Matthew Brick

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Personal information
place of birth New Zealand
societies
successes
1991, 1992 2 × World Champion Duathlon short distance
1989 2nd place Ironman
status
Resigned in 1993

Matthew (Matt) Brick is a New Zealand orthopedic surgeon and former duathlete and triathlete . Matt Brick was the ITU short-distance duathlon world champion in 1991 and 1992 .

Career

Matt Brick began his triathlon career after completing his medical degree at the age of 24. Just two years after his first triathlon training, he finished second at Ironman New Zealand in 1989 . Due to his weakness in swimming, he increasingly focused on the duathlon. In 1991 and 1992 he became ITU duathlon world champion. An Achilles tendon injury forced him to prematurely end his active sporting career in 1993.

In the following years he remained loyal to the duathlon and triathlon sport as a book author, orthopedist, sports doctor and supervisor of competitive athletes. After his return to active sport, he celebrated a respectable success at Ironman New Zealand in 2003 when he was the second over 40-year-old to complete an Ironman in less than 9 hours.

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0May 1, 2003 13 Ironman New Zealand New ZealandNew Zealand Taupo 08:59:52 Winner of the AK 40–44
  1993 8th Ironman New Zealand New ZealandNew Zealand Taupo 09:05:24
  1989 2 Ironman New Zealand New ZealandNew Zealand Taupo 08:51:39
  1988 8th Ironman New Zealand New ZealandNew Zealand Taupo 09:33:05
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
  1992 1 ITU Duathlon World Championships GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main Duathlon world champion
  1991 1 ITU Duathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Palm Springs Duathlon world champion

(DNF - Did Not Finish ; DSQ - Disqualified)

Trivia

Matt Brick is often mentioned as the namesake for the English name for the alternate training used in triathlon, the so-called brick training .

Publications

Web links

  • Matthew Brick's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 21, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthew Brick: multisport Precision . Polar CIC, 1994, ISBN 951-96925-7-6 .
  2. ^ 2003 Race Report - Brown creates history with hat-trick at Ironman New Zealand
  3. ^ Ironman New Zealand - Mat Brick, 1989 Results
  4. ↑ Cherie Grünfeld: Ironman: The way to the goal. Ironman Edition . Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-89899-457-0 , change training, p. 58 .
personal data
SURNAME Brick, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brick, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand duathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century