Mateja Šimic

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Mateja Šimic (2015)
Mateja Šimic (2015)
Personal information
Date of birth 11th March 1980 (age 40)
place of birth Ljubljana , Slovenia
societies
2013 Issy triathlon
2015 EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
successes
2013, 2014 2 × national champion triathlon short distance
status
inactive

Mateja Šimic (born March 11, 1980 in Ljubljana ) is a former Slovenian triathlete and two-time Olympic competitor (2012, 2016).

Career

Mateja Šimic was active in swimming as a teenager and later came to triathlon. In 2008 their son was born. In 2011 she won the Kalterer See Triathlon for the second time after 2007 .

At the Olympic Summer Games in London in 2012, the then 32-year-old finished 37th for Slovenia. Mateja Šimic became the 2013 Slovenian short distance triathlon champion and she was able to secure this title again in June 2014.

She started in August 2016 at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished 31st. She said she no longer wanted to compete in the Summer Olympics in 2020.

It has not appeared internationally since 2016. Mateja Šimic lives in Ljubljana , where she was born .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Aug 20, 2016 31 2016 Summer Olympics BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro 02:02:28
15th June 2014 3 ITU Triathlon World Cup MexicoMexico Santa Cruz 02:16:48 behind the Japanese [[Ai Ueda]]
0June 7, 2014 1 SLO Triathlon National Championships EcuadorEcuador Velenje 02:01:46
0July 7, 2013 1 SLO Triathlon National Championships EcuadorEcuador Velenje 01:57:05
26 Aug 2012 1 ITU Triathlon European Cup Czech RepublicCzech Republic Carlsbad 02:05:26
0Aug 4, 2012 37 2012 Summer Olympics United KingdomUnited Kingdom London 02:05:35
0May 7, 2011 1 Kalterer See Triathlon ItalyItaly Lake Kaltern Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
0May 8, 2010 2 Kalterer See Triathlon ItalyItaly Lake Kaltern Olympic distance
  2007 1 Kalterer See Triathlon ItalyItaly Lake Kaltern Olympic distance

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

  • Profile and results of Mateja Šimic in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 16, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mateja Šimic: Hvala mama because sem lahko mama in hkrati športnica! (July 17, 2016)
  2. ↑ Slovenska triatlonka Mateja Šimic novim izzivom naproti: Na OI ne bom več tekmovala (December 25, 2016)
  3. ↑ Daniel Hofer am Kalterersee in a class of his own (May 7, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Šimic, Mateja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simic, Mateja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana