Sophia Saller

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Sophia Saller at the Grand Final of the World Championship racing series in Edmonton, 2014
Sophia Saller at the Grand Final of the World Championship racing series
in Edmonton, 2014
Personal information
Date of birth 20th March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Munich , Germany
size 172 cm
Weight 55 kg
societies
current SC Delphin Ingolstadt
2018-2020 Perspektivkader (PK) of the DTU and EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
successes
2013 DTU German Junior Triathlon Champion
2014 ITU world champion triathlon U23
2014 ETU Vice-European Triathlon Champion
2014 German champion triathlon sprint distance
status
Resigned in 2020

Sophia Saller (born March 20, 1994 in Munich ) is a former German triathlete . She is triathlon U23 world champion of the year 2014, runner-up European champion on the Olympic short distance (2014) and German triathlon champion on the sprint distance (2014).

Career

Sophia Saller was born in Bavaria and initially lived for seven years in the Ruhr area and in Franconia. When her family moved to Great Britain in 2008 for professional reasons, she switched to the German School in London , where she passed her Abitur (average grade 1.0) at the age of seventeen - she had skipped the second grade. She completed her subsequent studies in mathematics at St. Catherine's College at the University of Oxford in June 2015 with first-class honors as a Master of Science degree . Sophia Saller lived in Oxford and began her dissertation in combinatorics at the University of Oxford in October 2015 , which she graduated in 2019. In September 2015 she was the first German triathlete to be awarded the “Sports Scholarship Holder of the Year”. Since March 2020 she has been working at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken .

She started for the club SC Delphin Ingolstadt and in the Triathlon Bundesliga for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten and was designed by Roland Knoll trained.

German junior champion triathlon 2013

In 2013 she won the German Junior Triathlon Championship. With the subsequent tenth place at the Junior World Championships in London, Saller was accepted into the U23 B squad of the DTU , which she also belonged to in 2015.

U23 world champion triathlon 2014

In June 2014 she became vice European champion on the Olympic short distance in the elite class and also second with the German team - together with Hanna Philippin , Justus Nieschlag and Maximilian Schwetz . In August she became U23 world champion on the Olympic short distance in Canada.

She finished the triathlon world championship racing series in 2015 as the third best German in 20th place. In the two-year qualification period for a starting place at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games , Sophia Saller achieved the fifth-best placement of the German athletes on the ITU Olympic qualification list in 50th place, but did not meet the sporting qualification criteria agreed by the DTU and DOSB .

In 2018 she was accepted as one of eight athletes in the perspective team (PK) of the German Triathlon Union (DTU). At the T3 triathlon in Düsseldorf , she suffered an injury to her foot in July 2018. In the annual ranking of the ITU World Championship Series 2018 , she finished 61st as the second best German after the last race in Australia in September.

At the beginning of 2020, the 25-year-old declared her active career over.

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint and short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
July 22, 2018 5 T3 triathlon GermanyGermany Dusseldorf 01:03:33
July 14, 2018 46 ITU World Championship Series 2018 GermanyGermany Hamburg 01:02:10
20 Aug 2017 3 DTU German Championship Triathlon Sprint Distance GermanyGermany Grimma 01:06:08
June 24, 2017 17th ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championships GermanyGermany Dusseldorf 01:04:59 European championship on the sprint distance at the T3 triathlon
Sep 15 2015 21st ITU World Championship Series 2015 United StatesUnited States Chicago 01:59:07
22 Aug 2015 20th ITU World Championship Series 2015 SwedenSweden Stockholm 01:59:07
0Aug 2, 2015 29 ITU World Olympic Qualification Event BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro 02:04:22
May 31, 2015 10 ITU World Championship Series 2015 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London 00:56:33
Apr 25, 2015 4th ITU World Championship Series 2015 South AfricaSouth Africa Cape Town 01:50:07
06 Sep 2014 1 DTU German Championship Triathlon Sprint Distance GermanyGermany Hanover 01:01:04 German triathlon champion on the sprint distance (0.75 km swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running) at the Maschsee triathlon
Aug 30, 2014 1 ITU Triathlon World Championship U23 CanadaCanada Edmonton 02:04:52 U23 world champion on the Olympic short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
0July 6, 2014 2 T 3 triathlon GermanyGermany Dusseldorf 00:59:26 on the sprint distance (0.75 km swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km running) second behind Andrea Hewitt
June 22, 2014 2 ETU Triathlon European Championship Mixed Team AustriaAustria Kitzbühel in a team with Hanna Philippin , Justus Nieschlag and Maximilian Schwetz
20th June 2014 2 ETU Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Kitzbühel 02:10:40 Vice European Champion - at her first start on the Olympic short distance
July 21, 2013 1 DTU German Championship Triathlon Juniors GermanyGermany Schluchsee 01:06:32 German junior triathlon champion
July 14, 2012 5 DTU German Championship Triathlon Juniors GermanyGermany Grimma 01:08:22
Apr 20, 2012 19th ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Women IsraelIsrael Eilat 01:04:52

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Westhoff: Oxford student as a triathlon hope . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jan Sägert: Sophia Saller honored in Berlin . In: tri-mag.de . 23rd September 2015.
  3. ↑ Michael Eder: "Those who train hard can also think hard" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . 19, p. 36, May 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: "Excellent performance base in the squad that we will continue to develop" . German Triathlon Union . November 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Sophia Saller surprises with second place . In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ ITU Olympic Qualification List: Rio 2016 | Women's Standings In: ITU May 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Via Abu Dhabi to Rio de Janeiro In: tri-mag.de , January 28, 2016
  8. ↑ News: DTU presents national squad for season 2018 (January 22, 2018)
  9. ↑ "I have to get my body under control again" (January 23, 2020)
  10. ↑ Sophia Saller prevails in Edmonton and is the new U23 world champion (September 1, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Saller, Sophia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich