Ricarda Lisk

0 Ricarda Lisk
Ricarda Lisk at the European Cup Triathlon in Quarteira, 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	1st February 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Schorndorf , Germany
size	173 cm
Weight	53 kg
societies
Until 2005	Bundeswehr sports promotion group
Until 2017	VfL Waiblingen and Tri Club Chateauroux 36
successes
1999	German champion triathlon juniors
2004	German champion triathlon U23
2006, 2010, 2011, 2012	4 × German champion triathlon short distance
2008	15th place Olympic Games
status
Resigned in 2017

Ricarda Lisk (born February 1, 1981 in Schorndorf ) is a former German triathlete . She is an Olympic participant (2008), multiple German triathlon champion (2006, 2010, 2011, 2012) and was a member of the national team until 2017.

Career

Ricarda Lisk began swimming and running training at the age of five. She completed her first triathlon when she was 13, as her brother Timo had also started it. In 1998 she was accepted into the D-squad of the Baden-Württemberg Triathlon Association.

German junior triathlon champion 1999

In 1999 she won the German Junior Triathlon Championship and after graduating from high school in 2000, she successfully devoted herself entirely to sport for a year: At the 2001 European and World Junior Championships, she finished third and fourth respectively.

She has been a professional triathlete since 2000. Ricarda Lisk initially pursued her professional career through the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Saarbrücken, to which she belonged until she left in 2005 and with which she won the silver medal in the individual ranking twice at the World Military Triathlon Championships (2004 and 2005). She was also looked after by the nutritionist Wolfgang Feil .

German U23 triathlon champion 2004

In Germany Ricarda Lisk won the U23 triathlon championship in 2004. Ricarda Lisk has remained loyal to her club VfL Waiblingen since 1992.

2008 Summer Olympics

In 2008 she was the best German triathlete at the Olympic Games in Beijing and was 15th.

Until 2010, Lisk was preparing for London 2012 at the Saarbrücken Olympic Training Center and since 2011 her home town has been the center of training again.

Ricarda Lisk took and still takes part in non-ITU competitions, above all the French club championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux . At the opening triathlon of 2010 in Dunkirk (May 23, 2010) Lisk was 14th for her club Tri Club Chateauroux 36 and was among the three athlètes classants l'equipe and helped her French club to win a silver medal. Incidentally, Chateauroux only competed against the regulations with five foreign elite stars: Magali Di Marco Messmer (5th), Svenja Bazlen (11th), Ricarda Lisk (14th), Melanie Annaheim and Alia Cardinale .
At the second Grand Prix triathlon in Beauvais , Lisk was fifth in the individual ranking and was the second best in her club. At the triathlon in Tours and Tourangeaux (August 29, 2010) Lisk was sixth in the individual ranking and was the best in her club. Since 2013, she has also started the triathlon middle distance.

In July 2016, she finished second in the Olympic distance in Zurich behind the Swiss Nicola Spirig . In August 2017 she started the Inferno Triathlon in Switzerland on the long distance and after the race she declared her 17-year professional career over.

Private

In addition to her professional career, Ricarda Lisk completed a sports management degree in 2004 and studied business administration at the University of Hagen . Ricarda Lisk now lives with her daughter in Switzerland and works as a coach and trainer.

Sporting successes

DNF - Did Not Finish · BG = the sponsor British Gas

Web links

Commons : Ricarda Lisk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Ricarda Lisk
• Ricarda Lisk in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Ricarda Lisk's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 5, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Ricarda Lisk at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 5, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ B-roster 2010 . German Triathlon Union . Archived from the original on July 18, 2011.
2. ↑ Portrait: RICARDA LISK
3. ↑ RESULTS ( memento of December 23, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on June 13, 2010.
4. ↑ Chronicle of the Triathlon Department , on triathlon-vfl-waiblingen.de, accessed on January 2, 2020
5. ↑ See page no longer available , search in web archives: Retrieved on June 13, 2010.
6. ↑ See TL Ibiza and European Cup in Quarteira / Portugal ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 17, 2011.
7. ↑ See Ipitos, Resultats ( Memento of May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved June 13, 2010.
8. ↑ Ipitos, result ( Memento of 13 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed 13 June 2010
9. ↑ At the end of your career, the Inferno Triathlon (April 29, 2014)
10. ↑ News: What is actually doing ...? Ricarda Lisk (December 26, 2017)
11. ↑ Ricarda Lisk: "It felt good to waste my time" (March 5, 2020)
12. ↑ Chiemsee Triathlon: Raelert and Sämmler successful (June 25, 2017)
13. ↑ Chiemsee Triathlon 2016: Defending Champion, Challenger and Returner (April 12, 2016)
14. ↑ Ladykracher at Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau: van Vlerken challenges Gajer (February 19, 2016)
15. ↑ Ricarda Lisk in 8th place at the IRONMAN 70.3 Barcelona ( Memento from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ 5150 Zurich: Lisk and Bazlen on the winner's podium (July 26, 2014)
17. ^ New Year's Eve runs: Rank beats Raelert in Rostock