Melissa Hauschildt

0 Melissa Hauschildt
Melissa Hauschildt at the 2016 Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt am Main
Personal information
Date of birth	13th April 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Adelaide, Australia
Nickname	Mel, Rolli
societies
successes
2011, 2013	2 × Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2013	ITU world champion triathlon long distance
2014-2018	6 × Ironman winner
2016	Winner of the Ironman European Championships
2016, 2018	2 × Winner Ironman 70.3 European Championships
2016	2nd place Ironman 70.3 World Championships
status
maternity

Melissa Hauschildt (* 13. April 1983 in Adelaide as Melissa Rollison ) is a former Australian athlete and triathlete . She is long distance triathlon world champion (2013), multiple Ironman winner (2014–2017) and twice won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship (2011, 2013).

Career

Middle-distance runner Melissa Rollison celebrated her first success in 2000 when she became the Australian champion over 3000 m obstacle . She was able to defend this title in 2001 and 2002 and win it again in 2006 and 2008. In 2006, Rollison won the silver medal over 3000 m obstacle behind world champion Dorcus Inzikuru at the Commonwealth Games . At the 2006 Cross Country World Championships , the Australian took third place in the team competition on the short distance, and in 2008 she was able to repeat this result.

Rollison then switched to triathlon , where she celebrated her first success in 2010 with a second place at the Ironman 70.3 Asia Pacific .

Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championships 2011

In 2011 she won three competitions over half the Ironman distance in a short time. Just one year after her first start in the middle distance, she also won the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in September 2011 .

ITU world champion triathlon long distance 2013

In June 2013 she became world champion in the long distance and in September she was able to win the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Las Vegas again after 2011.

In May 2014 she won her first Ironman start in Port Macquarie, Australia . She had to cancel her planned start at Ironman Hawaii in October 2014 due to an injury.

In March 2015 she won the Ironman Melbourne . In July 2016 Hauschildt won the Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt am Main. In Wiesbaden she also won the Ironman 70.3 European Championship in August 2016 and in September she came second at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Australia.

In April 2018 she was able to improve her personal best at the North American Championships and win an Ironman race for the sixth time after 8:31:04 h. After the race it became known that the bike course was shortened by three kilometers and that the times would therefore not be recognized as official Ironman records. In June, the then 35-year-old won the Ironman European Championships in Denmark for the second time since 2016.

In 2019, she declared her pregnancy and took a maternity leave.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish; DNS - Did Not Start)

Web links

• Melissa Hauschildt in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
• Melissa Hauschildt in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Melissa Hauschildt's personal homepage
• Melissa Hauschildt's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 8, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hauschildt Forced Out of IRONMAN World Championship (October 3, 2014)
2. ↑ IRONMAN TEXAS: Matt Hanson back in front on the short record day (April 28, 2018)
3. ↑ WITSUP 74 Questions - Mel Hauschildt (November 11, 2019)
4. ^ Dellow, Rollison dominate in Noosa . Archived from the original on May 7, 2013.
5. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 WM: TIM REED WRESTLES SEBASTIAN KIENLE DOWN IN THE FINAL PRINT (September 4, 2016)
6. ↑ challenge-family.com: Inaugural Challenge Philippines delivers world-class course ( Memento from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 24, 2014
7. ^ Rollison to Race in Laguna Phuket
8. ↑ IRONMAN WESTERN AUSTRALIA: BOZZONE WINS DUATHLON (December 3, 2017)
9. ↑ Van Lierde and Hauschildt win in Abu Dhabi (March 2, 2013)
10. ↑ Tim Reed and Melissa Rollison win 2XU Falls Creek Australian Long Course Championship (February 11, 2012)