Rachel Klamer
Rachel Klamer | |
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at the U23 World Cup in Budapest, 2010
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Personal information | |
Date of birth | 8th October 1990 (age 29) |
place of birth | Harare , Zimbabwe |
size | 166 cm |
Weight | 50 kg |
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Current | Triathlon Club Twente |
successes | |
2009 | 3rd place Junior World Championship |
2013 | European triathlon champion |
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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 .
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
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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5th May 2019 | 9 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Madrid | 01:03:09 | |
March 8 2019 | 13 | ITU World Championship Series 2019 | Abu Dhabi | 00:57:06 | first race of the season |
Feb 10, 2019 | 4th | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Cape Town | 00:57:58 | |
Nov 4, 2018 | 4th | Super League Mallorca | Manacor | First edition on Mallorca | |
Oct 28, 2018 | 2 | Super League Malta | Malta | behind Katie Zaferes | |
25 Aug 2018 | 16 | ITU World Championship Series 2018 | Montreal | 02:04:40 | |
June 9, 2018 | 4th | ITU World Championship Series 2018 | Leeds | 01:57:24 | |
2nd Mar 2018 | 1 | ITU World Championship Series 2018 | Abu Dhabi | 01:00:43 | first race of the season |
Feb 11, 2018 | 6th | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Cape Town | 00:59:44 | |
17th July 2017 | 3 | ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championship Team | Hamburg | in the mixed season with Jorik Van Egdom , Maaike Caelers and Marco Van Der Stel | |
15th July 2017 | 10 | ITU World Championship Series 2017 | Hamburg | 01:00:06 | |
June 24, 2017 | 5 | ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championships | Dusseldorf | 01:03:52 | European championship on the sprint distance at the T3 triathlon |
3rd June 2017 | 4th | Challenge - The Championship | Šamorín | 04: 17: 19.3 | Challenge World Championship |
Apr 2, 2017 | 5 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | New Plymouth | 00:59:38 | |
3rd Mar 2017 | 4th | ITU World Championship Series 2017 | Abu Dhabi | 02:04:17 | first race of the 2017 World Championship series |
Feb 11, 2017 | 4th | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Cape Town | 01:00:15 | |
Oct 20, 2016 | 5 | Island House Invitational Triathlon | Nassau | 03:59:01 | three-day competition |
Aug 20, 2016 | 10 | 2016 Summer Olympics | Rio de Janeiro | 01:58:55 | |
July 16, 2016 | 2 | ITU World Championship Series 2016 | Hamburg | 00:57:14 | |
Apr 9, 2016 | 5 | ITU World Championship Series 2016 | Gold coast | 01:58:06 | |
Oct 4, 2015 | 2 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Cozumel | 00:59:16 | Second behind the Japanese Ai Ueda |
22 Aug 2015 | 8th | ITU World Championship Series 2015 | Stockholm | 02:02:18 | |
Aug 2, 2015 | 9 | ITU World Olympic Qualification Event | Rio de Janeiro | 02:01:01 | |
4th July 2015 | 1 | ETU Triathlon Premium European Cup | Rijssen-Holten | 01:00:49 | |
June 13, 2015 | 2 | European Games 2015 | Baku | 02:01:44 | Vice-European champion behind the Swiss Nicola Spirig |
Apr 11, 2015 | 6th | ITU World Championship Series 2015 | Gold coast | 01:59:20 | |
Aug 9, 2014 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Tiszaújváros | 00:59:31 | 750 m swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running |
5th June 2014 | 1 | ETU Triathlon Premium European Cup | Rijssen-Holten | 02:04:48 | |
June 29, 2013 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 | Rijssen-Holten | 02:06:04 | U23 Vice European Champion Triathlon |
14th of June 2013 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Alanya | 01:55:43 | European champion on the Olympic short distance |
May 12, 2013 | 1 | Siegerland Cup | Bush huts | 01:09:49 | |
May 26, 2012 | 5 | ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2012 | Madrid | 02:07:06 | |
July 9, 2011 | 1 | ETU Triathlon Premium European Cup | Rijssen-Holten | 02:01:04 | |
Aug 21, 2010 | 19th | ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championships | Lausanne | First edition of the triathlon world championship on the sprint distance | |
July 5, 2009 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Women | Rijssen-Holten | Triathlon junior vice-European champion, behind the French Emmie Charayron | |
May 10, 2008 | 26th | ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Women | Lisbon | Triathlon Junior European Championship |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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25 Feb 2017 | 3 | Xterra South Africa | Grabouw | 02:54:11 |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- 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
- ↑ Profile Rachel Klamer ( Memento from August 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed January 2, 2010
- ↑ 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
- ↑ a b Rachel Klamer for the KKK (from December 2, 2009)
- ↑ National Triathlon Ranking Nederlandse Triathlon Bond ( Memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed on January 2, 2010.
- ^ Rachel Klamer Nederlands kampioen. LAAC Twente, July 1, 2009, accessed January 2, 2010 (Dutch).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Klamer clan runs over five kilometers ahead ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 2, 2010
- ↑ Austria nominated twice at ETU Awards (December 22, 2017)
- ↑ [1] (October 30, 2018)
- ↑ Spivey, Luis win Super League Mallorca (November 4, 2018)
- ↑ Lindemann storms onto the podium in Hamburg (July 15, 2017)
- ↑ The Championship: High-speed decision expected at the new Challenge Family Championship (May 31, 2017)
- ↑ 2017 XTERRA South Africa (February 27, 2017)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Klamer, Rachel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Harare |