Verena Walter

0 Verena Walter
at Ironman 70.3 Rügen 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	11th May 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Iserlohn , Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	67 kg
societies
since 2002	Marathon Club Menden
since 2004	Iserlohner Triathlon Team
2007	SSF Bonn (second start right)
2012-2013	ASV Köln (second start right)
successes
2005	German champion 50 km run
2013	2nd place Ironman 70.3 European Championship 30–34
2016	Winner Ironman 70.3
2017	Long distance winner
status
active

Verena Walter (born May 11, 1981 in Iserlohn ) is a German triathlete and German champion in the 50 km run (2005).

Career

Verena Walter started in her youth for the athletics department of TV Deilinghofen and LG Menden in the local Sauerland .

After a long sporting break between the ages of 15 and 18, the return to sport came with a slow start with endurance running: first at the Iserlohn running club and later, more competitively, at the Menden Marathon Club . During this purely run-oriented time, she took part in the 100 km run in Biel, Switzerland in 2003, which she was the first to finish in her age group.

German champion 50 km run 2005

In 2005 she became German champion at the 50 km run of the DUV in Marburg .

Verena Walter has been a triathlete since 2004 and has been a professional triathlete since 2014. The more than 20 long distances completed (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running) also include five participations (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016) in the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championship).

Since 2012 she has been led by Dr. Florian Hanakam , the head of the Center for Diagnostics and Intervention (ZeDi) at the Ruhr University Bochum , trained. In August 2012 she was second in Germany's northernmost long-distance triathlon, the Ostseeman in Glücksburg. In August 2013 in Wiesbaden she became vice-European champion in the age group 30-34 on the triathlon middle distance. In June 2014 she was eleventh at the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt am Main.

Ironman 70.3 winner (middle distance) 2016

In June 2016 she won the Bonn Triathlon after finishing second here in the previous year after a tight decision in the finish sprint. At the Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt am Main, she finished fifth in July.

On the basis of the points achieved in various Ironman races in the "Kona Points Ranking" since August 2015, Verena Walter was one of the 28 best professional long-distance triathletes in the Ironman racing series as of July 24, 2016 (in addition to the so-called "Automatic Qualifier": five winners of the continental championships and the winners of the last five years) and was thus invited to the “Ironman World Championship” on October 8, 2016 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. This was the fifth time she was nominated for a starting place - the first time as a professional athlete - and in October she finished 27th as the third-best German professional athlete.

Challenge winner (long distance) 2017

At the end of April 2017, Verena Walter won her first long distance win at the Challenge Taiwan in Taitung . In 2016, 2017 and again in 2018 she won the Bonn Triathlon .

Verena Walter also works as a media designer and lives in Iserlohn .

Awards

• 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018: "Sportswoman of the Year", Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and newspaper

Sporting successes

Web links

• Homepage of Verena Walter
• Verena Walter's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 11, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The results of 44 IKZ athlete elections (February 26, 2018)
2. ↑ German champions in the 50 km run ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Results 50 km “Around the stone mill” .
4. ↑ Results of the Biel Running Days 2003 .
5. ↑ Results Mainfranken Triathlon 2015 . August 9, 2015.
6. ↑ Johann Ackermann wins the 25th SWB Bonn Triathlon (June 15, 2015)
7. ↑ Verena Walter wins the Ironman 70.3 Mallorca
8. ↑ CHALLENGE TAIWAN: MEDIUM DISTANCE AT FRODENO, LONG DISTANCE AT WALTER (April 29, 2017)
9. ↑ IKZ: Established in the top ten professionals . 2nd June 2015.
10. ^ Strongman All Japan Triathlon
11. ↑ Results Ironman World Championship Hawaii 2011 . October 8, 2011.
12. ^ Norseman video on Youtube .
13. ↑ Results Ironman World Championship Hawaii 2009 . October 10, 2011.
14. ^ Report of the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger on Strongman in Japan . April 30, 2008.
15. ↑ Results Ironman World Championship Hawaii 2007 . October 13, 2011.