Pete Jacobs
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
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Feb. 27, 2015 | 13 | Challenge Dubai | Dubai | 04:17:56 | |
Sep 14 2014 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast | Sunshine Coast | 03:47:48 | |
Aug 24, 2014 | 30th | Challenge Gold Coast | Gold coast | 02:51:16 | on the half-distance |
16. Mar. 2014 | 4th | Challenge Batemans Bay | Batemans Bay | 03:58:08 | |
Sep 15 2013 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast | Sunshine Coast | 03:39:59 | Winner of the first edition in Queensland - with a new personal best in the middle distance |
3rd Mar 2013 | 4th | Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon | San Francisco | 02:08:33 | |
Aug 5, 2012 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Philippines | Camarines Sur | 04:07:38 | |
June 3, 2012 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Cairns | Cairns | 03:55:51 | |
Feb 12, 2012 | 6th | Urban 2.80.20 triathlon | Geelong | 03:45:31 | on the middle distance (2 km swimming, 80 km cycling and 20 km running) |
Aug 13, 2011 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Philippines | Camarines Sur | 03:51:43 | successful title defense in the Philippines |
20 Mar 2011 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Singapore | Singapore | 03:54:25 | |
22 Aug 2010 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Philippines | Camarines Sur | 03:58:41 | Jacobs achieved his first Ironman 70.3 victory before last year's winner Terenzo Bozzone . |
2010 | 2 | Nepean triathlon | Sydney | Second place on the short distance - behind Brendan Sexton , the U23 runner-up in Hamburg 2007 | |
23 Aug 2009 | 4th | Ironman 70.3 Philippines | Camarines Sur | 03:56:52 | |
May 23, 2009 | 4th | Ironman 70.3 Singapore | Singapore | 03:56:15 | fastest athlete on the swimming distance |
8 Sep 2008 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 Singapore | Singapore | 03:57:47 | |
May 3, 2008 | 1 | Busselton Half Ironman | Busselton | ||
Feb 2008 | 1 | Hell of the West | Goondiwindi | 03: 43: 03.1 | 2 km swimming, 80 km cycling and 20 km running |
May 5, 2007 | 1 | Busselton Half Ironman | Busselton | 03:52:50 | |
2006 | 2 | UK Ironman 70.3 | Somerset | ||
2006 | 1 | Busselton Half Ironman | Busselton | 03:54:36 | |
May 7, 2005 | 1 | Busselton Half Ironman | Busselton | 04:04:05 | |
Sep 12 2004 | 1 | Big Kahuna Triathlon | Santa Cruz | 03:56:31 | |
22 Aug 2004 | 2 | Timberman Half Iron Triathlon | Gilford (NH) | 04:00:50 |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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June 12, 2016 | 3 | Ironman Cairns | Cairns | 08:28:28 | Ironman Asia Pacific Championships |
Oct 10, 2015 | DNS | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | - | |
May 3, 2015 | 32 | Ironman Australia | Port Macquarie | 09:38:34 | |
Oct 11, 2014 | DNF | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | - | |
July 27, 2014 | 883 | Ironman Switzerland | Zurich | 11:42:39 | Qualification for the Ironman Hawaii |
20th July 2014 | 76 | Challenge Roth | Roth | 09:32:25 | |
Oct 12, 2013 | 75 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:06:39 | |
July 7, 2013 | 150 | Ironman Germany | Frankfurt am Main | 09:33:23 | |
Oct 13, 2012 | 1 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 08:18:37 | |
Oct 8, 2011 | 2 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 08:09:11 | with the fastest running time for the marathon distance (2:42:29 h) at the Ironman World Championship |
May 1, 2011 | 1 | Ironman Australia | Port Macquarie | 08:29:28 | |
Dec 5, 2010 | 3 | Ironman Western Australia | Busselton | 08:21:16 | |
Oct 9, 2010 | 9 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 08:23:29 | |
July 18, 2010 | 4th | Challenge Roth | Roth | 08:08:57 | |
Oct 10, 2009 | 8th | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 08:30:15 | |
July 12, 2009 | 2 | Challenge Roth | Roth | 08:02:01 | Second place with a new personal best on the long distance |
Apr 5, 2009 | 2 | Ironman Australia | Port Macquarie | 08:29:03 | Pete Jacobs was the fastest athlete on the swimming distance. |
Feb 22, 2009 | 1 | OTU Long Distance Triathlon Oceania Championships | Huskisson | 03:49:23 | |
Oct 11, 2008 | 268 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:56:04 | |
July 13, 2008 | 2 | Challenge Roth | Roth | 08:12:53 | fastest athlete on the swimming distance |
1st Mar 2008 | 5 | Ironman New Zealand | Taupo | 08:47:03 | |
Aug 26, 2007 | 12 | Ironman Korea | Seogwipo | 10:07:55 | |
June 24, 2007 | 3 | Challenge Roth | Roth | 08:09:18 | |
Oct 21, 2006 | 17th | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 08:38:12 | |
Feb 26, 2006 | 5 | Ironman Malaysia | Langkawi | 09:04:15 | |
Sep 11 2005 | 2 | Ironman Wisconsin | Madison | 09:06:47 | |
Nov 27, 2005 | 23 | Ironman Western Australia | Busselton | 09:28:35 | |
Nov 28, 2004 | 2 | Ironman Western Australia | Busselton | 08:33:24 | |
Apr 4, 2004 | 4th | Ironman Australia | Ranger | 08:42:49 | |
6th Mar 2004 | 5 | Ironman New Zealand | Taupo | 08:51:07 | |
Apr 7, 2002 | 54 | Ironman Australia | Ranger | 09:33:07 | first start over the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) |
(DNF - Did Not Finish)
Web links
- Official website of Pete Jacobs
- Pete Jacobs in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Profile for Pete Jacobs at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
- Pete Jacobs' profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 4, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Krabel: Meet Pete Jacobs ( English ) In: slowtwitch.com . January 22, 2008.
- ↑ René Penno: Australian Championships: Pete Jacobs beats Hawaii winner Craig Alexander . In: tri2b.com . February 22, 2009.
- ↑ Timothy Carlson: Messick explains the changes ( English ) In: slowtwitch.com . August 8, 2014.
- ↑ Ironman's anger at tri chief claim (August 11, 2014)
- ↑ Pete Jacobs: An open letter to Ironman CEO ( English ) September 30, 2014. Archived from the original on October 5, 2014.
- ↑ Pete Jacobs out of Kona . In: triathlete-europe.competitor.com . 18th September 2015.
- Jumped knot: Jacobs wins Hawaii form test (September 16, 2013)
- ↑ Geelong Triathlon: Haug and McCormack strong (February 13, 2012)
- ^ The stars light up for the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore
- ^ Jacobs and Tisseyre Reign in the Philippines
- ^ History Nepean Triathlon
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jacobs, Pete |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1981 |