Matthias Knossalla

0 Matthias Knossalla
Personal information
Date of birth	12th February 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Limburg an der Lahn, Germany
societies
Current	Trivolution Action Crew
successes
2017	Vice-champion Duathlon long distance
status
active

Matthias Knossalla (born February 12, 1984 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German triathlete and trainer . He is German runner-up in the long distance duathlon (2017). He also works as a keynote speaker , entrepreneur and trainer .

Career

Matthias Knossalla operates Triathlon since 2008. At the same time he studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , the study sports science and graduated in 2011 from. At the Ironman Frankfurt 2013 he qualified with a third place in the age group 25-29 for the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii .

He has been a professional triathlete since 2014 and took second place behind double world champion Michael Raelert at Ironman 70.3 Rügen in the same year .

He has started as a professional since 2015, qualified for the first time in the same year for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Zell am See and ended up in 31st place in the elite category.

In 2016 Knossalla took second place in the professional field of the Challenge Denmark with a personal best in the long distance of 08:19:04 hours and also came second in the Challenge Samorin over the middle distance in the same year . In the following year 2017, Knossalla achieved the German runner-up title in the long distance duathlon at Powerman in Ulm .

In 2018 Matthias Knossalla acted as an expert for the ZDF WISO documentary "My first marathon". Since 2018 he has been a columnist for the Frankfurter Neue Presse on the subject of "The world of a professional triathlete".

In February 2019 Matthias Knossalla founded the consulting company necstwerk.com together with his wife Susanne . He lives in Wiesbaden .

Sporting successes

Web links

• Official homepage of Matthias Knossalla
• Company website necstwerk.com
• Company website trivolution-training

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutsche Triathlon Union, German Triathlon Union , accessed on March 7, 2019.
2. ^ Triathlon Equipe Elz, [1] , accessed on March 7, 2019
3. ↑ Frank Wechsel, [2] , Tri-Mag.de, accessed on March 7, 2019
4. ↑ Ironman 70.3 WM 2015 Results, [3] , accessed on March 7, 2019
5. ↑ Fabian Fiedler, [4] , Tri-Mag.de, accessed on March 7, 2019
6. ↑ Tri2b.com, [5] , accessed March 7, 2019
7. ↑ tri2b.com, [6] , retrieved on March 7, 2019
8. ↑ Eva Knäusl, [7] , ZDF WISO, accessed on March 7, 2019
9. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse, [8] , accessed on March 7, 2019
10. ↑ Simon Müller, [9] , Tri-Mag.de, accessed on March 7, 2019
11. ↑ Tri2b.com, [10] , accessed March 7, 2019
12. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse, [11] , accessed on March 6, 2019
13. ↑ Ironman 70th Subic Bay 2015 Results, [12] , accessed March 6, 2019
14. ↑ Jan Sägert, [13] , Tri-Mag.de, accessed on March 7, 2019