Ruedi Wild

0 Ruedi Wild
at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Date of birth	3rd April 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Richterswil, Switzerland
societies
Current	Swiss Elite B-team and Richterswil-Saturdayern ski and sports club
successes
2003	Vice European Champion U23 Duathlon
2005	European U23 triathlon champion
2009, 2010	2 × team world champion triathlon sprint distance
2011-2013	3 × Swiss champion triathlon short distance
2014-2017	3 × Swiss Champion Duathlon short distance
2015-2017	3 × winners Ironman 70.3
2016	Swiss champion triathlon middle distance
2016, 2018	2 × Third Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2018	Vice world champion ITU long distance triathlon
status
active

Ruedi Wild (born April 3, 1982 in Richterswil ) is a Swiss duathlete and triathlete . He is U23 European champion (2005), multiple Swiss champion (2011–2015), Olympian (2012) and reigning runner-up in the long-distance triathlon (2018). He is included in the list of Swiss triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Ruedi Wild has been a member of the Swiss national triathlon team since 2000 and starts in the Elite B team . He was a member of the Swiss Triathlon Team London 2012 . In 2003 he became U23 vice-European duathlon champion.

U23 European triathlon champion 2005

In 2005 Ruedi Wild became the U23 European Triathlon Champion.

In 2009 and 2010 he became triathlon world champion in the team sprint classification with the Swiss team.

In August 2011 he became vice world champion with the Swiss team in Lausanne and a week later Wild became Swiss triathlon champion on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) and he was able to repeat this success in 2012.

2012 Olympic Games

In June 2012 he qualified for the Olympic Games and competed for Switzerland in London with Nicola Spirig , Daniela Ryf and Sven Riederer . He reached the 39th rank.

In August 2013 he won the title of Swiss triathlon champion on the Olympic distance for the third time in a row.

Swiss Champion Duathlon 2014

In Zofingen he became Swiss Duathlon Champion for the second time after 2014 in May 2015 and only a week later he was fourth at the European Championships in the middle distance triathlon. In June he won the Ironman 70.3 Switzerland, after finishing second here the previous year, and he was fourth in the World Triathlon long distance championship in Sweden. In August he came eleventh in the middle distance in the Austrian state of Salzburg at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship as part of the Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun .

Long distance triathlon since 2016

In April 2016 he started the Ironman distance for the first time (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and finished sixth at the Ironman South Africa . At the Swiss Championships in Rapperswil-Jona in June 2016, with second place in Ironman 70.3 Switzerland, he was able to secure the title in the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21 km running) and in Italy he could only win a week later also to get the second victory in an Ironman 70.3 race.
In September Ruedi Wild finished third at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Australia . In October 2016, Ruedi Wild competed in the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships) for the first time in October 2016 and finished in 21st place.

In May 2017 he became Swiss Duathlon Champion for the third time in Zofingen and second at Ironman Switzerland in July .

In July 2018, the 36-year-old was runner-up on the ITU long distance world champion in Denmark. At the Ironman World Championships in October, he finished 14th as the best Swiss with a personal best on the Ironman distance in 8:14:31 h.

Ruedi Wild lives in Saturdayern . His son was born in May 2017.

Awards

• Swiss Triathlon Award 2017 (Swiss Triathlete of the Year)

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Ruedi Wild's website
• Profile for Ruedi Wild at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 12, 2016
• Ruedi Wild's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 1, 2019 (English).
• Ruedi Wild in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 7 other athletes selected for London (June 15, 2012)
2. ↑ Ruedi Wild and Martina Krähenbühl are Swiss Champions 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. 
3. ↑ JOLANDA ANNEN AND RUEDI WILD RECOGNIZED THE SWISS TRIATHLETS OF 2017 (December 10, 2017)
4. ↑ LAGUNA PHUKET VICTORY TO WILD AND SIMMONDS, MICHAEL RAELERT SECOND (November 24, 2019)
5. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Subic Bay: Wild wins, Raelert Siebter (March 12, 2017)
6. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 WM: TIM REED WRESTLES SEBASTIAN KIENLE DOWN IN THE FINAL PRINT (September 4, 2016)
7. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Bahrain: Ryf is now a triathlon millionaire
8. ↑ Challenge Laguna Phuket: Swiss doubles in vacation paradise (November 29, 2015)
9. ↑ Results Ironman 70.3 Wiesbaden 2015 (August 9, 2015)
10. ↑ 5150 Zurich: Lisk and Bazlen on the winners' podium ( memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. (July 26, 2014) 
11. ↑ Ryf Smashes Switzerland (June 1, 2014)
12. ↑ EM silver for Swiss triathletes (July 27, 2013)
13. ↑ Ryf and Wild come to championship honors (September 15, 2012)
14. ↑ 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 15, 2014 . 
15. ↑ IRONMAN TEXAS: Matt Hanson back in front on the short record day (April 28, 2018)