Patrick Lange (triathlete)

0 Patrick Lange
Patrick Lange in Ironman Germany (Ironman European Championships) in Frankfurt am Main (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	25th August 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Bad Wildungen, Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	63 kg
societies
1999-2004	CJD Oberurff
2012-2013	EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
2014	TuS Griesheim
since 2015	DSW 1912 Darmstadt
successes
1999	German champion MTB U15
2010–2012	3 × German champion Duathlon short distance
2016-2018	3 × Ironman winner
2017, 2019	2 × winners Ironman 70.3
2016	3rd place Ironman World Championships
2017, 2018	2 × Winner Ironman World Championships
status
active

Patrick Lange (born August 25, 1986 in Bad Wildungen ) is a German triathlete living in Austria and two-time winner of the Ironman Hawaii (2017, 2018). He is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Patrick Lange comes from a sports-loving family. Even as a child, he regularly accompanied his father to training in a marathon running group. As a twelve-year-old, he started training himself. Lange later joined the athletics department at TV Friedrichstein, but then switched to mountain biking. At the age of 14, Lange became German U15 mountain bike champion in 1999 and in 2002 he won the 120 km MTB marathon in Zierenberg.

Triathlon since 2002

An injury break after a serious fall on his bike led to a reorientation, as a result of which he started triathlon training in 2002. He went to school at the CJD Oberurff in Bad Zwesten , where he was also active in the triathlon department until 2005.

The first successes came in 2004 with the title of Hesse master in triathlon and Hesse master in duathlon. At the age of 21, he finished the 2007 Military World Cup in India as the best German triathlete.

Middle distance since 2012

In May 2012, Lange won the German championship title on the short distance duathlon for the third time in a row after 2010 and 2011 in Oberursel. In the same competition he won the title of German Duathlon Master in the team 2012 with Jörg Haarmann and Carsten Wunderlich (all EJOT Team TV Buschhütten). At the Duathlon World Championships in Nancy (France) in September 2012, he won the bronze medal with the team in the mixed relay.

In August 2012, Lange started the triathlon middle distance for the first time at the Ironman 70.3 Germany in Wiesbaden and finished in seventh place. He started from January 2012 to December 2013 for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten and in 2014 for TuS Griesheim . He has been working for the DSW 1912 Darmstadt since 2015 .
Patrick Lange was trained by Faris Al-Sultan from October 2015 to October 2019 . Jan Sibbersen has been the manager of him since 2016 .

Patrick Lange at Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau , 2015

Long distance since 2016

At his first start on the long distance, he won the Ironman Texas in May 2016 . The race was held on a slightly shorter course due to the weather: 3.86 km swimming, 150 km cycling (instead of 180.2 km) and 42.195 km running.

At the Ironman Hawaii 2016, the then 30-year-old was still surprisingly third behind Jan Frodeno and Sebastian Kienle despite a five-minute time penalty on the bike course Hawaii improved to 2:39:45 hours and went from 24th place after cycling to third place.

Winner Ironman Hawaii 2017 and 2018

In 2017, Lange won the Ironman Hawaii for the first time with a course record of 8:01:39 hours. After the swim, he was 1:36 minutes behind the leader Joshua Amberger in 16th place. In the final marathon he made up more than ten minutes and took the lead for the first time a few kilometers before the finish, which he never gave up. Lange is the sixth German triathlete to win the Ironman Hawaii.

Patrick Lange was able to successfully defend his Ironman World Championship in 2018 and broke the eight-hour mark in Hawaii for the first time on October 13 with a time of 7:52:39 h.

Private

Patrick Lange lived in Darmstadt and completed training as a physiotherapist in Frankfurt am Main until 2013. His diet is vegetarian .
At Ironman Hawaii 2018, Lange made a marriage proposal to his Austrian girlfriend immediately after crossing the finish line, which she accepted. In December of that year, the then 32-year-old announced that he wanted to move to Austria in 2019 and in early 2019 he settled near Salzburg .

Awards

• In the 2017 athlete of the year election , he came second.
• Hesse's "Sportsman of the Year" - 2018
• Bambi Special Jury Prize - 2018
• Sportsman of the year - 2018

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Patrick Lange at HeidelbergMan, 2015

Web links

Commons : Patrick Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Patrick Lange's website
• Profile and results of Patrick Lange in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 19, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Patrick Lange at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 15, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Patrick Lange. In: International Sports Archive. 20/2017 of May 16, 2017 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
2. ↑ Melanie Haack: How insults and an accident formed Patrick Lange into an Ironman , WeltN24, October 15, 2017.
3. ^ Military World Cup in India. In: DTU-Info.de. German Triathlon Union, October 22, 2007, accessed on October 1, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Patrick Lange celebrates title hat trick (May 2, 2012)
5. ↑ Oberursel Old Town Duathlon on May 1st, 2012. Results list. (PDF, 285 kB) In: Chipzeit.de. May 1, 2012, accessed October 1, 2014 . 
6. ↑ SEPARATION: PATRICK LANGE ENDED COOPERATION WITH TRAINER FARIS AL-SULTAN (November 4, 2019)
7. ↑ Frodenos Ironman victory in Hawaii. Triple historical (October 9, 2016)
8. ↑ Sensational: Lange wins Ironman Hawaii in record time (October 15, 2017)
9. ↑ Course record and marriage proposal - PATRICK LANGE WINS IRONMAN HAWAII (October 14, 2018)
10. ↑ The performance secrets of vegetarian professionals (June 7, 2016)
11. ↑ Patrick Lange moves to Austria (December 28, 2018)
12. ↑ Go cycling with the Ironman (April 24, 2019)
13. ↑ PATRICK LANGE - My new life in Austria (June 29, 2019)
14. ↑ Sportsman of the year 2017: Ironman Hawaii winner Patrick Lange in second place . tri2b.com, December 17, 2017.
15. ↑ Carolin Schäfer and Patrick Lange are Hessen's athletes of the year 2018 . In: Wiesbaden lives . October 21, 2018 ( wiesbaden-lebt.de [accessed October 22, 2018]).
16. ↑ Surprise guest Patrick Lange wins confidently on Edersee (June 24, 2018)
17. ↑ TRIATHLON BUSCHHÜTTEN: BÖCHERER DEFENSE PLACE ON THE THRONE, LONG THIRD (May 6, 2018)
18. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: Final results DTU Deutschland Cup 2011: Juliane Straub and Patrick Lange first time winners of the cup. In: DTU-Info.de. German Triathlon Union, September 4, 2011, accessed on October 1, 2014 . 
19. ↑ Sensational victory in Nice: Gustav Iden wins the Ironman 70.3 World Championship (September 8, 2018)
20. ↑ Challenge Dubai: Time additions change Poduim (February 28, 2015)
21. ↑ Sparkassen Finanzgruppe Ironman 70.3 European Championship 2012, Single Overall Results Male ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (August 12, 2012; PDF; 322 kB)
22. ^ German Duathlon Championship Oberursel: Lange and Schulz defend title
23. ↑ Clarissa Sagerer-Schlockermann: Duathlon DM title to Patrick Lange and Jenny Schulz. In: DTU-Info.de. German Triathlon Union, May 3, 2010, accessed on October 1, 2014 . 
24. ^ Clemens Dörrenberg: New Year's Eve run: 300 meters earlier at the finish. In: fr-online.de. January 2, 2017, accessed January 2, 2017 . 
25. ↑ Triathlete Lange wins in Hemfurth (August 17, 2015; Gerhard Menkel, Waldeckische Landeszeitung )