Nicole leather

0 Nicole leather
at Ironman 70.3 Austria 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	12th September 1971 (age 48)
place of birth	Duisburg , Germany
size	168 cm
Weight	53 kg
societies
Until 2013	DSW 1912 Darmstadt
successes
1989	Junior European Champion
2000-2007	4 × Ironman winner
2003-2005	3 × German champion triathlon long distance
2007	Winner Ironman European Championship
status
Resigned in 2013

Nicole Leder (* September 12, 1971 in Duisburg as Nicole Mertes ) is a non-fiction author , former German triathlete and multiple Ironman winner (2000, 2002 and 2007).

Career

Nicole Mertes began swimming at the age of seven and took part in swimming competitions as a child and adolescent.

In a longer injury phase than seventeen, her trainer from DSW Darmstadt recommended that she take part in the training of the triathlon department as compensation training. The very next year Nicole Mertes was Junior European Champion in 1989, 1990 and 1992, she was second at the Junior European Championships.

In 1994 at Ironman Europe in Roth , she came tenth in her first start at an Ironman .

Her daughter was born in August 1998, she took a maternity leave and in 1999 married the triathlete Lothar Leder .

In 2000 she won a long-distance triathlon at Ironman Korea for the first time and in the same year she was the best German starter at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, finishing 14th .

In 2002 Nicole Leder won the Ironman Brasil . In 2003 and 2004 she won the Challenge Roth German long distance champion. In 2004 she won the middle distance at the Marc Herremans Classic in Antwerp .

Winner of the Ironman European Championships 2007

In 2007 Nicole Leder won the Ironman Malaysia and also won the Ironman European Championships (Ironman Germany) in Frankfurt. Nicole Leder was trained by Sebastian Weber .

In July 2013, after starting at Challenge Roth, she declared her professional career over. Today Nicole Leder acts together with her husband Lothar, Wenke Kujala , Meike Krebs and Norbert Langbrandtner as their brand ambassador for the Erdinger alcohol-free team .

Nicole Leder now lives in Darmstadt with her husband Lothar and their daughter, who was born in 1998 .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Publications

• Wenke Kujala , Nicole Leder, Ines Bellinger: Fit & slim with triathlon: The beginner's book for women spomedis, October 2015. ISBN 978-3-95590-072-4
• Lothar Leder , Nicole Leder (with Christoph Elbern): "Triathlon training: The simple 3-phase training program for beginners and advanced users" . Bruckmann Verlag 2012, ISBN 3-7654-5393-5
• Lothar Leder, Nicole Leder (with Christoph Elbern): Triathlon. Entry, training, practice. Delius Klasing Verlag , Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-7688-1692-2
• Lothar Leder, Nicole Leder (with Christoph Elbern): The way to Ironman. Triathlon training for advanced. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-7688-1815-5
• Lothar Leder, Nicole Leder: Triathlon: Preparation - Material - Practice Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld July 2005, ISBN 978-3-7688-1692-2

Web links

Commons : Nicole Leder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Nicole Leder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Nicole Leder
• Profile and results of Nicole Wertes in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 19, 2016 (English).
• Nicole Leder's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 18, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Nicole Leder at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 1, 2010
• Profile for Nicole Mertes at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 1, 2010
• Steffen Gerth: Nicole Leder: The secret boss , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 13, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Faster, higher, next Interview with Nicole Mertes in Mathilda issue 30 September / October 1997
2. ↑ Nicole Leder in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
3. ↑ Portrait of Lothar Leder (Erdinger alcohol-free team)
4. ↑ Aldiana Triathlon: Böcherer disrupts Russian show. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011 ; Retrieved March 28, 2011 . 
5. ↑ McCormack and Giger win at TriStar111 premiere in Worms. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012 ; accessed on January 25, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Results 7th MRRC City Triathlon Munich
7. ↑ Petr Vabroušek wins on the Danube Island
8. ↑ 21st Siegerland Cup Buschhütten ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ IN China: Leder and Jesberger on the podium
10. ↑ Nicole Leder wins in Malaysia
11. ↑ trunk Crossduathlon: Victories for Jenny Schulz and Rudolf von Grot
12. ^ New Year's Eve runs: Rank beats Raelert in Rostock
13. ↑ Course record - father and son German champion Tanzanian wins in 2:11:01 - Pichlmaier for the second title. Retrieved May 11, 2010 .