Robert Alexander Barel
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
Date / year | space | competition | venue | time | comment |
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16 Sep 2017 | 1 | ITU Triathlon World Championship 60-64 | Rotterdam | 02:05:03 | World champion age group 60–64 |
May 31, 2015 | 20th | NED Triathlon National Championships | Weert | 02:01:12 | |
16 Sep 2000 | 43 | 2000 Summer Olympics | Sydney | 01: 55: 36.69 | |
Sep 12 1999 | 39 | ITU Triathlon World Championships | Montreal | 01:48:16 | |
July 3, 1999 | 34 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Funchal | 01:53:29 | |
4th July 1998 | 13 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Velden am Wörther See | 01:52:35 | |
July 7, 1996 | 6th | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Szombathely | 01:43:43 | |
Aug 5, 1995 | 1 | Alpine triathlon | Schliersee | 02:04:55 | |
July 30, 1995 | 7th | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Stockholm | 01:48:11 | |
2nd July 1994 | 9 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Eichstatt | 01:55:21 | |
1994 | 1 | ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships | Novo mesto | European champion in the middle distance | |
4th July 1993 | 5 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Echternach | 01:55:33 | |
5th July 1992 | 15th | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Lommel | 01:52:16 | |
1992 | 1 | Alpine triathlon | Schliersee | ||
Sep 12 1992 | 3 | ITU Triathlon World Championships | Huntsville | 01:49:43 | Third at the world championship on the Olympic distance - behind Simon Lessing and Rainer Müller-Hörner |
8 Sep 1991 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Geneva | 01:54:07 | Vice European Triathlon Champion |
1991 | 1 | Alpine triathlon | Schliersee | ||
Aug 26, 1990 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Linz | 01:50:45 | Vice European Triathlon Champion |
Sep 15 1990 | 5 | ITU Triathlon World Championships | Orlando | 01:53:11 | |
June 11, 1989 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Cascais | 02:02:54 | Vice European Triathlon Champion |
Aug 6, 1989 | 5 | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championships | Avignon | 02:02:01 | |
1988 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Venice | European triathlon champion | |
1988 | 1 | ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships | stone | European champion in the middle distance | |
1987 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Marseille | European triathlon champion | |
1986 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Milton Keynes | European triathlon champion | |
1986 | 1 | ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships | Brasschaat | European champion in the middle distance | |
July 27, 1985 | 1 | ETU Triathlon European Championships | Immenstadt | European triathlon champion at the Allgäu Triathlon |
Date / year | space | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Oct 14, 2017 | 251 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:46:54 | Winner of age group M60-64 with a new record time |
July 15, 2007 | 1 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championship 50-54 | Lorient | 04:00:23 | World champion in the age group M50-54 |
Oct 18, 2003 | 74 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:27:09 | Ironman world championship |
27 Sep 1998 | 1 | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | ||
5th Sep 1998 | 2 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Sado | 05:52:31 | |
June 8, 1997 | 2 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Nice | 05:39:47 | at the Triathlon International de Nice |
28 Sep 1996 | 3 | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | ||
1995 | 13 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 08:41:17 | |
June 26, 1994 | 1 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Nice | Triathlon world champion at the Triathlon International de Nice | |
June 13, 1993 | 3 | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | ||
1993 | 2 | ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships | Embrun | Vice-European triathlon champion at the Embrunman | |
Oct 6, 1990 | 4th | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 08:45:48 | |
1990 | 3 | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | ||
1988 | 1 | Triathlon International de Nice | Nice | ||
1987 | 2 | ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships | Joroinen | Vice European Triathlon Champion | |
1985 | 2 | ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships | Almere | 09:05:19 | Vice European Triathlon Champion at the Almere Triathlon |
Oct 6, 1984 | 4th | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:27:11 | at the Ironman World Championship |
Date / year | space | competition | venue | time | comment |
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16 Aug 2014 | 35 | ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships | Olbersdorf | 02:54:13 | ITU World Championship Cross Triathlon |
June 1, 2014 | 1 | ETU Cross Triathlon European Championship 55-59 | Orosei | 02:27:02 | Winner of age group M55-59 at the European Cross Triathlon Championships |
July 14, 2012 | 4th | ETU Cross Triathlon European Championships | The hague | 01:53:49 | |
Apr 30, 2011 | 12 | ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships | Extremadura | 01:36:01 | 1 km swimming, 20 km mountain biking and 6 km off-road running |
May 31, 2009 | DNF | ETU Cross Triathlon European Championships | Sardinia | - | |
13 Sep 2008 | 1 | ETU Cross Triathlon European Championships | Ameland | 02:37:40 | At the age of 52, Rob Barel won the European Championship title. |
Apr 28, 2007 | 1 | ETU Cross Triathlon European Championship 50-54 | Ibiza | 01:26:36 | European cross triathlon champion in the age group 50-54 |
July 10, 2004 | 2 | Xterra Netherlands | The hague | ||
23 Aug 2003 | 1 | Xterra Netherlands | The hague | ||
Aug 18, 2001 | 1 | Xterra Netherlands | The hague |
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
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ AGE GROUP WM IN ROTTERDAM: VICTORY FOR BRIGITTE MCMAHON OVER THE OLYMPIC DISTANCE (September 18, 2017)
- ^ ITU Hall of Fame
- ↑ KONA AGE CLASSES: FIVE IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE GO TO GERMANY (October 16, 2017)
- ↑ Wasle co-favorite at Triathlon Cross World Championship premiere ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Rob Barel surprisingly wins the European Cross-Triathlon Championship . In: 3athlon.de . September 14, 2008. Archived from the original on September 16, 2008.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Barel, Robert Alexander |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barel, Rob |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |