Marten Van Riel

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BelgiumBelgium 0 Marten Van Riel
Personal information
Date of birth 15th December 1992 (age 27)
place of birth Wuustwezel, Belgium
size 183 cm
Weight 65 kg
societies
Current SterkePeer triathlon club
successes
2015 Vice military world champion
2016 6th place Summer Olympics
status
active

Marten Van Riel (born December 15, 1992 in Wuustwezel ) is a Belgian triathlete , member of the national team and Olympian (2016).

Career

Marten Van Riel is trained by Joel Filliol .

He qualified for a place in the 2016 Summer Olympics and started for Belgium on August 18 in Rio de Janeiro, where he finished sixth.

In November 2017, the then 24-year-old scored his first victory in a World Cup race in Japan. In August he was third in the European championship on the short distance in Glasgow and the day after also third in the Belgian relay.

The World Cup racing series in 2019 ended Van Riel as the best Belgian athlete on the fifth. Marten Van Riel lives in Loenhout (Antwerp).

Awards

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
31 Aug 2019 9 ITU World Championship Series 2019 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 01:52:53
20th July 2019 3 ITU World Championship Series 2019 CanadaCanada Edmonton 00:55:02
11 Aug 2018 3 ETU Triathlon European Championship Mixed Relay United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glasgow 01:15:29 as the last starter in the four-man season
10 Aug 2018 3 ETU Triathlon European Championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glasgow 01:47:40
0Nov 4, 2017 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup JapanJapan Miyazaki 01:42:36
Oct 28, 2017 3 ITU Triathlon World Cup JapanJapan Tongyeong 00:52:09
18 Aug 2016 6th 2016 Summer Olympics BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro 01:46:03
Oct 10, 2015 2 CISM Military World Games Triathlon Korea SouthSouth Korea Pohang Second in the World Military Games
June 28, 2014 10 ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 RussiaRussia Penza 01:52:47 U23 European Triathlon Championship
June 15, 2013 24 ETU Triathlon European Championships TurkeyTurkey Alanya 01:46:54 Triathlon European Championship Elite - on the Olympic short distance
June 24, 2011 17th ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men SpainSpain Pontevedra 01:00:28 European Triathlon Championships Juniors

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandra Tondeur et Marten Van Riel plébiscités "triathlètes belges de l'année" (December 4, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Van Riel, Marten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuustwezel