Sandra Wallenhorst

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Sandra Wallenhorst as leader at Ironman Germany, 2010
Sandra Wallenhorst as leader
at Ironman Germany , 2010
Personal information
Date of birth 1st January 1972 (age 48)
place of birth Arnstadt, Germany
societies
Until 2003 Hannover 96
successes
2008 Ironman Austria winner
2009, 2010 2 × winner of the Ironman European Championships
status
Resigned in 2010

Sandra Wallenhorst (born January 1, 1972 in Arnstadt ) is a former German triathlete and duathlete . The multiple Ironman winner won the Ironman European Championships in 2009 and 2010 and from 2008 to 2018 she led the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

After an early career as a track and field athlete in childhood and adolescence, Sandra Wallenhorst started triathlon in 1996.

After appearing in the German Triathlon League for Hanover 96 and in the World Cup on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running), the lawyer first ventured into long distances in 2003 and finished in August 2004 Ironman Canada as sixth.

After a viral disease with Pfeiffer's glandular fever (Epstein-Barr Virus, 2005), which is typical for endurance athletes , the birth of her son followed (December 2006). Sandra Wallenhorst ushered in the end of her baby break with three victories in regional middle distances (2007) and third place at the Ironman 70.3 Austria in St. Pölten (2008), before she went back to the long distance and Ironman triathlon project (3.86 km Swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) dared.

At the Ironman Austria in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in July 2008, Sandra Wallenhorst beat the 14-year-old record of the South African and eight-time Hawaii winner Paula Newby-Fraser over the long distance of 3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42 km running with a time of 8:47:25 h and thus held the best time of a German athlete at this distance, until Daniela Sämmler undercut it by almost four minutes at the Challenge Roth in July 2018 (8:43:42 h). Sandra Wallenhorst finished her debut at Ironman Hawaii in October 2008 with a bronze medal.

Until 2008 Wallenhorst was trained by Dave Scott . From spring 2009 until the end of her career, she worked with running coach Herbert Steffny . In July 2010 she was able to repeat her title from the previous year at the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt with a new course record on the marathon distance (3:00:15 h). Since 2011 she no longer appears in international competitions.

Sandra Wallenhorst lives in Hanover . The lawyer has worked in the Ministry of the Interior of Lower Saxony since 2010 and has been head of the administrative department of the Lower Saxony Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection in Celle since October 2017 .

Awards

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
June 26, 2011 4th Sylt triathlon GermanyGermany List on Sylt 02:43:28 1.5 km swimming, 46 km cycling and 12 km running
May 30, 2010 4th Ironman 70.3 Austria AustriaAustria St. Polten 04:23:13
Jan. 17, 2010 2 Ironman 70.3 South Africa South AfricaSouth Africa East London 04:37:01
0June 6, 2009 1 Irontown Triathlon Ferropolis GermanyGermany Graefenhainichen 04:23:46 Swimming 1.9 km, cycling 90 km and running 21.1 km
May 24, 2009 1 Ironman 70.3 Austria AustriaAustria St. Polten 04:28:46
May 24, 2008 3 Ironman 70.3 Austria AustriaAustria St. Polten 04:26:25 Sandra Wallenhorst took 3rd place behind Yvonne van Vlerken and Erika Csomor .
July 13, 2003 18th ITU Triathlon European Cup LuxembourgLuxembourg Echternach 02:11:16
0Sep 7 2002 10 ITU Triathlon European Cup SpainSpain Madrid 02:15:58
July 21, 2002 9 ITU Triathlon European Cup GermanyGermany Hanover 01:57:28
June 16, 2002 11 ITU Triathlon European Cup GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 02:00:05
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Oct 9, 2010 DNF Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii - Disqualification on the bike course
04th July 2010 1 Ironman Germany GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 09: 04: 27.7 Victory and title defense at the Ironman European Championship
Oct 10, 2009 8th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:38:28 as the best-placed German
0July 5, 2009 1 Ironman Germany GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 08:58:08 Sandra Wallenhorst started for the first time in Frankfurt and went as the leader ahead of Yvonne van Vlerken after switching from the bike to the final marathon distance.
Oct 11, 2008 3 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:22:52 second fastest women's marathon to date at the Ironman Hawaii
July 13, 2008 1 Ironman Austria AustriaAustria Klagenfurt 08:47:25 Sandra Wallenhorst beat Paula Newby-Fraser's old world record from 1994 by more than three minutes and celebrated her first Ironman victory.
Aug 29, 2004 6th Ironman Canada CanadaCanada Penticton 09:59:58 Hawaii qualification
0Nov 8, 2003 17th Ironman Florida United StatesUnited States Panama City 10:24:46
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
  2004 2 ETU Duathlon European Championship Team NetherlandsNetherlands Venray Vice European champion with the team in the duathlon
May 11, 2003 5 DTU German Duathlon Championships GermanyGermany Neustadt an der Aisch 02:23:44 behind the winner Konstanze Friedrich
marathon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0May 3, 2009 1 Hanover marathon GermanyGermany Hanover 37:00 Winner over 10 km
0May 4, 2008 1 Hanover marathon GermanyGermany Hanover 38:22 Winner over 10 km

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Hellmann: Sandra Wallenhorst at the Ironman: Die Himmelsstürmerin. In: fr-online.de . July 2, 2009, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Sandra Wallenhorst's bad luck with injuries , Triathlon.de, June 8, 2011
  3. ↑ Sandra Wallenhorst and Konstantin Bachor with sovereign performances at the 1st Irontown Triathlon Ferropolis ( Memento from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), 3athlon.de
  4. ↑ Ironman 70.3: Trial of Strength in St. Pölten ( Memento of May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Tri-Mag
  5. ↑ Sandra Wallenhorst wins Austria Ironman 70.3 Triathlon St. Pölten with high mileage ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), 3athlon.de
  6. ↑ Austria IRONMAN 70.3 2008: Crucial change on the Finishline through Massimo Cigana. In: Ironman703.co.za. Archived from the original on June 6, 2008 ; accessed on December 1, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Ralph Schick: Ironman Hawaii 2010: Sandra Wallenhorst disqualified. In: Triathlon.de. October 9, 2010, accessed December 1, 2014 .
  8. ^ Triathlon in Hawaii: defending champion wins the Ironman. In: Spiegel Online . December 11, 2009, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Sandra Wallenhorst: "Originally it should be my last year in competitive sport" ( Memento from July 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Video interview (40 minutes) at triathlon-szene.de after the world record in 2008
  11. ↑ Ironmanlife: Another fast Mom
personal data
SURNAME Wallenhorst, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover