h he was able to clearly undercut his personal best from 2013.

With a third place in his home race, the Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau , he celebrated his greatest success so far in the middle distance in June 2017.

Marc Dülsen is trained by Ben Reszel.
In July 2018, after 8:02:54 h, the 32-year-old finished second at the Ironman UK with a new personal best on the long distance . Due to forest fires, the bike distance had to be shortened from 112 to 95 miles.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Marc Dülsen
• Marc Dülsen's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 9, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result lists Ironman Frankfurt 2011
2. ↑ Third place in Hawaii for Marc Dülsen. (No longer available online.) Stuttgarter Nachrichten, October 21, 2011, archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2015 . 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.  
3. ↑ Results Ironman Hawaii 2011
4. ↑ ^{a b} Result of Challenge Kraichgau 2012
5. ↑ Results Ironman Arizona 2013
6. ↑ Ironman Germany 2014: Results ( Memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Results Ironman Miami 2014
8. ↑ Marc Dülsen. Retrieved June 30, 2017 . 
9. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 Kraichgau Results - IRONMAN Official Site | IRONMAN triathlon 140.6 & 70.3. Retrieved June 30, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Marc Dülsen - About me
11. ↑ From 112 miles to 95: wildfires impact IRONMAN UK 2018 (July 11, 2018)
12. ↑ Results of the Summertime Triathlon 2014
13. ↑ MARC DÜLSEN: I AM COMPLETELY UNDER THE RADAR (October 8, 2017)
14. ↑ Triathlon professional wins Calwer Hesse run (March 25, 2013)