Sandrina Illes

0 Sandrina Illes
Personal information
Date of birth	1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Vienna, Austria
size	171 cm
Weight	52 kg
societies
Current	ÖTRV duathlon national team
Since 2017	Stade Français
Since 2017	ARBÖ ASKÖ Graz RLM Styria
successes
2014-2018	5 × national champion duathlon short distance
2015-2016	2 × Vice State Champion Duathlon long distance
2016-2019	3 × national champion 10,000 m track
2016-2017	2 × national champion half marathon
2018	State champion 3000 m hall and 10,000 m road run
2018	European champion Duathlon middle distance
2018	World champion Duathlon short distance
2018	State champion duathlon long distance
2018	Vice European Champion Duathlon
2019	Vice world champion Duathlon short distance
2020	State champion 1500 m hall
status
active

Sandrina Illes (* 1986 in Vienna ) is an Austrian duathlete , long-distance runner , cyclist and former triathlete . She is the reigning duathlon world champion (2018), multiple duathlon state champion, state champion over the 10,000 m and 3,000 m, multiple half-marathon state champion (2016-2017) and European champion in the duathlon middle distance (2018). She starts in the ÖTRV duathlon national team , since 2017 for Stade Français in the French duathlon league, and in cycling for the women's racing club ARBÖ ASKÖ Graz RLM Styria.

Career

Sandrina Illes started running at the age of 14 and switched to triathlon in 2005.

Triathlon since 2005

Until 2013, her training was geared towards the long-distance triathlon and she was able to qualify for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii in Klagenfurt in 2009 , but did not start there. Then she switched to the sprint and standard distance in the duathlon, later also to the middle distance.

Duathlon State Champion 2014

In 2014 Illes won four national duathlons, each with a new course record, and in September she became the duathlon state champion on the standard distance for the first time. In the same year she had her first international championship appearance at the European championship over the standard distance in Weyer, where she was tenth.

In 2015 she was third at the European Sprint Duathlon Championships in April, in August she was Vice State Champion on the long distance duathlon in Weyer / AUT for the first time and in September she was able to repeat her success from the previous year and was again State Champion on the short distance in Deutschlandsberg / AUT.

She won her first two national championship titles in athletics in 2016 in the 10,000 m in May and in the half marathon in October. She had her first international competition in 2016 at the European Mountain Running Championships uphill / downhill in Arco, where she came in 30th.

In 2016, she finished fifth at her first standard distance World Championships in June. In August she was again Vice State Champion on the long distance duathlon in Weyer and in September she was able to achieve the title of national champion on the short distance duathlon in Deutschlandsberg for the third time in a row.

Since 2017 she has been riding for the women's racing club ARBÖ ASKÖ Graz RLM Styria in the national cycling league. She was on the podium for the first time in May at the hill climb in Kindberg with a third place and in June she won the silver medal at the Austrian championships in the cycling marathon in St. Pölten.
In 2017 she started for the French team Stade Français in the French Duathlon League, where she finished third in her first appearance. Shortly afterwards in April she finished fifth at the European championship over the standard distance, in May she was able to finish the middle distance European championships held there in third place at Powerman Germany.
In March 2017 she became the half marathon state champion in Graz for the second time, and in May for the second time over 10,000 m. At the Duathlon World Championships over the standard distance in Penticton in August 2017, as in the previous year, she finished fifth. In September, the 30-year-old won the title of Duathlon national champion for the fourth time in a row.

European and World Champion Duathlon 2018

In February 2018 she became national champion over 3000 m indoors in Linz. In April she became Duathlon State Champion for the fifth time in a row. At the Duathlon European Championships in the middle distance, she won the title in Denmark in May after finishing third last year.
In July, the 31-year-old was the first Austrian to win the ITU world championship on the Duathlon short distance in Denmark (10 km run, 40 km bike ride and 5 km run). In August she became national champion in the long distance duathlon at Powerman Austria after she was already third and second here.

In March 2020 she finished fifth at the European Duathlon Championships in Spain.

Private

Sandrina Illes studied at the UAS Technikum Wien until 2010 . She has been married since 2014 and lives with her husband in Vienna .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Sandrina Illes website
• Profile and results of Sandrina Illes in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on July 22, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Illes and Prungraber Duathlon State Champion (September 14, 2014)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Illes repeats national championship title over the short distance (September 14, 2015)
3. ↑ Duathlon EM bronze for Sandrina Illes
4. ↑ Illes wins state championship title over 10,000 meters (May 6, 2016)
5. ↑ Illes takes bronze at the European Duathlon Championship (May 21, 2017)
6. ↑ Sandrina Illes is named European Duathlon Champion (May 6, 2018)
7. ↑ Fyn 2018: Schilling and Illes earn take Elite Duathlon World Championships (July 6, 2018)
8. ↑ Duathlon - Carinthian Lisa Perterer took EM gold (March 7, 2020)
9. ↑ [1] (May 18, 2014)
10. ↑ Successful duathlon in Parndorf (April 21, 2014)
11. ↑ Neufeld Triathlon - 2007-06-24
12. ↑ Results Vienna 10K 2018 (April 21, 2018)