Robert Alexander Barel

0 Rob Barel
Rob Barel, 1985
Personal information
Date of birth	23rd December 1957 (age 62)
place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
size	181 cm
Weight	75 kg
societies
successes
1985-1988	4 × European champion triathlon short distance
1986-1994	3 × European champion triathlon middle distance
1994	World champion triathlon long distance
1997, 1998	Vice world champion triathlon long distance
2008	European champion cross triathlon
2017	Triathlon world champion age group 60–64
status
active

Robert "Rob" Alexander Barel (born December 23, 1957 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch triathlete who was one of the world's strongest triathletes in the 1980s and 1990s. He is long-distance triathlon world champion (1994), two-time vice world champion (1997, 1998), Olympic participant (2000) and seven-time European champion. He is also listed in the Ironman Hawaii Age Group Records table .

Career

Rob Barel first came into contact with triathlon while studying biology at the Free University of Amsterdam when he met a group of participants preparing for the Ironman Hawaii .

He had previously been a successful swimmer, started his first triathlon at the age of 24 and won his first triathlon in Amsterdam in 1982. In 1994 he won the first long-distance triathlon world championship in Almere.

World champion triathlon long distance 1994

Rob Barel started 13 times in Nice at the Triathlon Longue Distance de Nice or Triathlon International de Nice, as the event was called from 1994. He was able to win this (next to the Ironman Hawaii) most prestigious event in the world three times (in each case in the absence of series winner Mark Allen ), seven times he was on the podium.
He reached fourth place three times at the Ironman Hawaii. In Germany he competed six times in the Alpine Triathlon on Schliersee and won the race three times (1991, 1992, 1995).

2000 Summer Olympics

Barel was the only one from the generation of dominant athletes in the 1980s who managed to achieve a nomination for the Olympic Games in Sydney , where triathlon was part of the program for the first time, and he finished 43rd.

After the Olympic Games, he officially ended his active career and only started sporadically as an amateur. In France he became world champion in the M50-54 age group on the long distance triathlon in 2007 and in 2008 he surprised everyone by winning the European championships in cross triathlon. Since then he has been successful here again and again.

Age group world champion 2017

In September 2017, the then 59-year-old became triathlon world champion in the age group 60-64 in Rotterdam. At the Ironman Hawaii in October he was able to win the age group M60-64 and set a new record time of 9:46:54 h.

Awards

• Rob Barel was nominated for Hall of Fame induction by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) in 2014 .

Sporting successes

DNF - Did Not Finish

Web links

• Robert Alexander Barel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile for Robert Alexander Barel at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 13, 2014
• Profile and results of Robert Alexander Barel in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 17, 2018 (English).
• Robert Alexander Barel in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Slowtwitch interview with Rob Barel ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (October 4, 2001) 
2. ↑ AGE GROUP WM IN ROTTERDAM: VICTORY FOR BRIGITTE MCMAHON OVER THE OLYMPIC DISTANCE (September 18, 2017)
3. ^ ITU Hall of Fame
4. ↑ KONA AGE CLASSES: FIVE IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE GO TO GERMANY (October 16, 2017)
5. ↑ Wasle co-favorite at Triathlon Cross World Championship premiere ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Rob Barel surprisingly wins the European Cross-Triathlon Championship . In: 3athlon.de . September 14, 2008. Archived from the original on September 16, 2008.