Pete Jacobs

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Personal information
Date of birth 27th October 1981 (age 38)
place of birth Australia
Nickname PJ
size 179 cm
Weight 70 kg
societies
successes
2009 National champion long distance
2011 Ironman winner
2011 Second Ironman Hawaii
2012 Winner Ironman Hawaii (World Championship)
status
inactive

Pete Jacobs (born October 27, 1981 ) is a former Australian triathlete , Ironman winner (2011) and winner of Ironman Hawaii (2012). He is on the best list of Australian triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Pete Jacobs has been a professional triathlete since 2004. His nickname is PJ . He is one of the fastest swimmers among triathletes.

In 2008 he won the Busselton Half Ironman for the fourth time in a row. In 2009 Jacobs was Australian long distance champion ahead of Craig Alexander in Huskisson , and in August 2010 he achieved his first victory in an Ironman 70.3 race (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) in the Philippines . Pete Jacobs has been married since 2010 and they live in Sydney .

Second at the Ironman Hawaii 2011

In April 2011, he took his first long distance win at Ironman Australia (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running), and in October he finished second in the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii.

Winner Ironman Hawaii 2012

In 2012, the 30-year-old Jacobs became the fourth Australian to win the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. After a year marked by injuries and illnesses in 2013, his goal in 2014 was to start at Ironman Hawaii again.

Criticism in the run-up to the Ironman Hawaii 2014

As the winner in 2012, he did not need to qualify via the Kona Pro Ranking System , but the WTC required a start in at least one competition it organized to validate the start. Jacobs then entered the Ironman Switzerland only one week after a disappointing participation in the Challenge Roth due to poor preparation due to illness , where he came out of the water in eighth place with 5:37:47 h on the bike and 4:56:41 h running but only delivered one training performance for his standards and finished in 883rd place in the midfield of the amateurs. A few days later, Jacobs received massive criticism from Andrew Messik , CEO of the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). Almost two weeks before his start at Ironman Hawaii, Jacobs responded in an open letter to the allegation of being unprofessional. Jacobs refused to be compared with a cyclist who competed in the Tour de France against payment of an entry fee despite injury, while as a professional triathlete he received no financial incentives apart from a prospect of prize money that was hopeless due to his training condition - for a start at the Ironman But Hawaii was forced to participate in competitions organized by the organizer free of charge for the organizer. He also felt that the allegations were inadequate, given the fact that he was regularly available for filming, photo shoots and similar measures for marketing the WTC. Jacobs finally broke off the competition in Hawaii.

He canceled a start in 2015 due to illness.

At the “Ironman Asia Pacific Championships” in Cairns, the then 34-year-old finished third in June 2016. Pete Jacobs has not appeared internationally since 2016.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Herbert Krabel: Meet Pete Jacobs ( English ) In: slowtwitch.com . January 22, 2008.
  2. René Penno: Australian Championships: Pete Jacobs beats Hawaii winner Craig Alexander . In: tri2b.com . February 22, 2009.
  3. Timothy Carlson: Messick explains the changes ( English ) In: slowtwitch.com . August 8, 2014.
  4. Ironman's anger at tri chief claim (August 11, 2014)
  5. Pete Jacobs: An open letter to Ironman CEO ( English ) September 30, 2014. Archived from the original on October 5, 2014.
  6. Pete Jacobs out of Kona . In: triathlete-europe.competitor.com . 18th September 2015.
  7. Jumped knot: Jacobs wins Hawaii form test (September 16, 2013)
  8. Geelong Triathlon: Haug and McCormack strong (February 13, 2012)
  9. ^ The stars light up for the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore
  10. ^ Jacobs and Tisseyre Reign in the Philippines
  11. ^ History Nepean Triathlon