Ronnie Schildknecht

0 Ronnie Schildknecht
at Ironman Germany in Frankfurt am Main (2014)
Personal information
Date of birth	19th September 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	Saturdayern , Switzerland
Nickname	I-Ron
Size	184 cm
Weight	78 kg
societies
Since 2002	EWZ Power Team
Until 2018	BMC-Etixx Pro Triathlon Team
successes
2006-2013	6 × Swiss Duathlon Champion
2007-2016	11 × Ironman winner
2007	Vice world champion duathlon
2008	4th place Ironman World Championships
2014	4th place Ironman European Championships
status
active

Ronnie Schildknecht (born September 19, 1979 in Saturdayern ) is a Swiss duathlete and triathlete . He is a multiple Swiss Duathlon champion, multiple Ironman winner (between 2007 and 2016) and is the leader in the list of Swiss triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Ronnie Schildknecht has been practicing triathlons since 2000. To date (2016) he has won the Ironman Switzerland in Zurich nine times in the long-distance triathlon (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) . Only in 2014 was he unable to win.
He also won the half-distance at Ironman 70.3 Switzerland in Rapperswil-Jona three times in a row from 2007 to 2009. Since 2002 he started for the EWZ Power Team .

Vice-World Champion Duathlon Long Distance 2007

In 2007, Ronnie Schildknecht was runner-up in the duathlon long distance behind the Belgian Benny Vansteelant in the Netherlands . In October 2008 he was the best Swiss fourth at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships). In 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 he became Swiss Duathlon Champion.

Fastest Swiss on the Ironman distance 2011

In November 2011, he achieved a time of less than eight hours at the Ironman Florida, thus improving the course record and thus setting a new best time over the Ironman distance in North America, which the US-American Matt Hanson cannot beat again until 2017 .
In July 2013, with his victory in Zurich, he became the first triathlete to win an Ironman seven times in a row.

Ironman European Championship 2014

In July 2014 he finished fourth at the Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt am Main.

At Ironman Texas, he finished third in May 2015. In June he was sixth in the ITU World Championship on the long distance in Sweden. On July 24, 2016, he won the Ironman in Zurich for the ninth time - and was the first athlete to achieve so many victories in a single race. Ronnie Schildknecht started for the BMC Vifit Pro Triathlon Team until 2018 .

With his second place at Ironman Texas in April 2017, he was able to improve the fastest time of a Swiss athlete on the Ironman distance to 7:56:21 h. In 2018, the then 39-year-old competed in the Ironman Hawaii for the eleventh time, but could not finish the race.

Private

Ronnie Schildknecht is the grandson of racing cyclist Fritz Schär . He lives in Saturdayern with his wife and daughter .

Awards

• Swiss Triathlon Award 2016 (Swiss Triathlete of the Year)

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Ronnie Schildknecht  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of Ronnie Schildknecht ( Memento from January 13, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
• Profile for Ronnie Schildknecht at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 21, 2015
• Profile and results of Ronnie Schildknecht in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 25, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TRIATHLON SPLITTER: SÄMMLER BECOMES BLEYMEHL, BMC TEAM 2019 WITHOUT CLAVEL (December 19, 2018)
2. ↑ The charm of balance - Zurich Ironman triathlon for Schildknecht a station to victory in Hawaii. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 10, 2009, accessed July 14, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Are you sexy as an Ironman? (July 30, 2013)
4. ↑ Ironwoman Ryf wins the title before Spirig (December 15, 2016)
5. ↑ Ronnie Schildknecht storms to third place in Oceanside (April 2, 2017)
6. ↑ Citytriathlon Heilbronn: Schildknecht and Bazlen get the victory (June 23, 2013)
7. ↑ Sebastian Kienle full throttle to the second victory (June 24, 2012)
8. ↑ Schildknecht and Van Vlerken see in Walchsee
9. ↑ Ruedi Wild Swiss champions for the first time - Ruedi Wild and Nicola Spirig take the national titles. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 28, 2011, accessed July 14, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Schildknecht and Thürig with rank two
11. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Switzerland: Michael Raelert wins the next victory
12. ↑ Schildknecht and Dibens claim Ironman 70.3 Switzerland title
13. ↑ Ironman Hawaii: Andreas Raelert moves up (September 1, 2014)
14. ↑ Swiss double victory at Ironman Switzerland 2007
15. ↑ Ironman Switzerland 2007 - (trailer) on YouTube , currently not available
16. ↑ Schildknecht and Schaller winners at the Interval Duathlon Zofingen ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ Hat trick for Schildknecht and Spirig - victories for Schildknecht and Spirig. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. May 16, 2011, accessed July 14, 2014 .