Sebastian Dehmer

0 Sebastian Dehmer
Personal information
Date of birth	14th February 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Darmstadt, Germany
size	181 cm
Weight	66 kg
societies
2006-2008	DSW12 Darmstadt
To 2012	TuS Griesheim
successes
2000	German junior champion triathlon
2001	Triathlon world champion juniors
2004	Olympian
2004	Triathlon world champion U23
2005	German champion triathlon short distance
status
Resigned in 2012

Sebastian Dehmer (born February 14, 1982 in Darmstadt ) is a former German triathlete who is now an entrepreneur. As a member of the DTU national triathlon team, he was an Olympic participant (2004), world champion (juniors 2001, U23 2004) and German champion in the Olympic triathlon (2005).

Career

Sebastian Dehmer started his first triathlon in 1998. This year he was active in the Hessian state team water polo , swimming and triathlon . After graduating from high school in 2000, he moved to the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Mainz , where he worked as a sports soldier .

At the age of 22, Sebastian Dehmer was one of the youngest participants in the triathlon field at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where he finished 26th. In 2005 he became the youngest German champion on the short-distance triathlon for the first time in Potsdam. He represented the German Triathlon Union (DTU) at international events, mainly started over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) and was a member of the German national triathlon team.

In 2007, Dehmer became European team champions in Copenhagen with Daniel Unger from Ravensburg and Franz Löschke from Potsdam . He started for the team TuS Griesheim and DSW12 Darmstadt .

As a result, however, he had to retire from professional sport for health reasons. Dehmer studied design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and was the owner and managing director of a children's fashion company.

Sebastian Dehmer announced a comeback on the Olympic distance for 2010 and his goal was to start at the 2012 Olympic Games. In 2012, however, he finally retired from professional racing and was active as a race organizer until 2016. He lives with his wife, their sons and a daughter in Mühltal and works as a management consultant.

Awards

• The "Green Belt" award in 2000 with the TuS Griesheim for exemplary talent management .
• In the election for junior athlete of the year 2001 , he took third place.
• In 2004 he was voted “Newcomer of the Year” by the State of Hesse, replacing Fabian Hambüchen .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

• Official website of Sebastian Dehmer
• Profile for Sebastian Dehmer at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Profile and results of Sebastian Dehmer in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on September 14, 2018 (English).
• Sebastian Dehmer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Von Steig, mentoring & advice

Individual evidence

1. ^ EM Copenhagen: Three team medals [sic for DTU] .
2. ↑ Triathlon Team DSW Darmstadt. Retrieved October 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Triathlon hope Dehmer ticks off the Olympics . February 20, 2008.
4. ↑ For health reasons - Dehmer declares resignation
5. ↑ From Olympian to race organizer (May 2, 2012)
6. ↑ News: Gilded graduation in Copenhagen. July 1, 2007, accessed February 3, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Justus scratches past the EM ticket The fourth man
8. ↑ Sebastian Dehmer wins the Griesheim New Year's Eve run . Archived from the original on April 29, 2014.