Nicole Best
  Nicole Best
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 30th January 1968 (age 52) |
| place of birth | Groß-Gerau, Germany |
| societies | |
| Current | DSW Darmstadt |
| successes | |
| 1999 | German champion 10,000 meter track walking |
| 2009 | German runner-up 3000 meter track walking |
| 2010-2015 | 3 × German champion 3000-meter track walking |
| status | |
| active | |
Nicole Best (born January 30, 1968 in Groß-Gerau ) is a German triathlete , walker and multiple German champion.
Career
Introduced to sport through her parents, Nicole practiced ballet, children's gymnastics, swimming, jazz dance, volleyball, table tennis and tennis in her youth.
In 1983 she started for the first time in track walking at the Hessian Championships in Wiesbaden. In 1999 Nicole Best became German champion in the 10,000 meter course. In 2004 she became world champion in age group W35 at the senior indoor world championships in 3000 meter track walking. In 2012 she won the national title with the TV Groß-Gerau in the team competition for 20 km . In 2013, after 2010, she was again German indoor champion over the 3000 meter distance.
The first start in the triathlon on the long distance was in 1995. In 2009 she became German champion in the age group W40 on the triathlon long distance in Roth.
Nicole Best lives in Groß-Gerau near Darmstadt.
Sporting successes
athletics
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Feb. 27, 2015 | 1 | German Senior Indoor Championships 2015 |
Erfurt
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14: 13.70 | Winner of the age group W45 - walk over 3000 meters |
| Jan. 27, 2013 | 1 | German Indoor Athletics Championships 2013 |
Frankfurt-Kalbach
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14: 01.81 | Nicole Best defends title in the track going over 3000 meters |
| Jan. 30, 2010 | 1 | German athletics indoor all-around championships 2010 |
Frankfurt-Kalbach
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13: 45.61 | 3000 meter train walk |
| 2009 | 2 | German indoor athletics championships 2009 |
Leipzig
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13: 37.89 | 3000 meter train walk |
| March 12 2004 | 1 | World Masters Athletics Championships 2004 |
Sindelfingen
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13: 34.11 | World champion in age group W35 in 3000 meter track walking |
| July 8, 2002 | 3 | German indoor all-round athletics championships 2002 |
Bochum - Wattenscheid
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23: 30.65 | 5000-meter train walking |
| Feb. 2002 | 3 | German indoor athletics championships 2002 |
Sindelfingen
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13: 17.35 | 3000-meter train ride - personal best |
| 1999 | 1 | German athletics indoor all-around championships 1999 |
Erfurt
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47: 58.84 | 10,000 meter train walking |
Triathlon short and medium distance
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 17th July 2018 | 2 | MöWathlon |
Moerfelden-Walldorf
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01:06:58 | 500 m swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running |
| 15th June 2014 | 17th | Challenge Kraichgau |
Kraichgau
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04:56:37 | German championship on the middle distance |
| 8 Sep 2013 | 12 | Ironman 70.3 Luxembourg |
 Remich
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04:50:42 | |
| June 10, 2012 | 3 | TriStar 111 Worms |
Worms
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Third in the 3rd edition (1 km swimming, 100 km cycling and 10 km running) | |
| 4th Sep 2010 | 3 | Cologne 226 Half |
Cologne
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04:41:28 | |
| Jan. 21, 2011 | 2 | Israman |
 Eilat
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05:25:28 | Second at half the Ironman distance in Israel |
| Sep 18 2010 | 2 | Ican Triathlon Mallorca |
 Peguera
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05:01:02 | Middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) |
| June 7, 2009 | 5 | Challenge France |
 Niederbronn-les-Bains
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04:46:22 | |
| June 8, 2008 | 2 | Kraichgau Triathlon Festival |
Kraichgau |
02:22:10 | Second on the short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling, 10 km running) behind Renate Forstner |
| May 25, 2008 | 6th | Challenge France |
Niederbronn-les-Bains |
04:46:44 | Over the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) |
| Aug 25, 2007 | 7th | Antwerp Ironman 70.3 |
 Antwerp
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04:34:58 | |
| June 6, 2007 | 3 | Challenge Kraichgau |
Kraichgau |
02:25:07 | |
| Aug 27, 2006 | 2 | Viernheim V-Card Triathlon |
Viernheim
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02:43:11 | |
| 2004 | 4th | Ironman 70.3 South Africa |
 East London
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04:46:43 | |
| Oct 22, 2003 | 20th | ETU Triathlon European Cup |
 Alanya
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02:18:17 | |
| 2003 | 3 | Half Ironman UK |
 Sherborne
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| June 16, 2002 | 25th | ETU Triathlon European Cup |
Frankfurt am Main
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02:05:32 | |
| 1999 | 5 | Triathlon de Obernai |
Obernai
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02:30:39 | at the first edition in Alsace |
Long distance triathlon
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| Oct 12, 2013 | Ironman Hawaii |
 Hawaii
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11:51:17 | 7. Germans in F45-49 | |
| July 10, 2011 | 7th | Ironman Switzerland |
 Zurich
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10:12:08 | |
| Aug 15, 2010 | 5 | Challenge Copenhagen |
 Copenhagen
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09:46:54 | |
| July 12, 2009 | 8th | Challenge Roth |
Roth
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09:31:02 | German championship title in age group W40 |
| Oct 11, 2008 | 54 | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
10:33:26 | fourth place in the AG40 at the second start of the World Championship |
| July 13, 2008 | 8th | Ironman Austria |
 Klagenfurt
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09:32:03 | |
| July 16, 2006 | 5 | Ironman Austria |
Klagenfurt |
09:38:07 | |
| July 10, 2005 | 6th | Ironman Germany |
Frankfurt am Main
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10:16:57 | |
| 2003 | 6th | Ironman Austria |
Klagenfurt |
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| 2002 | 3 | Almere triathlon |
 Almere |
10:06:26 | |
| 2000 | 30th | Ironman Hawaii |
Hawaii |
11:14:52 | |
| July 12, 1999 | 5 | Ironman Austria |
Klagenfurt |
09:41:37 |
Duathlon
| Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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| 2010 | 3 | Trunk cross duathlon |
Ruesselsheim
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5 km running, 20 km mountain biking and another 2.5 km running |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
Web links
- Homepage of Nicole Best
- Profile and results of Nicole Best in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 7, 2018 (English).
- Profile for Nicole Best at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on August 25, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ DM indoor train ride - Frankfurt-Kalbach
- ↑ Nicole Best defends title . In: Darmstädter Echo . January 30, 2010.
- ↑ Nicole Best causes a surprise ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (February 22, 2009)
- ↑ Walker Barbara Brandenburg Senior Vice World Championship ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (April 14, 2004)
- ↑ Koch and Ramali win very confidently (July 17, 2018)
- ↑ Fabian Conrad and Nina Kuhn triumph at TriStar Worms-Germany ( Memento from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (June 10, 2012)
- ↑ Israman: German victory in the desert
- ↑ Triathlon on Mallorca: Llanos and Coenen succeed in Hawaii form check
- ↑ Vuckovic second in the Kraichgau Triathlon . In: Heilbronn voice .
- ↑ Ironman World Championship 2013 All German Hawaii finishers , Tri-Mag, October 15, 2013
- ↑ trunk Crossduathlon: Victories for Jenny Schulz and Rudolf von Grot In: tri2b.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Best, Nicole |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German triathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gross-Gerau |