Reto Hug

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Personal information
Date of birth 24th January 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Switzerland
Nickname Mr. Hug
Size 188 cm
Weight 70 kg
societies
To 2012 Swiss Triathlon Team London 2012
successes
1999 ETU European champion triathlon short distance
2000-2004 3 × Swiss champion triathlon short distance
2005 Vice world champion triathlon short distance
status
Resigned in 2012

Reto Hug (born January 24, 1975 ) is a former Swiss triathlete who competed in short-distance races (Olympic distance: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). In 1999 he became European triathlon champion and competed three times in the Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008).

Career

In 1990 Hug took part in a triathlon for the first time. At the junior level there were initially no successes, but after entering the elite category, the breakthrough came.

He won the gold medal at the European Championships in 1999 and the silver medal the following year. In the 1999 World Cup, he finished third overall.

2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , he finished eighth. In 2001 he won a World Cup race in Lausanne. The following years were marked by injuries.

Hug qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics , but only reached 40th place due to illness. After a six-month break, Hug returned to top-class sport in 2005 and won the silver medal at the Triathlon World Championship in Gamagōri .

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 World Cup in Vancouver , he was third. In August he started the Olympic Games in Beijing for the third time and finished 29th. Reto Hug was a member of the Swiss Triathlon Team London 2012 .

The three-time Swiss champion is a trained electrician and medical technician. He trained as a physiotherapist at the University Hospital Zurich . In October 2012, Reto Hug announced that he would end his career at the end of the year.

Reto Hug has been married to triathlete Nicola Spirig Hug (* 1982) since 2013 . The couple lives with their two sons and their daughter in Bachenbülach in Zurich .

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
June 10, 2012 1 Challenge Aarhus DenmarkDenmark Aarhus 04:00:58
July 27, 2011 2 Triathlon EDF Alpe d'Huez FranceFrance Alpe d'Huez 05:56:16 Second on the long distance - behind the Spaniard Victor Del Corral Morales
July 16, 2011 8th ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2011 GermanyGermany Hamburg 01:44:35
June 25, 2011 23 ETU Triathlon European Championships SpainSpain Pontevedra 01:51:55 European Championship
0Apr 9, 2011 51 ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2011 AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01:55:53
Apr 11, 2010 17th ITU Triathlon World Championship Series 2010 AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01:52:57 17th place in the opening race of the 2010 season
July 11, 2009 3 Züri Triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 01: 51.40.6
Aug 19, 2008 29 2008 Summer Olympics China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 01: 52: 04.93
0June 8, 2008 3 ITU Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Vancouver 01:50:17
  2006 1 Züri Triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 01: 49.19.0 third victory in a row in Zurich
Sep 10 2005 2 ITU Triathlon World Championships JapanJapan Gamagori 01:49:36 Triathlon Vice World Champion
  2005 1 Züri Triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 01: 51.52.8
Aug 26, 2004 40 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens 02: 01: 40.43
  2004 1 Swiss triathlon championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 01: 49.15.9 Winner of the Züri Triathlon
Aug 25, 2001 1 ITU Triathlon World Cup SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 01:53:58
June 23, 2001 5 ETU Triathlon European Championships Czech RepublicCzech Republic Carlsbad 02:04:59
  2001 1 Swiss triathlon championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Nyon Swiss master
16 Sep 2000 8th 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01: 49: 21.30
Apr 30, 2000 19th ITU Triathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Perth 01:52:54
  2000 1 Swiss triathlon championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Melide Swiss master
Sep 12 1999 6th ITU Triathlon World Championships CanadaCanada Montreal 01:46:02
0July 3, 1999 1 ETU Triathlon European Championships PortugalPortugal Funchal 01:48:42 European triathlon champion on the short distance
Aug 30, 1998 9 ITU Triathlon World Championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lausanne 01:56:49
04th July 1998 6th ETU European Triathlon Championships AustriaAustria Velden 01:51:31 European triathlon championship on the short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
marathon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Dec 31, 2011 22nd Zurich New Year's Run SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It's an Olympic Baby Film Interview (October 30, 2012)
  2. ↑ Nicola Spirig becomes a mother for the third time. In: Tages-Anzeiger from April 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Challenge Aarhus: Hug before Vittrup-Pedersen (June 16, 2012)
  4. ↑ Alpe d'Huez Short Course results and report 2011 (July 28, 2011)
  5. Jump up to the World Cup: Docherty wins, Frodeno unlucky
  6. ↑ Triathlon European Championship 2001: Filip Ospaly and Michelle Dillon become European champions in triathlon in Karlsbad / Czech Republic
  7. ↑ New Year's Eve runs: Rank beats Raelert in Rostock (January 2, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Hug, Reto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1975