Sandrine Benz

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland 0 Sandrine Benz
Personal information
Date of birth 21st August 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Steinach, Switzerland
societies
successes
2014 European champion W30-34, sprint distance
2014 World Champion W30-34, sprint distance
2014 Vice European Champion W30-34, middle distance
2015 World Champion W30-34, short distance
status
active

Sandrine Benz (born August 21, 1984 in Steinach ) is a Swiss duathlete and triathlete .

Career

In June 2014, the then 30-year-old became the amateurs triathlon champion in Kitzbühel.

The sports teacher Sandrine Benz became triathlon world champion in the age group 30-34 on the sprint distance in August 2014 and in September 2015 she also became world champion on the short distance after an injury break.

In 2016 she took third place at the Swiss championship on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

In September 2017 she was third in the world championship on the triathlon sprint distance in Rotterdam. In October she was second in the quarter marathon at the marathon of the 3 countries on Lake Constance . In May 2018, she announced on social media that she had to take a health break.

In March 2020, the 35-year-old finished in Spain as the best Swiss woman in 18th place at the European Duathlon Championships.

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
16 Sep 2017 3 ITU World Championship 2017 W30-34 Sprint NetherlandsNetherlands Rotterdam 01:10:57 in the last race of the racing series ("Grand Final") on the sprint distance
03rd Sep 2017 1 TriStar55.5 Rorschach SwitzerlandSwitzerland Rorschach
19 Sep 2015 1 ITU World Championship 2015 W30-34 United StatesUnited States Chicago 02:10:56 World champion in the age group 30-34
 Apr. 2015 2 Triathlon de Portocolom SpainSpain Portocolom
Oct 18, 2014 2 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships W30-34 SpainSpain Peguera 05:09:58 Vice European Champion in the middle distance as part of the Challenge Paguera-Mallorca - in the age group 30-34
31 Aug 2014 1 ITU World Championship 2014 W30-34 Sprint CanadaCanada Edmonton 01:10:34 World Champion AG 30-34 at the “Grand Final” of the 2014 racing series
 Apr. 2014 1 Triathlon de Portocolom SpainSpain Portocolom on the short distance (500 m swimming, 50 km cycling and 5 km running)
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
07th Mar 2020 18th ETU Duathlon European Championships SpainSpain Punta Umbría 01:03:34 European Duathlon Championship (5 km run, 20 km bike ride and 2.5 km run)
Running
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Oct 8, 2017 2 Marathon of the 3 countries on Lake Constance AustriaAustria Bregenz 41:25 Second in the quarter marathon, behind Julia Galuschka

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Awards

  • St. Gallen amateur athlete of the year 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amateur European champion dreams of a professional career (July 27, 2014)
  2. ↑ Sandrine Benz is back (August 18, 2015)
  3. ↑ Benz, Olympic Triathlon  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mentaldrive.ch  
  4. ↑ The Hall of Fame 2017
  5. ↑ Duathlon - Carinthian Lisa Perterer took EM gold (March 7, 2020)
  6. ↑ St. Gallen Professional Sportswoman of the Year (April 21, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Benz, Sandrine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinach SG