Simone Brändli

0 Simone Brändli
Simone Brändli at Ironman 70.3 Austria , 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	27th February 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Horgen, Switzerland
Size	165 cm
Weight	52 kg
societies
2011-2015	Swiss Triathlon Long Distance Team
2013-2017	Team Erdinger alcohol-free
successes
2011, 2014	2 × Ironman winner
status
Resigned in 2017

Simone Brändli (* 27. February 1980 in Horgen as Simone Benz ) is a former Swiss triathlete . She is a two-time Ironman winner (2011 and 2014) and is listed as the third fastest athlete in the list of Swiss women triathletes on the Ironman distance . Together with Caroline Steffen and Daniela Ryf , she is one of the three Swiss women who were able to finish an Ironman distance under nine hours.

Career

Simone Benz was only active in swimming (swimming club Wädenswil) before she started with the triathlon.

She started in early 2010 as a professional triathlete in the Tempo-Sport Olivier Bernhard team , where she was trained by the former triathlete Olivier Bernhard .

Simone Benz mainly competes in the middle or long distance and in November 2011 she won her first victory in the Ironman distance in Mexico (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running).

National team long distance triathlon 2011–2015

In November 2011 she won the Ironman Mexico and in December Simone Benz was accepted into the Swiss Triathlon National Team (Long Distance Team), of which she was a member until 2015.

Since 2013 she started for the Erdinger alcohol-free team and was trained by Susanne Buckenlei .

In April 2014 she was the second Swiss woman (after the four-time winner Natascha Badmann ) to win the Ironman South Africa in Port Elizabeth . The points received for this in the Kona Pro Ranking System of the organizer WTC enabled her to qualify for a starting place at the Ironman Hawaii in October (Ironman World Championships), where she was the second fastest Swiss woman in 13th place.

In November 2015 she won the Laguna Phuket Triathlon in Thailand and a week later the Challenge Laguna Phuket in the middle distance.

Simone Brändli works as a public prosecutor and in 2016 she accepted a position as chief public prosecutor for the districts of Höfe and Einsiedeln . In January 2017, the then 36-year-old declared her active time over.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish ; DSQ - Disqualified)

Awards

• In 2012 she was named Sports Personality of the Year in her native Horgen .

Web links

Commons : Simone Brändli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Simone Brändli
• Profile for Simone Brändli at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 30, 2014
• Profile and results of Simone Brändli in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 18, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More public prosecutor again (April 9, 2014)
2. ↑ SIMONE BRÄNDLI NEW IN THE NATIONAL TEAM  ( 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. (December 16, 2011)  
3. ↑ SIMONE BRÄNDLI resigns (January 30, 2017)
4. ↑ Results Challenge Fuerteventura ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf) 
5. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 St. Pölten: The anniversary edition is in the starting blocks
6. ↑ Ironman 70.3 World Championships Clearwater ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Ironman Hawaii: Andreas Raelert moves up (September 1, 2014)
8. ^ Ironman Cozumel 2011: Tajsich and Thomschke are best Germans
9. ↑ Ironman Switzerland: "Quattrick" successful
10. ↑ IRONMAN SWITZERLAND Triathlon 2009, Zurich (unofficial ranking list). (PDF; 423 kB) Accessed July 24, 2011 . 
11. ↑ Public prosecutor cheating at the Gigathlon (July 18, 2017)