Michael Weiss (triathlete)

0 Michael Weiss
at the Ironman Pays d'Aix (May 2015)
Personal information
Date of birth	January 17, 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Gumpoldskirchen, Austria
Nickname	Michi
size	187 cm
Weight	79 kg
societies
1999-2008	Austrian national mountain bike team
2005	SRM Simplon team
2006	Continental Team Aposport Krone Linz
2007	Bikin'Cyprus International MTB Team
Current	Tri Runners Baden and Ciclopia Triteam
successes
2003	European Champion U23 Cross Country
2010-2018	8 × Ironman winner
2011	World champion Xterra cross triathlon
2014	State champion triathlon middle distance
2016	National champion triathlon long distance
2016-2019	5 × winners Ironman 70.3
status
active

Michael Weiss (born January 17, 1981 in Gumpoldskirchen ) is an Austrian mountain biker and triathlete . He is an Olympic participant (2004), Ironman winner (2010, 2013, 2014, 2017), world champion cross-triathlon (2011), national champion in the triathlon half-distance (2014) and long-distance (2016). He leads the best list of Austrian triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Mountain bike until 2004

Michael Weiss attended the Maria Enzersdorf sports high school in Lower Austria . From 1999 to 2008 Michael Weiss started for the Austrian national mountain bike team. In 2003 Michael Weiss became U23 European Cross Country Champion in Thal near Graz.

His nickname is "Wiki Miki" - which translates as "faster Michi".

2004 Summer Olympics

In 2004 Weiss reached 32nd place in the cross country competition despite a flat tire at the Olympic Games in Athens.

In 2004 in Windhaag near Perg he became the Austrian mountain bike champion in cross country and won the Grand Prix Rijeka in Croatia. In Les Gets (France) in 2004 Weiss achieved tenth place at the world championships and in five world cup races the Gumpoldskirchner moved into the top ten.

In the 2006 season he rode for the Continental Team Aposport Krone Linz and in 2007 for the Bikin'Cyprus International MTB Team . After missing qualification for Beijing 2008, Weiss first drove a few road bike races and then turned to triathlon. His nickname is Wiki-Miki .

Triathlon from 2008

At the XTerra World Championship on Maui in 2008 Michael Weiss finished second in the off-road triathlon (1.5 km swimming, 32 km mountain bike and 12 km cross-country running). Since September 2008 he has been trained by Mario Huys .
At the Ironman 70.3 Monaco he qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship 2009. At the Ironman Hawaii in October 2009, he reached the 25th place as the best Austrian. He needed 8:55:11 h for the long distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

Michael Weiss was the first Austrian to achieve an Ironman victory in his second start over the long distance triathlon on May 1st, 2010 in St. George . Before him, the Australian Kate Allen, who started for Austria, won the 2005 Ironman Austria long distance .

At the Ironman Austria in July 2011, Weiss became the first Austrian athlete to achieve an Ironman time of less than eight hours (7:57:39 h) with his second place and thus achieved the best time of an Austrian athlete. At the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Nevada / USA in September 2011, Weiss achieved fourth place. In October he won the world championship in cross triathlon (XTerra) on Maui after winning the bronze medal here in the previous two years.

2011 doping ban

Weiss hit the doping headlines for the first time in August 2007 when he, as an active mountain biker, had to serve a protective barrier due to an excessively high hematocrit value. The ex-professional cyclist Bernhard Kohl , banned for doping , made doping allegations against Michael Weiss in 2009. Because of the suspicion of doping , the National Anti-Doping Agency Austria (NADA) opened an investigation against Weiss in April 2010, which was then ended in September 2010 by the NADA Legal Commission with a preliminary acquittal. However, based on the testimony of Bernhard Kohl, the legal commission also found in 2010 that Weiss had been with human plasma for doping purposes . Because Kohl did not want to repeat his earlier statements in the trial, he was acquitted.

Michael Weiss was punished in November 2011 by the Arbitration Commission of NADA, the last court of appeal in Austrian sports, for using a prohibited method in autumn 2005. Weiss was therefore banned from all competitions for two years until November 29, 2013.
Since the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), his sponsors and all coaches continued to support Weiss, he continued training in the USA for a comeback and at the same time did a professional training in Colorado Springs.

Comeback 2013

In December 2013 he won the Ironman Mexico with a new personal best on the long distance. With his winning time of 7:55:23 h, he was still the leader in the best list of Austrian triathletes on the Ironman distance .

In Austria he starts for the Tri Runners Baden club . At the Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl , he became Austrian national champion in the triathlon half-distance in August 2014. In November he was able to successfully defend his title in Mexico and clinched his third victory in twelve months at the fifth start on the Ironman distance.

In June 2016 he was fourth at Ironman Austria and thus the fastest Austrian national champion in the long distance triathlon. In September he won his first Ironman 70.3 race at the first edition of the Ironman 70.3 Santa Cruz . He was the only professional athlete from Austria to qualify for a place at the Ironman Hawaii . In October, he finished third in the combined ranking “ Kona-Maui Double Winner ” (Xterra and Ironman).

In March 2017, he crashed his bike at the Ironman 70.3 Campeche in Mexico when a 13-year-old boy ran onto the racetrack. The child was uninjured but Michael Weiss broke his collarbone. In August 2017 Weiss won the Ironman Maastricht-Limburg and set a new course record with his winning time of 8:18:09 h.

He won the Ironman Austria in July 2018 after having finished second twice and third once in previous years. Together with his victory at Ironman 70.3 Austria in May and Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun in August, Michael Weiss became the first athlete to win all three Austrian competitions in the Ironman racing series in one year. At his eighth start in Hawaii in October at the Ironman World Championships, he finished tenth as the best Austrian and with his bike time of 4:11:28 h he was in second place in the list of course records . Two weeks after his victory at Ironman Mexico , the then 37-year-old was also able to win the Ironman Mar del Plata and thus the third Ironman race of the season in December .

Private

From late 2009 to early 2018 Michael Weiss lived in Colorado Springs , USA . Michael Weiss has been living in his former home in Gumpoldskirchen since May 2018.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Michael Weiss
• Michael Weiss in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Profile for Michael Weiss at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 1, 2016
• Michael Weiss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile and results of Michael Weiss (triathlete) in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 29, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The word "Wiki" comes from the Hawaiian (January 5th, 2011)
2. ↑ SRM Simplon Team strengthens itself with the reigning Austrian national champion and Olympic participant ( memento from December 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: bike2b.com January 17, 2005
3. ↑ Michi Weiss is the best Austrian in Hawaii
4. ^ Ironman: Vanhoenacker's world record in Carinthia
5. ↑ Two riders deemed 'unfit' for MTB world’s (September 7, 2007)
6. ↑ Kohl incriminates triathlete Weiss (October 12, 2009)
7. ^ "Cycling doping cases 2008" on cycling4fans.de
8. ↑ Acquittal of the accusation of violating the anti-doping regulations ( Memento of January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of September 27, 2010 (PDF; 693 kB)
9. ↑ Arbitration Commission banned ex-mountain biker Weiss (November 29, 2011)
10. ↑ bang: NADA locks Michi Weiss (29 November 2011)
11. ↑ Weiss defends title at IRONMAN Cozumel (November 30, 2014)
12. ↑ Weiss is doing well after a racing accident (March 19, 2017)
13. ↑ Successful premiere for the Traismauer Triathlon (August 4th, 2019)
14. ↑ Michael Weiss wins the tenth edition of the Mostiman Triathlon (July 22, 2020)
15. ↑ Michi Weiss wins in Neufeld with a new course record  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Dominant title defense: Kristian Blummenfelt wins Ironman 70.3 Bahrain (December 7, 2019)
17. ↑ Challenge Dubai: Time additions change Poduim (February 28, 2015)
18. ↑ Katrin Lang 3rd at the middle distance state championship
19. ↑ Repeat offenders: Filip Ospaly is doing it again in St. Pölten
20. ↑ Challenge Walchsee 2010: Michael Weiss wins with the strongest bike split
21. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Start-finish victory, Axel Zeebroek wins Monaco Ironman 70.3 Triathlon . In: 3athlon.de . September 6, 2009. Archived from the original on September 9, 2009.
22. ↑ Andreas Raelert wins Ironman 70.3 Monaco ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
23. ↑ Weiss at IRONMAN Melbourne at the start (March 19, 2014)
24. ^ 1st Austrian Ironman-victory for Michi Weiss at Inaugural Ford Ironman St. George ( Memento from August 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Ironmanaustria.at, May 2, 2010
25. ↑ Results Ironman Hawaii 2009
26. ↑ Weiss gets next World Cup ticket (July 17th, 2016)
27. ↑ ITU Cross Triathlon EM Sardinia  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
28. ↑ MTB World Championships