Richard Jung (triathlete)

0 Richard Jung
Personal information
Date of birth	20th June 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Biberach an der Riss, Germany
societies
Current	Post-SV Tübingen
successes
2013	IUTA world champion double ultratriathlon
2014	IUTA world champion triple ultratriathlon
status
active

Richard Jung (born June 20, 1982 in Biberach an der Riss as Richard Widmer) is a German ultra- triathlete . In 2013 he was IUTA world champion in double ultra triathlon and in 2014 world champion in triple ultra triathlon. On August 23, 2018, he set a new world record in the DECA Ultratriathlon Continuous at the swissultra Triathlon in Buchs with a time of 190: 17: 17 h.

Career

Richard Widmer grew up in Baach, a district of the Zwiefalten community on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb. At the University of Tübingen , where he studied social pedagogy, he came into contact with triathlon. He has lived in Lörrach in southern Baden since 2013 , where he is employed by the SAK . He is currently starting for the Post-SV Tübingen, but is not a member.

At the World Championships in June 2013 in Neulengbach , Austria , he achieved first place in the double triathlon with a time of 20:44:09 h and thus almost 23 minutes ahead of the runner-up.

World Champion Triple Ultratriathlon (IUTA) 2014

In July 2014 he ran his first triple ultratriathlon at the World Championships in Lensahn, Schleswig-Holstein, and immediately won with a time of 34:39:02 h.

In 2015 he completed the triple ultratriathlon in Lensahn again, clearly undercutting his time from the previous year with 33:05:16 and again crossed the finish line with a large margin. In September 2015, Widmer was number 1 in the IUTA World Cup ranking with 255 points. In July 2016 he won the Triple Ultra Triathlon Lensahn for the third time in a row (11.4 km swimming, 540 km cycling and 126.6 km running).

Since his wedding in May 2017, he started as Richard Jung. In July 2017, Jung finished second in Lensahn behind the Estonian Rait Ratasepp . In August 2018, the then 36-year-old was able to successfully defend his title at the swissultra triathlon and beat the world record set by Frenchman Fabrice Lucas in the "Continuous" variant by almost two hours.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile at the IUTA. Retrieved September 3, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Other sources name Tübingen [1] or Zwiefalten as the place of birth . [2] [3]
3. ↑ New world record in the DECA Ultratriathlon (PDF)
4. ↑ More than just a competition. Die Oberbadische, August 13, 2015, accessed on September 3, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Richard Widmer is the Ultraman. schwäbische.de, December 25, 2013, accessed on September 3, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Richard Widmer - the world champion of the "toughest" (July 31, 2014)
7. ↑ Triple ultra world champion Richard Widmer wins with a record time. July 30, 2015, accessed September 3, 2015 . 
8. ↑ IUTA world rankings. Retrieved September 3, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Richard Widmer wins for the third time (August 1, 2016)
10. ↑ Swissultra-Triathlon Buchs 2018 - Richard Jung breaks the world record (August 26, 2018)
11. ↑ SWISS ULTRA TRIATHLON: RICHARD WIDMER WINS DECA (September 5, 2016)
12. ^ Results of the ultra marathon in Emsdetten. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 12, 2015 ; Retrieved September 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.