Marc Herremans
  Marc Herremans
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 Marc Herremans 2008 at the Triathlon in Knokke-Heist
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 19th December 1973 (age 46) |
| place of birth | Merksem |
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| 1998, 1999 | 2 × national champion triathlon short distance |
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| inactive | |
Marc Herremans (born December 19, 1973 in Merksem ) is a former Belgian triathlete .
Career
Marc Herremans was Belgian triathlon champion on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) in 1998 and 1999 and in 2001 he finished sixth at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.
Accident in 2002
In 2002 he had a serious accident while cycling in Lanzarote and has been paraplegic ever since. Subsequently, however, he repeatedly started successfully in the triathlon on the Ironman distance - with his arm strength alone in the “hand bike” class. He was trained by Paul Van Den Bosch from Antwerp and he was ambitiously pursuing his goal of becoming Ironman World Champion - which he finally succeeded in 2006.
The "Marc Herremans Classics" in Antwerp were named after him until this triathlon competition was licensed as Ironman 70.3 in 2006 (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running).
Marc Herremans is also giving motivational lectures today.
Sporting successes
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 2008 | Ironman Hawaii |
 Hawaii
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11:46 | 2nd in its class | |
| 2006 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
10:53 | World champion in its class | |
| 2005 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
10:57 | 2nd in its class | |
| 2004 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
13:48 | 3rd place in its class | |
| 2003 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
13:23 | 3rd place in its class | |
| 2002 | DNF | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
- | Race stopped after the swimming distance due to exhaustion |
| 2001 | 6th | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
08:51:19 | best newcomer |
| Aug 5, 2001 | 8th | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships |
 Fredericia
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08:34:06 | World championship on the long distance |
| Apr 8, 2001 | 4th | Ironman Australia |
 Port Macquarie
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| July 23, 2000 | 12 | Ironman Austria |
 Klagenfurt
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| July 11, 1999 | 8th | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships |
Fredericia
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05:54:19 | World championship on the long distance |
| 1999 | 1 | BEL Short Distance Triathlon National Championships |
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| 1998 | 1 | BEL Short Distance Triathlon National Championships |
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State champion |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Marc Herremans website
- Profile for Marc Herremans at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 27, 2014
- Profile and results of Marc Herremans in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on November 20, 2017 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wheelchair athlete Marc Herremans from Belgium starts at the Ironman in Klagenfurt. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012 ; Retrieved January 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Marc's Motivational Talk ( Memento from March 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Life's only limitations are the ones we make" Marc Herremans by RSNT (English) February 9, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2015
- ↑ ITU Long-Distance Triathlon World Championships 2001 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Herremans, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th December 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merksem |