Rachel Klamer

0 Rachel Klamer
at the U23 World Cup in Budapest, 2010
Personal information
Date of birth	8th October 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Harare , Zimbabwe
size	166 cm
Weight	50 kg
societies
Current	Triathlon Club Twente
successes
2009	3rd place Junior World Championship
2013	European triathlon champion
status
active

Rachel Klamer (born October 8, 1990 in Harare , Zimbabwe ) is a Dutch triathlete , member of the national team, third in the 2009 Junior World Championship and European triathlon champion (2013).

Career

Rachel Klamer only entered national and international triathlon championships in 2008, but immediately, as an unknown newcomer, she impressively prevailed against the competition when she won the Dutch duathlon and triathlon championships in Oss and Aalsmeer out of nowhere and at the age of just 17, she also proved herself in the elite class when she competed in the Corus Elite Series in Glasgow and came in tenth.

In 2009 Klamer became vice-European junior champion, fourth at the junior European cup in Holten, won the bronze medal at the junior world championship on the Gold Coast (as part of the Dextro Energy World Championship Series) and took part in two Premium at the age of 18 -Europacups: In Alanya Klamer won gold, like a year later, and in Eilat she was able to prove herself among the world's elite, but only came in fifth due to a technical defect in the bicycle chain.

Klamer does not seem to have participated in national triathlon competitions in 2009, she does not appear in the national ranking either, probably because she is preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games with her elite club Pro Triathlon , although she won in the Dutch Championships the 3000 meter competition.

For 2010, the triathlon section of the Krefeld Kanu Club was able to sign Klamer as an elite triathlete for the 2010 Triathlon Bundesliga .

Klamer continues to run as a runner at LAAC Twente , for which she won a local running competition in Germany together with her father Marcel and mother Karin in 2008, the year of her big breakthrough when she was still living in Denekamp . She is trained by ex-professional Eric Van der Linden .

Rachel Klamer on the running track at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games

European Triathlon Champion 2013

In June 2013 she became the European triathlon champion on the short distance in Turkey.

2016 Summer Olympics

Rachel Klamer qualified for a place at the 2016 Summer Olympics and started on August 20 in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished tenth.

In July 2017, she and the Dutch team came third at the World Championships in Mixed Relay (mixed relay) in Hamburg. Klamer was nominated as ETU Athlete of the Year 2017 .

In the 2018 world championship racing series, she won the first race in March and, after the last race in September, finished tenth in the annual standings. In October Klamer was elected to the ITU's athletes' committee for two years .

Rachel Klamer lives in Sittard .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Rachel Klamer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Klamer's official homepage
• Profile for Rachel Klamer at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on March 25, 2017
• Rachel Klamer's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 13, 2019.
• Klamers Club Pro Triathlon (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile Rachel Klamer ( Memento from August 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed January 2, 2010
2. ↑ For the time before her breakthrough in 2008, there are no references to competitions either on Klamer's profile page of the ITU or in the brief biographical descriptions of her Dutch club and the Dutch Triathlon Association based on Klamer's information. Retrieved January 2, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rachel Klamer for the KKK (from December 2, 2009)
4. ↑ National Triathlon Ranking Nederlandse Triathlon Bond ( Memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed on January 2, 2010.
5. ^ Rachel Klamer Nederlands kampioen. LAAC Twente, July 1, 2009, accessed January 2, 2010 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ http://www.triathlonweb.nl/twn/show.php?chapter=Nieuws&ID=08,050 phi-dead link | date = 2018-03 | archivebot = 2018-03-25 21:28:32 InternetArchiveBot | url = http : //www.triathlonweb.nl/twn/show.php? chapter = Nieuws & ID = 08,050}}. (No longer available online.) Retrieved January 2, 2010.
7. ↑ The Klamer clan runs over five kilometers ahead ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 2, 2010
8. ↑ Austria nominated twice at ETU Awards (December 22, 2017)
9. ↑ [1] (October 30, 2018)
10. ↑ Spivey, Luis win Super League Mallorca (November 4, 2018)
11. ↑ Lindemann storms onto the podium in Hamburg (July 15, 2017)
12. ↑ The Championship: High-speed decision expected at the new Challenge Family Championship (May 31, 2017)
13. ↑ 2017 XTERRA South Africa (February 27, 2017)