Simone Fürnkranz

0 Simone Fürnkranz
Simone Fürnkranz at Ironman 70.3 Austria , 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	20th September 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	St. Poelten , Austria
societies
Current	Union RC Sparkasse Renner Langenlois and Top Team Tri Lower Austria
successes
2011-2017	4 × state champion triathlon middle distance
2015	State champion triathlon sprint distance
2015	Vice national champion Duathlon short distance
2017	National champion triathlon short distance
2018	Vice national champion triathlon short distance
status
active

Simone Fürnkranz (born September 20, 1979 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian triathlete . She is state champion on the triathlon sprint distance (2015), short distance (2017) and on the triathlon middle distance (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017).

Career

Simone Fürnkranz studied at the Vienna University of Technology .

State champion triathlon middle distance 2011

In 2011 she became Austrian triathlon state champion in the middle distance (double Olympic distance). Fürnkranz starts for the Union RC Sparkasse Renner Langenlois association and the top team Tri Lower Austria .

State champion triathlon sprint distance 2015

In June 2015 she became state champion on the triathlon sprint distance at Neufelder See. After 2011 and 2013, in July 2015, she won the title of the state championship in the middle distance triathlon for the third time. In September Simone Fürnkranz also became Duathlon Vice State Champion.

At the Ironman 70.3 World Championship, the then 35-year-old became age group world champion in Zell am See in August 2015 .

In August 2016 she won the Krems Triathlon on the Olympic distance for the fifth time , and in 2014 she also won the sprint triathlon here.
In September she was seventh at the European championship on the half distance as part of the Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl . Two weeks later in Deutschlandsberg she was also third in the state championship on the short distance duathlon.

State champion triathlon short and middle distance 2017

In May 2017 she became national champion in the middle distance for the fourth time. In June she became vice state champion on the triathlon sprint distance at the Piberstein Triathlon and also triathlon state champion on the short distance in July.

On July 14, 2018, she became Austrian Vice State Champion over the Olympic distance at the Mostiman Triathlon . In 2019 she finished fifth at the Triathlon State Championship in July.

Simone Fürnkranz lives in Paudorf .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Profile and results of Simone Fürnkranz in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 29, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All results of the Austrians at the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships
2. ↑ Medals for triathletes Fürnkranz and Kirchberger (July 30, 2019)
3. ↑ Successful premiere for the Traismauer Triathlon (August 4th, 2019)
4. ↑ Feuersinger wins ÖSTM title over sprint distance (June 3, 2017)
5. ↑ Triathletes braved the Kremser heat (August 8, 2016)
6. ↑ Krems Triathlon: Simone Fürnkranz and Franz Höfer win (August 7, 2011)
7. ↑ Kumhofer and Birngruber new middle distance state champions (July 31, 2016)
8. ↑ Steger and Fürnkranz new middle distance state champions
9. ↑ Höfer and Fürnkranz win in Obertrum  ( 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.  
10. ↑ Simone Fürnkranz state champion in triathlon