Normann Stadler

0 Normann Stadler
Normann Stadler at the 2007 Frankfurt Marathon
Personal information
Date of birth	25th February 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Wertheim , Germany
Nickname	Stormin 'Normann Norminator
size	182 cm
Weight	76 kg
societies
Until 2004	MTG Mannheim
2005-2006	Team Tri-Dubai
2007-2011	Commerzbank Triathlon Team
successes
1994	Duathlon World Championship
1995, 1996, 2004	3 × German champion duathlon
2003, 2008	2 × German triathlon champion (middle distance)
2004, 2006	2 × Ironman World Championship winner
status
Resigned in 2011

Normann Stadler (born February 25, 1973 in Wertheim ) is a former German triathlete and duathlete . In 2004 and 2006 he won the Ironman World Championship , three further Ironman competitions (2000, 2001, 2005), the Duathlon World Championship in 1994 and was German champion in triathlon (2003 and 2008 in the middle distance) and in duathlon (1995, 1996 and 2004). He ended his active career in August 2011. Normann Stadler is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

As a twelve-year-old, Normann Stadler, who grew up in Dörlesberg , took part in his first triathlon in Wertheim - motivated by a TV report about the Ironman Hawaii . In 1988 at the triathlon in Bad Kötzting and in 1989 in Hückeswagen, he was German champion of youth B (U16). Stadler started in the national team of cyclists when he was 14. At the European Junior Triathlon Championships in 1989 in Geneva , Stadler took sixth place, followed by third place in 1990 in Montluçon . At the triathlons in Großkrotzenburg (1990) and Herlazhofen (1991), Stadler was German champion in youth A (U18). He made it onto the podium six times in a row at the German Duathlon Championships (third in 1991 and 1993, second in 1992 and 1994, and first in 1995 and 1996).

Duathlon world champion 1994

In 1994, at the age of twenty-one, he won the Duathlon World Championships in Hobart, Australia . He finished third in Cancun in 1995 and sixth in Ferrara in 1996 . During this time he was trained by his father, the Bundeswehr soldier and decathlete Fritz Stadler , who had taught him: "If you do something, do it right or don't do it." In 1997 there was a break - Normann Stadler, his After training as an office clerk and four years as a contract soldier , had moved out of home and did not participate in competitions for a year. His sport was changing, and the short distance triathlon was first approved for drafting at the World Cup in Cancun in November 1995 . Stadler came out of the water just under three minutes behind the leaders and had to learn that with his previous strategy of relying on his outstanding abilities on the bike, he no longer had a chance. Far behind, he ended up in 51st place. Other high-level short-distance competitions followed in the next few years.

Long distance triathlon since 1998

The success of Thomas Hellriegel , with whom Normann Stadler had been to the sports promotion group in Warendorf , motivated him to switch to the Ironman.
In 1998 Stadler finished fourth in Zurich and fifth in 1999, and in 1999 he gained his first experience at the Ironman Hawaii. In 2000, Normann Stadler also landed among the best in the world at the Ironman and won Ironman Australia in 2000 and 2001 , at Ironman Hawaii he reached third place in 2000 and was fourth in 2001 and 2003. In preparation, Stadler regularly withdrew to San Diego for a few weeks with Jürgen Zäck .

Winner Ironman Hawaii 2004

In 2004 Stadler switched from the bike to the running track at his sixth start in Hawaii with a lead of over 20 minutes on the top favorites, so that a relatively slow marathon in 2:57:53 h was enough for him to become the second German after Thomas Hellriegels victory Triumphing in 1997 at the birthplace of the Ironman brand.

In the vote for athlete of the year 2004, around 3,000 sports journalists in the VDS voted Normann Stadler in ninth place. Subsequently, in an interview with FAZ , he expressed his disappointment with his placement compared to fifth place for disabled athlete Wojtek Czyz : “I rubbed my bum for 17 years, and then, because of some story, a disabled athlete comes along who has been doing this for two years , in the front because he hugged the Chancellor in Athens ... " . Regarding gymnast Fabian Hambüchen in seventh place, he said: “Hambüchen is a young, nice guy, but he was once seventh at the Olympics. He also benefited from Ronny Ziesmer's tragic accident, which was another reason why gymnastics came back into the public eye. ” Stadler saw his poor placement, for example. B. in comparison to Thomas Hellriegel, who came third in the polls after winning Hawaii in 1997, also as a result of Nina Kraft's doping scandal . In response to this, his club MTG Mannheim suspended him, for which he worked with Timo Bracht , Uwe Widmann , Alexander Taubert and others. a. had competed in the Triathlon Bundesliga since 2001 , initially. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder publicly reprimanded him for his statements. As a token of his regret, he auctioned his 2004 Hawaii winning bike on eBay and donated the proceeds to disabled athletes. In August 2005, Stadler took part in a disabled sports festival.

In February 2005, the City of Dubai began sponsoring a group of professional triathletes under the name Team Tri-Dubai , including Normann Stadler.

In July 2005, Normann Stadler won the Ironman Germany in Frankfurt am Main, but four months later he was unlucky while trying to defend his title at Ironman Hawaii and gave up demoralized after two tire defects in front of the TV cameras. His "Fucking Tire" then became winged word in the scene. Instead, Faris Al-Sultan from Munich became the third German Hawaii winner.

Winner Ironman Hawaii 2006

In July 2006, Stadler came out of the water at the Ironman in Frankfurt, just 45 seconds behind the leaders, quickly took the lead on the bike and pulled out a cushion of 8 minutes. Bruised ribs as a result of two falls on the bike after the onset of heavy rain hindered him on the running track, so that he only came in eleventh.

Three months later, Stadler won the Ironman World Championship for the second time after 8:11:56 h . He set a new best time in 4:18:23 h (41.9 km / h) for the 180 km bike course of the Ironman Hawaii, followed by a marathon of 2:55:02 h after a swim that was fast for him (54:05 min) to join the start. In comparison to his first win in 2004, Stadler had improved significantly in his two weaker disciplines, swimming and running. He was thus able to determine the race earlier and thus put the competition under pressure. Nevertheless, his lead over Chris McCormack at the finish was only 71 seconds. After his second triumph at Ironman Hawaii, Normann Stadler was seventh in the 2006 athlete of the year election.

After the sponsorship through Dubai had ended, Normann Stadler succeeded in July 2007 - at a time when numerous sponsors were withdrawing from cycling due to the ongoing doping revelations about the Tour de France - as team captain of a group of professional triathletes and others. a. to conclude a five-year sponsorship contract with the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort with Markus Fachbach and Jan Raphael . The commitment had a volume in the seven-digit euro range. A special feature of the contract was that all team members submitted to regular doping controls distributed throughout the year and part of the payment should only be paid three years after the end of the contract if the doping tests were negative up until then. After the Dresdner Bank was taken over by Commerzbank in 2009, the team continued under the name Commerzbank Triathlon Team .

In July 2007, Faris Al-Sultan should have had a trial of strength for the Hawaii winners of the last three years at the Ironman in Frankfurt, but after 150 km, Normann Stadler got off his bike, put it on the side of the road and touched himself with his face contorted with pain Move.

In 2007 a gastrointestinal infection prevented him from defending his title at Ironman Hawaii and Normann Stadler got out of the bike course with stomach cramps. Faris Al-Sultan had already said goodbye an hour before the starting shot, other German athletes also stopped the race, and for the first time since 1984 no German-speaking athlete was in the top ten. Of all people, Chris McCormack, with whom Stadler had fought the fiercest arguments since the previous year, won.

A showdown of the Hawaii winners of the last four years - Stadler, Al-Sultan and McCormack - at the Ironman in Frankfurt was eagerly awaited in July 2008 , but a few days before the race, Stadler canceled because he was ill. McCormack won with a course record.
Three months later in Hawaii, Normann Stadler took the lead on the running track, but then had to let his competitors pass and was one place behind Faris Al-Sultan twelfth. This time it was McCormack who got out on the bike course.

At the Challenge Roth in July 2009, Normann Stadler, who as the Hawaii winner did not have to contest a qualifying race, set a new personal best on the Ironman distance, which was only enough for him to finish fourth. The day after the race, Stadler had a TV discussion with the confessed doping offenders Jörg Jaksche (cycling) and Lisa Hütthaler in the spotlight on sport . While Hütthaler admitted that doping had always been part of her image of sport for her, the angry Stadler declared that she should have "worked more and trained more", that he himself had never been offered performance-enhancing drugs, nor had it occurred to him, to organize sources of supply. However, Stadler ignored the fact that he himself had previously trained several times with the Telekom team and had worked with the Freiburg doctors Lothar Heinrich - whom he had called a good friend a few years earlier - and Andreas Schmid , as well as that, according to one of himself published press release in 2006 by the Austrian doping doctor Andreas Zoubek.

In Hawaii three months later it was not Stadler this time, but the American Chris Lieto , followed by Maik Twelsiek , who drove away from the others on his bike. A few minutes behind, Faris Al-Sultan, Chris McCormack and Normann Stadler switched to the running track in quick succession, but Stadler broke off the race after a few kilometers on Alii Drive, marked by cramps.

In June 2010, Normann Stadler was able to confidently win the Challenge Kraichgau ahead of James Cunnama , but four weeks later he had to abandon the competition again due to muscular problems at the Challenge Roth. At the Ironman Hawaii three months later on the bike course, the picture was similar to the previous year: Stadler managed to catch up with a group with McCormack, Al-Sultan as well as Twelsiek and Marino Vanhoenacker , but Chris Lieto had already pulled away in the lead. Stadler switched to the running track in eighth place, but could not keep the pace. Even if he could not have known at the time that it would be his last active race in Hawaii, he did not stop this time and came home in 34th place.

In June 2011, Normann Stadler left the Challenge Kraichgau because of a flat tire and a week later at a competition in Spain because of a fault in the gearshift.

Heart valve surgery 2011

A short time later it turned out that these two defects had probably saved his life: A medical check for a form weakness in a training camp in Eberbach , which he found inexplicable, revealed an aortic aneurysm that could have ruptured the aorta at any time. In July 2011, Normann Stadler underwent an operation on a heart valve and the main artery near the heart at the Heidelberg University Hospital . The cause of the disease remained unclear. Stadler suspected that it was either due to a training accident in the spring on Mallorca or a viral disease. In August 2011, he announced the end of his professional career, and the couple canceled contracts that had already been concluded for the construction of a house with his wife.

Today Stadler looks after the Belgian triathlete Marino Vanhoenacker . Since his rehab from the operation he has become an ambitious golfer, his home club is the Bad Vilbeler Golfclub Lindenhof.

Private

In December 2008, Normann Stadler and Sonja Schuster married. In June 2009 the first son of the couple living in Mannheim was born and in December 2011 the second son was born.

Awards

• In his place of residence, Stadler was honored as "Mannheim Sportsman of the Year 2004".
• In 2004 in the election for athlete of the year in 9th place
• 2006 in the election for the athlete of the year in 7th place

Sporting successes

Stadler won eight individual titles at German championships in the duathlon or triathlon of the youth or juniors as well as several medals at European and world championships in duathlon and triathlon.

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Normann Stadler  - Collection of Images

• Normann-Stadler.de
• Normann Stadler in the Munzinger archive (start of article freely accessible)
• Interview , Focus , August 13, 2011
• Profile for Normann Stadler at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Normann Stadler's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 20, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Portrait Normann Stadler (GER) - The way to Kona . In: 3athlon.de . October 8, 2005. Archived from the original on January 13, 2006.
2. ↑ Don Norcross: Normann's conquest ( English ) In: The San Diego Union-Tribune . October 9, 2005. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
3. ↑ Sportsman of the Year: Schumacher, Birgit Fischer, Hockey Women . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 20, 2004.
4. ↑ Michael Eder and Ralf Weitbrecht: "As triathlon professionals, we sit in a glass house" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . January 3, 2005.
5. ↑ MTG Mannheim suspends Normann Stadler . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 4, 2005.
6. ↑ Stadler case: MTG Mannheim withdraws suspension . In: Der Spiegel . January 5, 2005.
7. ↑ Running the gauntlet for triathletes . In: n-tv . January 3, 2005.
8. ↑ Till Schwertfeger: Stadler apology: "I have nothing against the disabled" . In: Der Spiegel . January 3, 2005.
9. ↑ Normann Stadler regrets his statement . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 3, 2005.
10. ↑ Charity: The winning bike of the reigning Ironman Hawaii Champion Normann Stadler will be auctioned on ebay.com - the proceeds will go to disabled sports . In: normann-stadler.info . Archived from the original on July 13, 2005.
11. ↑ Normann Stadler confirms the disabled sports festival . In: tri2b.com . January 8, 2005.
12. ^ A New Player in Professional Triathlon . February 2005. Archived from the original on March 8, 2005.
13. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: What does Tri-Dubai actually do? . In: dnf-is-no-option.com . October 20, 2006.
14. ↑ Sebastian Moll: He can also swim . In: Tagesspiegel . October 23, 2006.
15. ↑ René Penno: Normann Stadler seventh in the athlete's choice . In: tri2b.com . December 18, 2006.
16. ↑ Tobias Staschok: Sports sponsoring in the context of integrated communication using the example of triathlon . 2012 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
17. ↑ Detlef Hacke: The bank pays everything . In: Der Spiegel . April 21, 2008.
18. ↑ Press release: Commerzbank continues triathlon commitment from Dresdner Kleinwort . Commerzbank . June 16, 2009.
19. ↑ Daniel Müksch: Stadler and Bracht do it together . In: Focus . June 16, 2009.
20. ↑ Timo Bracht enjoys the smell of victory . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 1, 2007.
21. ↑ Steffen Gerth: Mysterious nausea on the day of suffering . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 14, 2007. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
22. ↑ Ironman - There is a lot of argument in Hawaii . In: The world . October 10, 2008.
23. ↑ Frank Hellmann: A virus from the duck pond . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 5, 2008.
24. ↑ Martin Binder, Holger Luhmann: convulsions don't give Stadler a chance . In: The star . October 12, 2008.
25. ^ Thomas Scharrer: Focus on sport: applause for the dopers . In: Nürnberger Zeitung . July 15, 2009.
26. ^ Normann Stadler the transparent triathlete. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . June 9, 2007. Retrieved September 21, 2017 . 
27. ↑ Frank Hellmann: Emotional doping discussion. Ironman Stadler in dispute. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 14, 2009. Retrieved September 21, 2017 . 
28. ↑ Harald Eggebrecht: Ironman Hawaii: Craig Alexander wins. In: tri2b.com. October 10, 2009, accessed September 21, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Jens Richter: McCormack brings Raelert to his knees. In: tri-mag.de. October 10, 2010, accessed September 21, 2017 . 
30. ↑ Heart operation by triathlete Normann Stadler ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ Resignation: Normann Stadler ends his career . In: tri2b.com . December 6, 2012.
32. ↑ Triathlete Stadler: "That's it then" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 1, 2011.
33. ↑ Gunnar Meinhardt : I have more to tell than Lahm . In: The world . October 10, 2011.
34. ^ Frank Hellmann: Stadler becomes a manager . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 2, 2012.
35. ↑ Jan Langenbein: Normann Stadler Iron Man . In: Golf Punk . March 2015.
36. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Exclusive news: Ironman Triathlon World Champion Normann Stadler with regular owner . In: 3athlon.de . June 9, 2009. Archived from the original on June 11, 2009.
37. ↑ Manfred Otzelberger: Finally a baby for Stadlers . In: Bunte . June 23, 2009.
38. ↑ Normann Stadler becomes a father again . In: image . July 14, 2011.
39. ↑ Mannheim: Athlete of the Year honored ( Memento from March 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
40. ↑ win Clemente Alonso and Catriona Morrison: TriGrandPrix in Zarautz
41. ↑ Waldviertler Eisenmann 2009 list of results (PDF)
42. ↑ Video interview with triathlon-szene.de (70 minutes) after the Challenge Roth 2010
43. ↑ Powerman Austria, Weyer, June 22 1997 ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
44. ^ DM Duathlon: Premiere in Oberursel with Stadler and Kienle. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 3, 2010 ; Retrieved August 9, 2011 . 
45. ^ A successful marathon premiere for Normann Stadler and Jan Raphael