Svenja Bazlen

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Svenja Bazlen in La Baule, 2011
Svenja Bazlen in La Baule , 2011
Personal information
Date of birth 3rd January 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Stuttgart, Germany
size 174 cm
Weight 58 kg
societies
until 2018 VfL Waiblingen and Tri Club Châteauroux 36
since 2009 B-squad of the German Triathlon Union
successes
2011 3rd place world championship triathlon mixed team
2013 5th place Ironman 70.3 World Championship
status
Resigned in 2018

Svenja Bazlen (born January 3, 1984 in Stuttgart ) is a former German triathlete .

Career

Svenja Bazlen started swimming at the age of 12. Bazlen has been running triathlons since 2005 and already posted several top ten results in the Bundesliga in 2006. In 2007 Svenja Bazlen became German university champion and fourth in the Bundesliga race in Gelsenkirchen. In 2009 Bazlen completed her studies in sports education and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau to train there at the Olympic Center.

With a strong race at the start of the 2009 season in Pontevedra, Spain, which she finished in second place, she met the qualification criteria for the European Championship in Holten and for the World Championship series in Hamburg. At the end of 2009, Svenja Bazlen, who had previously been financed exclusively through sponsorship money, was appointed to the B-team of the German Triathlon Union .

In France, Svenja Bazlen also took part in the French club championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux and competed there for Tri Club Châteauroux 36 . At the opening triathlon in Dunkirk in 2010, Bazlen achieved eleventh place and, together with Magali Messmer , Melanie Annaheim and Ricarda Lisk, brought her club to second place.

2012 Summer Olympics

In May 2012, she and Anne Haug qualified in Madrid for a starting place at the Olympic Games in London and the two of them competed for Germany together with Anja Dittmer . Svenja Bazlen finished 32nd in London.

In 2013 she switched from the Olympic distance to the longer distances and started her first Ironman 70.3 race in March , where she finished second.

In July 2015 she started the long distance in Roth for the first time, finished sixth and was third in the German long distance championship. Svenja Bazlen started for VfL Waiblingen and is trained by Luboš Bílek .

Bazlen lives with her boyfriend in Tübingen and has been the mother of a son since June 2016. In February 2018, she was expecting her second child and announced that she would end her professional career.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Svenja Bazlen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. DTU, B-Kader ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 3, 2011).
  2. Triathlete Svenja Bazlen at the GP Dunkerque
  3. Haug and Bazlen achieve Olympic qualification (May 26, 2012).
  4. Bazlen, Dittmer and Haug ready for showdown (August 3, 2012).
  5. Svenja Bazlen wants to go to the Ironman 70.3 World Championship (November 21, 2012).
  6. In the traditional way (February 7, 2018)
  7. 5150 Zurich: Lisk and Bazlen on the winner's podium (July 26, 2014).
  8. EM silver for Swiss triathletes (July 27, 2013).
  9. Citytriathlon Heilbronn: Schildknecht and Bazlen get the victory (June 23, 2013).
  10. Daniela Ryf and Sven Riederer Swiss champions in sprint triathlon ( memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (June 8, 2013).
  11. Findlay claims 2011 World Championship Series opener in Sydney
  12. ^ Alpen Triathlon 2010: Steffen Justus and Lisa Norden victorious
  13. Dramatic finish: Ryf keeps his nerve
  14. ^ Profile and results of Svenja Bazlen in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 3, 2011 (English).
  15. Nicola Spirig is European Champion
  16. Svenja Bazlen second at the European Cup in Pontevedra
  17. ^ New Year's Eve runs: Rank beats Raelert in Rostock