Sibylle Matter

0 Sibylle Matter
Personal information
Date of birth	2nd September 1973 (age 46)
place of birth	Plaffeien, Switzerland
Size	164 cm
Weight	57 kg
societies
successes
2001, 2004	2 × winner Ironman 70.3
2003	Swiss champion triathlon short distance
2005	Vice world champion cross triathlon
2006, 2008	2 × Winner Hawaiian Airlines Double
2007-2009	3 × Vice European Champion Cross Triathlon
2008, 2009	2 × Ironman winner
2008	European champion cross triathlon
status
inactive

Sibylle Matter (born September 2, 1973 in Plaffeien ) is a former Swiss triathlete , Olympian (2000) and European cross-triathlon champion (2008). She is in seventh place on the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance . ^{(As of December 2018)}

Career

Olympic Games 2000

Sibylle Matter started in 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney, finishing in 36th place. In 2003 she became Swiss triathlon champion in Nyon.

In 2001 and again in 2004 she won the UK Ironman 70.3 in the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) in Great Britain .

Vice world champion cross triathlon 2005

In 2005, she was runner-up in cross triathlon in Hawaii. In October 2006 she won the "Hawaiian Airlines Double" - the combined ranking of Ironman Hawaii and the Xterra World Championships . In April 2007 she was runner-up European cross-triathlon champion in Spain and she was able to repeat this success in 2008 and 2009.

In 2008 the trained doctor was able to win the “Hawaiian Airlines Double” again. She won the Ironman in Zurich in 2008 and 2009 .

Their daughter was born in April 2013 and she was on maternity leave. Sibylle Matter returned to racing and won the cross-triathlon in Biel in June 2015 as part of the “Biennathlon”.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Sibylle Matter's website
• Profile for Sibylle Matter at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 10, 2014
• Profile and results of Sibylle Matter in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on December 20, 2018 (English).
• Sibylle Matter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eva Janssen s'impose chez les filles ( Memento of 8 September 2009 at the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Sibylle Matter takes Swiss Ironman crown, German Kathrin Pätzold with silver . In: 3athlon.de . July 13, 2008. Archived from the original on July 18, 2008.
3. ↑ Ironman Winners ( Memento from July 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Biennathlon: A fitting farewell to the popular event (June 22, 2014)
5. ↑ Cross Triathlon EM Ameland  ( 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.  
6. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Former master Rob Barel surprisingly wins the Crosstriathlon European Championship . In: 3athlon.de . September 14, 2008. Archived from the original on September 16, 2008.