Sofie Hooghe

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Triathlon
BelgiumBelgium 0 Sofie Hooghe
at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Edmonton, 2014
at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Edmonton, 2014
Personal information
Date of birth 2nd January 1991 (age 29)
place of birth Kortrijk, Belgium
size 168 cm
Weight 56 kg
societies
Until 2013 No limit team
Since 2014 Lys Triathlon Team Latem
successes
2010 Junior world champion duathlon
2011, 2014 3rd place European Championship Triathlon U23
2014, 2016 2 × National Triathlon Champion
status
active

Sofie Hooghe (born January 2, 1991 in Kortrijk ) is a Belgian duathlete and triathlete . She is junior duathlon world champion (2010) and two-time triathlon state champion (2014, 2016).

Career

Sofie Hooghe started triathlon at the age of 11. In September 2010, the 19-year-old became Junior Duathlon World Champion in Scotland and in the two following years she was U23 Vice World Champion on the short distance duathlon. In 2014, after eleven years with the No Limit Team in Avelgem , she switched to Lys Triathlon Team Latem (LTTL), for which Frederik Van Lierde also competes .

In July 2014 she became the elite triathlon state champion on the short distance.

As the third-best Belgian triathlete on the ITU Olympic qualification list, she missed her goal of achieving a starting place at the 2016 Summer Olympics after Belgium only managed to secure two starting places in the women.

In August 2017 she became Vice State Champion Triathlon.

Sofie Hooghe lives in Heestert . In 2015 she completed a bachelor's degree in accounting and taxes.

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
15 Aug 2017 2 BEL Triathlon National Championships BelgiumBelgium Izegem 02:09:20 Vice State Champion
15 Aug 2016 1 BEL Triathlon National Championships BelgiumBelgium Izegem 02:09:23 State champion
June 13, 2015 22nd European Games 2015 AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Baku 02:07:26
0July 6, 2014 1 BEL Triathlon National Championships BelgiumBelgium Kortrijk 02:21:59
June 28, 2014 3 ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 RussiaRussia Penza 02:06:41 U23 European Triathlon Championship
Oct 28, 2011 6th ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 IsraelIsrael Eilat 02:13:24
0June 6, 2009 2 ETU Triathlon Junior European Cup AustriaAustria Vienna 01:07:37 Second behind the Austrian Lisa Perterer in the Vienna City Triathlon
0June 5, 2008 28 ITU Triathlon World Championship Junior Women CanadaCanada Vancouver 01:07:09 Triathlon Junior World Championship
May 10, 2008 6th ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Women SpainSpain Lisbon 01:06:16 European Championship Triathlon Juniors
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
22 Sep 2012 2 ITU Duathlon World Championship U23 FranceFrance Nancy 01:59:36 U23 Duathlon Vice World Champion on the short distance
Sep 24 2011 2 ITU Duathlon World Championship U23 SpainSpain Gijón 02:09:24 U23 Duathlon Vice World Champion on the short distance
05th Sep 2010 1 ITU Duathlon World Championship Junior Women ScotlandScotland Edinburgh 01:12:44 Junior duathlon world champion

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sofie Hooghe leaves the No Limit Team
  2. ↑ ITU Olympic Qualification List: Rio 2016 | Women's Standings
  3. ↑ TRIATHLON EM LISSABON - JUNIOR WOMEN  ( 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. (May 10, 2008)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swisstriathlon.ch  
personal data
SURNAME Hooghe, Sofie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Kortrijk