Ute Schäfer (triathlete)

0 Ute Schäfer
Personal information
Date of birth	13th May 1967 (age 53)
place of birth	Ennepetal, Germany
size	171 cm
Weight	59 kg
societies
Until 2006	SC Riederau
successes
1991, 1996	2 × German champion triathlon short distance
1995	Team world champion long distance triathlon
1996	German champion in the 4-way time trial
2001	German champion triathlon middle distance
2001	German long distance triathlon champion
1995, 1996	2 × German champion duathlon
2002	German champion cross triathlon
2004	Xterra European Champion Cross-Triathlon
status
Resigned in 2006

Ute Schäfer (born May 13, 1967 in Ennepetal ) is a former German triathlete , duathlete and multiple German champion.

Career

After activities as a child in alpine skiing in regional competitions in the Sauerland , from the age of 13 in basketball in the TG Voerde up to the upper league and from 15 in cycling in the RSC Ennepetal and her Abitur at Reichenbach-Gymnasium , Ute Schäfer studied sports economics from 1986 to 1992 of the University of Bayreuth . Her diploma thesis on the topic of fundamental problems in increasing the effectiveness of triathlon training was supervised by Arndt Pfützner , who later became director of the IAT in Leipzig for fifteen years .

Motivated by her fellow student Katrin Dürholt , then a member of the triathlon national team, she completed her first triathlon at the Trebgast Triathlon in 1988 . There she motivated organizer Wolfgang Pirl , sports manager of the Bavarian Triathlon Association, to take part in the Bavarian Championships at Brombachsee , which took place a few days later , where, as before in Kulmbach, she took second place among the juniors. After Ute Schäfer also completed the two other competitions belonging to the BTV series this season, she was accepted into the Bayern squad with her fourth place overall. She also took ninth place at the German championships in Gerolstein and became German team champion together with two teammates.

In 1989 Ute Schäfer took second place behind Birgit Roßberg in a qualifying competition for the European championships over the short distance in Mainz , at the EM in Cascais she was ninth and team champion together with Simone Mortier and Kirsten Ullrich. At the first official world championships over the short distance in August in Avignon , she finished 35th.

German champion triathlon short distance 1991

In 1991 Ute Schäfer won the German championships over the short distance in Arolsen for the first time , a year later she was third behind the winner Sonja Krolik at the European Championships in Lommel . At the 1993 Short Distance World Championships in Manchester , she was ninth and together with Sonja Krolik and Sabine Westhoff team world champion.

German champion duathlon 1994

Ute Schäfer became German Duathlon Champion in both 1994 and 1995 .

At the Short Distance World Championships in Wellington in 1994, she was twelfth. After Ute Schäfter refused to start at the Short Distance World Championships in Cancun in 1995 because of the first drafting approval there, she dared to make her long distance debut in Nice instead . The second long distance world championships (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running) were held here in 1995 and Ute Schäfer was subsequently honored as vice world champion.

Parallel to her membership in the national triathlon team (short distance) from 1989 to 1997, Ute Schäfer started in the cycling Bundesliga from 1994 to 1996. In 1994 (Gremo Regensburg) and 1996 (SSC Stuttgart) she was fifth at the German Championships in the 30 km individual time trial in Forst .
In 1996 she was also in Forst in the team of the BRC Zugvogel 1901 with Hanka Kupfernagel and Judith Arndt German champion in the 4-man time trial .

In 1996 she won the last German championships in Losheim am See with a drafting ban on the short distance. With a sixth place at the last short-distance European championships with drafting ban in Szombathely in 1996 , she qualified again (alongside Ralf Eggert and Anja Dittmer ) for the DTU A-squad, but a few months later she was removed from the squad and thus received also no more support from the German Sports Aid .

According to her own statements, this was justified to her only on request by a fax from DTU President Martin Engelhardt, without further explanation, with “lack of prospects with regard to Sydney 2000 and behavior in public that was harmful to the association”. Ute Schäfer had regularly spoken out against the abolition of the drafting ban.

In 1998 Ute Schäfer fell ill with the Epstein-Barr virus , but she still managed to place second at the Triathlon International de Nice .

German champion triathlon long distance 2001

In 2001 she was also German champion in the middle distance at the Allgäu Triathlon and in the long distance at the Ironmönch Kulmbach and in 2002 in the cross triathlon . In her active career, she was able to win all German championship titles over the various triathlon distances (triathlon: short, medium, long, cross; duathlon) with the exception of the winter triathlon. After her partner Hanno Nüßlein qualified 22nd overall (9:05 h) at Ironman Europe for the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii in 2001 , Ute Schäfer started at the Xterra World Championships in Maui in 2002 , where she finished eleventh.

German champion cross triathlon 2002

In 2002 she became German champion in cross triathlon and in 2004 she won the XTERRA European Championship in Hluboké u Kunštátu .

In Ironman competitions, she finished fourth in Ironman Austria in 9:34 hours in 2000 , second in Ironman Lanzarote in 2003 and fifth in Ironman Switzerland in 2004 . In 2006 she competed as a team of two with her partner on the Tour Transalp and came second in the one-week stage race through the Alps.

Ute Schäfer ended her active career in 2006 and has been working as a consultant and coach ever since. Ute Schäfer has been the regional trainer of the Bavarian Triathlon Association since 2009.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

• Website by Ute Schäfer
• Ute Schäfer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile and results of Ute Schäfer (triathlete) in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 4, 2018 (English).
• Profile for Ute Schäfer (triathlete) at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on June 12, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vuckovic new master of the short distance In: Rhein-Zeitung of August 13, 1996
2. ↑ Brief biography of my athletic career , April 21, 2007, PDF, 5 p., 45 kB
3. ↑ Ute Schäfer and Ronny Dietz win 1st XTERRA Germany In: Bikesport-Magazin from September 24, 2002
4. ^ Result list Ironman Europe 2001
5. ↑ Ute Schäfer is European Champion In: Münchner Merkur
6. ^ Taufkirchner immediately second in the Transalp cycle race In: Münchner Merkur from April 26, 2009
7. ↑ Ute Schäfer is the new trainer for the Bayern squad Press release from February 6, 2009
8. ^ Ironman Lanzarote 2003: Thomas Hellriegel achieves second victory
9. ↑ The TRANS 1996 in the rearview mirror. Archived from the original on December 30, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2011 . 
10. ^ Profile and results of Ute Schäfer (triathlete) in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on November 17, 2014 (English).
11. ↑ Xterra Czech 2004 with EM - Hluboka, Czech Republic. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013 ; Retrieved October 28, 2011 .