Sven Riederer

0 Sven Riederer
Sven Riederer (far left) at the Triathlon European Championship 2015 in Geneva
Personal information
Date of birth	27th March 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Albisrieden , Switzerland
Size	183 cm
Weight	69 kg
societies
current	Swiss Triathlon Team Olympic Distance and ewz power team
successes
2001	European Champion Juniors
2002	European Champion U23
2002	2nd place world championship
2002-2017	12 × Swiss triathlon champions
2004	3rd place Olympic Games
2015	2nd place European Championship
status
Resigned in 2019

Sven Riederer (born March 27, 1981 in Albisrieden ) is a former Swiss triathlete , multiple Swiss champion (between 2002 and 2017), vice European triathlon champion (2015) and multiple Olympic participant (2004, 2012, 2016). He is included in the list of Swiss triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

In his youth Riederer was sporty and versatile; he played tennis and football, competed in skiing and was a swimmer. In 1994 he took part in a triathlon for the first time in Bubikon and reached 16th place.

Triathlon European Champion Juniors 2001

His international breakthrough came in 2001 with the European Junior Championship. In 2002 he was European champion in the U-23 category and second in the world championship. In 2003 he was able to win the gold medal in the team competition at the European Championship. He mainly competes in races over the Olympic distance : 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running.

2004 Summer Olympics

Riederer celebrated his greatest success at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , when he won the bronze medal behind Hamish Carter and Bevan Docherty from New Zealand . In 2005 a third place followed at the European Championships.
With his running skills , Riederer is also among the top Swiss there. He has already won the Swiss championship title in the 10 km race on the road three times (2006, 2008, 2010) .

Riederer has been part of the EWZ Power Team since 2010 and he was a member of the Swiss Triathlon Team London 2012 .
Riederer was appointed a member of the "Gold Group" by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) for the 2011 season - the ten best women and men from previous years represent the ITU in public and secure their national associations for each of the seven races of the ITU World Championship Series an additional starting place.

2012 Summer Olympics

In June 2012 he was able to qualify for a starting place at the Olympic Games for the second time. In London he competed for Switzerland with Nicola Spirig , Daniela Ryf and Ruedi Wild and finished eighth.

In July 2015, he became vice European champion on the short distance triathlon in Geneva. In the 2015 world rankings, he was ranked 13th as the best Swiss.

2016 Summer Olympics

Sven Riederer was able to qualify for a place at the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2016 and he started for Switzerland on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro together with Nicola Spirig , Jolanda Annen and Andrea Salvisberg . Riederer took 19th place. In the ITU Point List, he came in 93rd as the second best Swiss.

Long distance triathlon since 2017

In September 2017, Riederer started the long-distance triathlon for the first time (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running). He finished twelfth at the Ironman Barcelona and with this result also entered the list of Swiss triathletes on the Ironman distance . In July 2019, the then 38-year-old Riederer declared his start at Ironman Switzerland , where he finished second, for his last race and his active time over.

Riederer is a trained metal worker and lives with his wife and a son in Wallisellen .

Awards

• The Swiss Sports Aid Foundation honored Riederer as Young Athlete of the Year 2001.

Sporting successes

Web links

Commons : Sven Riederer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Sven Riederer
• Profile for Sven Riederer at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on July 10, 2014
• Profile and results of Sven Riederer in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 6, 2020 (English).
• Sven Riederer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ITU Gold Group 2011: Frodeno and Justus there
2. ↑ 7 other athletes selected for London (June 15, 2012)
3. ↑ ITU Point List | Elite men
4. ↑ JAN VAN BERKEL REPEAT VICTORY IN THE IRONMAN SWITZERLAND (July 21, 2019)
5. ↑ TRIATHLON BUNDESLIGA 2016 - DÜSSELDORF - WITH DM SPRINT DISTANCE (June 26, 2016)
6. ↑ BRIFFOD DISASSEMBLES SVEN RIEDERER AT THE WALLISELL TRIATHLON
7. ↑ 5150 Zurich: Lisk and Bazlen on the winners' podium ( memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. (July 26, 2014) 
8. ↑ EM silver for Swiss triathletes (July 27, 2013)
9. ↑ Daniela Ryf and Sven Riederer Swiss champions in sprint triathlon ( Memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (June 8, 2013)
10. ↑ Ryf and Wild come to championship honors (September 15, 2012)
11. ^ Sven Riederer in Beijing on the podium
12. ↑ Kahlefeldt takes Third Mooloolaba title
13. ↑ Champion title for Sven Riederer and Nicola Spirig
14. ↑ ^{a b} Swiss championship: title to Spirig and Riederer
15. ↑ Triathlon - VW-circuit  ( 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.