Mark Allen (triathlete)

0 Mark Allen
Personal information
Date of birth	12th January 1958 (age 62)
place of birth	Glendale, USA
Nickname	The grip
societies
successes
1986, 1987	2 × Second Ironman Hawaii
1989	ITU world champion triathlon short distance
1989-1995	6 × Ironman Hawaii winner
1993	ITU world champion duathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 1996

Mark Allen (born January 12, 1958 in Glendale , California) is a retired American triathlete . He is included in the best list of American triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Mark Allen studied biology at the University of California at San Diego . In 1982 he set himself a start at the Ironman Hawaii (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running): He trained for half a year - but could not finish the race. In the following years he won the Ironman Hawaii six times (1989-1993, 1995).

Allen became known through his duels with his compatriot Dave Scott , whose winning streak he ended with a margin of 58 seconds on his seventh participation in Ironman Hawaii in 1989. In 1989, in addition to his success in the long distance, he was also able to win the first edition of a world championship on the short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) in Avignon, France. In 1993 he also became world champion in the long distance duathlon in Switzerland.

Mark Allen (March 2010)

Together with Dave Scott (won Hawaii six times: 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987), Scott Molina and Scott Tinley , Mark Allen was one of the "Big Four", which at that time made up almost every triathlon among themselves. Over the course of his racing career, which officially ended in 1996, he managed to maintain an average of 90% top three finishes. He started and won ten times the triathlon Longue Distance de Nice , which was the triathlon with the greatest media attention in the 1980s and 1990s, alongside the Ironman Hawaii. His nickname is "The Grip".

In 1996 he ended his active professional career. Allen appeared in the following years as the organizer of some triathlon races (including Ironman Austria ) and gave training seminars. Up until 2002, Mark Allen was married to triathlete Julie Moss (* 1958) for twelve years , whose famous finish on all fours at the 1982 Ironman inspired him to take part in the triathlon.

Mark Allen now works as a book author, trainer and motivational speaker.

Awards

• He was named "Triathlete of the Year" six times by "Triathlete" magazine, and in 1997 "Outside" magazine named him "The World's Fittest Man".
• Mark Allen was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) in 2014 in recognition of his athletic achievements .
• In May 2018 Mark Allen was on the occasion of Ironman -Jubiläums 40 Years of Dreams (1978-2018) awarded the "Greatest American Triathlete of All Time".

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Mark Allen’s website. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012 . 
• Mark Allen in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Profile for Mark Allen (triathlete) at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on 2014-06-05
• Profile and results of Mark Allen (triathlete) in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 23, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mark Allen is one of the greatest triathletes in history (April 6, 2016)
2. ↑ Julie Moss - 21 Years and Lot of Living Later (February 4, 2003)
3. ↑ "Not sure if I could keep up with the top as a vegan": The six-time winner of the Hawaii Ironman Mark Allen on plant-based nutrition (March 24, 2020)
4. ^ ITU Hall of Fame
5. ↑ Mark Allen Voted Greatest American Triathlete of All Time (May 7, 2018)
6. ↑ Statistics: Winner, Times and Records ( Memento from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Picture by Mark Allen - 1983 in Nice