Timo Bracht

0 Timo Bracht
at Ironman Mallorca 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	22nd July 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Waldbrunn, Germany
size	182 cm
Weight	68 kg
societies
until 2017	Sopremateam SV Mannheim
successes
2003-2015	9 × Ironman winner
2004-2015	3 × German runner-up triathlon long distance
2007, 2009	2 × Winner Ironman European Championship
2008	German champion triathlon middle distance
2011	5th place Ironman World Championship
2012	ETU European Champion Long Distance Triathlon
2013, 2014	2 × German champion triathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 2017

Timo Bracht (born July 22, 1975 in Waldbrunn ) is a former German triathlete . He is a multiple Ironman winner, European triathlon champion on the long distance (2012) and is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Timo Bracht started triathlon in 1993 and celebrated his first title as a professional triathlete in June 2003 by winning the Ironman France in Gérardmer .

Triathlon professional since 1994

He has been a professional athlete since 1994 and in 2004 he finished eighth at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running). After taking third place in Roth, Bracht was unable to repeat his result from the previous year on Hawaii in 2005 and finished in 53rd place.

Winner Ironman European Championship 2007

At the Ironman Germany 2006 (European Championships) he finished second behind Cameron Brown and the following year he was the fastest in Frankfurt: The Eberbacher needed 8:09:15 h for the Ironman distance and the then 31-year-old set his winning time set a new course record.
In 2008 he reached third place in Frankfurt and became German champion in the middle distance. In 2009, after several changes in leadership in the marathon, he was able to repeat his 2007 victory with another course record in 7:59:15 h.

In July 2009 he again won the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt am Main with a new course record and in Hawaii came in sixth as the second-best German, behind Andreas Raelert , who was third. Bracht was, together with Normann Stadler, captain of the Commerzbank triathlon team until its dissolution at the end of 2011 . From 2012 he started together with Jan Raphael , Horst Reichel and Georg Potrebitsch for the 21run.com Triathlon Team , which became the Power Horse Triathlon Team in 2013 and the Sport for Good Team in 2015 .

On Lanzarote he secured the sixth Ironman title of his career in May 2011.

Triathlon European Champion Long Distance 2012

In July 2012, he took second place behind the South African James Cunnama in Roth at the European Triathlon Championship on the long distance.

In July 2013 he became the German long distance champion in Roth. For the 2014 season he announced that he did not want to start at the Ironman Hawaii . On July 20, 2014, he was able to secure the title of German champion again with the overall victory at the Challenge Roth . In 2015 he won the Ironman Mallorca with a new course record .

Timo Bracht is - measured by the number of victories over the Ironman distance (12 ×) and the number of podium placements (20 ×) the most successful long-distance triathlete in Germany - just ahead of Lothar Leder (11 and 21 times), Faris Al- Sultan (8 or 14 times), Jürgen Zäck (8 or 14 times) and Thomas Hellriegel (6 or 14 times). He announced that the Challenge Roth in July 2017 would be his last professional race. In September, Bracht started at the first Ironman Italy and finished fifth. In November 2017, the then 42-year-old declared his active time over after 18 years as a professional athlete.

His younger brother Kai Bracht was active as a ski jumper. Timo Bracht lives in Eberbach with his wife and two children .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish ; DSQ - Disqualification )

Publications

• The Triathlon Bible: The standard work for all triathletes , by Timo Bracht, Niclas Bock , Nina Eggert , Caroline Cornfine, and others. a., spomedis (March 31, 2015), ISBN 978-3-95590-050-2

Web links

Commons : Timo Bracht  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Timo Bracht
• Timo Bracht in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Portrait of Timo Bracht on Trib2b.com
• Timo Bracht's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 25, 2019 (English).
• Profile for Timo Bracht at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on December 28, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brand Ambassador Triathlon Team ( Memento from January 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Bracht breaks record, Joyce wins first , Slowtwitch.com, (May 21, 2011)
3. ↑ Timo Bracht Retires from IRONMAN Racing (November 7, 2017)
4. ↑ BASF Triathlon Cup Rhein-Neckar 2012: Timo Bracht and Sonja Tajsich win in Viernheim (August 21, 2012)
5. ↑ Bracht is "Balearic Master", Potrebitsch second (May 7, 2012)
6. ↑ BASF Tria-Cup: Timo Bracht and Katja Rabe win ( Memento from April 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Timo Bracht is RömerMan 2011
8. ↑ Frederik van Lierde steals the show from the top guys
9. ↑ Rhein-Neckar-Cup: victory for Böcherer and Krebs in Viernheim
10. ↑ Heilbronn: Kienle beats Böcherer and Bracht
11. ↑ Hat trick perfect: Kienle wins in Buschhütten . Archived from the original on May 30, 2010.
12. ↑ Mußbach Triathlon 2009
13. ↑ MEDIUM DM: STADLER WINS OUT OF COMPETITION . June 9, 2008.
14. ^ Mittel-DM Kulmbach 2004: Victories for Brede and Bracht
15. ↑ Challenge Roth: Timo Bracht wins in Hawaii conditions (July 20, 2014)
16. ↑ Timo Bracht: "Christmas bonus earned" (October 13, 2013)
17. ^ Triathlon - Challenge Roth: Cunnama wins Challenge Roth of the triathletes . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung .
18. ↑ Timo Bracht starts this year in Lanzarote ( Memento from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Bring breaks record, Joyce wins first
20. ^ Ironman Hawaii 2010: McCormack tacts and becomes world champion
21. ↑ Incident while swimming cost placement . Archived from the original on September 3, 2012.
22. ↑ Timo Bracht again Ironman Germany and thus European champion . Archived from the original on September 11, 2012.
23. ↑ Timo Bracht is Vice European Champion at Ironman Germany . Archived from the original on August 2, 2012.
24. ↑ Timo Bracht is Ironman France 2003 . Archived from the original on August 3, 2012.