Simone Mortier

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Personal information
Date of birth 14th February 1964 (age 56)
place of birth Wurzburg
size 162 cm
Weight 50 kg
societies
successes
1988, 1990 2 × German champion triathlon short distance
1988-1990 3 × German champion triathlon middle distance
1989 European champion triathlon short distance
1990, 1991, 1993 3 × European vice-champion triathlon short distance
1991, 1993 2 × German champion Duathlon short distance
1992 Vice European champion Duathlon short distance
status
resigned

Simone Mortier (born February 14, 1964 in Würzburg ) is a former German duathlete and triathlete . Today she works as a doctor.

Career

At the age of 13, Simone Mortier began doing artistic gymnastics and successfully took part in competitions. At the age of 18 she had to quit gymnastics due to knee problems and she was an exchange student in Canada for a year. There she got to know triathlon and in the 1980s she pioneered this “new” sport in Germany.

In 1988 she became German triathlon champion twice, on the short and middle distance.

European champion triathlon short distance 1989

In 1989 Simone Mortier became European champion on the short distance.

In 1991 and 1993 she became German Duathlon Champion.

In 2009 she started as an amateur at the European Triathlon Championships and was able to win the age group 45-49 in the Netherlands.

Simone Mortier finished her medical studies in Singen and Schaffhausen after moving with her husband to Schaffhausen , where the mother of three has lived since then. Her daughter Caroline Mortier is also active as a triathlete and she became German champion on the duathlon sprint distance in 2014.

Sporting successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. EM triathlon title for Simone Mortier (July 1, 2014)
  2. Results Allgäu Triathlon 2000 . July 22, 2000. Archived from the original on January 11, 2001.
  3. Uster Triathlon - WALL OF FAME