Nils Frommhold

0 Nils Frommhold
Personal information
Date of birth	17th September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Berlin, Germany
size	188 cm
Weight	75 kg
societies
current	Triathlon Potsdam , Stadtwerke Team Witten ( Triathlon Bundesliga ), Metz Triathlon ( Grand Prix de Triathlon ) and Team Erdinger alcohol-free
successes
2009	German U23 triathlon champion
2012, 2014	2 × Ironman winner
2015	German champion triathlon long distance
2015-2019	4 × winners Ironman 70.3
2017	3rd place Ironman 70.3 European Championships
status
active

Nils Frommhold (born September 17, 1986 in Berlin ) is a German triathlete , Ironman winner (2012, 2014) and German champion in the long distance triathlon (2015). He is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance . ^{(As of May 26, 2019)}

Career

Nils Frommhold was active in swimming in his youth.

German champion triathlon U23

In 2009 he became German triathlon champion U23. He starts for the Triathlon Potsdam and Stadtwerke Team Witten clubs and in 2012 he was a member of the S-squad of the German Triathlon Union . In France, Nils Frommhold competes in the Grand Prix de Triathlon for the Metz Triathlon club .

Ironman distance winner 2012

In November 2012, he won the gold medal at the Ironman in Tempe, Arizona at his first start on the long distance (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

In April 2014 he won the Ironman South Africa . This enabled him to qualify for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii , where he finished sixth as the third fastest German on his Hawaiian debut in October.

German champion triathlon long distance 2015

In July 2015 he won the Challenge Roth, where he had already finished second in the previous year and thus became German champion in the long-distance triathlon. With his winning time of 7:51:28 h, he set the seventh fastest time ever achieved on the long distance.
On July 31, it was announced that Nils Frommhold, the fifth man in the Kona Points Ranking System, would receive a pro starting place for the second time at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii in October. The 50 highest-placed professional triathletes who collect the most points with their placements in Ironman competitions worldwide between August 31 and July 31 of the following year are each qualified for the Ironman Hawaii. He was ranked 52nd in Hawaii in 2015.

In June 2017, the 30-year-old came third at the Ironman 70.3 European Championships in Denmark.

Sporting successes

Web links

• Official website of Nils Frommhold
• Profile for Nils Frommhold at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on September 18, 2014
• Profile and results of Nils Frommhold in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 3, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal squad athletes named for 2012 (November 10, 2011)
2. ↑ Ironman Arizona 2012: Frommhold wins debut (November 19, 2012)
3. ↑ Nils Frommhold: I didn't even know that I could turn up the last 10 km like this (October 11, 2014)
4. ↑ Kona Points Ranking System Men . In: ironman.com .
5. ↑ Franz Löschke U-23 World Champion (September 14, 2009)
6. ↑ Gregor Buchholz Vice World Champion U23 (June 8, 2008)
7. ↑ 74 Pros Accept Ironman World Championship Slots (August 14, 2014)
8. ↑ Frommhold wins at the debut (November 18, 2012)