Thomas Frühwirth

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Thomas Frühwirth (2016)
Thomas Frühwirth (2016)
To person
Nickname TiggerTom
Date of birth 12th August 1981 (age 39)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Paracycling: Handbike
Paratriathlon
Societies)
Graz disabled sports club
Most important successes
Paralympics
2016 Silver medal Paralympics.svg - individual time trial
Last updated: September 17, 2019

Thomas Frühwirth (born August 12, 1981 in Edelsbach ) is an Austrian athlete who is active in Paratriathlon and as a handbiker in Paracycling .

Career

Thomas Frühwirth was born on a farm in southeast Styria ; he has three brothers. He started enduro sports at the age of 15 . He completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic and car electrician, worked in development at Steyr Daimler Puch and later at motorcycle manufacturer KTM AG . In 2004 he had a motorcycle accident while on vacation in Poland. The result was incomplete paraplegia .

Athletic career

Thomas Frühwirth has been active in disabled sports since 2008, initially primarily in the paratriathlon, which consists of swimming, a handbike race and another race in a wheelchair or on foot, depending on the type of disability.

In 2010, 2011 and 2015 he became world champion in ironman competitions in the paraduathlon and triathlon. In 2014 he and Manfred Putz won the Race Across America in the handbike category.

In 2016 Frühwirth was nominated for the Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro . There were plans to start in the handbike road race, in the time trial and in the relay. In the individual time trial he won silver.

At the European Triathlon Championships in June 2017 in Kitzbühel, Frühwirth won the silver medal for Austria in the first competition. At the beginning of September 2017 he set a new world record in the paratriathlon over 7:48 hours at the Austria Triathlon in Podersdorf am Neusiedlersee (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running). He was faster here than the winner in the main competition.

Movie

The Austrian filmmaker Christian Goriupp shot "One Man Show - The Two Sides of the Medal", an approx. 40-minute documentary about Frühwirth, which premiered in 2016.

Sporting successes

2010
  • Ironman Vice World Champion 2010 (record holder for paraplegic wheelchair athletes) in 10:13:27 h ( Hawaii )
  • ITU Paratriathlon World Champion in Budapest 2010
2011
  • Double Ironman finisher (first and only wheelchair athlete in the world, in 22:05 hours; Murska Sobota )
  • ITU Para Duathlon World Champion ( Gijón )
2012
  • Ironman world record holder in 8:44 h, Austria Triathlon (first and only wheelchair athlete under 9 hours)
  • Ironman 70.3 world record holder in 4h 17min at Ironman 70.3 Antwerp (as the first and only wheelchair athlete under 4:30 hours)
2014
2015
2016
2017
2019

Web links

Commons : Thomas Frühwirth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Extreme handbiker Manfred Putz - finisher of the Race Across America 2014. In: sport-oesterreich.at. Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kitzbühel European Triathlon Day 1 - News. In: sport.tirol. June 25, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Austria Triathlon Podersdorf: Renc wins jubilee, paratriathlete Frühwirth with world record. In: tri2b.com. August 22, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ One Man Show ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF file) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nihilo.at
personal data
SURNAME Frühwirth, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian disabled athlete
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Edelsbach