Torbjørn Sindballe

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Torbjørn Sindballe at Ironman Austria , 2006
Personal information
Date of birth	21st October 1976 (age 43)
place of birth	Albertslund, Denmark
Nickname	Thunder Bear
size	190 cm
Weight	80 kg
societies
successes
1999, 2002	2 × runner-up world champion triathlon long distance
2003	European champion long distance triathlon
2004, 2006	2 × world champion triathlon long distance
status
Resigned in 2009

Torbjørn Sindballe (born October 21, 1976 in Albertslund ) is a former Danish triathlete . He is ETU European champion (2003) and two-time ITU world champion in the long-distance triathlon (2004 and 2006).

Career

Torbjørn Sindballe started triathlon in 1991 at the age of 15.

He studied at the University of Copenhagen . In Sweden in July 1999 and again in Nice in 2002, he was runner-up in the long-distance triathlon world championship. His nickname as an athlete was "Thunder Bear".

In August 2003 Sindballe became European long-distance triathlon champion in Denmark.

World champion triathlon long distance 2004

In July 2004, he became world long distance champion in Sweden. In October he was sixth at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championships).

World champion triathlon long distance 2006

In 2006 he repeated his success from 2004 and won his second world title on the long distance.

In 2007 he finished third at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championship).

At the end of June 2009, Torbjørn Sindballe had to say goodbye to active competitive sport due to a heart valve defect and end his career. Today he lives in Hørsholm .

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
77760155650 ♠0May 2, 2009	-	Wildflower triathlon	United States Lake San Antonio	DNF	Torbjørn Sindballe had to abandon the race on the bike course in California.
77590292000 ♠ 2005	1	Ironman 70.3 California	United States Oceanside
77542477150 ♠Sep 30 2003	3	Ironman 70.3 California	United States Oceanside	04:02:35
77474196800 ♠ 2002	1	Ironman 70.3 California	United States Oceanside	03:47:08
77489545925 ♠0May 5, 2002	9	St. Croix Triathlon	United States Saint Croix	04:20:00

Long distance triathlon

Date / year	rank	competition	venue	time	comment
77737178475 ♠Oct 11, 2008	57	Ironman Hawaii	United States Hawaii	09:14:43
77739225025 ♠0Nov 1, 2008	2	Ironman Florida	United States Panama City	08:17:53	behind the winner Tom Evans
77728434125 ♠July 13, 2008	3	Challenge Roth	Germany Roth	08:16:02
77698666125 ♠Oct 13, 2007	3	Ironman Hawaii	United States Hawaii	08:21:30
77689921775 ♠July 15, 2007	4th	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	France Lorient	03:37:09
77667688800 ♠ 2007	3	Ironman New Zealand	New Zealand Taupo	08:34:47
77663502675 ♠Nov 19, 2006	1	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	Australia Canberra	05:59:13
77651316400 ♠July 16, 2006	10	Ironman Austria	Austria Klagenfurt	08:33:40
77621455375 ♠Oct 15, 2005	69	Ironman Hawaii	United States Hawaii	09:08:40
77582850000 ♠Oct 16, 2004	6th	Ironman Hawaii	United States Hawaii	08:58:45
77572710275 ♠0July 3, 2004	1	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	Sweden Later	05:46:14
77536988675 ♠0Aug 3, 2003	1	ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships	Denmark Fredericia	05:43:47
77540337575 ♠0Sep 7 2003	2	Ironman Wisconsin	United States Madison	09:00:56
77528802475 ♠May 11, 2003	6th	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	Spain Ibiza	05:43:21
77503034550 ♠22 Sep 2002	2	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	France Nice	06:22:05	The Triathlon World Championship on the long distance was held in 2002 as part of the Triathlon International de Nice .
77459777925 ♠0Aug 5, 2001	5	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	Denmark Fredericia	08:30:35
77396800000 ♠ 2000	10	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	France Nice	06:34:22
77379962475 ♠July 11, 1999	2	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	Sweden Later	05:48:27	Triathlon runner-up world champion on the long distance
77319403200 ♠ 1998	17th	ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships	Japan Sado	06:09:41	Triathlon World Championship on the long distance

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Publications

Torbjørn Sindballe: Tri: the ultimate træningsbog Gyldendal Copenhagen, 2013 ISBN 978-87-02-12941-0
Torbjørn Sindballe: The perfect præstation: motivation, træning og kærlighed Gyldendal Copenhagen, 2010 ISBN 978-87-02-09276-9

Web links

Official homepage of Torbjørn Sindballe ( Memento from December 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Profile for Torbjørn Sindballe at the Institute of Applied Training Science , accessed July 26, 2014
Profile and results of Torbjørn Sindballe in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 20, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ Sindballe ends career ( Memento from December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (June 30, 2009)
^ Neveu and Estedt new long distance world champions

personal data
SURNAME	Sindballe, Torbjørn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Albertslund

[1] Sindballe ends career ( Memento from December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (June 30, 2009)

[2] Neveu and Estedt new long distance world champions