Mario Mola

0 Mario Mola
in May 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	23rd February 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Palma de Mallorca , Spain
size	178 cm
Weight	62 kg
societies
Current	EJOT Team TV Buschhütten and EC Sartrouville
successes
2008	Vice European Champion Duathlon Juniors
2009	Vice World Champion Duathlon Juniors
2014, 2015	2 × vice world champion triathlon
2016-2018	3 × world champion triathlon
status
active

Mario Mola Díaz (born February 23, 1990 in Palma ) is a Spanish triathlete and has been a permanent member of the national team since 2006. He is a two-time Olympian (2012, 2016), two-time runner-up world champion (2014, 2015) as well as three-time and world champion in the short distance triathlon (2016, 2017, 2018).

Career

Mario Mola competed in his first triathlon in 2005. He has been a member of the Spanish national team since 2006 and has been one of the world's best since 2008.

Triathlon junior world champion 2009

In 2009 he became Junior Triathlon World Champion and since 2010 he has also achieved medal ranks in the elite category.

In France, Mola competes in the Club Championship series Grand Prix de Triathlon for EC Sartrouville - as does the second Spanish Olympian Francisco Javier Gómez Noya . In Germany, Mola competes in the 1st Bundesliga for the EJOT Buschhütten club and won the gold medal in Düsseldorf (July 8, 2012), for example.

2012 Summer Olympics

In 2012 he qualified for the Olympic Games and finished 19th in London. In June 2013 he finished third at the European Triathlon Championships on the short distance in Turkey.

Vice World Champion Triathlon 2014 and 2015

As part of the ITU World Championship racing series in 2014, he finished second and runner-up world champion behind his compatriot Javier Gomez.

In March 2015 he won the opening race of the Triathlon World Championship racing series 2015 in Abu Dhabi. In September he won the last race, the “Grand Final” in Chicago and, like last year, was runner-up in the world championship - behind his compatriot Francisco Javier Gómez Noya .

In March 2016, as in the previous year, he was able to win the opening race of the Triathlon World Championship racing series 2016 in Abu Dhabi. Mario Mola competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics for Spain in Rio de Janeiro on August 18 and finished eighth.

ITU world champion triathlon 2016, 2017 and 2018

In September he finished fifth in the last race (“Grand Final”) in Mexico and became ITU world champion on the short-distance triathlon - just four points ahead of Briton Jonathan Brownlee in the 2016 World Cup racing series .

In summer 2017, the 27-year-old was able to successfully defend the title from the previous year and once again secure the title of world champion in the short distance triathlon with four wins in the nine races of the world championship series. Mario Mola was the highest earning athlete in the 2017 season. Mola was nominated as ETU Athlete of the Year 2017 .

In the 2018 World Championship racing series, the 28-year-old secured the title of World Champion for the third time in a row at the Grand Final in Australia in September . With $ 197,500, Mario Mola was the leader in the prize money ranking for the 2018 season (as of October 20).

Private

Mola is in a relationship with the Catalan triathlete Carolina Routier and, alongside his triathlon career, is studying business administration (Business Administration: Administration y Dirección de Empresas).

Awards

• 2019: ETU athlete of the year

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Mario Mola  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Mario Mola's official website in Spanish
• Profile for Mario Mola at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 22, 2014
• Profile and results of Mario Mola in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 21, 2020 (English).
• Mario Mola in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ryf and Mola Triathlon Prize Money Kings 2017 (October 24, 2017)
2. ↑ Austria nominated twice at ETU Awards (December 22, 2017)
3. ↑ Prize money ranking - DANIELA RYF TOP EARNER IN THE TRIATHLON October 20, 2018  ( 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.  
4. ↑ Richard Murray secures jackpot (March 19, 2017)
5. ↑ World Triathlon Series: Mario Mola and Gwen Jorgensen win in Japan (May 14, 2016)