Melanie Maurer

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland 0 Melanie Maurer
Personal information
Date of birth 17th June 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Wikon, Switzerland
Nickname Mele, Meli, Melinski
societies
Current Duathlon A-squad
successes
2017 Swiss Duathlon Champion
2018, 2019 2 × Vice European Champion Duathlon middle distance
2018 Vice world champion duathlon long distance
status
active

Melanie Maurer (born June 17, 1988 in Wikon ) is a Swiss duathlete . She is Swiss champion (2017), two-time vice-European champion in the Duathlon middle distance (2018, 2019) and Vice-World Champion in Duathlon long distance (2018).

Career

Melanie Maurer was active as a handball player on TV Zofingen until she switched to endurance sports in 2011.

In May 2017 she became Swiss Duathlon Champion and in September she won the 10-kilometer run in Basel.

In May 2018, the then 29-year-old from Bern was second in the Duathlon middle distance (10 km running, 60 km cycling and 10 km running) in Denmark and thus vice-European champion. At Powerman Zofingen , Melanie Maurer was ITU Vice World Champion on the long distance duathlon in September. Four weeks later she won her first triathlon in the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) in Italy with the Elbaman Triathlon .

Melanie Maurer starts in the A-team Swiss Triathlon , is trained by Manuel Kläusli (Faun Sports) and lives in Bern .

Awards

  • Duathlete of the year 2017, 2019

Sporting successes

Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
May 11, 2019 2 ETU Powerman Long Distance Duathlon European Championships DenmarkDenmark Viborg Vice European champion Duathlon middle distance
24 Mar 2019 1 Powerman Greece GreeceGreece Loutraki
0Sep 2 2018 2 ITU Long Distance Duathlon World Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zofingen Vice world champion in the long distance duathlon at Powerman Zofingen (first run 10 km, bike distance 150 km, second run 30 km)
0May 6, 2018 2 ETU Powerman Long Distance Duathlon European Championships DenmarkDenmark Vejle 03:07:16 Vice European champion Duathlon middle distance
29 Apr 2018 1 Rhine Valley Duathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marbach Run 4 km, cycle 17 km and run 4 km
May 21, 2017 1 Swiss Duathlon Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zofingen Swiss champion in the interval duathlon , alongside Ruedi Wild
29 Apr 2017 7th ETU Powerman Long Distance Duathlon European Championships SpainSpain Soria 02:06:19
Apr 24, 2016 3 Swiss Duathlon Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marbach 00:58:12 Swiss championship at the Rheintal Duathlon
17th May 2015 6th Swiss Duathlon Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zofingen 01:48:12
Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Oct 5, 2019 8th Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote SpainSpain Lanzarote 04:35:23 Run without swimming
Sep 30 2018 1 Elbaman triathlon ItalyItaly Marina di Campo 05:15:01 Swimming 1.9 km, cycling 90 km and running 21.1 km
Running
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Sep 24 2017 1 Basel marathon days SwitzerlandSwitzerland Basel 36:33 Winner over 10 km

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

  • Profile and results of Melanie Maurer in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 28, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Melanie Maurer - back room
  2. ↑ INTERVIEW WITH MELANIE MAURER (July 11, 2017)
  3. ↑ Ruedi Wild and Melanie Maurer Duathlon Swiss Champions (May 21, 2017)
  4. ↑ MELANIE MAURER RECEIVES SILVER AT THE DUATHLON MEDIUM DISTANCE EM, FABIAN ZEHNDER FOURTH (May 6, 2018)
  5. ↑ "Duathlon is an affair of the heart for me" (July 9, 2017)
  6. ↑ The Powerman Zofingen anniversary year was launched in Oftringen
  7. ↑ MELANIE MAURER AND JENS-MICHAEL GOSSAUER DUATHLETEN OF THE YEAR 2019 (January 24, 2020)
  8. ↑ Wenk and Eggenschwiler are the fastest Swiss in the Rheintal Duathlon (April 25, 2016)
  9. ↑ FREDERIC FUNK WINS THE IRONMAN 70.3 LANZAROTE (October 5, 2019)
  10. ↑ [MELANIE MAURER VICTORS ON ELBAMAN OVER THE HALF DISTANCE]
  11. ↑ 1,537 runners finish in Basel (September 24, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Melanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss duathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Wikon