Roy Hinnen

0 Roy Hinnen
at the USTS Triathlon Series 1986
Personal information
Date of birth	18th August 1966 (age 54)
place of birth	Triengen, Switzerland
societies
successes
1987-1990	4 × Swiss triathlon champions
1989	Swiss champion duathlon
status
Resigned in 1992

Roy Hinnen (born August 18, 1966 in Triengen , Lucerne ) is a former Swiss triathlete . He is included in the list of Swiss triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Roy Hinnen had his first sporting successes as a tennis player and roller skate racer and later belonged to the national elite as a triathlete.

He competed in the first triathlon in 1984 ( Swiss Triathlon in Zurich). He began his triathlon career in 1986 in the USA. In 1987 he was the first triathlete to bring the triathlon aero attachment (see triathlon bike ) to Europe, where he was Swiss triathlon champion for four years in a row from 1987 to 1990. In 1990 he was fifth at the Middle Distance European Championships in Trier, Germany and ended his triathlon career in 1992 with fourth place in the World Cup race in St. Croix, USA.

After his sporting career, he founded Roy Hinnen GmbH in 1995 and Hinnen Coaching trading companies in 2007 (import & export of sports equipment). Later he added his own bicycle and neoprene brand, "Roy Hinnen Bikes" or "Roy Hinnen Neoprene Suits". As an entrepreneur, he sold his products as an importer to specialist retailers and directly through his tri-shop. In 2012 he sold his tridome GmbH, founded in 2009, and ended his import and export activities.

In October 2014 he finished sixth at the European Triathlon Championships in the middle distance in the 45-49 age group.

Private

Hinnen lived as a vegetarian from 1974 to 2012, has been a vegan since 2012 and practices Zen Buddhism. Roy Hinnen lives in Davos with his partner and a son . He works as a sports coach in Zug and in his private life he also works as an author and stonemason.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Publications

• Roy Hinnen: Triathlon Total: Your way to the new best time Sportwelt Verlag , 2015, ISBN 978-3-941297-32-6

Web links

• Roy Hinnen's website (triathlon coaching)
• Roy Hinnen's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on October 22, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Triathlon Champion (Olympic distance), 1986–2012. (No longer available online.) Swiss Triathlon , 2014, archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; Retrieved July 9, 2014 . 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.  
2. ↑ Famous vegetarian-vegan athletes. In: vebu.de. May 2016, accessed May 30, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Interview with Roy Hinnen (June 26, 2015)